Berit Brogaard, Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Brogaard Lab at the University of Miami, joins us to talk about the morality, psychology, science, and justifications for an emotion all of us feel, but no one likes to own up to.
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Why We Actually Do Need Space Force
W.J. Hennigan covers the Pentagon and national security for Time Magazine, and he joins us to talk about the new military branch charged with defending American GPS, communications, weather and missile-warning systems – and why battling its critics is currently job number one.
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A Covid Vaccine Is Imminent. So Who Should Get It First?
Christopher Cox joins us to think through effective vaccine distribution and if the focus should be on vulnerable populations or super-spreaders.
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American Populism, Post Trump
MIT professor Daron Acemoglu joins us to make the case that the American political landscape is deeply fractured, and that the nation’s unequal social classes add fuel to that fire.
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How To Help Your LGBTQ Child Thrive
Caitlin Ryan is a clinical social worker and director of the Family Acceptance Project, and she joins us to talk about parental acceptance, how to deal with bullying, and understanding a child’s non-heteronormative identity.
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Education Inequality Starts Outside The Classroom
Ohio State professor Douglas B. Downey joins us to explain why academics are approaching closing equity gaps for student achievement all wrong.
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Big Tech Doesn’t Care About Your Safety
Soraya Chemaly, executive director of The Representation Project and co-founder of the Women’s Media Center Speech Project, joins us to talk about big tech’s moral failings that put profit ahead of safe spaces.
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The Modern Day Hunt For Buried Treasure
Benjamin Wallace joins us to talk about the people who endlessly try to decode puzzles to solve where someone has buried the loot — sometimes upending their lives to find it.
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How Cable News Came To Be
Lisa Napoli joins us to talk about how the cable news network transformed how our modern world consumes current events.
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The Women Hunters Of Instagram
Rachel Levin joins us to talk about a fast-growing subculture that has found a home online: women who like to hunt.
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A Better Way To Spend Those Education Dollars
Brandon L. Wright, editorial director of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, joins us to talk about public education funding challenges and how in the aftermath of the pandemic we must find smarter ways to spend those dollars.
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How One White House Hands Off The Baton To The Next
Anita Kumar, White House correspondent and associate editor at Politico, joins us to discuss the complicated issues of presidential transitions, from national security to the COVID-19 pandemic, and what happens when they don’t run smoothly.
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