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 life. First broadcast in 1956, it explores challenges of the digital age, American politics and emerging issues.
The Open Mind Season 2018
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The Open Mind
1956 / TV-GThis public affairs talk show is a thoughtful excursion into the world of ideas across politics, media, technology, the arts, and all realms of civic life. First broadcast in 1956, it explores challenges of the digital age, American politics and emerging issues.
With 30 Day Free Trial!
The Open Mind Season 2018 Full Episode Guide
Patrick Kabanda, musician and consultant to the World Bank, talks about his new book “The Creative Wealth of Nations” and the importance of the arts in development.
Knight First Amendment Institute inaugural scholar David Pozen discusses the future of American law.
Carl Zimmer discusses "She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions and Potential of Heredity."
Philosopher William Egginton discusses his book "The Splintering of the American Mind."
North Carolina State scientist Rob Dunn discusses his new book “Never Home Alone.”
Former U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan discusses his new book “How Schools Work.
KPBS investigative reporter Jean Guerrero on her new book “Crux: A Cross-Border Memoir.
RAND CEO Michael D. Rich and political scientist Jennifer Kavanagh on “Truth Decay.
Jeffrey Prescott of National Security Action on an alternative to Trump's foreign policy.
Tiffany Muller of End Citizens United, on her mission to undo the Supreme Court decision.
Richard Gingras, VP of News at Google, on journalism, citizenship, and disinformation.
Soraya Chemaly, Women's Media Center Speech Project, on her new book “Rage Becomes Her.”
Tom Nichols, U.S. Naval War College professor, on his book “The Death of Expertise.”
Patrick Kabanda talks about his new book “The Creative Wealth of Nations” and the arts.
Al Cross, dir. Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, U Kentucky, on media.
Joan Donovan of Data & Society on technologies that degrade democracy and civil society.
Jack Smith IV, senior writer for Mic, on American nationalism and White Supremacy.
Stephanie DeGooyer, Fellow at Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study on authoritarianisim.
Daniel Dale of the Toronto Star on fact-checking President Trump and covering activism.
David Nevins of the Bridge Alliance, talks about reversing America's political disunity.
Democracy Works’ Kathryn Peters on election security, voter registration and democracy.
Steven Olikara, founder of the Millennial Action Project on activating the next generation.
Dr. Alan Stern and Dr. David Grinspoon on their book on Pluto: “Chasing New Horizons.”
Investigative reporter Julia Angwin on exposing technologies that injure society.
Bar-Ilan University chair in Science, Technology, and Society Oren Harman talks about his new book “Evolutions: 15 Myths That Explain Our World.”
Leslie Berlin of Silicon Valley Archives at Stanford, on “Troublemakers: Silicon Valley’s.
John Lawrence, former Chief of Staff to Nancy Pelosi, on his book “The Class of ’74”.
Founder and director of Belt Publishing Anne Trubek on “Voices From the Rust Belt.”
Investigative reporter Katherine Eban on generic pharmaceutical manufacturing dangers.
David Carroll of Parsons School of Design on privacy, media, and suing Cambridge Analytica.
“Good Germs, Bad Germs” author Jessica Snyder Sachs on the rise of drug resistance.
NextGen America’s executive director Heather Hargreaves on the 2018 midterm elections.
Microsoft Research Principal Researcher Tarleton Gillespie on "Custodians of the Internet."
Claire Evans on her new book “Broad Band: The Untold Story of Women Who Made the Internet.”
Yascha Mounk on “The People vs Democracy: Why Our Freedom is in Danger and How to Save It.”
Harvard University sociologist Ya-Wen Lei on her new book “The Contentious Public Sphere.”
Jamie Fly and Laura Rosenberger of the Alliance for Securing Democracy on Russia and US.
Counter Extremism Project’s Mark Wallace and Dartmouth’s Hany Farid on online extremism.
Renee DiResta of Data for Democracy on how antisocial media-tech companies are a threat.
Solutions Journalism and NYTimes’ David Bornstein on the constructive force of journalism.
Shane Burley discusses his new book “Fascism Today: What It Is and How We End It.”
Knight First Amendment Institute’s Katie Fallow on free speech violations in government.
Roosevelt Institute Fellow Dorian Warren discusses the politics of inequality today.
Political scientist Virginia Eubanks on her new book, “Automating Inequality.”
University of Amsterdam’s Claes de Vreese on global populism and the post-truth present.
Congressional Candidate, Millennial and geologist Jess Phoenix on representative democracy.
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