Thomas Meaney, a fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen, Germany, joins us to talk about the history of military intervention, citizen uprisings, and the ideas around citizenship that define belonging in our world.
Read moreBritain’s Long Road To Irrelevance
David Reynolds, professor of international history at Christ’s College, Cambridge and fellow of the British Academy, joins us to talk about Brexit in this historical context.
Read moreIt’s Not Enough To Not Be Racist
Ibram X. Kendi, director of the Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University, joins us to talk about looking inward to combat racism.
Read moreA Moral Guide To Economics
Gene Sperling, Chief Economic Advisor to Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, joins us to talk about reimagining contemporary capitalism.
Read moreThe Truth Is: Conspiracy Theories Are Dangerous
Adrienne LaFrance, executive editor of The Atlantic, joins host Krys Boyd to talk specifically about QAnon, whose adherents believe in a “deep state” plot against President Trump.
Read moreWho Gets Rich In The Cocaine Trade
Toby Muse joins host Krys Boyd to talk about his 15 years living in Colombia observing how the drug trade there operates from the top down.
Read moreThe Do’s And Don’t’s Of Debt
Atif Mian, John H. Laporte, Jr. Class of 1967 Professor of Economics, Public Policy and Finance at Princeton University and Director of the Julis-Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy and Finance at the Woodrow Wilson School, joins us to talk about the short and long-term ramifications of debt on nations and individuals.
Read moreIn An Italian ER, A Doctor Soldiers On
Filmmaker Sasha Achilli joins us to tell the story of one ER doctor in Nothern Italy and her battle to save a daily swarm of incoming patients inside a besieged hospital.
Read moreThe Year Our World Became Global
Yale historian Valerie Hansen joins us to talk about the long, winding path to this modern life.
Read moreYou’re More Resilient Than You Think
Noam Shpancer, a professor of psychology at Otterbein University, joins us to talk specifically about the roadblocks that stand in the way of developing resilience in anxious children – and how to overcome them.
Read moreRethinking Our Relationship With The Natural World
This hour, we’ll talk about how people’s relationship to the natural world has evolved over time.
Read moreLawrence Wright Predicted This Would Happen
Lawrence Wright joins us to talk about his fiction focused on a pandemic upending the world, written months and months before our current crisis.
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