Comedian Audrey Murray joins us to talk about how she skipped a well-worn enlightenment path in favor of a tour of former Soviet republics.
Read moreA Refugee Wins The Immigration Lottery
Abdi Nor Iftin joins us to tell his amazing story of fleeing Mogadishu for Kenya, winning an American visa in a lottery and learning that making his way here was more complicated than he thought.
Read moreMaybe We Evolved To Be Internet Trolls
Anthropologist Agustín Fuentes joins us to talk about how some of our terrible social media behavior is actually partly a result of our evolution.
Read moreIs Privacy Still Possible?
Sarah Igo joins us to talk about how much of ourselves are we obligated to share with others, and what do we have a right to keep hidden?
Read moreNews Or Editorial: Can You Tell The Difference?
Jeffrey Gottfried joins us to talk about why some Americans are better than others at interpreting the news.
Read moreFinding Purpose In Prison
Donna Hylton, who spent 25 years in prison, joins us to talk about how spending time with other inmates helped her to come to terms with her abusive upbringing.
Read moreImmigrants On Their Earliest Memories Of America
Samip Mallick, director of the First Days Project, joins us to talk about what can be learned about the immigrant experience by collecting their stories.
Read moreRethinking Our Relationship With Animals
Michigan State law professor David Favre joins us to think through our evolving relationship with our fellow inhabitants of Earth.
Read moreCheaters: Why Women And Men Stray
Dr. Kenneth Rosenberg joins us to talk about the three types of cheating, why they’re so prevalent and how we can overcome them.
Read moreWhy Do We Care If A Boy Wears A Dress?
Writer Sarah Rich joins us to talk about why we should be teaching boys how to be nurturing, caring and other traits typically associated with femininity.
Read moreEverybody’s Insecure And That’s OK
Psychologist Ellen Hendriksen joins us to talk about how we can overcome our fear of interacting with other people.
Read moreBringing ‘Hairspray’ To The Stage
“Hairspray” is being produced by the Dallas Theater Center, and we talk with director Joel Ferrell and Michelle Dowdy – who plays Tracy – about the social themes the show explores that still resonate today.
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