Season 2021
Unembedding Racism in the Justice System
Georgetown Law Professor Kristin Henning discusses her new book “The Rage of Innocence.”
Unembedding Racism in the Justice System
Consensus, Democracy, and Roe v. Wade
Florida State University College of Law Professor Mary Ziegler on reproductive rights.
Consensus, Democracy, and Roe v. Wade
Harvard scholar Sandra Susan Smith discusses the next phase of criminal justice reform.
How to Reform the Police
A Bad Science-Fiction Movie That is Real
Biological anthropologist Agustin Fuentes on the pandemic and how culture must evolve.
A Bad Science-Fiction Movie That is Real
A Nuclear Threat from the Taliban?
MIT Professor of Nuclear Security Vipin Narang on the global buildup of nuclear weapons.
A Nuclear Threat from the Taliban?
The Pandemic Public Health Divide
JHU Center for Safe and Healthy Schools executive director Odis Johnson on the pandemic.
The Pandemic Public Health Divide
American Democracy and Economy in the Biden Age
UVA Karsh Institute of Democracy director Melody Barnes on U.S. domestic policy challenges
American Democracy and Economy in the Biden Age
Mapping our Brain Processes in the Pandemic
Neuroscientist Rebecca Schwarzlose discusses her new book “Brainscapes.”
Mapping our Brain Processes in the Pandemic
The End of Democracy in America
Tom Nichols on “Our Own Worst Enemy: The Assault from within on Modern Democracy”
The End of Democracy in America
Georgia State University professor Mia Bloom on the history of domestic fundamentalism.
Domestic Terror Alert
Exploiting and Exhausting the Workforce
Labor journalist Sarah Jaffe on the pandemic’s exacerbation of an exhausted workforce.
Exploiting and Exhausting the Workforce
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.