Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen joins us to talk about the many obstacles that can stand in the way of making a new home in a foreign place.
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Kids Today Really Are The Worst
Parenting expert Katherine Reynolds Lewis joins us to talk about effective strategies for correcting bad behavior.
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Everybody’s A Cousin
A.J. Jacobs joins us to talk about traveling the world to connect the dots of his far-flung family tree.
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This Indian American Life
Neel Patel joins us to talk about how his experience as an Indian American informed his debut collection of short stories.
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How To Talk To Someone Who’s Wrong
Justin Lee joins us to talk about strategies for actually engaging with people with whom you don’t share common ground.
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Things May Not Be As Bad As You Think
Steven Pinker joins us to talk about how we’re actually living in an age of unprecedented safety, peace and prosperity in his new book “Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress” (Viking).
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The Power Of A Humble Leader
Dallas CEO Larry James joins us to talk about why effective leaders focus their efforts on the people they manage and serve.
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Finding Yourself In A Foreign Country
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.
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A 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.
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Maybe 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.
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Is 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?
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News 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.
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