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The unintended consequences of a racism awareness exercise

November 15, 2021 Race/Identity, Think

Stephen G. Bloom joins us to discuss an exercise that separated children by eye color to mimic racism and why we might now question the results

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Does reality TV understand Black women?

November 15, 2021 Culture, Current Events, Race/Identity, Think

Bethonie Butler covers television and pop culture for The Washington Post, and she joins us to discuss the stereotypes these shows often play into, and if progress is being made on television.

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The suburbs – the new racial flashpoint

November 9, 2021 Current Events, Politics, Race/Identity, Think

NBC News national investigative reporter Mike Hixenbaugh joins us to talk about how conversations about race are playing out in the North Texas suburb of Southlake.

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She spent her childhood running from the law

November 8, 2021 Think

Cheryl Diamond joins us to discuss her family of fugitives, their globetrotting to outrun the law, and her reckoning with who she could love and, ultimately, trust.

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Meet the moms taking over social media

November 4, 2021 Economics, Think

Kathryn Jezer-Morton, author of the “Mothers Under the Influence” Substack, joins us to talk about the moms of TikTok, Instagram and other social media platforms who have turned their lives into profitable enterprises.

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When killing a newspaper is good business

November 4, 2021 Current Events, Economics, Think

McKay Coppins, a staff writer at The Atlantic, joins us to talk about a hedge fund that is buying up newspapers across the country and dismantling them at an alarming rate.

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Pulling out of poverty is harder than you think

November 3, 2021 Current Events, Economics, Think

Journalist Ray Suarez joins us to talk about everyday Americans who have lost jobs and homes – and about the degree to which the economy is working for different sectors of the population.

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Foster care could be much better

November 3, 2021 Race/Identity, Think

The chief executive officer of Think of Us, a nonprofit focused on foster care, joins us to talk about the practice of kinship placement and the need for systemic change so that children aren’t kept from loving homes.

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What your nose knows

November 2, 2021 Culture, Science and Technology, Think

Journalist Jude Stewart joins us to talk about how our sense of smell shapes our world from art to history and reveals the surprising science behind it.

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30 years later, Anita Hill is still fighting

November 1, 2021 Politics, Think

She joins us to discuss her decades long fight for women’s rights and gender equity, which she writes about in “Believing: Our Thirty-Year Journey to End Gender Violence.”

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A crowd holidng signs and flags marches in a protest.

Where do Asian-Americans ‘fit’?

November 1, 2021 Politics, Race/Identity, Think

Jay Caspian Kang joins us to talk about the evolution of what it means to be Asian-American – and about his own family’s story as they moved across the country to find their footings.

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The vexing mysteries of Lyme Disease

October 28, 2021 Health, Think

New York Times columnist Ross Douthat joins us to talk about living with Lyme Disease, the pain and isolation he’s felt, and his new understanding of why some patients seek solace in conspiracies.

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