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.
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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.
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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.”
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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.”
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Helen Ellis joins us to tell some hilarious stories about maintaining her Southern charm north of the Mason-Dixon.
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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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Akiba Solomon and Kenrya Rankin join us to talk about the many ways black Americans resist the forces against them every day. Their collection of interviews is called, “How We Fight White Supremacy: A Field Guide to Black Resistance.”
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Cherríe Moraga joins us to talk about how her life turned out much different than her mother’s – a farm worker turned glamorous cigarette girl in the 1920s. Moraga’s new book is called “Native Country of the Heart: A Memoir.”
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Damon Young, cofounder of VerySmartBrothas.com joins us to talk about the shifting definition of black masculinity – and what it’s like to live in a country you feel is out to get you. His new memoir is “What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays.”
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Karoline Kan joins us to talk about how her experiences growing up in China differed from older family members – including her mother who defied the country’s One-Child Policy when she gave birth to Karoline. Her new memoir is called “Under Red Skies: Three Generations of Life, Loss, and Hope in China.”
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As the political landscape heats up for 2020, Maria Teresa Kumar, president and CEO of Voto Latino joins us to talk about the issues that drive Latinx voters to the polls.
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Columbia psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman joins host Krys Boyd to talk about if smarter people are also more content, the subject of his essay in Scientific American.
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