Nicholas A. Christakis, director of the Human Nature Lab at Yale University, joins us to explain how for thousands of years we’ve actually evolved to co-exist in greater harmony.
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Reproductive Care: The Third Rail Of Health Policy
New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg joins us to talk about how the Supreme Court shifting right could lead to the overturn of Roe V. Wade – and about how state legislatures have worked to neutralize the law ever since the court’s 1973 decision.
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Terrorism Is The Least Of Our Problems
Political scientist Micah Zenko joins us to talk about why – relative to other time periods – we’ve never had less to worry about. His new book, written with Michael A. Cohen, is called “Clear & Present Safety: The World Has Never Been Better and Why That Matters to Americans.”
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White Women Weren’t Bystanders To Slavery
UC-Berkeley history professor Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers joins us to talk about how wealth drove white women’s participation in the slave market.
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The Crazy Ideas With Potential To Change The World
Physicist and entrepreneur Safi Bahcall joins host Krys Boyd to talk about strategies for breaking through the conventional group think to turn bold ideas into reality.
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You’re Not Who You Think: The Secrets Of Ancient DNA
Harvard genetics professor David Reich joins host Krys Boyd to talk about how studying our ancestor’s DNA has opened the door to understanding how humans have evolved.
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Manifest Destiny Ends With The Wall
Yale historian Greg Grandin joins us to talk about why it’s time to rethink the notion that there’s nowhere else to expand. His new book is called “The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America.”
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Demography Is Destiny
Paul Morland, associate research fellow at the University of London, joins us to discuss how shifting populations have brought on political movements and led to the rise and fall of nations. His new book is called “The Human Tide: How Population Shaped the Modern World.”
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Why We Don’t Acknowledge American Imperialism
Northwestern University associate history professor Daniel Immerwahr joins us to talk about the lasting influence the U.S. has had on its territories. His new book is called “How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States.”
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How The Supreme Court Got So Powerful
David Kaplan, former legal affairs editor of Newsweek, joins us to take a behind-the-scenes look at how the Supreme Court operates – and to talk about times when justices have overstepped their boundaries.
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A Century Of Protest Songs
James Sullivan joins us to trace the evolution of protest songs – from the early days of World War I to the present, which he writes about in “Which Side Are You On? 20th Century American History in 100 Protest Songs.”
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The Other O’Keeffe Sister
Sue Canterbury, Pauline Gill Sullivan Associate Curator of American Art at the Dallas Museum of Art, joins us to talk about Ida O’Keeffe’s underappreciated work, which has only recently gained attention.
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