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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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27:05

Our Civic Trust

The Open Mind, Hosted by Alexander Heffner ·

2019/07/06

On this episode of The Open Mind, we're delighted to welcome John Bracken. We've been tracking the progress of the Digital Public Library of America since it's genesis: first with its founding visionaries, Robert Darnton and John Palfrey, then with its inaugural executive director Dan Cohen, and today with its second and current leader, John Bracken. As I described it then, the DPLA is a one-stop portal for primary sources from the nation's archives, libraries and museums, a

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27:53

Testing American Righteousness

The Open Mind, Hosted by Alexander Heffner ·

2019/06/18

On this episode of The Open Mind, we're delighted to welcome Jonathan Haidt. Haidt is the Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership, based in the Business and Society program at New York University, a social psychologist whose research examines the intuitive foundations of morality. He’s coauthor of “The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas are Setting up a Generation for Failure” as well as author of the New York Timesbestseller, “The Righteous Mind: Why Good People

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27:40

GPS and the Human Journey

The Open Mind, Hosted by Alexander Heffner ·

2019/06/12

On this episode of The Open Mind, we're delighted to welcome Maura O'Connor, a journalist who writes about the politics and ethics of science, technology and conservation. A former Knight Science MIT journalism fellow, O'Connor's work has appeared online in Slate and Foreign Policy in the New Yorker, Harpers, Undark,with investigations covering the disappearances and Sri Lanka's civil war, global agriculture trade in Haiti and American development enterprises in

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28:06

Academics in the Crosshairs

The Open Mind, Hosted by Alexander Heffner ·

2019/05/28

On this episode of The Open Mind, we're delighted to welcome Arien Mack and Kian Tajbakhsh. Mack is a professor of psychology at the New School. She founded the New University in Exile Consortium, described as an expanding group of universities and colleges publicly committed to the belief that academic community has both the responsibility and capacity to assist persecuted and endangered scholars everywhere and to protect the intellectual capital that is jeopardized when universities and

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28:26

Economic Security, Mobility, and Progress

The Open Mind, Hosted by Alexander Heffner ·

2019/05/21

On this episode of The Open Mind, we're delighted to welcome Governor Phil Murphy of New Jersey, vice chair of the Democratic Governors Association who will assume the chairmanship in 2020. New Jersey became the latest state to raise incrementally it's hourly minimum wage to $15 after the Governor signed into law a measure phasing into action that higher rate over five years. “For far too long, too many of our fellow citizens have been struggling to survive on wages that have not kept up

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27:28

Technology to Combat Authoritarianism

The Open Mind, Hosted by Alexander Heffner ·

2019/05/13

On this episode of The Open Mind, we're delighted to welcome Dragana Kaurin, a human rights activist, researcher and founder of the Localization Lab. It's an organization that builds bridges between developers, organizations, end users and communities in need, resulting in more accurate and timely translations and unlocking access to the Internet for users all over the world. A fellow at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University, Kaurin has helped make open source technology

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28:07

The Race to Cure Cancer

The Open Mind, Hosted by Alexander Heffner ·

2019/05/07

On this episode of The Open Mind, we're delighted to welcome Charles Graeber, an award winning science journalist and contributor to myriad publications including the New Yorker, National Geographic, MIT Technology Reviewand Wiredfor which he is a contributing editor. His new book, “The Breakthrough: Immunotherapy and the Race to Cure Cancer” probes the treatment that aspires to make cancer chronic instead of fatal and ultimately to beat it forever. Dr. James Gulley, director of medical

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28:37

Einstein and the Unseeable

The Open Mind, Hosted by Alexander Heffner ·

2019/05/02

On this episode of The Open Mind, we're delighted to welcome Seth Fletcher, who follows a team of elite scientists on a historic mission to take the first picture of a black hole to help us answer deep questions about space, time, the origins of the universe, and the nature of reality. Scientific American editor, Seth Fletcher is author of “Einstein’s Shadow, a Black Hole, a Band of Astronomers, and the Quest to See the Unseeable.” He tracks the progress of assembling Event Horizon Telescope,

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27:36

The Misinformation Age

The Open Mind, Hosted by Alexander Heffner ·

2019/04/29

On this episode of The Open Mind, we're delighted to welcome University of California, Irvine professors, Cailin O'Connor and James Owen Weatherall. Disinformation; misinformation, what is the science of how false beliefs spread? This is the critical understanding that my guest today argue is required to correct falsehoods and to ensure that they don't hijack and certainly don't monopolize the public interest. O'Connor and Weatherall have authored the new Yale University

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27:58

Justice and Jurisprudence

The Open Mind, Hosted by Alexander Heffner ·

2019/04/16

On this episode of The Open Mind, we're delighted to welcome author and South Carolina U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel. In 1957 we introduced the American people to then little known civil rights leader, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. who had just returned from the Montgomery bus boycott. Along his side was Judge J. Waties Waring of South Carolina, US District Judge for the Eastern District. On the bench, Waring was a forceful defender of equality. His decisions laid the groundwork for

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27:53

Republic of Lies

The Open Mind, Hosted by Alexander Heffner ·

2019/04/08

On this episode of The Open Mind, we're delighted to welcome author Anna Merlan to discuss the acceleration of lies in the public discourse and their historical and contemporary power. While fear and paranoia have always animated American politics, there is an unprecedented rush of incentives to deceive the public through monetization, popularization and dissemination. So now we'll try to cover ample ground from the beginning history of the false flag to Hofstadter's critique and

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27:24

The Responsibility of Moral Capitalism

The Open Mind, Hosted by Alexander Heffner ·

2019/04/04

On this episode of The Open Mind, we're delighted to welcome long-time corporate communications counselor, Barie Carmichael, Batton Fellow at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia, she is coauthor of “Reset: Business and Society in the New Social Landscape.” Is there a future for a socially conscious capitalism, what Congressman Kennedy recently deemed moral capitalism, when such extraordinary havoc has been wreaked on working people. Will companies respect the dignity of

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28:06

You’re Not Entitled to Your Own Facts

The Open Mind, Hosted by Alexander Heffner ·

2019/03/28

On this episode of The Open Mind, we're delighted to welcome Alan Miller, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, founder and CEO of the News Literacy Project. Miller was a reporter at the LA Times for 21 years before leaving in March 2008 to establish NLP. He spent nearly 19 years in the Times Washington bureau, the last 14 as a charter member of its high profile investigative team. As we experienced the realities, the hemorrhaging of the digital ecosystem, we've covered the misinformation

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27:17

Preserving, Protecting, and Defending Democracy

The Open Mind, Hosted by Alexander Heffner ·

2019/03/20

On this episode of The Open Mind, we're delighted to welcome Pam Wilmot, electoral reform director for Common Cause and executive director of Common Cause, Massachusetts. In our 2018 state and federal elections by an overwhelming majority in the popular vote the nation sought to restore democratic accountability, but that may not be possible across the Midwest where GOP gerrymandered majority legislatures are removing the powers of newly elected democratic governors. What Republicans are doing

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28:06

Cyber Diplomacy or Mr. Robot Dystopia?

The Open Mind, Hosted by Alexander Heffner ·

2019/03/13

On this episode of The Open Mind, we're delighted to welcome Christopher Painter, commissioner of The Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace. When I recorded my first ever program here in 2014, the subject with digital scholar and educator John Palfrey was the very real possibility of a digital Pearl Harbor or 9/11 in our lifetimes. It's clear from our evaluations on The Open Mind that such a crisis played out during the 2016 campaign, but not as we expected. We lacked the

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27:50

The Case for Economic Affirmative Action

The Open Mind, Hosted by Alexander Heffner ·

2019/03/05

On this episode of The Open Mind, we're delighted to welcome Anthony Jack, assistant professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and a fellow former resident of Mather House. Jack’s research documents the overlooked diversity among lower income undergraduates, the doubly-disadvantaged, those who enter college from local, typically distressed public high schools, and the privileged poor, his term for those who do so from boarding day and prep schools. Jack is the author of the new

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28:06

Showdown 2020

The Open Mind, Hosted by Alexander Heffner ·

2019/02/20

On this episode of The Open Mind, we're delighted to welcome Sabeel Rahman, the president of Demos a “think and do” tank committed to advancing policy change on issues of racial justice, democracy and inequality, working for an America where we all have an equal say in our democracy and an equal chance in our economy. When perspective 2O20 Presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke was asked recently if he considers himself to be a progressive, the response was a surprising, if expedient reset

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27:12

Civility of Morals and Manners

The Open Mind, Hosted by Alexander Heffner ·

2019/02/14

On this episode of The Open Mind, we're delighted to welcome novelist ZZ Packer, the author of a story collection, “Drinking Coffee Elsewhere,” fellow at the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research and editor of “New Short Stories from the South.” Born in Chicago and raised in Atlanta and Louisville, Packer has taught creative writing at the University of Iowa Writer's Workshop, Tulane, Stanford and Johns Hopkins. When is stability at duty and when is it a trap? This

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27:24

Digital War, Espionage, and Dirty Tricks

The Open Mind, Hosted by Alexander Heffner ·

2019/02/09

On this episode of The Open Mind, we're delighted to welcome back the foremost expert on American political communication, Kathleen Hall Jamieson. Oxford University Press has published her newest work, “Cyberwar: How Russian Hackers and Trolls Helped Elect a President - What We Don't, Can't and Do Know.” The author of 16 books, including this latest forensic examination of Russian digital dirty tricks. Jamison is director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center and the Packard

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26:53

Republican Dignity

The Open Mind, Hosted by Alexander Heffner ·

2019/01/28

On this episode of The Open Mind, we welcome Ohio Governor and former 2016 Republican presidential candidate John Kasich, a longtime congressman, chairman of the Budget Committee and member of the Armed Services Committee. Kasich was the chief architect of the 1990s deficit-ending deal that ushered into the new millennium, a clean fiscal bill of health for the nation. Today of course, Kasich is better known as the two term Governor of Ohio, who's presided over recovery from the great

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