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What is the cause of violent crime in America? What is the role of culture? Are there any solutions?
What is the cause of violent crime in America? What is the role of culture? Are there any solutions?
How can such deeply faithful citizens support a president whose behaviors and values don’t exactly match up to traditional Christian mores?
How has extreme individual freedom led to a crisis of isolation?
In this “Extra” episode, Eric Liu talks to Colin Woodard, an award-winning author and journalist.
Hear Pete Dominick in conversation with Michele Norris and Alec Ross.
Most Americans today would agree that the dream of supporting a family and living a good life on one full time salary is not available to vast numbers of people. Wages have not risen at the pace of profits over the last several decades, and work with benefits is far from guaranteed for many. In his 2023 book, “Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream,”...
A 21st century sense of cultural literacy has to be radically more diverse and inclusive.
America has been shaped by a hidden phenomenon that touches all of our lives. A rigid hierarchy of human rankings, or caste system, influences our culture, politics, and even our health. Race is the metric by which one’s position in the caste system is determined. In her book, "Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents," Isabel Wilkerson describes how these inherited rankings...
It’s time to slow down and start again to remake American culture and undo systemic racism, says author and Yale professor Claudia Rankin. White Americans must wade into the waters of Whiteness, and interrogate their own responses to Blackness.
In this “Extra” episode, Eric Liu talks to Henry Louis Gates, Jr., a filmmaker and scholar.
In this “Extra” episode, Eric Liu talks to Maria Hinojosa, an award-winning news anchor and reporter.
Author Jeff Chang says America has slid back toward segregation.
Biographer Jon Meacham explores Thomas Jefferson's complicated legacy.
The age of technology and the internet provides constant easy access to sexual content and information about sex, for all tastes and curiosities. But survey data show that young people are having less sex than people of previous generations did at their age, and the experts are trying to figure out why. In this 2019 talk from the Aspen Ideas: Health archives, three profess...
In public forums and institutions all across America, people are arguing about what free speech means in the age of the internet. What are the rules, and are they the same in every context? What are the consequences of taking action against hate speech, and what are the consequences of not taking action? Is “cancel culture” real, and what is it? Are we in need of a fundame...
Women in the media speak up about what needs to change in the wake of #MeToo.
We may have moved from a time of reckoning on racial equity to a time of transformation, says business leader Dr. Rohini Anand, and that gives her hope. The author of “Leading Global Diversity, Equity and Inclusion: A Guide for Systemic Change in Multinational Organizations,” Anand advises leaders all over the world on how to get to work and make DEI improvements that stic...
History has the power to teach us what to do in the present, but do we actually make good use of that tool? Many events in our recent past might suggest otherwise. American history is complex and full of pain, suffering and missteps. Harvard professor Imani Perry’s interdisciplinary work draws from African American studies, legal history and cultural studies to find insigh...
What were the ideals of the framers, and what can they teach us about modern American democracy?