Author Wayétu Moore joins us to discuss her family’s escape from civil war in Liberia, the experience of being an immigrant in Texas, and her eventual return to Africa to better understand the experiences of her fellow migrants.
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The Evolution Of Heaven
Catherine Wolff joins us to discuss the concept of heaven, how it’s been framed in art, literature and religion through the ages, and how that has changed with modern beliefs.
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Our 2,000-Year Obsession With Makeup
Author Rae Nudson joins host us to discuss the power of the powders and creams with which we adorn our skin, and how they’ve created the powerful beauty standards currently being challenged.
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It’s Time To Embrace Our Wrinkles
Anna North, senior reporter for Vox, joins us to talk about how embracing aging skin has come part-and-parcel with the relaxing of beauty standards the last year-and-a-half has provided across the globe.
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When MTV Got Real
Amanda Ann Klein, associate professor of film studies at East Carolina University, joins us to discuss why MTV moved away from rock stars and shifted to ordinary people living wild lives.
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Why We Work Better Under Deadline
Christopher Cox, a visiting scholar at NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, joins us to talk about why deadlines have a way of motivating us to finish tasks.
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Are Our Pandemic Pets Here To Stay?
New Yorker staff writer Nick Paumgarten joins us to talk about the animals we acquired to comfort us and why leaving them at home alone is now going to be a big problem.
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How A Pair Of Pups Became BFFs
“CBS Sunday Morning” correspondent Martha Teichner joins us to tell the story of her beloved bull terriers, and how rescuing them has brought her joy and a deeper understanding of what it means to love.
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A Modern Take On Greek Mythology
Novelist Stacey Swann joins us to talk about interweaving down-to-earth characters, but with the characteristics of the legendary Greek gods.
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Why Do We Still Stigmatize Mental Illness?
Richard Grinker, professor of anthropology and international affairs at George Washington University, joins us to talk about how we are on the cusp of accepting a spectrum of neurodiversity and why it’s taken so long to shed stigma.
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Use Your Words
This hour we’ll talk with linguist John McWhorter about how we use profanity, Anna Sale of the “Death, Sex and Money” podcast about strategies for having difficult conversations and psychologist Katherine Kinzler about how the actual sound of our voices affects how people hear what we’ve got to say.
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An Immigrant Parent’s American Dream Meets A Child’s Reality
Sabreet Kang Rajeev joins us to talk about understanding her parents’ journey, their hopes for their new life, and connecting those to her own story as a first-generation American.
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