Clinical psychologist Vinita Mehta joins us to talk about how nearly one in four children worldwide have a parent with mental illness and how that can affect both child development and the parent-child relationship into adulthood.
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Humorist Jenny Lawson Lives With Depression
Jenny Lawson joins us to talk about her battle with mental illness and her quest to find health, which she navigates with levity and laughter even in the darkest times.
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She Grew Up In A Cult … And That Was Just The Beginning
Lauren Hough joins us to talk about growing up in a cult, joining the military, contending with homelessness, and chronicling her exceptional life story along the way.
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Could A Simple Equation Explain The Universe?
Michio Kaku is a professor of theoretical physics at the City University of New York and a co-founder of string field theory. He joins us to talk about a search to explain the very reasons we exist and why that’s a controversial idea.
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Growing Up Racially Black … But Not Culturally Black In America
Louis Chude-Sokei, director of the African American studies program at Boston University, joins us to talk about his journey to understand his place in the Black diaspora.
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The Weird Racial Phenomenon Of ‘Reverse-Passing’
Helen Lewis of The Atlantic joins us to talk about the people who take on the roles of different ethnicities and asks if a form of Munchausen syndrome could actually be at play.
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The U.K. Ambassador On The Very Special Relationship
Dame Karen Pierce is British Ambassador to the U.S., and she joins us to talk about her country’s economic relationship with both Texas and the country as a whole – and we’ll hear how Britain is faring in the fight against Covid.
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The World Needs More Toilets
Science journalist Chelsea Wald joins us to talk about what’s behind the plumbing and introduce the scientists and activists working to make sanitation healthy and accessible for all.
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Asian Americans And The Rise In Racism
Vishakha N. Desai, chair of Columbia University’s Committee on Global Thought and a past president of the Asia Society, joins us to talk about these troubling statics, how Asians regularly face racist ideas that question their place in American society and what needs to happen to fight back.
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The Roadblocks To Love For Black Women
Dianne M. Stewart is an associate professor of religion and African American studies at Emory University, where she created the course “Black Love.” She joins guest us to talk about the intersection of romantic love and Black Civil Rights.
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NFTs And The Future Of Digital Art
Kyle Chayka is a contributor to The New Yorker, and he joins us to discuss the high stakes, high-price world of digital art and why galleries, museum curators, auction houses, even everyday people are jumping on this cutting-edge trend.
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Student Debt Is Crushing Parents, Too
Caitlin Zaloom, associate professor of social and cultural analysis at New York University, joins us to discuss how college-minded parents are taking on enormous debts to fund higher education and why the middle-class is especially crunched.
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