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The Best Episodes of The Open Mind Season 2018

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Every episode of The Open Mind Season 2018 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Open Mind Season 2018!

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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  • Representing Us
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    #1 - Representing Us

    Season 2018 Episode 1

    Aired 1/6/2018

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

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  • Misinformation Crisis
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    #2 - Misinformation Crisis

    Season 2018 Episode 2

    Aired 1/13/2018

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

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  • Automating Inequality
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    #3 - Automating Inequality

    Season 2018 Episode 3

    Aired 1/16/2018

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

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  • Law, Order and Justice
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    #4 - Law, Order and Justice

    Season 2018 Episode 4

    Aired 1/24/2018

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

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  • All the President’s Twitter Blocks
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    #5 - All the President’s Twitter Blocks

    Season 2018 Episode 5

    Aired 2/3/2018

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

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  • Fascism Strikes Back
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    #6 - Fascism Strikes Back

    Season 2018 Episode 6

    Aired 2/10/2018

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

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  • Solutions Journalism and Solutions for Journalism
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    #7 - Solutions Journalism and Solutions for Journalism

    Season 2018 Episode 7

    Aired 2/17/2018

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

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  • A Union of Concerned Technologists
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    #8 - A Union of Concerned Technologists

    Season 2018 Episode 8

    Aired 2/24/2018

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

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  • Combating Extremism Online
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    #9 - Combating Extremism Online

    Season 2018 Episode 9

    Aired 3/3/2018

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

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  • Securing American Democracy
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    #10 - Securing American Democracy

    Season 2018 Episode 10

    Aired 3/10/2018

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

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  • China’s Contentious Public Sphere
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    #11 - China’s Contentious Public Sphere

    Season 2018 Episode 11

    Aired 3/17/2018

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

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  • Democrats vs. Authoritarians
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    #12 - Democrats vs. Authoritarians

    Season 2018 Episode 12

    Aired 4/7/2018

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

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  • Mother Internet
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    #13 - Mother Internet

    Season 2018 Episode 13

    Aired 4/10/2018

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

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  • Guardians of the Web
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    #14 - Guardians of the Web

    Season 2018 Episode 14

    Aired 4/21/2018

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

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  • The Post-Millennial Wave
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    #15 - The Post-Millennial Wave

    Season 2018 Episode 15

    Aired 4/24/2018

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

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  • A Pro and Antibiotic Future
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    #16 - A Pro and Antibiotic Future

    Season 2018 Episode 16

    Aired 5/5/2018

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

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  • At War With Cambridge Analytica
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    #17 - At War With Cambridge Analytica

    Season 2018 Episode 17

    Aired 5/12/2018

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

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  • The Real Drug Crisis
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    #18 - The Real Drug Crisis

    Season 2018 Episode 18

    Aired 5/19/2018

    Investigative reporter Katherine Eban on generic pharmaceutical manufacturing dangers.

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  • Getting the Rust Belt Story Straight
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    #19 - Getting the Rust Belt Story Straight

    Season 2018 Episode 19

    Aired 5/26/2018

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

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  • Oversight, Partisanship, and 2018
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    #20 - Oversight, Partisanship, and 2018

    Season 2018 Episode 20

    Aired 5/31/2018

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

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  • Tech Troublemakers
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    #21 - Tech Troublemakers

    Season 2018 Episode 21

    Aired 6/9/2018

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

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  • The Lore of Life
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    #22 - The Lore of Life

    Season 2018 Episode 22

    Aired 6/13/2018

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

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  • Confronting Algorithms of Bigotry
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    #23 - Confronting Algorithms of Bigotry

    Season 2018 Episode 23

    Aired 6/23/2018

    Investigative reporter Julia Angwin on exposing technologies that injure society.

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  • Our Galaxy and Beyond
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    #24 - Our Galaxy and Beyond

    Season 2018 Episode 24

    Aired 6/27/2018

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

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  • The Future Caucus
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    #25 - The Future Caucus

    Season 2018 Episode 25

    Aired 7/3/2018

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

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Season 2018 Ratings Summary

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