The Best Episodes of The Open Mind Season 2020

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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