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The Open Mind Season 2018

January. 06,2018

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The Open Mind

This public affairs talk show is a thoughtful excursion into the world of ideas across politics, media, technology, the arts, and all realms of civic life. First broadcast in 1956, it explores challenges of the digital age, American politics and emerging issues.

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The Open Mind Season 2018 Full Episode Guide

Episode 46 - The Creative Wealth of Nations

First Aired: December. 02,2018

Patrick Kabanda, musician and consultant to the World Bank, talks about his new book “The Creative Wealth of Nations” and the importance of the arts in development.

Episode 45 - Disequilibrium on the Supreme Court

First Aired: November. 19,2018

Knight First Amendment Institute inaugural scholar David Pozen discusses the future of American law.

Episode 44 - Discovering Genes

First Aired: November. 13,2018

Carl Zimmer discusses "She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions and Potential of Heredity."

Episode 43 - The Splintering of the American Mind

First Aired: November. 10,2018

Philosopher William Egginton discusses his book "The Splintering of the American Mind."

Episode 42 - The Microbes Among Us

First Aired: November. 02,2018

North Carolina State scientist Rob Dunn discusses his new book “Never Home Alone.”

Episode 41 - Truth and Lies of Education

First Aired: October. 22,2018

Former U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan discusses his new book “How Schools Work.

Episode 40 - Immigration, Dignity, and U.S.-Mexico Relations

First Aired: October. 16,2018

KPBS investigative reporter Jean Guerrero on her new book “Crux: A Cross-Border Memoir.

Episode 39 - Truth Decay in America

First Aired: October. 09,2018

RAND CEO Michael D. Rich and political scientist Jennifer Kavanagh on “Truth Decay.

Episode 38 - Security, Nationalism, and the Four Freedoms

First Aired: October. 01,2018

Jeffrey Prescott of National Security Action on an alternative to Trump's foreign policy.

Episode 37 - United Against Citizens

First Aired: September. 25,2018

Tiffany Muller of End Citizens United, on her mission to undo the Supreme Court decision.

Episode 36 - News, Disinformation, and Free Expression

First Aired: September. 21,2018

Richard Gingras, VP of News at Google, on journalism, citizenship, and disinformation.

Episode 35 - Rage at the Ballot Box

First Aired: September. 12,2018

Soraya Chemaly, Women's Media Center Speech Project, on her new book “Rage Becomes Her.”

Episode 34 - Manchurian President and Alternative Realities

First Aired: September. 05,2018

Tom Nichols, U.S. Naval War College professor, on his book “The Death of Expertise.”

Episode 33 - The Creative Wealth of Nations

First Aired: August. 27,2018

Patrick Kabanda talks about his new book “The Creative Wealth of Nations” and the arts.

Episode 32 - Guts, Heart and Minoritarian Rule

First Aired: August. 25,2018

Al Cross, dir. Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, U Kentucky, on media.

Episode 31 - Quarantining Hate Speech

First Aired: August. 14,2018

Joan Donovan of Data & Society on technologies that degrade democracy and civil society.

Episode 30 - Documenting a Fascist Ascent

First Aired: August. 07,2018

Jack Smith IV, senior writer for Mic, on American nationalism and White Supremacy.

Episode 29 - The Right to Have Rights

First Aired: August. 04,2018

Stephanie DeGooyer, Fellow at Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study on authoritarianisim.

Episode 28 - Sweet Little (and Big) Lies

First Aired: July. 28,2018

Daniel Dale of the Toronto Star on fact-checking President Trump and covering activism.

Episode 27 - Building Bridges

First Aired: July. 17,2018

David Nevins of the Bridge Alliance, talks about reversing America's political disunity.

Episode 26 - Democracy in the Internet Age

First Aired: July. 14,2018

Democracy Works’ Kathryn Peters on election security, voter registration and democracy.

Episode 25 - The Future Caucus

First Aired: July. 03,2018

Steven Olikara, founder of the Millennial Action Project on activating the next generation.

Episode 24 - Our Galaxy and Beyond

First Aired: June. 27,2018

Dr. Alan Stern and Dr. David Grinspoon on their book on Pluto: “Chasing New Horizons.”

Episode 23 - Confronting Algorithms of Bigotry

First Aired: June. 23,2018

Investigative reporter Julia Angwin on exposing technologies that injure society.

Episode 22 - The Lore of Life

First Aired: June. 13,2018

Bar-Ilan University chair in Science, Technology, and Society Oren Harman talks about his new book “Evolutions: 15 Myths That Explain Our World.”

Episode 21 - Tech Troublemakers

First Aired: June. 09,2018

Leslie Berlin of Silicon Valley Archives at Stanford, on “Troublemakers: Silicon Valley’s.

Episode 20 - Oversight, Partisanship, and 2018

First Aired: May. 31,2018

John Lawrence, former Chief of Staff to Nancy Pelosi, on his book “The Class of ’74”.

Episode 19 - Getting the Rust Belt Story Straight

First Aired: May. 26,2018

Founder and director of Belt Publishing Anne Trubek on “Voices From the Rust Belt.”

Episode 18 - The Real Drug Crisis

First Aired: May. 19,2018

Investigative reporter Katherine Eban on generic pharmaceutical manufacturing dangers.

Episode 17 - At War With Cambridge Analytica

First Aired: May. 12,2018

David Carroll of Parsons School of Design on privacy, media, and suing Cambridge Analytica.

Episode 16 - A Pro and Antibiotic Future

First Aired: May. 05,2018

“Good Germs, Bad Germs” author Jessica Snyder Sachs on the rise of drug resistance.

Episode 15 - The Post-Millennial Wave

First Aired: April. 24,2018

NextGen America’s executive director Heather Hargreaves on the 2018 midterm elections.

Episode 14 - Guardians of the Web

First Aired: April. 21,2018

Microsoft Research Principal Researcher Tarleton Gillespie on "Custodians of the Internet."

Episode 13 - Mother Internet

First Aired: April. 10,2018

Claire Evans on her new book “Broad Band: The Untold Story of Women Who Made the Internet.”

Episode 12 - Democrats vs. Authoritarians

First Aired: April. 07,2018

Yascha Mounk on “The People vs Democracy: Why Our Freedom is in Danger and How to Save It.”

Episode 11 - China’s Contentious Public Sphere

First Aired: March. 17,2018

Harvard University sociologist Ya-Wen Lei on her new book “The Contentious Public Sphere.”

Episode 10 - Securing American Democracy

First Aired: March. 10,2018

Jamie Fly and Laura Rosenberger of the Alliance for Securing Democracy on Russia and US.

Episode 9 - Combating Extremism Online

First Aired: March. 03,2018

Counter Extremism Project’s Mark Wallace and Dartmouth’s Hany Farid on online extremism.

Episode 8 - A Union of Concerned Technologists

First Aired: February. 24,2018

Renee DiResta of Data for Democracy on how antisocial media-tech companies are a threat.

Episode 7 - Solutions Journalism and Solutions for Journalism

First Aired: February. 17,2018

Solutions Journalism and NYTimes’ David Bornstein on the constructive force of journalism.

Episode 6 - Fascism Strikes Back

First Aired: February. 10,2018

Shane Burley discusses his new book “Fascism Today: What It Is and How We End It.”

Episode 5 - All the President’s Twitter Blocks

First Aired: February. 03,2018

Knight First Amendment Institute’s Katie Fallow on free speech violations in government.

Episode 4 - Law, Order and Justice

First Aired: January. 24,2018

Roosevelt Institute Fellow Dorian Warren discusses the politics of inequality today.

Episode 3 - Automating Inequality

First Aired: January. 16,2018

Political scientist Virginia Eubanks on her new book, “Automating Inequality.”

Episode 2 - Misinformation Crisis

First Aired: January. 13,2018

University of Amsterdam’s Claes de Vreese on global populism and the post-truth present.

Episode 1 - Representing Us

First Aired: January. 06,2018

Congressional Candidate, Millennial and geologist Jess Phoenix on representative democracy.

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