The Open Mind
Season 2020
2020 · 46 episodes
1. Baldwin and Buckley: Advocating and Denying Civil Rights
2020-01-03 · 30m
Nicholas Buccola on his book "The Fire is Upon Us: Baldwin, Buckley, and Race in America."
2. The Battle for the Constitution and Pelosi's Originalism
2020-01-06 · 30m
Justin Driver of Yale Law on constitutional law and the struggle to preserve democracy.
3. Grand Strategy for the Campus Commons and Beyond
2020-01-13 · 30m
Vassar College president Elizabeth Bradley on free speech and engaged pluralism.
4. Bias, Bigotry, and Tyrannical Discourse
2020-01-20 · 30m
Robert Boyers on "The Tyranny of Virtue: Identity… and the Hunt for Political Heresies."
5. The Science and Necessity of Friendship
2020-02-03 · 30m
Science journalist Lydia Denworth on the evolution, biology, and power of friendship.
6. Unbecoming a Democracy
2020-02-10 · 30m
Patricia Roberts-Miller of University of Texas on demagoguery and its historical origins.
7. The Kremlin’s Hack Attacks
2020-02-18 · 30m
Wired reporter Andy Greenberg discusses the next wave of Russian cyber crimes.
8. Democratizing the Jury
2020-02-24 · 30m
Wesleyan University’s Sonali Chakravarti on her book "Radical Enfranchisement."
9. Facts and Fears of a Pandemic
2020-03-16 · 30m
NBC News reporter Brandy Zadrozny on coronavirus, anti-vaxxers, and conspiracy-mongers.
10. Breaking Up and Deradicalizing the Socials
2020-03-23 · 30m
Mother Jones’ Ali Breland on combating bigotry online and breaking up new media monopolies.
11. Knowing the Enemy of Truth
2020-03-30 · 30m
Information warfare expert Molly McKew on foreign interference in US elections.
12. The FEC is AWOL
2020-04-06 · 30m
Center for Responsive Politics’ Anna Massoglia on campaign finance accountability issues.
13. Big Tech = Dystopia Incorporated
2020-04-13 · 30m
NBC News dystopia reporter Ben Collins on exposing deception and companies that enable it.
14. The Cult of QAnon
2020-04-20 · 30m
QAnon Anonymous host Travis View on QAnon conspiracy theorists and what motivates them.
15. American Demagogue
2020-04-27 · 30m
Jennifer Mercieca on "Demagogue for President: The Rhetorical Genius of Donald Trump."
16. Gen Z in the Heartland
2020-05-04 · 30m
Nico Gendron of The Wall Street Journal on engaging rural youth in a Local News Fellowship.
17. The Revolution is Online
2020-05-11 · 30m
Online News Association CEO Irving Washington on the future of digital news.
18. The Alchemy of Us
2020-05-18 · 30m
Materials scientist Ainissa Ramirez on her new book "The Alchemy of Us."
19. @V2019N
2020-05-25 · 30m
Rachel Graham on tracking COVID-19 from its inception to inform public health on Twitter.
20. Hiding in Plain Sight
2020-06-01 · 30m
Sarah Kendzior on her book "Hiding in Plain Sight" and the threat of authoritarianism.
21. The Youth Vote in 2020
2020-06-08 · 30m
UVA professor and coauthor of "Making Young Voters," John Holbein on civic participation.
22. The Pandemic’s Prophet
2020-06-15 · 30m
Pulitzer Prize winning science journalist Laurie Garrett on predicting COVID-19.
23. Army of the Decent
2020-06-22 · 30m
Lincoln Project’s John Weaver on holding people in power accountable to their oaths.
24. Dystopia for Realists
2020-06-29 · 30m
"Humankind" author and historian Rutger Bregman on hope for a prosocial society.
25. Renewing Democracy for Today
2020-07-06 · 30m
Garry Kasparov and Uriel Epshtein of the Renew Democracy Initiative on authoritarian rule.
26. Will COVID Paralyze the Vote in November?
2020-07-13 · 30m
Mother Jones voting rights correspondent Ari Berman on the pandemic and voting turnout.
27. American Hospitals...Surviving and Treating the Pandemic
2020-07-20 · 30m
Dr. Jeffrey Matthews, of U of Chicago Medicine, on hospitals’ response to the pandemic.
28. America Without Law
2020-07-27 · 30m
Jack Jackson on "Law Without Future: Anti-Constitutional Politics and the American Right."
29. John Lewis and The Third Reconstruction
2020-08-10 · 30m
Atlantic Magazine’s Adam Harris on John Lewis and a new Civil Rights Movement in America.
30. How to Speak Justly and Bridge Divides
2020-08-17 · 30m
University of Chicago psychologist Katherine Kinzler on her new book “How You Say It.”
31. Gaslighting 2020 and Comorbidities of the GOP
2020-08-24 · 30m
Republican presidential campaign veteran Stuart Stevens on his new book "It Was All a Lie."
32. Will the Pandemic Mean Justice in America?
2020-08-31 · 30m
Minister, activist and Princeton scholar Nyle Fort on re-imagining a post-pandemic America.
33. Political and Personal Accountability
2020-09-07 · 30m
Cong. (Ret.) Katie Hill on her new book "She Will Rise" and the battle for true equality.
34. Calling Bull____ and the Threat of a Show Vaccine
2020-09-14 · 30m
Carl Bergstrom on "Calling Bull____: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World."
35. Will There Be a Legitimate 2020 Election?
2020-09-21 · 30m
Election security advocate Jennifer Cohn on election oversight and hand-marked paper trail.
36. Supercharging Antibodies for a COVID Vaccine
2020-09-28 · 30m
Yale University immunologist Akiko Iwasaki discusses an efficacious COVID vaccine.
37. Will Trump Hoax the Nation on Election Night?
2020-10-05 · 30m
CNN’s Brian Stetler on the danger of disinformation on Election Night, Week, and Month.
38. American Autocracy
2020-10-07 · 30m
U.S. democracy and authoritarianism.
39. After 200K+ Dead, Vote For Your Life
2020-10-13 · 30m
Civil Rights leader and MSNBC’s Rev. Al Sharpton on the mobilization of Black voters.
40. Four More Years of Social Media Failure
2020-10-19 · 30m
MIT scholar Sinan Aral on how to regulate social media to have a constructive impact.
41. Voting is the Civil Rights Movement of 2020
2020-10-26 · 30m
Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law’s Kristen Clarke on justice at the polls.
42. The Flight of Humane Poetics
2020-11-02 · 30m
Julie Swarstad Johnson and Christopher Cokinos on their new book "Beyond Earth’s Edge."
43. Chinese Hegemony
2020-11-09 · 30m
CSIS fellow Jon Hillman on his new book "The Emperor’s New Road" and relations with China.
44. Our Brains on Totalitarianism
2020-11-16 · 30m
Neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett on her book "Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain."
45. Republicanism vs. Trumpism
2020-11-24 · 30m
Lincoln Project’s Mike Madrid on Georgia’s Senate run-off election and defeating Trumpism.
46. The Strongman in the USA
2020-11-30 · 30m
Historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat on Trump’s defiance of the 2020 election results and history.
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