The Open Mind, Hosted by Alexander Heffner

Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director and CEO Maryana Iskander discusses freedom of information and literacy. 

Digital privacy leader Danielle Citron discusses her forthcoming book "The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age." 

University of Connecticut historian Melanie Newport discusses the contemporary prison and jail system. 

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

Committee to Protect Journalists executive director Robert Mahoney discusses the pandemic-era Fourth Estate.

National Coalition Against Censorship executive director Christopher Finan discusses bans of books and reproductive choice. 

U.S. military veterans Michael Robillard, and Bradley Strawser discuss their new book "Outsourcing Duty: The Moral Exploitation of the American Soldier."

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

Wake Forest University psychologist John Petrocelli discusses the importance of fact- and nonsense-checking. 

Tulane Law scholar Amy Gajda discusses her new book "Seek and Hide: The Tangled History of the Right to Privacy."

Nuclear Choices for the Twenty-First Century coauthors and scientists Richard Wolfson and Ferenc Dalnoki discuss the potential for nuclear annihilation.

 North Carolina State historian Blair Kelley discusses the present and historical conditions of segregation in the United States.

Author Virginia Postrel discusses the history of fabric and contemporary mask-wearing practices to protect public health. 

Columbia University president Lee Bollinger and University of Chicago scholar Geoffrey Stone discuss their book “Social Media, Freedom of Speech, and the Future of Our Democracy."

Author Azar Nafisi discusses her new book “Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times.”