Season 2021
Severine Autesserre on her new book “The Frontlines of Peace" and changing the world.
What Does Peace Mean?
What Human Challenge Trials Can Teach Us
Bioethicist Nir Eyal discusses how equity should be applied to the future of medicine.
What Human Challenge Trials Can Teach Us
Saxophonist Shabaka Hutchings on his album, racial justice, and the cosmos of music.
Black to the Future
Millennial Doctors and the Next Greatest Generation
Emma Goldberg on her new book “Life on the Line: Young Doctors Come of Age in a Pandemic”
Millennial Doctors and the Next Greatest Generation
Policy Experimentation and Paralysis
Microsoft Civic Engagement director Sid Espinosa on the need to fix systemic inequities.
Policy Experimentation and Paralysis
Algorithmic Justice League founder Joy Buolamwini on how to ban weaponized data systems.
Making Humane Tech a Reality
America’s Extraconstitutional Supreme Court and New Jim Crow
UC Berkeley Law’s Bertrall Ross on how to reform an unrepresentative U.S. government.
America’s Extraconstitutional Supreme Court and New Jim Crow
The Unreachable Supermajority for Constitutional Reform
Center for Transnational Law director Jorge Contesse on the pandemic and human rights
The Unreachable Supermajority for Constitutional Reform
Penn State climatologist Michael Mann on the Biden-Harris administration and climate.
Climate in the First 100 Days
Freedom and Wokeness on Campus
Academic Freedom Alliance chair Keith Whittington on free speech and humane discourse.
Freedom and Wokeness on Campus
How to Demolish the Disinformation Infrastructure
UW Center for an Informed Public's Kate Starbird on the state of disinformation online.
How to Demolish the Disinformation Infrastructure
The Casualties of Drug Compounding
Jason Dearen on his new book: “Kill Shot: A Shadow Industry, a Deadly Disease.”
The Casualties of Drug Compounding
How to Reform an Unrepresentative Supreme Court
Constitutional scholar Leah Litman on a non-representative 6-3 Supreme Court majority
How to Reform an Unrepresentative Supreme Court
False Equivalency Created The Big Lie
Daily Beast columnist Wajahat Ali on the false equivalence that normalizes disinformation.
False Equivalency Created The Big Lie
Conserving the Majesty of America
Beloved Beasts author Michelle Nijhuis on protecting endangered species the environment.
Conserving the Majesty of America
The Pandemic to Prevent All Future Pandemics
American scientist Eric Feigl-Ding discusses the pandemic.
The Pandemic to Prevent All Future Pandemics
Democratic Insecurity in America
“Hiding in Plain Sight” author Sarah Kendzior discusses how to reverse authoritarianism.
Democratic Insecurity in America
Post-Sedition Politics and Pandemic Policies
Political scientist Rachel “the doc” Bitecofer on democracy and economic relief.
Post-Sedition Politics and Pandemic Policies
Saving Democracy, One Tweet and Organizer at a Time
MeidasTouch cofounders Ben Meiselas and Brett Meiselas on strategies to save democracy.
Saving Democracy, One Tweet and Organizer at a Time
Enforcing Big Tech Accountability for the American People
Consumer Reports CEO Marta Tellado on Big Tech accountabilty and how to protect democracy
Enforcing Big Tech Accountability for the American People
When Will Vaccines Eradicate the American Pandemic?
UCSF Medicine chair Dr. Robert Wachter on the impact of emerging COVID-19 vaccines.