Former Buzzfeed LGBT culture editor Saeed Jones joins us to discuss his coming-of-age growing up black and queer in a Texas town.
Read moreRefusing to Be Defined by Disability
Journalist Keah Brown joins us to talk about how she moved beyond self-pity to become an advocate for people with disabilities.
Read moreWhy Science Is So Easy To Dismiss
Adrian Bardon, professor of philosophy at Wake Forest University, joins us to talk about how identity, political affiliation, culture and rationalization have led to science denial.
Read moreShe Thought She Was White – Then She Found Out About Her Dad
Sarah Valentine joins us to talk about her path to rediscovering herself after discovering she is biracial.
Read more‘Undone’: The Story Behind Amazon’s Coolest Series
Kate Purdy, co-creator, producer and writer of “Undone,” joins us to talk about her drama, which uses Rotoscope animation to bridge the worlds of the living and the dead.
Read moreWe All Want To Be Equal (And Above Everyone Else)
Francis Fukuyama, senior fellow at Stanford University and Mosbacher Director at The Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, joins us to talk about how culture impacts a democracy.
Read moreWomen In The Ashes Of ISIS
Journalist Azadeh Moaveni joins us to talk about the realities young female runaways found inside ISIS and the nationless status they have now.
Read moreYou Can’t Escape Your Childhood Online
Kate Eichhorn of The New School joins us to talk about how younger generations can never escape their online personas.
Read moreWhen A Therapist Needs Therapy
Lori Gottlieb is a therapist by trade, and she joins us to talk about what it’s like to dispense advice at the same time she was struggling through her own personal problems.
Read moreThe Perils Of Worshiping Work
Derek Thompson joins us to talk about how work often fills the voids left by relationships, religion and other forms of human connection – and about the dangers of allowing work to be all things. His story “Workism Is Making Americans Miserable” appears in The Atlantic.
Read moreMy Party, My Identity
University of Maryland political scientist Lilliana Mason joins us to talk about why extreme partisanship is bad for democracy.
Read moreRethinking Gender Identity
Robin Marantz Henig joins us to talk about how scientists are adopting a more fluid understanding of gender and rethinking identity in the process.
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