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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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27:24

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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27:44

How to Unlearn Hate

The Open Mind, Hosted by Alexander Heffner ·

2019/01/24

On this episode of The Open Mind, we welcome activist Sally Kohn, author of “The Opposite of Hate: A Field Guide to Repairing our Humanity.” One of the last surviving deep political thinking talking heads, if we can be brutally honest, and the host of the podcast State of Resistance, Kohn has penned an illuminating account of our nation's crisis of hatred, which appears more and more to be an epidemic, infecting our politics, our psyches, and our very American creed. Kohn says, “the opposite

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27:58

Algorithmic Justice

The Open Mind, Hosted by Alexander Heffner ·

2019/01/12

On this week’s episode of The Open Mind, we welcome Algorithmic Justice League founder Joy Buolamwini. Her organization's mission is to highlight algorithmic bias through media, art and science, to provide space for people to voice concerns and experiences with coded bias and to develop practices for accountability during the design, development, and deployment of coded systems. In her efforts to document bias and restore trust to technology, Buolamwini recently delivered a presentation to the

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27:09

New Dealers Reborn

The Open Mind, Hosted by Alexander Heffner ·

2019/01/04

On this week’s episode of The Open Mind, we welcome the Justice Democrats’ executive director, Alexandra Rojas. When Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez did the improbable and defeated an incumbent party leader and possible successor to the next speaker of the house. It was because of a new movement of dedicated Democratic Party activists. They call themselves the Justice Democrats, their mandate: it's time to usher in a new generation of diverse working class leaders into the Democratic Party, a party

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27:59

Disequilibrium on the Supreme Court

The Open Mind, Hosted by Alexander Heffner ·

2018/11/28

On this week’s episode of The Open Mind, we welcome Columbia law professor and inaugural Knight Institute Fellow David Pozen. David teaches and writes about constitutional law, national security law, and information law, among other topics. The future of American law and morality, the jurisprudence that will define America is our topic today. The High Court is reaching a potential crossroads, return to an aspirational consensus or deepen a polarizing divide. Can the court veer from a partisan

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27:54

Discovering Genes

The Open Mind, Hosted by Alexander Heffner ·

2018/11/17

On this week’s episode of The Open Mind, we consider the human genome, eugenics, the story of science with the author of “She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions and Potential of Heredity.” Carl Zimmer has authored 13 books about science and is the New York Times“Matter” columnist on which he explores the stuff of everything scientific discovery and inquiry. Zimmer's writing has earned a number of awards including the 2016 Stephen Jay Gould prize and a 2017 Online Journalism

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28:02

The Splintering of the American Mind

The Open Mind, Hosted by Alexander Heffner ·

2018/11/12

On this week’s episode of The Open Mind, William Egginton, Decker Professor in the Humanities and the director of the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute at Johns Hopkins University, discusses his new book, "The Splintering of the American Mind: Identity Politics, Inequality and Community on Today's College Campuses.” Sloan Foundation President and Williams College President Emeritus Adam Falk praised Edmonton's book as “an incisive and nuanced diagnosis of the ruptures in our

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28:05

The Microbes Among Us

The Open Mind, Hosted by Alexander Heffner ·

2018/11/02

On this week’s episode of The Open Mind, we welcome Rob Dunn, author of “Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel, Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live.” Rob Dunn is a professor in the Department of Applied Ecology at North Carolina State University and in the Natural History Museum of Denmark at the University of Copenhagen. He is the author of five previous books including “Never Out of Season” and “Every Living Thing,” Dunn lives in Raleigh, North Carolina

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27:48

Truth and Lies of Education

The Open Mind, Hosted by Alexander Heffner ·

2018/10/27

On this week’s episode of The Open Mind, we welcome Arne Duncan, former U.S. Secretary of Education. Prior to joining the Obama administration, Duncan served as CEO of Chicago public schools and won praise for uniting the city stakeholders behind a consensus education agenda. Today as managing partner at Emerson Collective, Duncan has returned to Chicago on a mission to improve the livelihoods of young adults in his hometown and create job and life opportunities for disconnected youth. Established

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26:57

Immigration, Dignity & U.S.-Mexico Relations

The Open Mind, Hosted by Alexander Heffner ·

2018/10/20

On this week’s episode of The Open Mind, we invite Jean Guerrero, investigative reporter covering immigration for KPBS. Named one of “San Diego's best people” by the San Diego City Beat. Jean Guerrero is author of “Crux: A Cross-Border Memoir.” Guerrero’s memoir is a spellbinding account of Mexican American heritage, a daughter's coming of age and to terms with her father's mental health, and the way forward on immigration, political reform and border security in America. Guerrero’s

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27:16

Truth Decay in America

The Open Mind, Hosted by Alexander Heffner ·

2018/10/13

RAND CEO Michael Rich and political scientist Jennifer Kavanagh discuss their new book “Truth Decay” and the importance of media literacy.

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27:21

Security, Nationalism, and the Four Freedoms

The Open Mind, Hosted by Alexander Heffner ·

2018/10/05

Jeffrey Prescott of the Penn Biden Center and National Security Action talks about an alternative to Trump's foreign policy.

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27:53

United Against the Citizens

The Open Mind, Hosted by Alexander Heffner ·

2018/09/28

Tiffany Muller, President and Executive Director of End Citizens United, talks about her mission to undo the Supreme Court decision.

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29:18

News, Disinformation, and Free Expression

The Open Mind, Hosted by Alexander Heffner ·

2018/09/23

Richard Gingras, Vice President of News at Google, talks about journalism, citizenship, and disinformation in the digital age.

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27:30

Rage at the Ballot Box

The Open Mind, Hosted by Alexander Heffner ·

2018/09/14

Soraya Chemaly Director of the Women's Media Center Speech Project, talks about her new book “Rage Becomes Her” and political equality.

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28:02

Manchurian President and Alternative Realities

The Open Mind, Hosted by Alexander Heffner ·

2018/09/07

Tom Nichols, U.S. Naval War College professor and author of “The Death of Expertise,” talks about the contemporary political climate.

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27:16

The Creative Wealth of Nations

The Open Mind, Hosted by Alexander Heffner ·

2018/09/01

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.

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27:35

Guts, Heart, and Minoritarian Rule

The Open Mind, Hosted by Alexander Heffner ·

2018/08/25

Al Cross, director of the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues at the University of Kentucky, discusses informing rural communities, counties, and states.

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28:02

Quarantining Hate Speech

The Open Mind, Hosted by Alexander Heffner ·

2018/08/18

Joan Donovan of Data & Society on technologies that degrade democracy and civil society

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