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.
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We 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.
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Women 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.
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You 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.
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When 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.
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The 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.
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My Party, My Identity
University of Maryland political scientist Lilliana Mason joins us to talk about why extreme partisanship is bad for democracy.
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Rethinking 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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A Muslim Girl's Coming Of Age Story
This hour, we’ll talk about how Amani Al-Khatahtbeh grew up surrounded by hate, and about how she created an oasis for other women like her through her website, muslimgirl.com. She writes about her experiences in her memoir “Muslim Girl: A Coming of Age.”
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Confronting Colorism
This hour, we’ll talk with Lori L. Tharps, an associate professor at Temple University, about her book “Same Family, Different Colors: Confronting Colorism in America’s Diverse Families.”
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Finding Cultural Identity
This hour, we’ll talk to author Matthew Salesses about his debut novel, “The Hundred Year Flood.”
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Redesigning Humanity
This hour, we’ll talk about the ethics of changing who we are – and about how these technologies could redefine what it is to be human – with Vanderbilt history professor Michael Bess, author of “Our Grandchildren Redesigned: Life in the Bioengineered Society of the Near Future.”
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