Jan 25, 2026
On episode 250, we welcome Amy Nathan to discuss civil rights icon Sara Keyes Evans, her own decision to not move to the back of a bus, the decades long legal battle that followed, the battle between federal and state laws regarding interstate travel for minorities, Sara’s more measured and less aggressive stance...
Jan 18, 2026
On episode 249, we welcome Jack El-Hai to discuss the Nuremberg trials and the recent film about them, the psychiatrist who analyzed Hermann Göring, Dr. Douglas Kelley’s motivations for doing so, whether Nazis were monsters and if being human makes them scarier, how the results of Göring’s Rorschach test reveled...
Jan 4, 2026
On episode 248, we welcome Dorothy Roberts to discuss the history of interracial marriage in the US, how it was used to help sustain Black slavery, Dorothy’s resistance to and eventual acceptance of being biracial, her disagreements with her father (a fellow researcher) on the benefits of interracial...