University of California, Irvine sociologist Sabrina Strings joins us to talk about how societal attitudes towards fatness – particularly when it comes to black women – became increasingly negative in the years that followed.
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The Racial Message Of Public Monuments
Kirk Savage joins us to talk about how Confederate monuments came to dominate public spaces.
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Why Are Laws Hard To Change? Follow The Money
Princeton sociology professor Paul Starr joins us to talk about how concentrated wealth is often at the root of societal stagnation.
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Supreme Court Nominations As Senate Proxy War
Michael Kirk joins us to talk about how a fairly uneventful process of a Supreme Court nominee unanimously approval became ground zero for partisan conflict.
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How Political Is The Roberts Court?
Joan Biskupic joins us to talk about Chief Justice John Roberts’ commitment to conservative principles and his dedication to preserving the court’s image.
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Is Racism Still A Problem? Depends Who You Ask
Juliana Horowitz joins us to talk about how Americans’ views on race break down across racial lines, which she researched for the Race in America 2019 survey from the Pew Research Center.
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Why Societies Recover– or Don’t– from Crises
Pulitzer Prize-winner Jared Diamond joins host us to talk about his latest effort on the topic, which looks specifically at why some countries recover from trauma while others don’t.
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Melinda Gates On Empowering Women
Melinda Gates joins us to make the case that providing opportunities to women is the key to bettering society as a whole.
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The American Work Ethic Doesn’t Apply To Everyone
Bryce Covert writes about working life in America, and she joins us to talk about the disconnect in how the American work ethic applies to workers based on the tax bracket they occupy.
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Did Texas Execute an Innocent Man?
Edward Zwick joins us to talk about the new film he directed “Trial By Fire,” highlighting the controversial suppression of evidence in the arson case against Cameron Todd Willingham.
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Why We’ve Got The Suburbs Wrong
Amanda Kolson Hurley joins us to talk about planned communities that have bucked conventional thinking of suburbs – from a tiny-house anarchist neighborhood in New Jersey to a Modernist enclave in Massachusetts.
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Bobbie Wygant On 70 Years In TV
Bobbie Wygant joins us to talk about everything from covering the Kennedy assassination to interviewing the Beatles, which she chronicles in her new book, “Talking to the Stars: Bobbie Wygant’s Seventy Years in Television.”
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