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The Open Mind Season 2020

January. 03,2020

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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 2020 Full Episode Guide

Episode 46 - The Strongman in the USA

First Aired: November. 30,2020

Historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat on Trump’s defiance of the 2020 election results and history.

Episode 45 - Republicanism vs. Trumpism

First Aired: November. 24,2020

Lincoln Project’s Mike Madrid on Georgia’s Senate run-off election and defeating Trumpism.

Episode 44 - Our Brains on Totalitarianism

First Aired: November. 16,2020

Neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett on her book "Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain."

Episode 43 - Chinese Hegemony

First Aired: November. 09,2020

CSIS fellow Jon Hillman on his new book "The Emperor’s New Road" and relations with China.

Episode 42 - The Flight of Humane Poetics

First Aired: November. 02,2020

Julie Swarstad Johnson and Christopher Cokinos on their new book "Beyond Earth’s Edge."

Episode 41 - Voting is the Civil Rights Movement of 2020

First Aired: October. 26,2020

Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law’s Kristen Clarke on justice at the polls.

Episode 40 - Four More Years of Social Media Failure

First Aired: October. 19,2020

MIT scholar Sinan Aral on how to regulate social media to have a constructive impact.

Episode 39 - After 200K+ Dead, Vote For Your Life

First Aired: October. 13,2020

Civil Rights leader and MSNBC’s Rev. Al Sharpton on the mobilization of Black voters.

Episode 38 - American Autocracy

First Aired: October. 07,2020

U.S. democracy and authoritarianism.

Episode 37 - Will Trump Hoax the Nation on Election Night?

First Aired: October. 05,2020

CNN’s Brian Stetler on the danger of disinformation on Election Night, Week, and Month.

Episode 36 - Supercharging Antibodies for a COVID Vaccine

First Aired: September. 28,2020

Yale University immunologist Akiko Iwasaki discusses an efficacious COVID vaccine.

Episode 35 - Will There Be a Legitimate 2020 Election?

First Aired: September. 21,2020

Election security advocate Jennifer Cohn on election oversight and hand-marked paper trail.

Episode 34 - Calling Bull____ and the Threat of a Show Vaccine

First Aired: September. 14,2020

Carl Bergstrom on "Calling Bull____: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World."

Episode 33 - Political and Personal Accountability

First Aired: September. 07,2020

Cong. (Ret.) Katie Hill on her new book "She Will Rise" and the battle for true equality.

Episode 32 - Will the Pandemic Mean Justice in America?

First Aired: August. 31,2020

Minister, activist and Princeton scholar Nyle Fort on re-imagining a post-pandemic America.

Episode 31 - Gaslighting 2020 and Comorbidities of the GOP

First Aired: August. 24,2020

Republican presidential campaign veteran Stuart Stevens on his new book "It Was All a Lie."

Episode 30 - How to Speak Justly and Bridge Divides

First Aired: August. 17,2020

University of Chicago psychologist Katherine Kinzler on her new book “How You Say It.”

Episode 29 - John Lewis and The Third Reconstruction

First Aired: August. 10,2020

Atlantic Magazine’s Adam Harris on John Lewis and a new Civil Rights Movement in America.

Episode 28 - America Without Law

First Aired: July. 27,2020

Jack Jackson on "Law Without Future: Anti-Constitutional Politics and the American Right."

Episode 27 - American Hospitals...Surviving and Treating the Pandemic

First Aired: July. 20,2020

Dr. Jeffrey Matthews, of U of Chicago Medicine, on hospitals’ response to the pandemic.

Episode 26 - Will COVID Paralyze the Vote in November?

First Aired: July. 13,2020

Mother Jones voting rights correspondent Ari Berman on the pandemic and voting turnout.

Episode 25 - Renewing Democracy for Today

First Aired: July. 06,2020

Garry Kasparov and Uriel Epshtein of the Renew Democracy Initiative on authoritarian rule.

Episode 24 - Dystopia for Realists

First Aired: June. 29,2020

"Humankind" author and historian Rutger Bregman on hope for a prosocial society.

Episode 23 - Army of the Decent

First Aired: June. 22,2020

Lincoln Project’s John Weaver on holding people in power accountable to their oaths.

Episode 22 - The Pandemic’s Prophet

First Aired: June. 15,2020

Pulitzer Prize winning science journalist Laurie Garrett on predicting COVID-19.

Episode 21 - The Youth Vote in 2020

First Aired: June. 08,2020

UVA professor and coauthor of "Making Young Voters," John Holbein on civic participation.

Episode 20 - Hiding in Plain Sight

First Aired: June. 01,2020

Sarah Kendzior on her book "Hiding in Plain Sight" and the threat of authoritarianism.

Episode 19 - @V2019N

First Aired: May. 25,2020

Rachel Graham on tracking COVID-19 from its inception to inform public health on Twitter.

Episode 18 - The Alchemy of Us

First Aired: May. 18,2020

Materials scientist Ainissa Ramirez on her new book "The Alchemy of Us."

Episode 17 - The Revolution is Online

First Aired: May. 11,2020

Online News Association CEO Irving Washington on the future of digital news.

Episode 16 - Gen Z in the Heartland

First Aired: May. 04,2020

Nico Gendron of The Wall Street Journal on engaging rural youth in a Local News Fellowship.

Episode 15 - American Demagogue

First Aired: April. 27,2020

Jennifer Mercieca on "Demagogue for President: The Rhetorical Genius of Donald Trump."

Episode 14 - The Cult of QAnon

First Aired: April. 20,2020

QAnon Anonymous host Travis View on QAnon conspiracy theorists and what motivates them.

Episode 13 - Big Tech = Dystopia Incorporated

First Aired: April. 13,2020

NBC News dystopia reporter Ben Collins on exposing deception and companies that enable it.

Episode 12 - The FEC is AWOL

First Aired: April. 06,2020

Center for Responsive Politics’ Anna Massoglia on campaign finance accountability issues.

Episode 11 - Knowing the Enemy of Truth

First Aired: March. 30,2020

Information warfare expert Molly McKew on foreign interference in US elections.

Episode 10 - Breaking Up and Deradicalizing the Socials

First Aired: March. 23,2020

Mother Jones’ Ali Breland on combating bigotry online and breaking up new media monopolies.

Episode 9 - Facts and Fears of a Pandemic

First Aired: March. 16,2020

NBC News reporter Brandy Zadrozny on coronavirus, anti-vaxxers, and conspiracy-mongers.

Episode 8 - Democratizing the Jury

First Aired: February. 24,2020

Wesleyan University’s Sonali Chakravarti on her book "Radical Enfranchisement."

Episode 7 - The Kremlin’s Hack Attacks

First Aired: February. 18,2020

Wired reporter Andy Greenberg discusses the next wave of Russian cyber crimes.

Episode 6 - Unbecoming a Democracy

First Aired: February. 10,2020

Patricia Roberts-Miller of University of Texas on demagoguery and its historical origins.

Episode 5 - The Science and Necessity of Friendship

First Aired: February. 03,2020

Science journalist Lydia Denworth on the evolution, biology, and power of friendship.

Episode 4 - Bias, Bigotry, and Tyrannical Discourse

First Aired: January. 20,2020

Robert Boyers on "The Tyranny of Virtue: Identity… and the Hunt for Political Heresies."

Episode 3 - Grand Strategy for the Campus Commons and Beyond

First Aired: January. 13,2020

Vassar College president Elizabeth Bradley on free speech and engaged pluralism.

Episode 2 - The Battle for the Constitution and Pelosi's Originalism

First Aired: January. 06,2020

Justin Driver of Yale Law on constitutional law and the struggle to preserve democracy.

Episode 1 - Baldwin and Buckley: Advocating and Denying Civil Rights

First Aired: January. 03,2020

Nicholas Buccola on his book "The Fire is Upon Us: Baldwin, Buckley, and Race in America."

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