Episodes

  • COMMIT TO CONNECT: THE PROJECT ON CIVIC DIALOGUE

    COMMIT TO CONNECT: THE PROJECT ON CIVIC DIALOGUE
    Dec 3 2025
    Peter talks with Lara Schwartz, Founding Director of the Project on Civic Dialogue (PCD) in the School of Public Affairs at American University, as well as three PCD facilitators: Grace Manson, Arjun Mishra, and Khushi Ramnani.
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    Less than 1 minute
  • DEEP READING with JUSTIN McDANIEL

    DEEP READING with JUSTIN McDANIEL
    Oct 1 2025
    Peter talks with Justin McDaniel about two of the very unusual courses he teaches at Penn.
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    Less than 1 minute
  • HUMAN-CENTERED AI IN SCHOOLS with ERIC HUDSON

    HUMAN-CENTERED AI IN SCHOOLS with ERIC HUDSON
    Jul 17 2025
    Peter talks with Eric Hudson about his work in schools on Human-Centered AI.
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    Less than 1 minute
  • THE FIRST 100 DAZE with JONATHAN RAUCH

    THE FIRST 100 DAZE with JONATHAN RAUCH
    May 1 2025
    Peter talks with Jonathan Rauch about two of his books, The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth and Cross Purposes: Christianity’s Broken Bargain with Democracy.
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    1 hr and 8 mins
  • THE CERTAINTY TRAP with ILANA REDSTONE

    THE CERTAINTY TRAP with ILANA REDSTONE
    Feb 28 2025
    Peter talks with Ilana Redstone about her book The Certainty Trap: Why We Need to Question Ourselves More—and How We Can Judge Others Less.
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    56 mins
  • FREEMAN’S CHALLENGE with ROBIN BERNSTEIN

    FREEMAN’S CHALLENGE with ROBIN BERNSTEIN
    Jan 1 2025
    Peter talks with Robin Bernstein about her new book Freeman’s Challenge: The Murder That Shook America’s Original Prison for Profit, an explosive, moving story about the entangled origins of prison for profit and anti-Black racism.
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    1 hr and 14 mins
  • CARING FOR MIGRANTS with John WEBB

    CARING FOR MIGRANTS with John WEBB
    Sep 26 2024
    Peter talks with John Webb about his new book Molyvos: A Greek Village's Heroic Response to the Global Refugee Crisis, including resonances with John's own experience caring for Haitian migrants in the 1970s.
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  • “UNTIL THEY KNOW YOU CARE” with Greg Jackson

    “UNTIL THEY KNOW YOU CARE” with Greg Jackson
    Jun 24 2024
    Peter talks with Greg Jackson of Action J Productions about their new project focusing on how and why to have respectful conversations. (Graphic by Roy Chambers)
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