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Hosted by Alexander Heffner, The Open Mind 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. These conversations are a primary resource to the public, students, teachers, researchers, and archivists.
Leslie Berlin of Silicon Valley Archives at Stanford, on “Troublemakers: Silicon Valley’s
Oversight, Partisanship, and 2018
John Lawrence, former Chief of Staff to Nancy Pelosi, on his book “The Class of ’74”.
Getting the Rust Belt Story Straight
Founder and director of Belt Publishing Anne Trubek on “Voices From the Rust Belt.”
Investigative reporter Katherine Eban on generic pharmaceutical manufacturing dangers.
At War With Cambridge Analytica
David Carroll of Parsons School of Design on privacy, media, and suing Cambridge Analytica
“Good Germs, Bad Germs” author Jessica Snyder Sachs on the rise of drug resistance.
NextGen America’s executive director Heather Hargreaves on the 2018 midterm elections.
Microsoft Research Principal Researcher Tarleton Gillespie on "Custodians of the Internet"
Claire Evans on her new book “Broad Band: The Untold Story of Women Who Made the Internet”
Yascha Mounk on “The People vs Democracy: Why Our Freedom is in Danger and How to Save It”
China’s Contentious Public Sphere
Harvard University sociologist Ya-Wen Lei on her new book “The Contentious Public Sphere.”
Wikimedia Foundation’s Katherine Maher on preserving truth in a post-factual democracy
Mayor Peter Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana on democratic values of the American Midwest
Author Hesh Kestin on U.S.-Israel relations; moving from foreign correspondent to novelist
Chair of Presidential Studies at Texas A&M George Edwards III on President Trump.
'The Americans' and the New Cold War
Creator of FX's The Americans Joe Weisberg on Russian espionage, fact and fiction.
W.K. Kellogg Community Philanthropy Chair Jason Franklin on how to reverse inequality.
Ambassador of the UAE to Russia Omar Saif Ghobash on his book "Letters to a Young Muslim"
Constitutionalism vs. Trumpism
Former presidential candidate Evan McMullin talks about his conservative manifesto.
Cindy Cohn of the Electronic Frontier Foundation on safeguarding rights in a digital world
Ken Roth, executive director, Human Rights Watch, on securing liberty at home and abroad.
Jean Bordewich, Hewlett Foundation and Betsy Wright Hawkings of Democracy Fund on gridlock
A Free Press, If You Can Keep It
Joel Simon, of the Committee to Protect Journalists, on challenges to a free press in 2017
