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The Best Episodes of 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...

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    #1 - Representing Us

    S2018:E1

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

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    #2 - Misinformation Crisis

    S2018:E2

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

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    #3 - Automating Inequality

    S2018:E3

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

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    #4 - Law, Order and Justice

    S2018:E4

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

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    #5 - All the President’s Twitter Blocks

    S2018:E5

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

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    #6 - Fascism Strikes Back

    S2018:E6

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

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    #7 - Solutions Journalism and Solutions for Journalism

    S2018:E7

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

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    #8 - A Union of Concerned Technologists

    S2018:E8

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

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    #9 - Combating Extremism Online

    S2018:E9

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

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    #10 - Securing American Democracy

    S2018:E10

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

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    #11 - China’s Contentious Public Sphere

    S2018:E11

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

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    #12 - Democrats vs. Authoritarians

    S2018:E12

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

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    #13 - Mother Internet

    S2018:E13

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

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    #14 - Guardians of the Web

    S2018:E14

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

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    #15 - The Post-Millennial Wave

    S2018:E15

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

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    #16 - A Pro and Antibiotic Future

    S2018:E16

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

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    #17 - At War With Cambridge Analytica

    S2018:E17

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

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    #18 - The Real Drug Crisis

    S2018:E18

    Investigative reporter Katherine Eban on generic pharmaceutical manufacturing dangers.

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    #19 - Getting the Rust Belt Story Straight

    S2018:E19

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

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    #20 - Oversight, Partisanship, and 2018

    S2018:E20

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

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    #21 - Tech Troublemakers

    S2018:E21

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

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    #22 - The Lore of Life

    S2018:E22

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

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    #23 - Confronting Algorithms of Bigotry

    S2018:E23

    Investigative reporter Julia Angwin on exposing technologies that injure society.

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    #24 - Our Galaxy and Beyond

    S2018:E24

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

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    #25 - The Future Caucus

    S2018:E25

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

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Best Episodes Summary

"Representing Us" is the best rated episode of "The Open Mind". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 1/6/2018. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Misinformation Crisis".