Harvard government professor Michael J. Sandel joins us to talk about how many of America’s problems can be traced to a lack of concern over what’s best for society.
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How We Set Ourselves Up To Be Cheated
J.M. Fenster joins us to talk about a system of fibs, infidelities and fraud that permeates every corner of our society and why, big or small, they matter.
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The Benefits of Not Fitting In
Olga Khazan, staff writer at The Atlantic, joins us to talk about how her outsider status growing up shaped her – and about what research says about the advantages of being different.
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During Social Distancing, We’re All In This Together
NYU sociology professor Eric M. Klinenberg joins us to talk about how making it through Covid-19 will require buy-in from everyone.
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Pandemics: Then And Now
Frank M. Snowden, the Andrew Downey Orrick Professor Emeritus of History and History of Medicine at Yale University, joins us to talk about how infectious outbreaks — both terrifying and romanticized — have shaped our world.
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The United States Of Xenophobia
Erika Lee, director of the Immigration History Research Center at the University of Minnesota, us to talk about how our country’s fear of the “other” has been with us since the beginning — and how our historical amnesia is holding back healing.
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The Epidemics That Changed The World
Frank M. Snowden, the Andrew Downey Orrick Professor Emeritus of History and History of Medicine at Yale University, joins us to talk about how infectious outbreaks — both terrifying and romanticized — have shaped our world.
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Lindy West Takes On The Patriarchy
The New York Times columnist Lindy West joins us about to talk about her book “The Witches Are Coming,” which looks the deep ways that misogyny and male privilege are baked into American society.
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How We Live With Strangers
Biologist Mark W. Moffett joins us to talk about how humans have evolved to get along with one another while other primates won’t think twice about killing a fellow chimp they don’t recognize.
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Living In Society Is Making Us Better People
Nicholas A. Christakis, director of the Human Nature Lab at Yale University, joins us to explain how for thousands of years we’ve actually evolved to co-exist in greater harmony.
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Sex And Societal Norms
We’ll talk about the groupthink that affects the way we consider sex with Rachel Hills, author of The Sex Myth: The Gap Between Our Fantasies and Reality.
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