Author Michael Lewis joins us to tell the stories of a biochemist, a public health worker and a federal government employee who worked in the White House during the early days of trying to contain the coronavirus.
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The Limits Of Identity Politics
University of Manchester sociology professor Gary Younge joins us to talk about how societies operate based on assumptions and privileges granted to people based on their identities.
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A 50-Year Look At American Immigration
Sarah R. Coleman, assistant professor of history at Texas State University, joins us to work through near-term policy options and to talk about ideas for improving the conditions in the countries migrants are fleeing.
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The Problem With Creating Our Own Truth
University of Connecticut philosophy professor Michael Patrick Lynch joins us to talk about how people come to believe what they think they know, and why shared foundations of knowledge are crucial to the health of a democracy.
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Is Appropriation In Art Always Wrong?
Paisley Rekdal, Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Utah and the state’s poet laureate, joins us to discuss the places where identity intersects with politics, and why it’s important to confront the language we use when defining cultures.
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American Populism, Post Trump
MIT professor Daron Acemoglu joins us to make the case that the American political landscape is deeply fractured, and that the nation’s unequal social classes add fuel to that fire.
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A Look Back At Election Night
University of Houston political science professor Brandon Rottinghaus and Victoria M. DeFrancesco Soto from UT’s LBJ School of Public Affairs join us to analyze the election results and talk about what they say about the direction of the nation.
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For Big Political Donors, Strings Are Definitely Attached
Sarah Kleiner, a politics reporter with the Center for Public Integrity, joins us to discuss her reporting into how wealthy North Texas Republican donors use their money to call the shots on Capitol Hill.
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Fareed Zakaria On Our Post-Pandemic World
Fareed Zakaria, host of Fareed Zakaria GPS on CNN Worldwide and a columnist for The Washington Post, joins us to talk about what experts predict about the future of technology, politics, health and cities once the coronavirus is conquered.
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In Politics, The Loneliest Place Is The Middle
P.J. O’Rourke is a contributing editor at the Weekly Standard, a Cato Institute fellow and editor-in-chief of the web magazine American Consequences. He joins us to talk about how before we return to civility, we first must return to sanity.
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RBG: The Great Dissenter
Linda Hirshman joins host Krys Boyd to talk about Ginsburg’s legacy – and about what an opening on the court could mean for the presidential election.
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What If 17-Year-Old Boys Ran The State?
Filmmakers Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine join us to talk about a national program for high school students to learn the nuts and bolts of U.S. government by creating it themselves, which they capture in their documentary.
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