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.
Read moreThree Ideas For Police Reform
This hour, we’ll talk about the multiple ways we can think about policing in America.
Read moreHow We Might Fix Election Security
Journalist Benjamin Wofford joins us to talk about Texas election administrator Dana DeBeauvoir, who partnered with the tech world to build a safer election system.
Read moreHis Dad Was Kidnapped – And That Was Just The Beginning
Filmmaker Miles Hargrove joins us to tell his own story — the story he captured on a Video8 camcorder — of his family’s dramatic and harrowing struggle to get their patriarch home.
Read moreHow To Find Your Purpose In Life
Philosopher Frank Martela joins us to talk about identifying the essential qualities of happiness.
Read moreTraveling With A Migrant Caravan
Filmmaker Nick Quested joins us to talk about embedding with Guatemalan immigrants bound for the U.S. border.
Read moreA Meritocracy Leaves Many Unfairly Behind
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.
Read moreThe Origins Of The Satanic Panic
Journalist Jen Gerson joins us to discuss how and why the daycare “satanic panic” of the 1990s set the stage for the bizarre child abuse stories seen today.
Read moreOne Attorney’s Crusade Against Racism In The Law
Brittany K. Barnett is an attorney who helped win executive clemency from President Obama for seven of her clients and an entrepreneur focused on social impact investing. She joins us to talk about being the daughter of an incarcerated mother, her pro bono legal work, and her resolve to challenge the status quo.
Read moreThe Night 5 Officers Died In Dallas
Jamie Thompson, a contributing editor for D Magazine, joins us to talk about the viewpoints of bystanders and key players to offer a 360-degree view of events.
Read moreAmerica Has A Caste System, Too
Isabel Wilkerson is a winner of the Pulitzer Prize, a National Humanities Medal and a National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, and she joins us to talk about the categories Americans are born into that rank us and grade us through no action of our own.
Read moreWhat Our Secrets Say About Ourselves
Michael L. Slepian, Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Associate Professor of Leadership and Ethics at Columbia Business School, joins us to talk about the things we choose to hide and if we should trust others with the secrets we share.
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