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Building a Wall
When Thomas Jefferson designed the University of Virginia’s central Rotunda, he set out to build a temple to the book, a stunning rebuke to the Chris…
8 years, 6 months ago
Privatization and Public Universities
With state support shrinking and the dependence on private support increasing for most public universities what does the financial landscape of the f…
8 years, 6 months ago
The Golden Age of Flattery
Washington has its fair share of brown-nosers. We talk with the authors of Sucking Up: A Brief Consideration of Sycophancy about yes-men, now and thr…
8 years, 6 months ago
Invisible Founders
Scholars, historic interpreters, and descendants of enslaved people recently gathered at Montpelier, the home of James Madison. They were there to cr…
8 years, 6 months ago
Driving While Black
Poet Kiki Petrosino in her poem, If My Body Is a Text, reflects on a year of tragic outcomes during traffic stops between police and African American…
8 years, 7 months ago
Love Me Do
Wine, chocolate, and flowers. We talk with experts about these Valentine's Day essentials.
8 years, 7 months ago
Civil Rights and Civil War Monuments
Maggie Walker was an African American teacher and businesswoman and the first woman of any race to charter a bank in the United States. There's now a…
8 years, 7 months ago
Lethal Doses
America is hooked on opioids—by one count, there are currently more opioid prescriptions than people in the southeastern United States. This week we’…
8 years, 7 months ago
The New Minority
Donald Trump’s election was seen by many commentators as a decisive statement by a marginalized White working class. A new book The New Minority: Whi…
8 years, 8 months ago
People Count
Today we hear a lot about "blue collar" voters, but it wasn't always the case that the working class mattered. In this week's show, we look at why wo…
8 years, 8 months ago