Racism Renounced: A Black Man Talks With White Supremacists. Daryl Davis | Let's Find Common Ground
Acclaimed musician and recording artist Daryl Davis has interviewed hundreds of KKK members and other White supremacists and influenced many of them to renounce their racist ideology.We hear his brave...
13 Mar 202429min
Dr. Jonathan Haidt on After Babel: "The Fragmentation of Everything" | Village SquareCast
What if, at a pinnacle of our civilization’s technological achievement, everything just broke — the institutions we’ve come to rely upon in navigating a modern complex world, the shared stories that h...
11 Mar 20241h 43min
A different take on social media and democracy | Democracy Works
We've talked about social media a lot on this show over the years — usually focusing on algorithms, echo chambers, polarization, and the other ways it's damaging to democracy. This week, however, we h...
6 Mar 202437min
Is the House broken? | Politics in Question
In this week's episode of Politics In Question, Lee and James ask Representative Chip Roy, R-Texas, if the House of Representatives is broken. Roy is a devoted husband and father of two, serving his t...
4 Mar 202436min
Democracy's Good News: How Teachers Are Creating Future Citizens
Host Jenna Spinelle highlights the positive efforts of individuals and organizations working to build a healthier democracy in our short series, Democracy's Good News.Today we feature interviews with ...
1 Mar 20247min
Patriotism vs. Extremism: Ken Harbaugh | Future Hindsight
Ken Harbaugh is the host of the Burn the Boats podcast, a former United States Navy pilot, and executive producer of Against All Enemies, a documentary film that explores the critical role of military...
28 Feb 202437min
Living Memory | Democracy in Danger
Before the Chinese Communist Party came to power in 1949, Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalists played a key role in fighting the Japanese during World War II. In the decades after, China’s role as an ally t...
26 Feb 202435min
How to combat political extremism | Democracy Works
Cynthia Miller-Idriss, one of America's leading experts on the far right, joins us this week to discuss what draws people to political extremism online and offline — and what we can do to combat it. M...
21 Feb 202437min
