This hour, we’ll talk with Mychal Denzel Smith about coming of age in America today – and about rethinking assumptions of black masculinity. He explores these topics and more in his book “Invisible Man, Got the Whole World Watching: A Young Black Man’s Education.”
This hour, we’ll talk about how government funds to help impoverished families are often syphoned off by local governments and private businesses – and how we can correct the problem – with the author of “The Poverty Industry: The Exploitation of America’s Most Vulnerable Citizens.”
This hour on Think, we’ll talk about the ethics of reducing human involvement in war – and whether we should preemptively ban these machines – with Michael C. Horowitz, associate professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania.
This hour, we’ll talk with Zora O’Neill about how she immersed herself in the Middle East, mastered the language and broadened her worldview in the process. She writes about the experience in her memoir, “All Strangers Are Kin: Adventures in Arabic and the Arab World” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt).
This hour, we’ll talk with Emily Voigt, author of “The Dragon Behind the Glass: A True Story of Power, Obsession, and the World’s Most Coveted Fish.”
This hour, we’ll talk about new research into how we can keep our minds sharp and avoid dementia with David A. Bennett, director of the Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center in Chicago.
This hour, we’ll talk about a shift in the business model of cybercrimes with Josephine Wolff, whose story “The New Economics of Cybercrime” appears in The Atlantic
This hour, we’ll talk about how millennials navigate their spiritual lives with Emma Green, who writes about religion for The Atlantic.
This hour, we’ll talk about mail-order marriages with University of South Carolina associate law professor Marcia A. Zug, author of “Buying a Bride: An Engaging History of Mail-Order Matches.”
This hour, we’ll talk about why there are so few female heart doctors, how that effects patient care and what can be done to even out the numbers with Dr. Cara East of Baylor University Medical Center and Dr. Nina Asrani of Texas Health Fort Worth.
