Race/identity

A Teen Bride’s Journey To America

January 21, 2020 Culture, Race/Identity

Author Angie Cruz joins us to talk about how her fictional character, Ana, in novel reflects the lives of so many real women.

How A Murderer Found His Soul – And Voice – In Prison

January 20, 2020 Culture, Current Events, Race/Identity

Author and criminal justice advocate, Shaka Senghor joins us to talk about how he worked through his own pain of hurting people and now helps communities heal theirs.

Latinos And The Invention Of The Cool, Walk-able Neighborhood

January 17, 2020 Culture, Current Events, Economics, Race/Identity

A. K. Sandoval-Strausz, director of the Latina/o Studies Program and associate professor of history at Penn State University, joins us to talk about how Latinos have influenced cities across the country.

Mental Gymnastics: New Insights Into The Brain

January 16, 2020 Culture, Current Events, Race/Identity, Science and Technology

This hour, experts on brain science join us to separate fact from fiction – and to better understand what we know about gender, creativity and how our brain is programmed to lead us home.

How Christian Culture Became Western Culture

January 15, 2020 Culture, Race/Identity

Historian Tom Holland joins us to talk about tracing Christian concepts from antiquity to today and how they’ve shaped the western world.

Allison Moorer On Turning Adversity Into Art

January 10, 2020 Culture, Race/Identity

Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter, Allison Moorer joins us to talk about how she’s mined dark memories from her childhood– and how she and her sister survived through moments of creativity, imagination and song.

The Challenges Of Texas’ Population Boom

January 8, 2020 Culture, Current Events, Race/Identity

Former Secretary of Education, Margaret Spellings is president and CEO of Texas 2036, and she talks to us about how the nonprofit organization is taking a nonpartisan approach to assessing state data to prepare for the next 16 years and beyond.

Can Moms Who Stay Home Catch Up On Careers?

January 7, 2020 Culture, Current Events, Economics, Race/Identity

Pamela Stone, professor of sociology at Hunter College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York, joins us to talk about the struggles of highly-educated, well-connected women with resume gaps.

A Trans Woman Reflects On What It Took To Transition

January 6, 2020 Culture, Current Events, Race/Identity

Deirdre Nansen McCloskey, distinguished professor of economics, history, English and communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago, joins us to talk about her journey transitioning from a man to a woman in 1999.

Sanctuary And Safety: A National Call-In Special from Think

January 3, 2020 Culture, Current Events, Politics, Race/Identity

In “Sanctuary And Safety: A National Call-In Special from Think,”we talk with a diverse group of faith leaders about their approaches to creating safe spaces for worship – and about what’s lost when congregants no longer feel comfortable gathering in public spaces.

The United States Of Xenophobia

January 2, 2020 Culture, Current Events, Race/Identity

Erika Lee, director of the Immigration History Research Center at the University of Minnesota, us to talk about how our country’s fear of the “other” has been with us since the beginning — and how our historical amnesia is holding back healing.

How We Set Ourselves Up To Be Cheated

December 19, 2019 Culture, Current Events, Race/Identity

J.M. Fenster joins us to talk about a system of fibs, infidelities and fraud that permeates every corner of our society and why, big or small, they matter.