The Open Mind Season 41 Episodes

Episode 1

The Strongman in the USA

Wed, Dec 2, 2020 27 mins

Historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat discusses Trump's defiance of the 2020 election results and the authoritarian playbook.

Episode 2

Our Genes in the Pandemic

Mon, Dec 7, 2020 27 mins

Johns Hopkins neuroscientist David Linden discusses his new book "Unique: The New Science of Human Individuality."

Episode 3

To Infinity and Beyond

Mon, Dec 14, 2020 27 mins

An interview with Fred Nadis about his new book, "Star Settlers: The Billionaires, Geniuses, and Crazed Visionaries Out to Conquer the Universe."

Episode 4

Recovery for America

Mon, Jan 11, 2021 27 mins

Episode 5

When Will Vaccines Eradicate The American Pandemic?

Wed, Dec 23, 2020 27 mins

Episode 6

01/03/2021

Wed, Dec 30, 2020 27 mins

Episode 7

Conserving the Majesty of America

Wed, Feb 10, 2021 27 mins

Michelle Nijhuis talks about protecting endangered species during the pandemic.

Episode 8

01-20-2021

Wed, Jan 20, 2021 27 mins

Episode 9

The Casualties of Drug Compounding

Wed, Mar 3, 2021 27 mins

Jason Dearen is spotlighted.

Episode 10

How to Demolish the Disinformation Infrastructure

Wed, Mar 10, 2021 27 mins

Kate Starbird talks about the disinformation online.

Episode 11

Freedom and Wokeness on Campus

Wed, Mar 17, 2021 27 mins

Keith Whittington talks about preserving freedom of speech and human discourse.

Episode 12

America's Extraconstitutional Supreme Court and New Jim Crow

Sun, Apr 11, 2021 27 mins

Bertrall Ross talks about reforming the inequities of an unrepresented United States government.

Episode 13

The Unreachable Supermajority for Constitutional Reform

Mon, Apr 26, 2021 27 mins

Jorge Contesse talks about the pandemic's global human rights fallout.

Episode 14

Black to the Future

Wed, May 5, 2021 27 mins

Saxophonist Shabaka Hutchings discusses his newest visionary album, racial justice, and the cosmos of music.

Episode 15

What Human Challenge Trials Can Teach Us

Wed, May 12, 2021 27 mins

Nir Eyal talks about the ethics of research for vaccines and therapeutics.

Episode 16

Why Crypto Matters

Wed, Jun 9, 2021 27 mins

Trade economist Eswar Prasad discusses how cryptocurrencies are impacting the future of markets and global stability.

Episode 17

Domestic Terror Alert

Wed, Jun 2, 2021 27 mins

Mia Bloom talks about the history of modern domestic fundamentalism.

Episode 18

How We Remember

Wed, Jun 16, 2021 27 mins

Lauren Aguirre talks about her book, "The Memory Thief: And the Secrets Behind How We Remember--A Medical Mystery."

Episode 19

The End of Democracy in America

Wed, Jun 23, 2021 27 mins

Tom Nichols is spotlighted.

Episode 20

Episode 4146

Wed, Jul 14, 2021 27 mins

Episode 21

Episode 21

Wed, Jul 21, 2021 27 mins

Episode 22

Episode 4145

Sat, Aug 7, 2021 27 mins

Episode 23

Episode 4151

Wed, Aug 18, 2021 27 mins

Episode 24

Episode 4152

Wed, Aug 25, 2021 27 mins

Episode 25

A Nuclear Threat from The Taliban?

Mon, Sep 20, 2021 27 mins

Vipin Narang talks about the global buildup of nuclear weapons and the legacy of mutual assured destruction.

Episode 26

A Bad Science-Fiction Movie That is Real

Mon, Sep 27, 2021 27 mins

Agustin Fuentes talks about the future of the pandemic and how culture should evolve.

Episode 27

How to Reform the Police

Mon, Oct 4, 2021 27 mins

Sandra Susan Smith talks about the next phase of criminal justice reform and public perceptions of mass incarceration.

Episode 28

Episode 4206

Mon, Oct 11, 2021 27 mins

Episode 29

Episode 4207

Mon, Oct 18, 2021 27 mins

Episode 30

Episode 4208

Mon, Oct 25, 2021 27 mins

Episode 31

Episode 4209

Mon, Nov 1, 2021 27 mins

Episode 32

Reducing Harm to People and Communities

Mon, Nov 8, 2021 27 mins

Maia Szalavitz talks about abuse and her book.

Episode 33

Universal Basic Equity

Mon, Nov 15, 2021 27 mins

Michael Tubbs is spotlighted.

Episode 34

Killware and the Coming Digital Pandemic

Mon, Nov 22, 2021 27 mins

Anton Dahbura and Joseph Carrigan talk about hacking, ransomware, and vulnerability to infrastructure.

Episode 35

Killware and the Coming Digital Pandemic

Thu, Nov 25, 2021 27 mins

Episode 36

What Do Rural Women Want?

Mon, Nov 29, 2021 27 mins

Host Alexander Heffner talks to Whitney Kimball Coe of the Coe Center for Rural Strategies. As the center's national programs director, Ms. Coe voices out the dreams and aspirations of women residing in rural communities across America.

Episode 37

Food and Medical Deserts in America

Mon, Dec 6, 2021 27 mins

Alexander Heffner talks to Louisville Association for Community Economics President Cassia Herron. Ms. Herron discusses her organization's programs for grassroots farming communities to help solve the nation's need for long-term food security.

Episode 38

Cures in the Soil

Mon, Dec 13, 2021 27 mins

Medical ethnobotanist Cassandra Quave from Emory University talks about her new memoir. The book is called The Plant Hunter: A Scientist's Quest for Nature's Next Medicines, which chronicles her journey in finding natural cures for various diseases. She also mentions the possibility of coming up with a medicine to combat COVID-19.

Episode 39

Has the Pandemic Changes American Health Care?

Mon, Dec 20, 2021 27 mins

Jeremy Faust talks about the state of the pandemic and the disparities between testing and vaccineations.

Episode 40

Has the Pandemic Changed American Health Care?

Thu, Dec 23, 2021 27 mins

Episode 41

The Crumbling of Globalization

Mon, Dec 27, 2021 27 mins

Paolo Gerbaudo talks about the global economic imbalance and the post-pandemic future.

Episode 42

The Existential Question of Death

Mon, Jan 3, 2022 27 mins

Medical Humanities Journal editor Brandy Schillace discusses coping with a generation of death and her new book "Mr. Humble and Dr. Butcher: A Monkey's Head, the Pope's Neuroscientist, and the Quest to Transplant the Soul."

Episode 43

The Escalating Risk of Mass Violence

Mon, Jan 10, 2022 27 mins

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Episode 44

When Arabs Embrace Israel and Jews Do Not

Mon, Jan 17, 2022 27 mins

Guest: Einat WilfIsraeli Politician (Ret.) discusses contemporary Western anti-Zionism, the advent of Arab Zionism, and the future of anti-Semitism.Usage dates begin 01/17/22

Episode 45

The Inhumanity of Data Theft

Fri, Feb 4, 2022 27 mins

Digital ethicist Carissa Véliz discusses corporate invasion of personal data and the U.S. failure to regulate big tech.

Episode 46

Foreign Debacles and the Biden War Philosophy

Mon, Feb 14, 2022 27 mins

U.S Army Colonel (Ret.) Robert Cassidy discusses the Biden Administration's foreign policy challenges and national morale.

Episode 47

Between Cold and Hot Civil War

Mon, Feb 21, 2022 27 mins

Political scientist Barbara Walter discusses American political tribalism and civil unrest.

Episode 48

American Jail and Prison

Wed, Mar 16, 2022 27 mins

University of Minnesota sociologist Michael Walker discusses his new book "Indefinite: Doing Time in Jail."

Episode 50

The Quest to Merge Human and Computer

Wed, Mar 23, 2022 27 mins

Noah Hutton talks about the project to simulate the human brain on a supercomputer.

Episode 51

Episode 4230

Mon, Mar 28, 2022 27 mins

Episode 53

Reading and Thinking Freely

Wed, Mar 30, 2022 27 mins

Author Azar Nafisi discusses her new book "Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times."

Episode 54

Is Voter Suppression Recreating Segregation?

Sun, Apr 17, 2022 27 mins

Blair Kelley is spotlighted.

Episode 56

How Democracy Survives Disinformation

Sun, Apr 3, 2022 27 mins

Columbia University president Lee Bollinger and University of Chicago scholar Geoffrey Stone discuss their forthcoming book "Social Media, Freedom of Speech, and the Future of Our Democracy."

Episode 57

Energy, Nukes, and Deterring WWIII

Sun, Apr 24, 2022 27 mins

Rich Wolfson and Ferenc Dalnoki are spotlighted.

Episode 58

Masking and Unmasking Civilization

Sun, Apr 10, 2022 27 mins

Guest: Virginia Postrel. Author Virginia Postrel discusses the history of fabric and contemporary mask-wearing practices to protect public health.

Episode 59

The Future of Privacy in America

Sun, May 1, 2022 27 mins

Amy Gajda is spotlighted.

Episode 60

Detecting Malarkey

Thu, May 5, 2022 27 mins

John Petrocelli talks about the importance of fact-checking.

Episode 61

March of the Autocracies

Fri, May 6, 2022 27 mins

Guest: Jacob Mchangama. Justitia CEO Jacob Mchangama discusses the threat to free speech around the world.

Episode 62

A Moral Irresponsibility of America

Mon, May 9, 2022 27 mins

Michael Robillard and Bradley Strawser are spotlighted.

Episode 63

Incarceration and Injustice

Sun, May 29, 2022 27 mins

Historian Melanie Newport of University of Connecticut talk about the prison and jail system in the contemporary times.

Episode 64

The Increasing Restrictions on the First Amendment in School

Sun, Jun 12, 2022 27 mins

National Coalition Against Censorship executive director Christopher Finan discusses bans of books and reproductive choice.

Episode 65

Diagnosing the Infodemic

Sun, Jun 19, 2022 27 mins

Guest: Robert Mahoney. Committee to Protect Journalists executive director Robert Mahoney discusses the pandemic-era Fourth Estate.

Episode 66

The Freedom of Literacy

Mon, Jun 20, 2022 27 mins

Episode 67

Paradoxes of Democracy and Illiberalism

Sun, Jun 26, 2022 27 mins

Zac Gershberg of Idaho State University on the future of democracy and illiberalism in America.

Episode 68

How to Preserve Dignity in the Digital Age

Mon, Jul 25, 2022 27 mins

Episode 69

Marching for a Strategy

Sun, Jul 17, 2022 27 mins

Episode 70

Hearts and Minds of Rural Folk

Sun, Jul 24, 2022 27 mins

Episode 72

The Mass Shooting State of America

Sun, Jul 31, 2022 27 mins

Episode 75

Episode 4246

Thu, Aug 11, 2022 27 mins

Episode 77

What China Wants

Mon, Sep 5, 2022 27 mins

Jeff Wasserstrom is spotlighted.

Episode 78

Episode 2450

Sun, Aug 28, 2022 27 mins

Episode 79

Episode 4252

Fri, Sep 2, 2022 27 mins

Episode 80

The Politics of Imagination

Mon, Aug 29, 2022 27 mins

Guest: Lis Smith Campaign operative and New York Times bestselling "Any Given Tuesday" author Lis Smith discusses the future of American politics.

Episode 81

Voting Safely at Home

Wed, Sep 7, 2022 27 mins

Amber McReynolds is spotlighted.

Episode 82

Cancer Virus Hunters

Wed, Sep 14, 2022 27 mins

Gregory Morgan is spotlighted.

Episode 83

Episode 4251

Wed, Sep 21, 2022 27 mins

Episode 84

Cody Keenan

Mon, Oct 3, 2022 27 mins

Former White House chief speechwriter Cody Keenan tells his readers that occasionally, the world changes.

Episode 85

Can Whistleblowers Still Create Societal Change?

Mon, Oct 3, 2022 27 mins

Guest: Siri Nelson. National Whistleblower Center executive director Siri Nelson discusses the historical and contemporary role of the whistleblower.

Episode 86

Yohuru Williams

Mon, Oct 10, 2022 27 mins

The challenges of the year 2020 echoed previous eras of hardship in American history. Author and historian Yohuru Williams reflects on the ways Americans navigated communal loss during the COVID-19 pandemic and what that means for our collective future.

Episode 87

Reproductive Rights in a Bottle

Mon, Oct 10, 2022 27 mins

Guest: Kiki Freedman. Hey Jane founder Kiki Freedman discusses her company's mission to provide medication abortion in the most restrictive climate in U.S. history.

Episode 88

Mark Johnson

Mon, Oct 17, 2022 27 mins

Mark Johnson argues that empathy and climate change are connected and says fiction writing can be a powerful tool to sway minds.

Episode 89

Science, Plagues, and Denials

Mon, Oct 17, 2022 27 mins

Alexandra Phelan; Gale Sinatra; and Brian Michael Jenkins discuss the triple threat of COVID-19, monkeypox, and polio.

Episode 90

Jeremy Wallace

Mon, Oct 24, 2022 27 mins

Political reporter Jeremy Wallace discusses what the 2022 midterm election could hold for Texas and the United States as a whole.

Episode 91

Climate Inaction Comes Home to Roost

Mon, Oct 24, 2022 27 mins

Science journalist Madeline Ostrander discusses her new book, "At Home on an Unruly Planet: Finding Refuge on a Changed Earth."

Episode 92

Mark Follman

Mon, Oct 31, 2022 27 mins

Mark Follman chronicles the latest advances in the emerging field of behavioral threat assessment and their potential to prevent mass shootings.

Episode 93

Who Broke American Education?

Mon, Oct 31, 2022 27 mins

Historian Nicole Hemmer and Will Bunch discuss the politicization of the U.S. education system.

Episode 94

Realities of Black Lives

Thu, Nov 3, 2022 27 mins

British-Congolese filmmaker Sukami Kiosa discusses his new film "A Letter to Black Men" and representation of Blackness in the press and film.

Episode 95

Objective and Subjective Definitions of Democracy

Sun, Dec 11, 2022 27 mins

Bert Emerson discusses disparate and shared understandings of democratic rule.

Episode 96

Making Politics Work Again

Mon, Feb 6, 2023 27 mins

Katherine Gehl Institute for Political Innovation founder Katherine Gehl discusses the key to fixing a politics industry.

Episode 97

Are Polarized Resentments Calming?

Tue, Feb 7, 2023 27 mins

American University scholar Elizabeth Suhay discusses her work "The Politics of Truth in Polarized America."

Episode 98

The Nonexistent Left and Right

Tue, Feb 7, 2023 27 mins

Coauthors Verlan Lewis and Hyrum Lewis discuss their new book.

Episode 99

How Gen Z Will Govern

Tue, Feb 14, 2023 27 mins

Episode 100

Food Will Save the Union

Sun, Mar 26, 2023 27 mins

Episode 101

Rejuvenating Our Citizenship

Sun, Apr 30, 2023 27 mins

University of Nebraska sociologist Kelsy Burke discusses the meaning of pornography in American society and culture.

Episode 102

The Science of Decisionmaking

Sun, May 7, 2023 27 mins

The science of our moral, political, and fast food choices is discussed by University of Minnesota neuroscientist David Redish.

Episode 103

A Multiplicity of Generational Crises

Sun, May 14, 2023 27 mins

Elder justice leader M.T. Connolly discusses her new book "The Measure of Our Age: Navigating Care, Safety, Money, and Meaning Later in Life."

Episode 104

A Just Law Enforcement

Mon, May 15, 2023 27 mins

Hear Foundation co-founders Leon Ford and Scott Schubert discuss public safety.

Episode 105

Math Rules the World

Sun, May 21, 2023 27 mins

Episode 106

Empowering Without Disempowering

Mon, May 22, 2023 27 mins

University of Oklahoma bestselling author Honorée Fanonne Jeffers discusses free speech and book banning.

Episode 107

Addiction in America and the World

Sun, May 28, 2023 27 mins

Physician Carl Erik Fisher discusses the past, present, and future of addiction.

Episode 108

Speaking of Empathy and Patriotism

Mon, May 29, 2023 27 mins

Army National Guard (Ret.) service member Joseph Earl Thomas discusses his new book "Sink: A Memoir."

Episode 109

The Future of Science Journalism

Tue, Jun 6, 2023 27 mins

Knight Science Journalism at MIT director Deborah Blum discusses the challenges and tactics of contemporary science journalism.

Episode 110

Living With (And Ending?) Pandemics

Tue, Jun 13, 2023 27 mins

Science journalist Richard Conniff discusses historical and contemporary public health policies.

Episode 111

The Resilience of the Vagina

Tue, Jun 20, 2023 27 mins

Author Rachel Gross discusses her new book, 'Vagina Obscura: An Anatomical Voyage.'

Episode 112

Mom's and Dad's Brains

Tue, Jun 27, 2023 27 mins

Science journalist Chelsea Conaboy discusses how parenthood evolves the brain.

Episode 113

The Persistence of Eugenics

Tue, Jul 4, 2023 27 mins

Undark magazine editor Ashley Smart discusses the groundbreaking digital outlet exploring the intersection of science and society.

Episode 114

The Next Hub of American Innovation

Tue, Jul 11, 2023 27 mins

Guest: Robert Buderi. Tech journalist Robert Buderi discusses his new book "Where Futures Converge: Kendall Square and the Making of a Global Innovation Hub."

Episode 115

What Fungi Means for Humanity

Tue, Jul 18, 2023 27 mins

Mycologist Keith Seifert discusses whether fungi could be responsible for the next pandemic.

Episode 116

07/25/2023

Tue, Jul 25, 2023 27 mins

Episode 117

The Origin of the FDA Mandate

Mon, Feb 5, 2024 27 mins

Jennifer Vanderbes discusses her book, "Wonder Drug: The Secret History of Thalidomide in America and its Hidden Victims."

Episode 118

08/22/2023

Tue, Aug 22, 2023 27 mins

Episode 119

08/29/2023

Tue, Aug 29, 2023 27 mins

Episode 120

Episode 4345

Tue, Oct 10, 2023 27 mins