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The Open Mind, Hosted by Alexander Heffner

The Open Mind is a thoughtful excursion into the world of ideas across media, politics, technology, the arts and all realms of civic life.

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27:43

The Battle for the Constitution

The Open Mind, Hosted by Alexander Heffner ·

2020/01/11

Yale Law professor Justin Driver discusses constitutional law, the erosion of Brown v. Board of Education, and the struggle to preserve democracy.

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27:26

Advocating and Denying Civil Rights

The Open Mind, Hosted by Alexander Heffner ·

2020/01/06

Political scientist Nicholas Buccola discusses his new book “The Fire Is Upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate Over Race in America.

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27:27

Mother of Exiles

The Open Mind, Hosted by Alexander Heffner ·

2019/11/14

On this episode of The Open Mind, we're delighted to welcome Russian-American writer Anastasia Edel. She is author of the powerful New York TimesOp-Ed The Tired and Poor Who Make America Great, which contends that as long as the Statue of Liberty stands, it renders Donald Trump an impostor; as well as author of Lightning Guides edition “Russia: Putin's playground: Empire, Revolution, and the new Tsar.” “Like many things in Russian history, privatization was started with good intentions. It

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28:00

Never Again in America

The Open Mind, Hosted by Alexander Heffner ·

2019/11/11

On this episode of The Open Mind, we're delighted to welcome Sophie Ellman-Golan, a founding organizer for the Women's March. Now she helps lead Never Again Action, a mass mobilization of Jews who are organizing to shut down ICE and hold the political establishment accountable for enabling both the deportation machine that has separated immigrant families across the U.S. for decades and the current crisis at the border. “Conservatives purport to defend Jews even as they embrace policies

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26:44

High-Tech Dystopia and Utopia

The Open Mind, Hosted by Alexander Heffner ·

2019/10/30

On this episode of The Open Mind, we're delighted to welcome Malka Older, author of “Infomocracy” named one of the best books of 2016 by the Washington Post and author of sequels, “Null States” and “State Tectonics.” The full trilogy was nominated for the prestigious Hugo Award for Science Fiction. A humanitarian aid worker, an expert, Older was a fellow for technology and risk at the Carnegie Council for Ethics and has supported global programs in agency wide strategy for disaster risk

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27:07

Charitarian Patriotism

The Open Mind, Hosted by Alexander Heffner ·

2019/10/23

On this episode of The Open Mind, we're delighted to welcome Lawrence B. Benenson, co-owner and principal of Benenson Capital and founding member of and advisor to the Patriotic Millionaires, a group of Americans with incomes over $1 million dollars who are leading the charge to raise taxes on the rich and to combat political and income inequality. On the most pressing issues facing the American people. Economic fairness, environmental security, and educational access Benenson is admirably on

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28:00

An Innocent Bystander

The Open Mind, Hosted by Alexander Heffner ·

2019/10/22

On this episode of The Open Mind, we're delighted to welcome Julie Salamon, a perceptive critic, prolific author and riveting storyteller. Her newest book is “An Innocent Bystander: The killing of Leon Klinghoffer.” Daughter of Czech immigrants who were Holocaust survivors, Salamon was raised in Ohio, a rural village of 800 people where her father was a town doctor. A veteran of the New York Times, and Wall Street Journal, she has covered business, philanthropy, and the arts. “’An Innocent

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27:50

Libel and the Presidency

The Open Mind, Hosted by Alexander Heffner ·

2019/10/22

On this episode of The Open Mind, we're delighted to welcome Dan Abrams, the chief legal affairs anchor for ABC News and CEO and founder of Abrams Media. He also hosts Live PD on A & E Network and the Dan Abrams Show Where Politics Meets the Law on Sirius XM. He is author of the new book “Theodore Roosevelt For The Defense: The Courtroom Battle to Save His Legacy.” As NPR recounts, “It's an absorbing excursion into an epic 1915 libel case against then former President Teddy Roosevelt

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26:49

A Statecraft of Peace

The Open Mind, Hosted by Alexander Heffner ·

2019/10/02

On this episode of The Open Mind, we're delighted to welcome the brain trust of the newly inaugurated Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, Trita Parsi and Stephen Wertheim. Trita is cofounder and executive V.P. of the Quincy Institute and founder and former president of the National Iranian American Council. Stephen is cofounder and research director of the Quincy Institute and research scholar at Columbia University. The Quincy Institute was formed to promote ideas that move American

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27:05

The Hacked States of America

The Open Mind, Hosted by Alexander Heffner ·

2019/09/24

On this episode of The Open Mind, we're delighted to welcome Karim Amer, Director of The Great Hack. On his quest for digital justice, Parsons School of Design professor David Carroll joined us last year to discuss his suit against Facebook and Cambridge Analytica for violating his right to personal data. As we filmed our episode a Netflix crew surrounded us and trailed Carroll's journey. You can see part of our interview in the groundbreaking documentary directed by my guest today,

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27:11

Safeguarding Press Integrity for 2020

The Open Mind, Hosted by Alexander Heffner ·

2019/09/17

On this episode of The Open Mind, we're delighted to welcome Susan Smith Richardson, the newest CEO of the Center for Public Integrity. Our viewers may remember our last conversation on ‘leaks with integrity’ with predecessor Peter Bale, a former CEO as well. Formerly editorial director of newsroom practice change at Solutions Journalism Network, Susan Smith Richardson has edited leading newspapers from Texas and Chicago to Los Angeles and Sacramento. “The Center has a proud legacy of

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28:07

High Crimes With Impunity

The Open Mind, Hosted by Alexander Heffner ·

2019/09/10

On this episode of The Open Mind, we're delighted to welcome Frank Bowman III, professor of law at the University of Missouri and visiting professor at Georgetown Law. A constitutional scholar, his new book is “High Crimes and Misdemeanors: A History of Impeachment for the Age of Trump,” and it's a Cambridge University Press title. I wanted to get right to it. We're recording in the heat of summer. Impeachment is at a lull, but we have a lot to discuss.

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27:24

A Popular Electoral College

The Open Mind, Hosted by Alexander Heffner ·

2019/09/02

On this episode of The Open Mind, we're delighted to welcome Ed Lopez-Reyes to continue our discussion of the national popular vote movement with one of its most important grassroots advocates on the eastern seaboard. A Connecticut-based Republican strategist Lopez is chief consultant of Wolf and King Strategies and served on the Joint Intelligence Operations Center Europe Analytics Center in imagery and counterterrorism from 2002 through 2010. He also served on Utah Governor Jon

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27:24

Rescuing the Soul of the Presidency

The Open Mind, Hosted by Alexander Heffner ·

2019/08/28

On this episode of The Open Mind, we're delighted to welcome Steven Knott, professor of national security affairs at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, Knott, co-chair, the presidential oral history program at the Miller Center of Public Affairs at U. Va. Today, we consider the historical and contemporary character of the nation. “The Lost Soul of the American Presidency” is the forthcoming University Press of Kansas book from my next guest. He argues that the American

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26:48

Super State Strategy

The Open Mind, Hosted by Alexander Heffner ·

2019/08/25

On this episode of The Open Mind, we're delighted to welcome two leading organizers in the movement to rebuild and preserve American democracy. Ethan Todras-Whitehill is the cofounder and executive director of Swing Left. Prior to the election of Trump, he was a writer, journalist, and teacher. After the 2016 election, he decided to step off the sidelines and become more politically active. He started Swing Left to make it easier for others to do the same. Last year, Swing Left successfully

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26:52

A Vote Against Life Expectancy

The Open Mind, Hosted by Alexander Heffner ·

2019/08/25

On this episode of The Open Mind, we're delighted to welcome Dr. Jonathan Metzl, professor of sociology and psychiatry at Vanderbilt University where he also directs the Center for Medicine, Health and Society. He is research director of the Safe Tennessee Project, a nonpartisan volunteer-based organization that's concerned with gun-related injuries and fatalities in America and in Tennessee. In his new Basic Books, title “Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is

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27:32

Authoritarianism Past and Future

The Open Mind, Hosted by Alexander Heffner ·

2019/08/05

On this episode of The Open Mind, we're delighted to welcome Yale University philosopher Jason Stanley, author of the edifying and essential Random House volume “How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them.” Stanley told Dana Milbank of the Washington Post that the Trump rendition of these tactics “uses emotion to circumvent reason, to overwhelm reason, wanting us to get the situation in which there's such fear and suspicion that the only happiness is winning over his enemies.” These

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27:19

The Story of Climate

The Open Mind, Hosted by Alexander Heffner ·

2019/08/01

On this episode of The Open Mind, we're delighted to welcome Jon Gertner, science writer for the New York Times Magazine. His first book “The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation” chronicled the exploits of a generation of scientists at the world's greatest laboratory. Gertner is here to discuss his newest book by Random House “The Ice at the End of the World: An Epic Journey into Greenland's Buried Past and Our Perilous Future.” He explores 150 years of

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27:53

Impeachment and the Righteous Republicans

The Open Mind, Hosted by Alexander Heffner ·

2019/07/15

On this episode of The Open Mind, we're delighted to welcome Brenda Wineapple, author of the recently released and critically acclaimed “The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation” heralded as a “riveting and absorbing book” by The New York Times and both “a guidebook” and “cautionary tale for our times” by the Boston Globe. The subject today: impeachment Thaddeus Stevens, Charles Sumner, and the righteous Republicans and the first ever impeachment in American

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27:15

Geopolitical Chess or Checkers?

The Open Mind, Hosted by Alexander Heffner ·

2019/07/15

On this episode of The Open Mind, we're delighted to welcome Richard Nephew, senior research scholar at the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University, to discuss sanctions, tariffs, American energy, and national security. Nephew is the author of “The Art of Sanctions: A View From the Field.” He was previously Principal Deputy Coordinator for Sanctions Policy at the Department of State and the lead sanctions expert for the U.S. team negotiating with Iran from May 2011 through

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