David J. Silverman joins us to talk about how peace between the Wamanoag tribe and Plymouth pilgrims finally dissolved – and about how we should look at the time period through the eyes of the indigenous people involved.
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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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All She Wanted Was To Be A Single Black Mother
Nefertiti Austin joins us to talk about what that painstaking process taught her about how America thinks of single, black motherhood.
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When A White Supremacist Attended Shabbat
Derek Black and Matthew Stevenson join us to talk about the time Matthew invited Derek to attend a Shabbat dinner – and how that interaction paved the way to a new understanding.
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Why Debutantes Are Still A Thing
Kristen Richardson joins us to talk about what it is to become a debutante – and if the ritual still has a place in the 21st Century.
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The Nerdy Brilliance Of Comedian Hari Kondabolu
Comic Hari Kondabolu joins us to talk about his comedy style, his Netflix special, and that graduate degree in human rights he earned from the London School of Economics.
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Queen Latifah, Lil’ Kim And The History Of Women In Rap
Music journalist Kathy Iandoli joins us to talk about the contributions of Queen Latifah, Salt-N-Pepa and other woman artists – and why the contributions of women in rap are so often overlooked.
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‘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.
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What Brexit’s Really About
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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Frauds And Fakers And Counterfeit Makers
Lydia Pyne, visiting researcher at the Institute for Historical Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, joins us to talk about the value of the right kind of fakes and which ones still take us for a ride.
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The Adolescence of Animals
Dr. Barbara Natterson-Horowitz, visiting professor in the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard and president of the International Society for Evolution, Medicine and Public Health, joins us to talk about how all animals — humans included — transition into adulthood.
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Death, Ingénues, And True Crime: A Halloween Special
Obsession, murder, dying, and a touch of humor: just some of the dark subjects we’ll touch on in this Halloween special.
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