Story in the Public Square
Story in the Public Square
Story in the Public Square is a weekly, 30-minute series that brings audiences to the intersection of storytelling and public affairs. Hosted by Jim Ludes and G. Wayne Miller, Story in the Public Square offers a spirited but respectful dialogue. Often funny, always provocative, each episode of Story in the Public Square moves beyond traditional public affairs programming to consider the impact of …Social links:
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Understanding Humanity Through the Healing Power of Pets and Unconditional Love with Carol Mithers28:11 - 2
Luke Lorentzen Explores the Journey of a Hospital Chaplin in His Documentary “A Still Small Voice”28:09 - 3
Joanna Weiss on the Intersection of Celebrity Culture and Political Engagement28:12 - 4
Domestic Violence: Healing and Prevention with Ashley Bendiksen28:00 - 5
Steven Brill on Disinformation in the Modern Era and its Consequences28:20 - 6
Examining the Implications of International Scarcity and Plenty with Francis Gavin28:45 - 7
Eric Deggans on The Stories We Tell and the Truths They Reflect About Our World Today27:56 - 8
Climate Change as a National Security Issue with Sherri Goodman28:24 - 9
Francesca Mari on the Power of Story to Explore Personal and Public Issues Alike27:58 - 10
Annalee Newitz on the Power of Story in Disinformation28:05 - View more clips
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Understanding Humanity Through the Healing Power of Pets and Unconditional Love with Carol Mithers28:11 - 2
Luke Lorentzen Explores the Journey of a Hospital Chaplin in His Documentary “A Still Small Voice”28:09 - 3
Joanna Weiss on the Intersection of Celebrity Culture and Political Engagement28:12 - 4
Domestic Violence: Healing and Prevention with Ashley Bendiksen28:00 - 5
Steven Brill on Disinformation in the Modern Era and its Consequences28:20 - 6
Examining the Implications of International Scarcity and Plenty with Francis Gavin28:45 - 7
Eric Deggans on The Stories We Tell and the Truths They Reflect About Our World Today27:56 - 8
Climate Change as a National Security Issue with Sherri Goodman28:24 - 9
Francesca Mari on the Power of Story to Explore Personal and Public Issues Alike27:58 - 10
Annalee Newitz on the Power of Story in Disinformation28:05 - View more clips
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Dr. Elizabeth Comen on the Myths that Have Influenced Malpractice in Women's Healthcare27:22 - 2
How a Brush with Death Changed One Man’s Perception of the Afterlife with Sebastian Junger28:55 - 3
One Immigrant’s Journey from El Salvador to the United States with Javier Zamora28:32 - 4
Tricia Rose on Breaking Free from Systemic Racism27:25 - 5
Telling the Story of the World War II Ghost Army with Rick Beyer28:18 - 6
Parental Activism and the Politicization of Public Schools with Laura Pappano27:28 - 7
Vanessa Lillie on the Historical Erasure of Indigenous People and their Current Representation27:40 - 8
Exploring Love and Loss as a Muse with Brian Turner27:16 - 9
The Contemporary Implications of Europe’s Recent History with Timothy Snyder28:53 - 10
News Deserts to Media Startups: Ellen Clegg and Dan Kennedy on America’s News Landscape Today28:03 - View more clips
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Rainer Lohmann on His Research on Toxic Chemicals in Our Environment and Our Future With Them27:46 - 2
The 2023 Story of the Year: The Rise of Artificial Intelligence with Evelyn Farkas28:01 - 3
Navigating the Currents of Global Affairs and Domestic Politics with Tom Nichols28:36 - 4
Unraveling the Violence of Jim Crow South with Tananarive Due27:39 - 5
Navigating the Future: The Global Landscape in 2076 with Thomas Barnett28:18 - 6
Trauma and the Science of Resilience with Jonathan DePierro28:16 - 7
Navigating Identity and Race Childhood to Adulthood with Nyani Nkrumah28:55 - 8
American History Through the Perspective of its Indigenous Inhabitants with Ned Blackhawk28:36 - 9
Creating Change for Girls Across the World with Dale Hanson Bourke28:11 - 10
Discovering Longevity With Bill Kole: How Does Living Longer Impact Society?27:41 - View more clips
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Exploring the Urgent Issues of Our World Through Poetry with Joshua Bennett28:03 - 2
Shafo Sahil and Matt Waters on The Bond of the Battlefield28:54 - 3
Life Beyond Traumatic Brain Injury with Jamie MoCrazy28:53 - 4
Examining America’s History Through Story with Ilyon Woo27:45 - 5
Exploring Human Displacement as a Result of Climate Change with Jake Bittle28:07 - 6
Azar Nafisi on the Power of Literature in Our World Today28:35 - 7
Jessica Grose on the experiences of motherhood in America today28:10 - 8
Analyzing America’s ever-changing media landscape with Steve Scully28:29 - 9
Max Boot on the Threats to American Democracy29:24 - 10
Documenting America’s History with Slavery with Clint Smith27:57 - View more clips
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Jamila Norman on the Importance of Homegrown Food to Urban Communities28:20 - 2
Ty Seidule on Challenging the Myth of the Lost Cause of the Confederacy28:11 - 3
The 2022 Story of the Year with Evelyn Farkas27:41 - 4
Refelcting on Questions of Gender Identity and Acceptance with Casey Parks27:59 - 5
Ruth Glenn on her Domestic Violence Advocacy29:16 - 6
Looking to a Future of Bipartisanship with David Gergen27:18 - 7
Examining Conspiracy in a Post-Truth Age with Andy Kroll28:09 - 8
Discussing Leadership, Race, and Democracy in America with Marc Morial29:12 - 9
Marc Follman on Targeted Violence and the Promise of Emerging Prevention Methods28:53 - 10
Mark Johnson on Building Empathy in his Science Reporting27:56 - View more clips
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Countering Violent Extremism in Video Games with Jessica White28:20 - 2
Blood Orange Night: Melissa Bond on Her Journey to Overcome Addiction28:06 - 3
Leveraging the Power of Scent for Communication with Saskia Wilson-Brown28:21 - 4
Reporting on the War in Ukraine with Anton Troianovski28:09 - 5
Identifying Russian Disinformation on Social Media with Darren Linvill27:52 - 6
Examining the Threats to American Democracy with Rachel Kleinfeld28:08 - 7
Studying Traumatic Brain Injuries Among Survivors of Domestic Violence28:47 - 8
Comic Communication with John Atkinson28:13 - 9
Tackling Election Integrity on Social Media with Katie Harbath28:11 - 10
The Blueprint for Autocracy with Ruth Ben-Ghiat28:50 - View more clips
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Adapting to a Warmer Planet with Alice Hill28:58 - 2
The 2021 Story of the Year with Evelyn Farkas28:15 - 3
Examining the Expectations Placed on Women Through the Lens of Sport with Lindsey Crouse28:18 - 4
America's Search for National Idenity with Colin Woodard28:11 - 5
The Winter of Peril with Robert Costa28:36 - 6
Shekhar Saxena on the Pandemic's Impact on Global Mental Health28:22 - 7
The Politics of Today's Healthcare Issues with Robert Hackey and Todd Olszewski28:58 - 8
Exploring Hidden Networks Below the Forests with Suzanne Simard28:13 - 9
Studying Classic Texts in the American Judicial System with Emily Allen-Hornblower and Nafeesah Goldsmith29:05 - 10
Investigating the Events of January 6, 2021 with Scott MacFarlane29:18 - View more clips
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Uncovering the Truth Behind a Haunting Holocaust Photograph with Wendy Lower28:40 - 2
Exploring Heartache Through Word and Music with Dessa28:38 - 3
Harnessing Love as a Force for Pivotal Change with Valarie Kaur28:41 - 4
Earning, Learning and Serving: Jamie Merisotis on Human Work in the Age of Smart Machines28:22 - 5
Discussing The State of Asian-American-Targeted Violence with Janelle Wong28:24 - 6
Capturing Life in Lyric and Melody with Mariee Sioux28:35 - 7
Jonathan Karp Matches Books with their Readers28:10 - 8
Creating a Collective Urban Experience with Julian Chambliss28:47 - 9
Continuing the Creative Process During the Pandemic with Ida Darvish and Josh Gad28:40 - 10
Covering the 2021 Academy Awards with Pete Hammond28:57 - View more clips
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Navigating our Future with Big Tech with Alexis Wichowski28:17 - 2
Adapting to a Changing World with Jen Schwartz28:06 - 3
2020 Story of the Year: The Impact of the Coronavirus Pandemic on American Life28:33 - 4
Artistic Resilience with Gayle Kabaker28:29 - 5
Harnessing the Power of Laughter with Gina Brillon28:01 - 6
Making the Case for a Multiparty Democracy with Lee Drutman28:21 - 7
Extraterrestrial Exploration with Andrew Siemion28:47 - 8
Exploring Loss, Creativity, and Change with Maggie Smith28:33 - 9
The Coronavirus and the Entertainment Industry28:36 - 10
Principled Leadership with Susan Eisenhower28:26 - View more clips
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The Future of Defense and Technology with P. W. Singer and August Cole28:13 - 2
Modern Fables with Karey Kirkpatrick28:06 - 3
Stories with Social Impact with Mary Rohlich27:06 - 4
Coronavirus: On the Front Lines with Daniela Lamas28:31 - 5
Celebrating the Centennial of Women's Suffrage with Susan Ware27:59 - 6
Inspiring the Next Generation Through Story with Chelsea Clinton27:52 - 7
Defense and Climate Change: Adapting to a Changing Physical Landscape with Michael Klare28:32 - 8
The Makings of Mass Incarceration in the United States with Elizabeth Hinton28:08 - 9
Telling the Stories of the Voiceless with Sara Jordenö28:12 - 10
Experiencing Climate Change Through Story with Elizabeth Rush28:01 - View more clips
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Convicted and Condemned with Keesha Middlemass28:24 - 2
Afghanistan Beyond the War with Adela Raz28:33 - 3
2019 Story of the Year: The Fracturing of America's Public Narrative28:01 - 4
Bridging the Divide with Susan Rice28:20 - 5
The Cost of Child Poverty with Lenette Azzi-Lessing28:47 - 6
Blood Libel in an American Town: Antisemitism in the United States with Edward Berenson28:37 - 7
Open Technological Innovation and Tomorrow's Terrorists with Audrey Kurth Cronin28:56 - 8
Opium: How an Ancient Flower Shaped and Poisoned our World with Dr. John Halpern and David Blistein28:32 - 9
The Guarded Gate: Bigotry Eugenics, and the Immigration Act of 192428:27 - 10
Memory, Connection, and Healing Through Storytelling with Patricia Nguyen28:24 - View more clips
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Native American History with Philip Deloria27:59 - 2
Technology and Relationships with Helen Schulman27:46 - 3
Ep 521 | Original Air Date June 17, 201928:18 - 4
Immigration and America's Dairy Farms with Julie Keller28:28 - 5
Local Journalism with Alexandra Watts28:13 - 6
Environmental Justice with Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha28:31 - 7
The American Press and the War in Afghanistan with Katherine Brown28:12 - 8
Decision Making in the Run-up to the Iraq War with Michael Mazarr28:10 - 9
Disability Rights with Peter Blanck28:53 - 10
The World is not Falling Apart with Michael Cohen and Micah Zenko28:10 - View more clips
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A New Era of Journalism with Charles Sennott28:21 - 2
The Battle for Truth - 2018 Story of the Year28:03 - 3
Satellites and the Economy with Luis Martinez28:22 - 4
The 2020 Commission Report with Jeffrey Lewis27:52 - 5
History of Law with Jed Shugerman27:58 - 6
You are what you eat with Korsha Wilson28:15 - 7
Stopping Killer Robots with Peter Asaro28:01 - 8
The Battle Between Science & Spirituality with Alan Lightman27:41 - 9
Every Day is Extra with John Kerry28:11 - 10
The Future of Media with Justin Hendrix28:03 - View more clips
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Russia, the 2016 election & national security with Tom Nichols28:00 - 2
Standing Rock Sioux reservation with Lorén Spears & Christian Hopkins28:00 - 3
The power of science journalism with Dan Fagin27:59 - 4
Jonathan Alexandratos says toys r texts and they shape our culture27:59 - 5
Crimetown co-host Marc Smerling talks Cianci and Patriarca28:01 - 6
Upholding U.S. public diplomacy with Katherine Brown27:59 - 7
A Big Enough Lie with Eric Bennett26:59 - 8
What role do K-12 schools play in America? Irvin Scott answers28:00 - 9
The impact of big money with Michael Corkery28:00 - 10
Major stories shaping public life in 2017 with Michael D, Kennedy28:00 - View more clips
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American Fascism with Christopher Vials27:59 - 2
The marketplace of ideas with Daniel W. Drezner27:59 - 3
Natural resources vs. power with Michael Klare28:00 - 4
Race in America with Eve L. Ewing27:59 - 5
Russian interference in the 2016 Election with Casey Michel27:59 - 6
Is there a democratic wave coming? with John Martilla28:01 - 7
Award winning documentary filmmaker Tim Gray28:01 - 8
American healthcare bill with David K. Jones28:01 - 9
What is cybersecurity? Jason Healey explains28:01 - 10
War crimes from WWII to the War on Terror with Allan A. Ryan28:01 - View more clips
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The Fate of Western Democracy with Edward Luce27:33 - 2
Ross Douthat on "Story in the Public Square"27:20 - 3
Nature & Nurture with Neuroscientist Dima Amso27:40 - 4
You Can Stop Humming Now, Stories from Dr. Daniela Lamas27:47 - 5
Bobby Kennedy, the liberal icon as told by Larry Tye27:16 - 6
End Rape on Campus co-founder Sofie Karasak talks #InMyWords Campaign27:47 - 7
The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 with Heather Ann Thompson27:45 - 8
Journalism around the world with Mary Jordan & Kevin Sullivan27:44 - 9
The power of prose with Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Dan Barry27:31 - 10
Common ground between God & science with Kennith R. Miller27:39 - View more clips