Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchUnpacking the contradictions in America's ideals
What has become of the America that has for so long been held up as a shining example of ideals? In conversation at the 2026 Aspen Ideas Festival, do…
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Human emotion behind AI chatbot design
Behind every great chatbot are many human workers making decisions on how those chatbots behave and evolve. Recent PhD graduate Noah Khan has been ob…
1 day, 14 hours ago
A poet's journey from being exiled to gaining citizenship
When Rohingya poet Mayyu Ali saw his name in print for the first time, he thought: "I exist." "Even though my government doesn't recognize [me] I exi…
2 days, 14 hours ago
What the far-right are borrowing from history’s fascism aesthetics
Fascism has been called “the aestheti-cization of politics.” Nazis and Italian Fascists both made visual culture, art, even fashion part of their des…
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What Mussolini's rise and fall reveals about modern authoritarianism
In 1922, Benito Mussolini took power in Italy. Sustained by a cult of personality and iron-fisted suppression of dissent, Mussolini transformed the n…
5 days, 6 hours ago
How our education system is far from its original ideals
Acclaimed author Gabor Maté joins the conversation in part two of our series exploring Wilhelm von Humboldt’s public education system. Maté is a form…
1 week ago
Public education was built on this key concept — now it's gone
Two hundred years ago, Wilhelm von Humboldt created the education system as we know it today. At the heart of his philosophy of education was the con…
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For 40 years trains brought classrooms to children
They were known as School Cars and Schools on Wheels. Trains that chugged along the railroads and brought schooling to children living in the isolate…
1 week, 2 days ago
Confronting the escalating attacks on universities
The Trump administration has been targeting higher education for some time now — freezing grants and filing lawsuits against leading universities. Bu…
1 week, 3 days ago
Should homework be banned for students?
A hundred years ago homework was described as a 'sin against childhood.' But the practice is still a staple of our education system. Some parents lik…
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