Thomas Meaney, a fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen, Germany, joins us to talk about the history of military intervention, citizen uprisings, and the ideas around citizenship that define belonging in our world.
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Fintan O’Toole joins host Krys Boyd to talk about the English worldview after the empire collapsed and why that’s key to the fractured policies of today.
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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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Yale historian Greg Grandin joins us to talk about why it’s time to rethink the notion that there’s nowhere else to expand. His new book is called “The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America.”
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Kwame Anthony Appiah joins us to make the case that patriotism and cosmopolitanism are not mutually exclusive ideas. His essay “The Importance of Elsewhere” appears in the current issue of Foreign Affairs.
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