Nesrine Malik is a columnist and features writer for the Guardian, and she joins us to talk about how “wokeness,” “political correctness,” “free speech,” “cancel culture” and other shorthand terms are used to both drive and tamp down social justice movements.
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We’ll talk with three women who are pushing back against certain societal expectations on how a woman should look and move through the world.
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Brandolon Barnett is head of corporate social responsibility industry solutions in Salesforce.org’s philanthropy cloud and leader of the Democratize Ventures investing and advisory institute. He joins us to talk about his experience establishing a career in the non-profit sector during difficult economic times.
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Amy Maxmen is a science journalist for Nature, and she joins us to talk about social determinants of health – a concept that’s been around for 150 years – and why it’s taken a pandemic to really focus on the health outcomes of the most vulnerable.
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James Doucet-Battle, assistant professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, joins us to talk about the prevalence of diabetes in Black America – and to make the case that health researchers must completely rethink assumptions when it comes to the intersection of race and health.
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Wired senior reporter Lauren Goode joins us to talk about her experience reliving a failed relationship via social media apps and how companies monetize our most private moments.
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Vox senior reporter Anna North joins us to talk about the exoticized images and articles once published in the magazine – and to analyze if a recent overhaul has improved the magazine’s approach.
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David Napier is professor of medical anthropology at University College London, director of the university’s Centre for Applied Global Citizenship, and director of its Science, Medicine, and Society Network. He joins us to discuss group dynamics and why public policy that values the collective good over individual interests is ultimately beneficial to everyone.
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Journalist Bill Minutaglio joins us to talk about the state’s long history of conflict, violence, backroom deals, and bravado that’s created its political framework.
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Anna Sale, creator, and host of the “Death, Sex and Money” podcast, joins us to talk about the painful and taboo topics we’re told to avoid, and why we need to bring them up more often to make progress on tough issues.
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Lynn Berger joins us to talk about the origins of birth order psychology and whether the roles we’re assigning children are based in fact or fiction.
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Journalist Zeahaa Rehman joins us to talk about audiences now clamoring for new, diverse characters in the romance genre spurred by the hit Netflix show “Bridgerton.”
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