Ian Manuel joins us to discuss his crime, his quest for forgiveness, and why, he believes, we should not judge an entire life based on one’s worst day.
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The boy who survived a men’s prison
Ian Manuel joins us to discuss his crime, his quest for forgiveness, and why, he believes, we should not judge an entire life based on one’s worst day.
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How the heck are you supposed to pay for college?
Ron Lieber, a columnist for The New York Times, talks about the complicated financial aid process and ways to tap into merit aid and similar discounts. Plus, get extra information from a bonus blog about this episode.
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Why Americans are giving up on college
National opinion columnist Will Bunch discusses the origins of the college dream of equal opportunity, its funding failures and how degrees are now a source of cultural division.
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A teacher on what it really takes to educate children
Educator Phillip Done talks about the how-tos of teaching, from extracting the best of a child academically to navigating the administrative minutia that comes with the job.
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Can debating make you a better listener?
Bo Seo is a two-time world champion debater and a former coach of Harvard College Debating Union. He joins guest host Courtney Collins to how debate can make you a better speaker — and listener.
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Did COVID kill the SAT?
New Yorker contributor Eren Orbey discusses how the global pandemic shut down the testing process – and the many ways The College Board is trying to work around not only changes in test administration but pushback on the test itself.
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The Cosmologist who left the streets behind
Hakeem Oluseyi joins host Krys Boyd to talk about his early life, when he struggled with inequality, poverty and addiction, and how he found his way out by studying the stars.
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Art can open our minds to new solutions
Amy E. Herman explains her method for training leaders to look to works of art to mend what’s broken in their organizations.
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The power of banned books
Kate Cohen considers why naming books as illicit increases demand, and why that means the written word still resonates with today’s youth.
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What do we really know about spacetime?
Adam Becker joins us to discuss theories about the space-time continuum and why they are important if we want to achieve a much deeper understanding of how the universe works.
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The pressure to act happy when your child has special needs
Heather Lanier joins us to discuss the personal struggles she faces parenting her daughter, a child with a very rare genetic disorder, while navigating a world that expects parents to raise high-achieving children.
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