Season 2020
Jack Jackson on “Law Without Future: Anti-Constitutional Politics and the American Right.”
America Without Law
American Hospitals...Surviving and Treating the Pandemic
Dr. Jeffrey Matthews, of U of Chicago Medicine, on hospitals’ response to the pandemic.
American Hospitals...Surviving and Treating the Pandemic
Will COVID Paralyze the Vote in November?
Mother Jones voting rights correspondent Ari Berman on the pandemic and voting turnout.
Will COVID Paralyze the Vote in November?
Garry Kasparov and Uriel Epshtein of the Renew Democracy Initiative on authoritarian rule.
Renewing Democracy for Today
“Humankind” author and historian Rutger Bregman on hope for a prosocial society.
Dystopia for Realists
Lincoln Project’s John Weaver on holding people in power accountable to their oaths.
Army of the Decent
Pulitzer Prize winning science journalist Laurie Garrett on predicting COVID-19
The Pandemic’s Prophet
UVA professor and coauthor of “Making Young Voters,” John Holbein on civic participation
The Youth Vote in 2020
Sarah Kendzior on her book “Hiding in Plain Sight” and the threat of authoritarianism.
Hiding in Plain Sight
Nico Gendron of The Wall Street Journal on engaging rural youth in a Local News Fellowship
Gen Z in the Heartland
Jennifer Mercieca on “Demagogue for President: The Rhetorical Genius of Donald Trump."
American Demagogue
QAnon Anonymous host Travis View on QAnon conspiracy theorists and what motivates them.
The Cult of QAnon
Big Tech = Dystopia Incorporated
NBC News dystopia reporter Ben Collins on exposing deception and companies that enable it
Big Tech = Dystopia Incorporated
Center for Responsive Politics’ Anna Massoglia on campaign finance accountability issues.
The FEC is AWOL
Information warfare expert Molly McKew on foreign interference in US elections.
Knowing the Enemy of Truth
Breaking Up and Deradicalizing the Socials
Mother Jones’ Ali Breland on combating bigotry online and breaking up new media monopolies
Breaking Up and Deradicalizing the Socials
NBC News reporter Brandy Zadrozny on coronavirus, anti-vaxxers, and conspiracy-mongers.
Facts and Fears of a Pandemic
Wesleyan University’s Sonali Chakravarti on her book “Radical Enfranchisement.”
Democratizing the Jury
Wired reporter Andy Greenberg discusses the next wave of Russian cyber crimes.
The Kremlin’s Hack Attacks
Patricia Roberts-Miller of University of Texas on demagoguery and its historical origins.
Unbecoming a Democracy
The Science and Necessity of Friendship
Science journalist Lydia Denworth on the evolution, biology, and power of friendship.