Idaho State scholar Zac Gershberg on the future of democracy and illiberalism in America.

CPJ's executive director Robert Mahoney discusses the pandemic-era Fourth Estate.

National Coalition Against Censorship’s Christopher Finan on bans of books and choice.

Coauthors Michael Robillard and Bradley Strawser on their new book Outsourcing Duty.

Justitia CEO Jacob Mchangama discusses the threat to free speech around the world.

Wake Forest psychologist John Petrocelli on the importance of fact- and nonsense-checking

Tulane Law’s Amy Gajda on Seek and Hide: The Tangled History of the Right to Privacy.

Scientists Rich Wolfson and Ferenc Dalnoki on Nuclear Choices for the Twenty-First Century

North Carolina State historian Blair Kelley discusses segregation in the United States.

Author Virginia Postrel on the history of fabric and contemporary mask-wearing practices

Columbia U. president Lee Bollinger and U. of C.’s Geoffrey Stone on freedom of speech.

Azar Nafisi on “Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times”

“In Silico” documentarian Noah Hutton on the project to simulate the human brain.

University of Minnesota sociologist Michael Walker on “Indefinite: Doing Time in Jail.”

UC San Diego political scientist Barbara Walter on political tribalism and civil unrest.