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 2020
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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 2020 Full Episode Guide
Historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat on Trump’s defiance of the 2020 election results and history.
Lincoln Project’s Mike Madrid on Georgia’s Senate run-off election and defeating Trumpism.
Neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett on her book "Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain."
CSIS fellow Jon Hillman on his new book "The Emperor’s New Road" and relations with China.
Julie Swarstad Johnson and Christopher Cokinos on their new book "Beyond Earth’s Edge."
Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law’s Kristen Clarke on justice at the polls.
MIT scholar Sinan Aral on how to regulate social media to have a constructive impact.
Civil Rights leader and MSNBC’s Rev. Al Sharpton on the mobilization of Black voters.
U.S. democracy and authoritarianism.
CNN’s Brian Stetler on the danger of disinformation on Election Night, Week, and Month.
Yale University immunologist Akiko Iwasaki discusses an efficacious COVID vaccine.
Election security advocate Jennifer Cohn on election oversight and hand-marked paper trail.
Carl Bergstrom on "Calling Bull____: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World."
Cong. (Ret.) Katie Hill on her new book "She Will Rise" and the battle for true equality.
Minister, activist and Princeton scholar Nyle Fort on re-imagining a post-pandemic America.
Republican presidential campaign veteran Stuart Stevens on his new book "It Was All a Lie."
University of Chicago psychologist Katherine Kinzler on her new book “How You Say It.”
Atlantic Magazine’s Adam Harris on John Lewis and a new Civil Rights Movement in America.
Jack Jackson on "Law Without Future: Anti-Constitutional Politics and the American Right."
Dr. Jeffrey Matthews, of U of Chicago Medicine, on hospitals’ response to the pandemic.
Mother Jones voting rights correspondent Ari Berman on the pandemic and voting turnout.
Garry Kasparov and Uriel Epshtein of the Renew Democracy Initiative on authoritarian rule.
"Humankind" author and historian Rutger Bregman on hope for a prosocial society.
Lincoln Project’s John Weaver on holding people in power accountable to their oaths.
Pulitzer Prize winning science journalist Laurie Garrett on predicting COVID-19.
UVA professor and coauthor of "Making Young Voters," John Holbein on civic participation.
Sarah Kendzior on her book "Hiding in Plain Sight" and the threat of authoritarianism.
Rachel Graham on tracking COVID-19 from its inception to inform public health on Twitter.
Materials scientist Ainissa Ramirez on her new book "The Alchemy of Us."
Online News Association CEO Irving Washington on the future of digital news.
Nico Gendron of The Wall Street Journal on engaging rural youth in a Local News Fellowship.
Jennifer Mercieca on "Demagogue for President: The Rhetorical Genius of Donald Trump."
QAnon Anonymous host Travis View on QAnon conspiracy theorists and what motivates them.
NBC News dystopia reporter Ben Collins on exposing deception and companies that enable it.
Center for Responsive Politics’ Anna Massoglia on campaign finance accountability issues.
Information warfare expert Molly McKew on foreign interference in US elections.
Mother Jones’ Ali Breland on combating bigotry online and breaking up new media monopolies.
NBC News reporter Brandy Zadrozny on coronavirus, anti-vaxxers, and conspiracy-mongers.
Wesleyan University’s Sonali Chakravarti on her book "Radical Enfranchisement."
Wired reporter Andy Greenberg discusses the next wave of Russian cyber crimes.
Patricia Roberts-Miller of University of Texas on demagoguery and its historical origins.
Science journalist Lydia Denworth on the evolution, biology, and power of friendship.
Robert Boyers on "The Tyranny of Virtue: Identity… and the Hunt for Political Heresies."
Vassar College president Elizabeth Bradley on free speech and engaged pluralism.
Justin Driver of Yale Law on constitutional law and the struggle to preserve democracy.
Nicholas Buccola on his book "The Fire is Upon Us: Baldwin, Buckley, and Race in America."
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