Juliana Horowitz joins us to talk about how Americans’ views on race break down across racial lines, which she researched for the Race in America 2019 survey from the Pew Research Center.
Read moreA New Breed of Conspiracy Theory
Nancy L. Rosenblum, Senator Joseph Clark Research Professor of Ethics in Politics and Government at Harvard, joins us to talk about a new breed of conspiracy theorist – one who believes an idea to be true and uses repetition and bold assertions to turn fiction into fact.
Read moreHow Mike Rawlings Changed Big-D
Mayor Mike Rawlings joins us to talk about how Dallas has changed during his time in office, how he and police chief David Brown guided the city through one of its darkest days and about who he might like to succeed him at City Hall.
Read moreHow Romance Blinds Us
Laurie Essig, professor and director of Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Middlebury College, joins us to explain why we retreat into private relationships and how they can overshadow our contribution to the greater good.
Read moreFrom The Church To The Capital: #MeToo In Texas
Cheryl Allison joins us to profile North Texas women who have led the fight against sexual harassment – including former Texas Senator Wendy Davis, who also joins the conversation.
Read moreFor A Meaningful Life, Get Over Yourself
New York Times columnist David Brooks joins us to talk about how acquiring fame and fortune can still leave us empty inside – and about how true joy is found when we begin to lead our lives in service to others.
Read moreA Better Approach To Bringing Up Boys
Michael Reichert, founding director of the Center for the Study of Boys’ and Girls’ Lives at the University of Pennsylvania, joins us to talk about updated approaches to bringing up boys that draw on new insights into psychology and neuroscience.
Read moreWhy We’ve Got The Suburbs Wrong
Amanda Kolson Hurley joins us to talk about planned communities that have bucked conventional thinking of suburbs – from a tiny-house anarchist neighborhood in New Jersey to a Modernist enclave in Massachusetts.
Read moreExpanding Our Moral Circle
Sigal Samuel joins us to talk through which other beings we should be thinking about with greater compassion and add to the evolving “moral circle.”
Read moreBobbie Wygant On 70 Years In TV
Bobbie Wygant joins us to talk about everything from covering the Kennedy assassination to interviewing the Beatles, which she chronicles in her new book, “Talking to the Stars: Bobbie Wygant’s Seventy Years in Television.”
Read moreYou Can Take The Girl Out Of The South…
Helen Ellis joins us to tell some hilarious stories about maintaining her Southern charm north of the Mason-Dixon.
Read moreBlack Motherhood Is A Political Act
Dani McClain joins us to talk about how she and other mothers are grappling with the challenge of navigating parenthood, which she writes about in “We Live for the We: The Political Power of Black Motherhood.”
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