The Inquiring Mind Podcast

Nicholas A. Christakis, MD, Ph.D., MPH, is a sociologist and physician who conducts research in the areas of social networks and biosocial science. He directs the Human Nature Lab at Yale University. He is the NYT bestselling author of Connected, Blueprint, and Apollo's Arrow. Nicholas Christakis Book Recommendations: The Illiad - Homer The Last Days of Socrates - Plato Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen Man's Search for Meaning- Viktor Frankel Stumbling on Happiness - Dan Gilbert The Better Angels of Our Nature - Steven Pinker About The Inquiring Mind Podcast: I created The Inquiring Mind Podcast in order to foster free speech, learn from some of the top experts in various fields, and create a platform for respectful conversations. Learn More: https://www.theinquiringmindpodcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theinquiringmindpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theinquiringmindpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/StanGGoldberg TikTok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMdKj2GeG/ Subscribe to the Inquiring Mind Podcast: Spotify: http://spoti.fi/3tdRSOs Apple: https://apple.co/3lGlEdB Google Podcasts: http://bit.ly/3eBZfLl Youtube: https://bit.ly/3tiQieE

Amelia Pang is an award-winning, investigative journalist of Uyghur and Chinese descent. Her work has been published in The New Republic, Mother Jones, and The New York Times Sunday Review, among other publications. She is currently an editor at EdTech Magazine. Her most recent book, which I highly recommend is called Made in China: A Prisoner, an SOS Letter, and the Hidden Cost of America's Cheap Goods, published on February 2, 2021, by Algonquin Books. Amelia Pang Book Recommendations: Land of Big Numbers - Te-Ping Chen Random Family - Adrian Nicole LeBlanc Crazy Rich Asians - Kevin Kwan The Road - Cormac McCarthy About The Inquiring Mind Podcast: I created The Inquiring Mind Podcast in order to foster free speech, learn from some of the top experts in various fields, and create a platform for respectful conversations. Learn More: https://www.theinquiringmindpodcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theinquiringmindpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theinquiringmindpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/StanGGoldberg TikTok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMdKj2GeG/ Subscribe to the Inquiring Mind Podcast: Spotify: http://spoti.fi/3tdRSOs Apple: https://apple.co/3lGlEdB Google Podcasts: http://bit.ly/3eBZfLl Youtube: https://bit.ly/3tiQieE

Louis Menand is the Lee Simpkins Family Professor of Arts and Sciences and the Anne T. and Robert M.Bass Professor of English at Harvard University. He is a staff writer at The New Yorker Magazine and has served as an associate editor at The New Republic and a contributing editor at The New York Review of Books. His book The Metaphysical Club earned him the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for history and the Francis Parkman Prize from the Society of American Historians. In 2016, he was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Obama. Most recently he is the author of the triumphant new book The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War, which was published in April 2021 by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. Louis Menand Book Recommendations: Tristes Tropiques - Claude Levi-Strauss Chance and Circumstance: Twenty Years with Cage and Cunningham - Carolyn Brown Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 - Tony Judt Warhol - Blake Gopnik Wolf Hall Trilogy - Hilary Mantel About The Inquiring Mind Podcast: I created The Inquiring Mind Podcast in order to foster free speech, learn from some of the top experts in various fields, and create a platform for respectful conversations. Learn More: https://www.theinquiringmindpodcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theinquiringmindpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theinquiringmindpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/StanGGoldberg TikTok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMdKj2GeG/ Subscribe to the Inquiring Mind Podcast: Spotify: http://spoti.fi/3tdRSOs Apple: https://apple.co/3lGlEdB Google Podcasts: http://bit.ly/3eBZfLl Youtube: https://bit.ly/3tiQieE

Amity Shlaes is the author of four New York Times bestsellers, Coolidge, The Forgotten Man, The Forgotten Man/Graphic, and The Greedy Hand. Miss Shlaes chairs the board of the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation. She chairs the Hayek Prize, a prize for free market books given by the Manhattan Institute. She is a presidential scholar at Kings College/New York. Most recently she is the author of Great Society: A New History, which is a stunning analysis of the social welfare policies passed in the 1960s. Amity Shlaes Book Recommendations: The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge - Amity Shlaes Three Days at Camp David: How a Secret Meeting in 1971 Transformed the Global Economy - Jeffrey Garten Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980 - Rick Perlstein Theodore Roosevelt and the American Political Tradition - Jean M. Yarbrough The High Cost of Good Intentions: A History of U.S. Federal Entitlement Programs - John Cogan About The Inquiring Mind Podcast: I created The Inquiring Mind Podcast in order to foster free speech, learn from some of the top experts in various fields, and create a platform for respectful conversations. Learn More: https://www.theinquiringmindpodcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theinquiringmindpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theinquiringmindpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/StanGGoldberg TikTok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMdKj2GeG/ Subscribe to the Inquiring Mind Podcast: Spotify: http://spoti.fi/3tdRSOs Apple: https://apple.co/3lGlEdB Google Podcasts: http://bit.ly/3eBZfLl Youtube: https://bit.ly/3tiQieE

Bobby Duffy is Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Policy Institute at King's College London. He has worked across most public policy areas in his career of nearly 30 years in policy research and evaluation, including being seconded to the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit. His most recent book The Generation Myth: Why When You're Born Matters Less Than You Think was published on November 9th, 2021 by Basic Books. Bobby Duffy Book Recommendations: Culture Wars: The Struggle To Define America - James Davison Hunter Why We're Polarized - Ezra Klein Uncivil Agreement - Lilliana Mason About The Inquiring Mind Podcast: I created The Inquiring Mind Podcast in order to foster free speech, learn from some of the top experts in various fields, and create a platform for respectful conversations. Learn More: https://www.theinquiringmindpodcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theinquiringmindpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theinquiringmindpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/StanGGoldberg TikTok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMdKj2GeG/ Subscribe to the Inquiring Mind Podcast: Spotify: http://spoti.fi/3tdRSOs Apple: https://apple.co/3lGlEdB Google Podcasts: http://bit.ly/3eBZfLl Youtube: https://bit.ly/3tiQieE

Henry William Brands Jr. is an American historian. He holds the Jack S. Blanton Sr. Chair in History at the University of Texas at Austin, where he earned his Ph.D. in history in 1985. He has authored 30 books on U.S. history. His works have twice been selected as finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. His most recent book is called "Our First Civil War: Patriots and Loyalists in the American Revolution", published on November 9th, 2021 by Doubleday. His substack, "A User's Guide to History" can be found using this link here. H.W. Brands Book Recommendations: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin - Benjamin Franklin The Education of Henry Adams - Henry Adams Moby Dick - Herman Melville About The Inquiring Mind Podcast: I created The Inquiring Mind Podcast in order to foster free speech, learn from some of the top experts in various fields, and create a platform for respectful conversations. Learn More: https://www.theinquiringmindpodcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theinquiringmindpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theinquiringmindpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/StanGGoldberg TikTok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMdKj2GeG/ Subscribe to the Inquiring Mind Podcast: Spotify: http://spoti.fi/3tdRSOs Apple: https://apple.co/3lGlEdB Google Podcasts: http://bit.ly/3eBZfLl Youtube: https://bit.ly/3tiQieE

Dr. Darrell Bricker holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Carleton University, where he was a Social Science and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Fellow, and a BA and MA from Wilfrid Laurier University. Bricker is the current Global CEO of Ipsos Public Affairs, polling, research, marketing, and analysis company. He is the author of 6 books, most recently the fascinating book "Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline." Darrell Bricker Book Recommendations: Eichman in Jerusalem - Hannah Arendt Washington: A Life - Ron Chernow Grant - Ron Chernow Churchill: Walking with Destiny - Andrew Roberts Napoleon: A Life - Andrew Roberts Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 - Tony Judt About The Inquiring Mind Podcast: I created The Inquiring Mind Podcast in order to foster free speech, learn from some of the top experts in various fields, and create a platform for respectful conversations. Learn More: https://www.theinquiringmindpodcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theinquiringmindpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theinquiringmindpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/StanGGoldberg TikTok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMdKj2GeG/ Subscribe to the Inquiring Mind Podcast: Spotify: http://spoti.fi/3tdRSOs Apple: https://apple.co/3lGlEdB Google Podcasts: http://bit.ly/3eBZfLl Youtube: https://bit.ly/3tiQieE

Sidney Blumenthal is the former assistant and senior adviser to President Bill Clinton and senior adviser to Hillary Clinton. He was a national staff reporter for The Washington Post and Washington editor and writer for The New Yorker. He is the author of numerous bestselling books including "The Clinton Wars", "The Rise of the Counter Establishment", and "The Permanent Campaign." He's embarking on an ambitious 5-volume series on the political life of President Abraham Lincoln. Three of five of his books are now on sale including, "A Self-Made Man: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol. I, 1809–1849", "Wrestling With His Angel: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol. II, 1849-1856", and most recently "All the Powers of Earth: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol. III, 1856-1860'. Sidney Blumenthal Book Recommendations: Life of Andrew Jackson - James Parton JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956 - Fredrik Logevall Landmark Book Series on American History - Various Authors USA Trilogy (The 42nd Parallel / 1919 / The Big Money) - John Dos Passos The Lanny Budd Novels - Upton Sinclair About The Inquiring Mind Podcast: I created The Inquiring Mind Podcast in order to foster free speech, learn from some of the top experts in various fields, and create a platform for respectful conversations. Learn More: https://www.theinquiringmindpodcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theinquiringmindpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theinquiringmindpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/StanGGoldberg TikTok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMdKj2GeG/ Subscribe to the Inquiring Mind Podcast: Spotify: http://spoti.fi/3tdRSOs Apple: https://apple.co/3lGlEdB Google Podcasts: http://bit.ly/3eBZfLl Youtube: https://bit.ly/3tiQieE

This is one of my favorite conversations so far. So grateful to be able to share this with all of you. Jordan Blashek is a Republican, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran, and an aspiring business leader. After graduating from Princeton University in 2009, he spent five years in the Marines as an infantry officer and was awarded two Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medals. He holds degrees from Yale Law School, Stanford Graduate School of Business, and Princeton University, and currently works at a venture firm for public benefit created by the CEO of Alphabet. He is also the co-author of the incredible book Union: A Democrat, a Republican, and a Search for Common Ground with his friend and travel buddy Christopher Haugh. Jordan Blashek Book Recommendations: (THESE ARE AFFILIATE LINKS) The Righteous Mind - Jonathan Haidt Skin in the Game - Nassim Nicholas Taleb America's Constitution - Akhil Reed Amar The Seventh Sense - Joshua Cooper Ramo Speech Recommendations: I Have A Dream - Martin Luther King Jr. The Ballot or the Bullet - Malcolm X About The Inquiring Mind Podcast: I created The Inquiring Mind Podcast in order to foster free speech, learn from some of the top experts in various fields, and create a platform for respectful conversations. Learn More: https://www.theinquiringmindpodcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theinquiringmindpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theinquiringmindpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/StanGGoldberg TikTok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMdKj2GeG/ Subscribe to the Inquiring Mind Podcast: Spotify: http://spoti.fi/3tdRSOs Apple: https://apple.co/3lGlEdB Google Podcasts: http://bit.ly/3eBZfLl Youtube: https://bit.ly/3tiQieE

Thomas Dyja worked in publishing for more than a decade before becoming a writer. He is the author of 6 books including The Third Coast: When Chicago Built the American Dream and most recently the wonderful new book New York, New York, New York: Four Decades of Success, Excess, and Transformation. Thomas Dyja Book Recommendations: The Summer Book - Tove Jansson The Last Thing He Told Me - Laura Dave Gay New York - George Chauncey About The Inquiring Mind Podcast: I created The Inquiring Mind Podcast in order to foster free speech, learn from some of the top experts in various fields, and create a platform for respectful conversations. Learn More: https://www.theinquiringmindpodcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theinquiringmindpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theinquiringmindpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/StanGGoldberg TikTok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMdKj2GeG/ Subscribe to the Inquiring Mind Podcast: Spotify: http://spoti.fi/3tdRSOs Apple: https://apple.co/3lGlEdB Google Podcasts: http://bit.ly/3eBZfLl Youtube: https://bit.ly/3tiQieE

Eric Berkowitz is a writer, lawyer, and journalist. He has a degree in print journalism from the University of Southern California (USC) and has been featured in The Los Angeles Times, The Los Angeles Weekly, and for the Associated Press. He was an editor of the West Coast's premier daily legal publication, The Los Angeles Daily Journal. He lives in San Francisco. He is the author of 3 books, the most recent being Dangerous Ideas: A Brief History of Censorship in the West, from the Ancients to Fake News. Eric Berkowitz Book Recommendations: The Illiad - Homer Oedipus Rex - Sophocles Collected Essays of George Orwell - George Orwell Self-Portrait - Man Ray American Pastoral - Philip Roth About The Inquiring Mind Podcast: I created The Inquiring Mind Podcast in order to foster free speech, learn from some of the top experts in various fields, and create a platform for respectful conversations. Learn More: https://www.theinquiringmindpodcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theinquiringmindpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theinquiringmindpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/StanGGoldberg TikTok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMdKj2GeG/ Subscribe to the Inquiring Mind Podcast: Spotify: http://spoti.fi/3tdRSOs Apple: http://apple.co/38xXZVJ Google Podcasts: http://bit.ly/3eBZfLl Youtube: https://bit.ly/3tiQieE

Nicholas Wapshott is an author, journalist, and biographer who has written for The Scotsman, The Times, The Observer, and The Sunday Telegraph. He was the national and foreign editor of the New York Sun and was part of the launch team for The Daily Beast. Lastly, he was an editorial director of Oprah Winfrey's website oprah.com and International Editor of Newsweek. He is the author of 10 books, including Keynes Hayek, The Sphinx, and most recently of Samuelson Friedman. Nicholas Wapshott Book Recommendations: Lolita - Vladimir Lolita Great Expectations - Charles Dickens The Forgotten Man - Amity Shlaes Vile Bodies - Evelyn Waugh The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler About The Inquiring Mind Podcast: I created The Inquiring Mind Podcast in order to foster free speech, learn from some of the top experts in various fields, and create a platform for respectful conversations. Learn More: https://www.theinquiringmindpodcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theinquiringmindpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theinquiringmindpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/StanGGoldberg TikTok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMdKj2GeG/ Subscribe to the Inquiring Mind Podcast: Spotify: http://spoti.fi/3tdRSOs Apple: http://apple.co/38xXZVJ Google Podcasts: http://bit.ly/3eBZfLl Youtube: https://bit.ly/3tiQieE

Jon O. Newman is a United States Circuit Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He assumed senior status in 1997. At the time of his appointment in 1979, he was a United States District Court Judge for the District of Connecticut. Judge Newman was Chief Judge from 1993 to 1997. Judge Newman was also considered for the Supreme Court role under the Clinton Administration. He is also the author of the memoir Benched: Abortion, Terrorists, Drones, Crooks, Supreme Court, Kennedy, Nixon, Demi Moore, and Other Tales from the Life of a Federal Judge Judge Jon O.Newman Book Recommendations: Books by John Le Carre Books by David McCullough Books by Philip Kerr About The Inquiring Mind Podcast: I created The Inquiring Mind Podcast in order to foster free speech, learn from some of the top experts in various fields, and create a platform for respectful conversations. Learn More: https://www.theinquiringmindpodcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theinquiringmindpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theinquiringmindpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/StanGGoldberg TikTok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMdKj2GeG/ Subscribe to the Inquiring Mind Podcast: Spotify: http://spoti.fi/3tdRSOs Apple: http://apple.co/38xXZVJ Google Podcasts: http://bit.ly/3eBZfLl Youtube: https://bit.ly/3tiQieE

Edward Glaeser is the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics and the Chairman of the Department of Economics at Harvard University. He is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of City Journal. He is the author of the New York Times Bestseller Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier and most recently he is the author of Survival of the City: Living and Thriving in an Age of Isolation Edward Glaeser Book Recommendations: The Fate of Rome - Kyle Harper The German Genius - Peter Watson Projections - Karl Deisseroth Phineas Finn - Anthony Trollope Religion and the Rise of Capitalism - Benjamin Friedman About The Inquiring Mind Podcast: I created The Inquiring Mind Podcast in order to foster free speech, learn from some of the top experts in various fields, and create a platform for respectful conversations. Learn More: https://www.theinquiringmindpodcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theinquiringmindpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theinquiringmindpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/StanGGoldberg TikTok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMdKj2GeG/ Subscribe to the Inquiring Mind Podcast: Spotify: http://spoti.fi/3tdRSOs Apple: http://apple.co/38xXZVJ Google Podcasts: http://bit.ly/3eBZfLl Youtube: https://bit.ly/3tiQieE

Christopher Browning is the Frank Porter Graham Professor Emeritus of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC). He specializes in the history of the Holocaust, the implementation of the Final Solution, the behavior of those implementing the policies, and the use of survivor testimony. He is the author of nine books, including the incredible best-selling Ordinary Men and The Origins of the Final Solution Christopher Browning Book Recommendations: The Destruction of the European Jews - Raul Hilberg Survival in Auschwitz - Primo Levi The Jews of Warsaw, 1939-1943 - Yisrael Gutman Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945 - Saul Friedlander About The Inquiring Mind Podcast: I created The Inquiring Mind Podcast in order to foster free speech, learn from some of the top experts in various fields, and create a platform for respectful conversations. Learn More: https://www.theinquiringmindpodcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theinquiringmindpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theinquiringmindpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/StanGGoldberg TikTok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMdKj2GeG/ Subscribe to the Inquiring Mind Podcast: Spotify: http://spoti.fi/3tdRSOs Apple: http://apple.co/38xXZVJ Google Podcasts: http://bit.ly/3eBZfLl Youtube: https://bit.ly/3tiQieE

Ashley Pallathra, MA, is a clinical researcher and therapist. She completed her bachelor's degree with Distinction in Neuroscience from the University of Pennsylvania. She has a Master's Degree in Psychology and is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. She writes and researches resilience-based interventions, social-emotional functioning in youth, autism research, and social neuroscience. Edward Brodkin, MD, is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry with tenure at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the Founder and Director of the Adult Autism Spectrum Program at Penn Medicine. He received his AB Magna Cum Laude from Harvard College and his MD from Harvard Medical School. He completed his residency in psychiatry and a fellowship in neuroscience research at the Yale University School of Medicine. His research focuses on social neuroscience and the autism spectrum in adults. They are co-authors of the wonderful book, entitled Missing Each Other: How to Cultivate Meaningful Connections. The book was published by Public Affairs/Hachette in January 2021. Ashley Pallathra and Edward Brodkin Book Recommendations: A Fierce Heart - Spring Washam The Happiness Trap - Russ Haris Cutting for Stone - Abraham Verghese Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway About The Inquiring Mind Podcast: I created The Inquiring Mind Podcast in order to foster free speech, learn from some of the top experts in various fields, and create a platform for respectful conversations. Learn More: https://www.theinquiringmindpodcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theinquiringmindpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theinquiringmindpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/StanGGoldberg TikTok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMdKj2GeG/ Subscribe to the Inquiring Mind Podcast: Spotify: http://spoti.fi/3tdRSOs Apple: http://apple.co/38xXZVJ Google Podcasts: http://bit.ly/3eBZfLl Youtube: https://bit.ly/3tiQieE

John Sexton is the fifteenth President of New York University. He joined NYU's School of Law faculty in 1981 and was named the dean in 1988. He became the president of the University in 2002. He served as a law clerk to Chief Justice Warren Burger on the US Supreme Court and to Judges David Bazelon and Harold Leventhal of the United States Court of Appeals. Sexton is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a past member of the executive committee of the Association of American Universities. He is past chair of the American Council on Education, the New York Academy of Sciences, and the Commission on Independent Colleges and Universities of New York. He has served as the chairman of the board of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (2003-06). He is also the author of the New York Times bestselling book Baseball as a Road to God and most recently of Standing for Reason. John Sexton Book Recommendations: Mr.Blue - Myles Connolly Monsignor Quixote - Graham Greene A Grief Observed - C.S. Lewis The Cloister - James Carroll What Was Liberalism? - James Traub The Nickel Boys - Colson Whitehead (Daughter's Recommendations) About The Inquiring Mind Podcast: I created The Inquiring Mind Podcast in order to foster free speech, learn from some of the top experts in various fields, and create a platform for respectful conversations. Learn More: https://www.theinquiringmindpodcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theinquiringmindpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theinquiringmindpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/StanGGoldberg TikTok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMdKj2GeG/ Subscribe to the Inquiring Mind Podcast: Spotify: http://spoti.fi/3tdRSOs Apple: http://apple.co/38xXZVJ Google Podcasts: http://bit.ly/3eBZfLl Youtube: https://bit.ly/3tiQieE

Edward Whelan is a Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center and holds EPPC's Antonin Scalia Chair in Constitutional Studies. He is the longest-serving President in EPPC's history, having held that position from March 2004 through January 2021. He is also the co-author of Scalia Speaks, On Faith, and The Essential Scalia. Edward Whelan Book Recommendations: Scalia Speaks - Antonin Scalia On Faith - Antonin Scalia The Essential Scalia - Antonin Scalia Orthodoxy - G.K. Chesterton https://amzn.to/2XF6xb1 About The Inquiring Mind Podcast: I created The Inquiring Mind Podcast in order to foster free speech, learn from some of the top experts in various fields, and create a platform for respectful conversations. Learn More: https://www.theinquiringmindpodcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theinquiringmindpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theinquiringmindpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/StanGGoldberg TikTok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMdKj2GeG/ Subscribe to the Inquiring Mind Podcast: Spotify: http://spoti.fi/3tdRSOs Apple: http://apple.co/38xXZVJ Google Podcasts: http://bit.ly/3eBZfLl Youtube: https://bit.ly/3tiQieE

Nadine Strossen is one of the preeminent constitutional law and civil liberties scholars in the United States. Her impressive resume includes serving as the first female President of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), being a member of the Foundation of Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), Heterodox Academy, Council on Foreign Relations, and the National Coalition Against Censorship. The National Law Journal has named Strossen one of America's "100 Most Influential Lawyers," and several other publications have named her one of the country's most influential women. She is currently the John Marshall Harlan II Professor of Law at New York Law School. Her latest book, HATE: Why We Should Resist It With Free Speech, Not Censorship was published in 2018. Her earlier book, Defending Pornography: Free Speech, Sex, and the Fight for Women's Rights, was named by The New York Times as a “Notable Book” of 1995. Nadine Strossen Book Recommendations: On Liberty - John Stuart Mill 1984 - George Orwell Kindly Inquisitors - Jonathan Rauch Bleak House - Charles Dickens Little Dorrit - Charles Dickens A Promise of Ankles: 44 Scotland Street - Alexander McCall Smith About The Inquiring Mind Podcast: I created The Inquiring Mind Podcast in order to foster free speech, learn from some of the top experts in various fields, and create a platform for respectful conversations. Learn More: https://www.theinquiringmindpodcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theinquiringmindpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theinquiringmindpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/StanGGoldberg TikTok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMdKj2GeG/ Subscribe to the Inquiring Mind Podcast: Spotify: http://spoti.fi/3tdRSOs Apple: http://apple.co/38xXZVJ Google Podcasts: http://bit.ly/3eBZfLl Youtube: https://bit.ly/3tiQieE

Francis J. Greenburger is the CEO and Founder of real estate giant Time Equities Inc, owner of the highly successful Sanford J.Greenburger Literary Agency, and founder of the Omi International Arts Center and The Greenburger Center for Social and Criminal Justice. He is also the author of a book entitled Risk Game: Self Portrait of an Entrepreneur. Francis J. Greenburger Book Recommendations: Just Mercy - Bryan Stevenson Zeckendorf - William Zeckendorf Am I Being Too Subtle - Sam Zell Nine Street Women - Mary Gabriel The Other Black Girl - Zakiya Dalila Harris About The Inquiring Mind Podcast: I created The Inquiring Mind Podcast in order to foster free speech, learn from some of the top experts in various fields, and create a platform for respectful conversations. Learn More: https://www.theinquiringmindpodcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theinquiringmindpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theinquiringmindpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/StanGGoldberg TikTok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMdKj2GeG/ Subscribe to the Inquiring Mind Podcast: Spotify: http://spoti.fi/3tdRSOs Apple: http://apple.co/38xXZVJ Google Podcasts: http://bit.ly/3eBZfLl Youtube: https://bit.ly/3tiQieE

Leroy (Lee) Hood is a world-renowned scientist and recipient of the National Medal of Science in 2011 from President Barack Obama. Dr. Leroy Hood co-founded the Institute for Systems Biology (ISB) and currently serves as the Chief Strategy Officer and Professor at ISB. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the National Academy of Medicine. Of the more than 6,000 scientists worldwide who belong to one or more of these academies, Dr. Hood is one of only 20 people elected to all three. He has received 18 honorary degrees from prestigious universities in the U.S. and abroad and has published more than 850 peer-reviewed articles and currently holds 36 patents. Dr.Hood and his colleagues developed the instruments that paved the way for the Human Genome Project's successful mapping and understanding of the human genome. He and his students also deciphered many of the complex mechanisms of antibody diversification. Lee Hood is currently carrying out studies in Alzheimer's Disease, cancer, and wellness. He is pioneering a 1 million patient genome/phenome project for Providence and is bringing scientific (quantitative) wellness to the contemporary U.S. health care system. Dr. Hood has played a role in founding 15 biotechnology companies including Amgen, Applied Biosystems, Arivale, and Nanostring. He has co-authored textbooks in biochemistry, immunology, molecular biology, genetics, and systems biology. Leroy Hood Book Recommendations: The End of Average - Todd Rose Lifespan - David Sinclair The Empty Planet - Darrell Bricker The 100-Year Life - Lynda Gratton & Andrew Scott The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge -Abraham Flexner About The Inquiring Mind Podcast: I created The Inquiring Mind Podcast in order to foster free speech, learn from some of the top experts in various fields, and create a platform for respectful conversations. Learn More: https://www.theinquiringmindpodcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theinquiringmindpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theinquiringmindpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/StanGGoldberg Subscribe to the Inquiring Mind Podcast: Spotify: http://spoti.fi/3tdRSOs Apple: http://apple.co/38xXZVJ Google Podcasts: http://bit.ly/3eBZfLl Youtube: https://bit.ly/3tiQieE

Dr. Steven E. Koonin is a leader in science policy in the United States. He served as Undersecretary for Science in the US Department of Energy under President Obama. He has written more than 200 peer-reviewed papers in the fields of physics and astrophysics, scientific computation, energy technology and policy, and climate science, Dr. Koonin was a professor of theoretical physics at Caltech, also serving as Caltech's Vice President and Provost for almost a decade. He is currently a University Professor at New York University, with appointments in the Stern School of Business, the Tandon School of Engineering, and the Department of Physics. Most recently he is the author of the Wall Street Journal Bestselling book Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn't, and Why It Matters. Steven Koonin Book Recommendations: Energy and Civilization - Vaclav Smil The New Map - Daniel Yergin Guns, Germs, and Steel - Jared Diamond False Alarm - Bjorn Lomberg Apocolypse Never - Michael Shellenberger About The Inquiring Mind Podcast: I created The Inquiring Mind Podcast in order to foster free speech, learn from some of the top experts in various fields, and create a platform for respectful conversations. Learn More: https://www.theinquiringmindpodcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theinquiringmindpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theinquiringmindpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/StanGGoldberg Subscribe to the Inquiring Mind Podcast: Spotify: http://spoti.fi/3tdRSOs Apple: http://apple.co/38xXZVJ Google Podcasts: http://bit.ly/3eBZfLl Youtube: https://bit.ly/3tiQieE

David A. Kaplan was a senior editor and legal affairs correspondent at Newsweek for 20 years. While there, he wrote several dozen cover stories on the Court and other topics. He is the author of numerous books including The Silicon Boys and most recently, of The Most Dangerous Branch. He now teaches journalism and ethics at NYU and at CUNY. David Kaplan Book Recommendations: Charlotte's Web - E.B. White Cadillac Desert - Marc Reisner The Power Broker - Robert Caro The Impending Crisis - David Potter A Sense of Where You Are - John McPhee About The Inquiring Mind Podcast: I created The Inquiring Mind Podcast in order to foster free speech, learn from some of the top experts in various fields, and create a platform for respectful conversations. Learn More: https://www.theinquiringmindpodcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theinquiringmindpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theinquiringmindpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/StanGGoldberg Subscribe to the Inquiring Mind Podcast: Spotify: http://spoti.fi/3tdRSOs Apple: http://apple.co/38xXZVJ Google Podcasts: http://bit.ly/3eBZfLl Youtube: https://bit.ly/3tiQieE

Norman Ohler is a German New York Times bestselling author, novelist, and screenwriter, best known for his book Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany, which has been published in over 30 languages. Most recently he is the author of The Bohemians: The Lovers Who Led Germany's Resistance Against the Nazis. Norman Ohler Book Recommendations: Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon The Bohemians - Norman Ohler Moby Dick - Herman Melville Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe About The Inquiring Mind Podcast: I created The Inquiring Mind Podcast in order to foster free speech, learn from some of the top experts in various fields, and create a platform for respectful conversations. Learn More: https://www.theinquiringmindpodcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theinquiringmindpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theinquiringmindpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/StanGGoldberg Subscribe to the Inquiring Mind Podcast: Spotify: http://spoti.fi/3tdRSOs Apple: http://apple.co/38xXZVJ Google Podcasts: http://bit.ly/3eBZfLl Youtube: https://bit.ly/3tiQieE

Rabbi David Wolpe is the Max Webb Senior Rabbi of Sinai Temple in Los Angeles. He was named one of the 50 Most Influential Jews in the World by the Jerusalem Post and the Most Influential Rabbi in America by Newsweek. He taught at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in New York and at the American Jewish University in Los Angeles, Hunter College - CUNY, and UCLA. His articles have been featured in the New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Time Magazine, The Atlantic, and numerous others. He has been featured on CBS This Morning, The Today Show, Face the Nation, and ABC This Morning. Rabbi Wolpe has publicly debated some of the great intellectuals of our time such as Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, Steven Pinker, and many others. Mr.Wolpe is the author of eight books, including Why Faith Matters, Making Loss Matter, and most recently of David: The Divided Heart. Check out his podcast: Off the Pulpit with Rabbi David Wolpe Rabbi David Wolpe Book Recommendations: The Denial of Death - Ernest Becker Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor E. Frankl The Sabbath - Abraham Joshua Heschel Night - Elie Wiesel The Warden - Anthony Trollope About The Inquiring Mind Podcast: I created The Inquiring Mind Podcast in order to foster free speech, learn from some of the top experts in various fields, and create a platform for respectful conversations. Learn More: https://www.theinquiringmindpodcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theinquiringmindpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theinquiringmindpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/StanGGoldberg Subscribe to the Inquiring Mind Podcast: Spotify: http://spoti.fi/3tdRSOs Apple: http://apple.co/38xXZVJ Google Podcasts: http://bit.ly/3eBZfLl Youtube: https://bit.ly/3tiQieE

Benjamin Hett is a historian and writer who teaches at Hunter College (CUNY) and at the CUNY Graduate Center in NYC. He earned his BA in Political Science and English Literature from the University of Alberta, then a J.D. from the University of Toronto. He later received his MA in History from the University of Toronto and a Ph.D. from Harvard University. We discuss his latest books The Nazi Menace and The Death of Democracy on the podcast. Benjamin Hett Book Recommendations: Not Wanted on the Voyage - Timothy Findley The Great War and Modern Memory - Paul Fussell Postwar - Tony Judt Language of the Third Reich - Victor Klemperer About The Inquiring Mind Podcast: I created The Inquiring Mind Podcast in order to foster free speech, learn from some of the top experts in various fields, and create a platform for respectful conversations. Learn More: https://www.theinquiringmindpodcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theinquiringmindpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theinquiringmindpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/StanGGoldberg Subscribe to the Inquiring Mind Podcast: Spotify: http://spoti.fi/3tdRSOs Apple: http://apple.co/38xXZVJ Google Podcasts: http://bit.ly/3eBZfLl Youtube: https://bit.ly/3tiQieE

Ilana Redstone is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Professor Redstone obtained her BA at the University of New Hampshire and her Ph.D. in Demography and Sociology from the University of Pennsylvania. She has been at the University of Illinois since 2005. She teaches a highly popular class called "Sociology of Political Polarization: Bigots and Snowflakes" and is the author of the new book Unassailable Ideas: How Unwritten Rules and Social Media Shape Discourse in American Higher Education. Ilana Redstone Book Recommendations: The Emperor of All Maladies - Siddhartha Mukherjee Where the Crawdads Sing - Delia Owens Conflict of Visions - Thomas Sowell Discrimination & Disparities - Thomas Sowell Factfullness - Hans Rosling The Better Angels of Our Nature - Steven Pinker Enlightenment Now - Steven Pinker About The Inquiring Mind Podcast: I created The Inquiring Mind Podcast in order to foster free speech, learn from some of the top experts in various fields, and create a platform for respectful conversations. Learn More: https://www.theinquiringmindpodcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theinquiringmindpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theinquiringmindpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/StanGGoldberg Subscribe to the Inquiring Mind Podcast: Spotify: http://spoti.fi/3tdRSOs Apple: http://apple.co/38xXZVJ Google Podcasts: http://bit.ly/3eBZfLl Youtube: https://bit.ly/3tiQieE

Helaine Olen is an Opinion writer for the Washington Post. She has written on topics including politics, economics, workplace culture, and women's issues. Her work has been publishing in the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic Salon, Pacific Standard, and The Los Angeles Times. She is also the author of Pound Foolish: Exposing the Dark Side of the Personal Finance Industry and The Index Card: Why Personal Finance Doesn't have to be so complicated. Helaine and I had some disagreements, but I truly appreciate our ability to be civil and kind to one another. This country is based on respectful disagreement, so I was happy to do just that here. Helaine Olen Book Recommendations: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith Nickel and Dimed - Barbara Ehrenreich Bright-Sided - Barbara Ehrenreich Bowling Alone - Robert Putnam Villette - Charlotte Bronte About The Inquiring Mind Podcast: I created The Inquiring Mind Podcast in order to foster free speech, learn from some of the top experts in various fields, and create a platform for respectful conversations. Learn More: https://www.theinquiringmindpodcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theinquiringmindpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theinquiringmindpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/StanGGoldberg Subscribe to the Inquiring Mind Podcast: Spotify: http://spoti.fi/3tdRSOs Apple: http://apple.co/38xXZVJ Google Podcasts: http://bit.ly/3eBZfLl Youtube: https://bit.ly/3tiQieE

Yasmine Mohammed is an advocate for the rights of women living in Muslim majority countries as well as those who struggle under religious fundamentalism. She is the founder of Free Hearts Free Minds, which is an organization that provides mental health support for members of the LGBT community and freethinkers living in Muslim majority countries. Yasmine works with the Ayaan Hirsi Ali Foundation as an Advisor. As well, she's a member of the prestigious Center for Inquiry (CFI) Speaker's Bureau. She is also on the Board of Advisors for Humanist Global Charity, an organization that builds secular schools. As well, she is on the Advisory board of Atheists for Liberty. She is also the author of the incredible book Unveiled: How Western Liberals Empower Radical Islam. Not only is this book brave, but it is also inspirational and enlightening. Personal Statement: It is really sad that we live in the freest country in the world, yet are afraid to discuss certain ideas. The fact that Mrs.Mohammed and people like her receive death threats is disturbing and frankly disgusting. We should not be afraid to discuss any topics or hear out any opinions. If someone wants to dispute the points Mrs.Mohammed makes, I would be more than happy to discuss them on my podcast in a respectful manner. Yasmine Mohammed Book Recommendations: The End of Faith - Sam Harris Infidel - Ayaan Hirsi Ali Wind in my Hair - Masih Alinejad An American Bride in Kabul - Phyllis Chesler Unveiled - Yasmine Mohammed About The Inquiring Mind Podcast: I created The Inquiring Mind Podcast in order to foster free speech, learn from some of the top experts in various fields, and create a platform for respectful conversations. Learn More: https://www.theinquiringmindpodcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theinquiringmindpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theinquiringmindpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/StanGGoldberg Subscribe to the Inquiring Mind Podcast: Spotify: http://spoti.fi/3tdRSOs Apple: http://apple.co/38xXZVJ Google Podcasts: http://bit.ly/3eBZfLl Youtube: https://bit.ly/3tiQieE

Michael Woodsworth is a teacher at the Bard High School Early College Queens, where he covers a wide variety of subjects in American History. His most recent book, which is central to our discussion is called Battle for Bed-Stuy: The Long War on Poverty in New York City Book Recommended by Michael Woodsworth: A Fortress in Brooklyn - Nathaniel Deutsch The Lightning Thief - Rick Riordan Reconstruction - Eric Foner Building the Great Society - Joshua Zeitz Souls of Black Folk - W.E.B Dubois 0 About The Inquiring Mind Podcast: I created The Inquiring Mind Podcast in order to foster free speech, learn from some of the top experts in various fields, and create a platform for respectful conversations. Learn More: https://www.theinquiringmindpodcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theinquiringmindpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theinquiringmindpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/StanGGoldberg Subscribe to the Inquiring Mind Podcast: Spotify: http://spoti.fi/3tdRSOs Apple: http://apple.co/38xXZVJ Google Podcasts: http://bit.ly/3eBZfLl Youtube: https://bit.ly/3tiQieE

Sean McMeekin is an American historian, focusing on European history of the early 20th century. He is the Francis Flournoy Professor of European History and Culture at Bard College in upstate New York. He is the author of numerous books on WWI, WWII, The Russian Revolution, and the Ottoman Empire. Books by Sean McMeekin: Stalin's War The Russian Revolution The Ottoman Endgame July 1914 Books Recommended by Sean McMeekin: The Russian Revolution - Richard Pipes Peasant Russia Civil War - Orlando Figes Stalin The Court of the Red Czar -Simon Sebag Montefiore Thunder in the East - Evan Mawdsley The Wars for Asia, 1911–1949 - S. C. M. Paine Stalingrad - Antony Beevor About The Inquiring Mind Podcast: I created The Inquiring Mind Podcast in order to foster free speech, learn from some of the top experts in various fields, and create a platform for respectful conversations. Learn More: https://www.theinquiringmindpodcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theinquiringmindpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theinquiringmindpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/StanGGoldberg Subscribe to the Inquiring Mind Podcast: Spotify: http://spoti.fi/3tdRSOs Apple: http://apple.co/38xXZVJ Google Podcasts: http://bit.ly/3eBZfLl Youtube: https://bit.ly/3tiQieE

Jessica Neptune is Director of National Engagement for the Bard Prison Initiative and leads BPI's Consortium for the Liberal Arts in Prison at Bard College. She is the founder of BPI's Women's College Partnership at the Indiana Women's Prison. Prior to her return to BPI, an organization she helped start as an undergraduate, she was an ACLS Public Fellow where she worked on criminal justice reform with the Obama Administration's Federal Interagency Reentry Council. She holds a Ph.D. in American History from the University of Chicago. Her scholarship is on the making of the carceral state and the policies and politics of punishment. Djyuan Tatro is a Bard Prison Initiative alumnus, Senior Advisor of Strategic Outreach at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC), and Board Member at The Fortune Society. Please watch the amazing PBS documentary "College Behind Bars" now on Netflix. Support BPI by visiting https://bpi.bard.edu/ and learning more. Books Recommended by Jessica Neptune: College in Prison - Daniel Karpowitz The Fire Next Time - James Baldwin Freedom Dreams - Robin D.G. Kelley Getting Tough - Julilly Kohler-Hausmann We Do This 'Til We Free Us - Mariame Kaba Books Recommended by Dyjuan Tatro: Presumed Criminal - Carl Suddler The New Jim Crow- Michelle Alexander The End of Policing - Alex S. Vitale Until We Reckon - Danielle Sered College Behind Bars (Documentary) - Netflix or PBS About The Inquiring Mind Podcast: I created The Inquiring Mind Podcast in order to foster free speech, learn from some of the top experts in various fields, and create a platform for respectful conversations. Learn More: https://www.theinquiringmindpodcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theinquiringmindpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theinquiringmindpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/StanGGoldberg Subscribe to the Inquiring Mind Podcast: Spotify: http://spoti.fi/3tdRSOs Apple: http://apple.co/38xXZVJ Google Podcasts: http://bit.ly/3eBZfLl Youtube: https://bit.ly/3tiQieE

Wendy Lower is an American historian and a widely published author on the Holocaust and World War II. Since 2012, she holds the John K. Roth Chair at Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, California, and in 2014 was named the director of the Mgrublian Center for Human Rights at Claremont. As of 2016, she serves as the interim director of the Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. She is the author of the National Book Award Winner, Hitler's Furies, and most recently of The Ravine. Books by Wendy Lower: Hitler's Furies The Ravine Books Recommended by Wendy Lower: Caste - Isabelle Wilkerson Poems by Henri Cole - Henri Cole Grief - David Shneer About The Inquiring Mind Podcast: I created The Inquiring Mind Podcast in order to foster free speech, learn from some of the top experts in various fields, and create a platform for respectful conversations. Learn More: https://www.theinquiringmindpodcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theinquiringmindpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theinquiringmindpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/StanGGoldberg Subscribe to the Inquiring Mind Podcast: Spotify: http://spoti.fi/3tdRSOs Apple: http://apple.co/38xXZVJ Google Podcasts: http://bit.ly/3eBZfLl Youtube: https://bit.ly/3tiQieE

Barry Schwartz is the Dorwin Cartwright Professor of Social Theory and Social Action at Swarthmore College and since 2016 has been visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley. His work focuses on the intersection of psychology and economics. He frequently writes for the New York Times and has spoken at TED four times, with all of the links for those provided below. He is the author of numerous books, which you can learn more about below. Barry Schwartz TED Talks: The Paradox of Choice The Way We Think About Work is Broken Our Loss of Wisdom What role does luck play in your life? Books by Barry Schwartz: The Paradox of Choice Why We Work Practical Wisdom The Battle for Human Nature Books Recommended by Barry Schwartz: After Virtue - Alasdair MacIntyre Social Limits to Growth - Fred Hirsch Thinking Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman About The Inquiring Mind Podcast: I created The Inquiring Mind Podcast in order to foster free speech, learn from some of the top experts in various fields, and create a platform for respectful conversations. Learn More: https://www.theinquiringmindpodcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theinquiringmindpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theinquiringmindpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/StanGGoldberg Subscribe to the Inquiring Mind Podcast: Spotify: http://spoti.fi/3tdRSOs Apple: http://apple.co/38xXZVJ Google Podcasts: http://bit.ly/3eBZfLl Youtube: https://bit.ly/3tiQieE

Kenneth Wythe is the author of Hoover: An Extraordinary Life in Extraordinary Times, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and The Uncrowned King: The Sensational Rise of William Randolph Hearst, a Washington Post and Toronto Globe and Mail Book of the Year, and a nominee for four major Canadian book awards. He is a publishing and telecommunications executive and chairman of the Donner Canadian Foundation. He was formerly editor in chief of Maclean's magazine, editor of the monthly Saturday Night magazine, and founding editor of the National Post. He is currently the founder, editor, and publisher at The Sutherland House. Most recently he is the author of The Sack of Detroit: General Motors and the End of American Enterprise. Books by Kenneth Whythe: Hoover: An Extraordinary Life in Extraordinary Times The Uncrowned King: The Sensational Rise of William Randolph Hearst The Sack of Detroit: General Motors and the End of American Enterprise Books Recommended by Kenneth Whyte: All the Kings Men - Robert Penn Warren Memoirs - Kingsley Amis Napolean - Andrew Roberts Kiss Myself Goodbye - Ferdinand Mount Norman Jewison - Ira Wells About The Inquiring Mind Podcast: I created The Inquiring Mind Podcast in order to foster free speech, learn from some of the top experts in various fields, and create a platform for respectful conversations. Learn More: https://www.theinquiringmindpodcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theinquiringmindpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theinquiringmindpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/StanGGoldberg Subscribe to the Inquiring Mind Podcast: Spotify: http://spoti.fi/3tdRSOs Apple: http://apple.co/38xXZVJ Google Podcasts: http://bit.ly/3eBZfLl Youtube: https://bit.ly/3tiQieE

Craig Fehrman is the author of Author in Chief: The Untold Story of Our Presidents and the Books They Wrote and edited The Best Presidential Writing. He often writes for major publications such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and many others. His book Author in Chief is truly phenomenal and I highly recommend that you purchase it here. https://amzn.to/3bU6NHi Books Recommended by Craig Fehrman: 1. The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge - Calvin Coolidge 2. The Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant - Ulysses S. Grant 3. Reporting Always - Lillian Ross 4. No One Is Talking About This - Patricia Lockwood 5. The Metaphysical Club - Louis Menand About The Inquiring Mind Podcast: I created The Inquiring Mind Podcast in order to foster free speech, learn from some of the top experts in various fields, and create a platform for respectful conversations. Learn More: https://www.theinquiringmindpodcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theinquiringmindpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theinquiringmindpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/StanGGoldberg Subscribe to the Inquiring Mind Podcast: Spotify: http://spoti.fi/3tdRSOs Apple: http://apple.co/38xXZVJ Google Podcasts: http://bit.ly/3eBZfLl Youtube: https://bit.ly/3tiQieE

Edith Hall is Professor in the Classics Department at King's College London. Her specialism is ancient Greek literature, but she enjoys teaching Ancient Greek and Roman history, society, and thought. Edith has now published thirty books, broadcasts frequently on radio and television, works as a consultant with professional theatres, lectures all over the world, and publishes widely in academic and mainstream journals and newspapers. Her most recent book Aristotle's Way: How Ancient Wisdom Can Change Your Life which we discuss in this podcast. Books Recommended by Edith Hall: 1. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky 2. The Odyssey - Homer 3. Das Capital - Karl Marx 4. Middle March - George Eliot 5. Complete Works of Aristotle - Aristotle About The Inquiring Mind Podcast: I created The Inquiring Mind Podcast in order to foster free speech, learn from some of the top experts in various fields, and create a platform for respectful conversations. Learn More: https://www.theinquiringmindpodcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theinquiringmindpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theinquiringmindpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/StanGGoldberg Subscribe to the Inquiring Mind Podcast: Spotify: http://spoti.fi/3tdRSOs Apple: http://apple.co/38xXZVJ Google Podcasts: http://bit.ly/3eBZfLl Youtube: https://bit.ly/3tiQieE

Catherine Wilson is a Visting Professor of Philosophy at the CUNY Graduate Center. She is the author of the wonderful book How to be an Epicurean Catherine Wilson Recommended Books: 1. Daily Life of the Aztecs on the Eve of the Spanish Conquest - Jacques Soustelle 2. The Future of an Illusion - Sigmund Freud 3. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee - Dee Brown 4. Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro 5. On the Nature of Things - Titus Lucretius Carus About The Inquiring Mind Podcast: I created The Inquiring Mind Podcast in order to foster free speech, learn from some of the top experts in various fields, and create a platform for respectful conversations. Learn More: https://www.theinquiringmindpodcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theinquiringmindpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theinquiringmindpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/StanGGoldberg Subscribe to the Inquiring Mind Podcast: Spotify: http://spoti.fi/3tdRSOs Apple Podcasts: http://apple.co/38xXZVJ Google Podcasts: http://bit.ly/3eBZfLl Youtube: https://bit.ly/3tiQieE

Stephanie Muravchik is an Associate Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor at Claremont McKenna College. She is the co-author of the insightful book, Trump's Democrats which she wrote with her husband Jon Shields. Stephanie Muravchik Recommended Books: 1. Why We're Polarized - Ezra Klein 2. The Most Dangerous Branch - David A.Kaplan 3. Why Cities Lose - Jonathan A.Rodden 4. All the Kings Men - Robert Penn Warren 5. Hilbilly Elegy - J.D. Vance About The Inquiring Mind Podcast: I created The Inquiring Mind Podcast in order to foster free speech, learn from some of the top experts in various fields, and create a platform for respectful conversations. Learn More: https://www.theinquiringmindpodcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theinquiringmindpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theinquiringmindpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/StanGGoldberg

Warren Treadgold is the National Endowment for the Humanities Professor of Byzantine Studies and Professor of History at Saint Louis University. He holds a BA and Ph.D. from Harvard and has taught at UCLA, Stanford, UC Berkeley, Hillsdale College, and Florida International University. He is the author of ten books and numerous articles on Byzantium, late ancient history, and literature. His work appears in Commentary, The Weekly Standard, The Wilson Quarterly, and Academic Questions. Most recently he is the author of the wonderful book The Universities We Need which I highly recommend. You can purchase the book here Books Recommended by Warren Treadgold: 1. The Breakdown of Higher Education - John Ellis 2. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray 3. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy 4. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy About The Inquiring Mind Podcast: I created The Inquiring Mind Podcast in order to foster free speech, learn from some of the top experts in various fields, and create a platform for respectful conversations. Learn More: https://www.theinquiringmindpodcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theinquiringmindpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theinquiringmindpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/StanGGoldberg

Steven Stoll is a professor of History at Fordham University, where he teaches a variety of courses including Political Philosophy, Climate and Society, Capitalism, American West, and numerous others. He is interested in the way people discuss resources, capital, and economic functions on Earth. He is the author of numerous books, most recently he is the author of the insightful book Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia. During this episode, we discuss the history of Appalachia and what caused their current issues, capitalism vs socialism, what is progress, and the importance of history to understanding the world today. Books by Steven Stoll: Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia The Great Delusion: A Mad Inventor, Death in the Tropics, and the Utopian Origins of Economic Growth U.S. Environmentalism Since 1945, A Brief History With Documents Larding the Lean Earth: Soil and Society in Nineteenth-Century America Books Recommended by Steven Stoll: 1. All That Is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity - Marshall Berman 2. Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils - David Farrier 3. The Progress of This Storm: Nature and Society in a Warming World - Andreas Malm 4. Moby Dick - Herman Melville 5. A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway 6. Several Short Sentences About Writing - Verlyn Klinkenborg 7. The Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith 8. Capital - Karl Marx About The Inquiring Mind Podcast: I created The Inquiring Mind Podcast in order to foster free speech, learn from some of the top experts in various fields, and create a platform for respectful conversations. Learn More: https://www.theinquiringmindpodcast.com/​ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theinquiringmindpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theinquiringmindpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/StanGGoldberg

Massimo Pigliucci is the K.D. Irani Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at The City College of New York. He holds a Ph.D. in Evolutionary Biology from the University of Connecticut and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Tennessee. He commonly publishes work in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and numerous other publications. He is a Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry and a Contributing Editor to the Skeptical Inquirer. He has published over 180 technical papers on scientific and philosophic topics as well as written or edited 14 books. Some of his books include including the best-selling How to Be A Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life, as well as A Field Guide to a Happy Life, A Handbook for New Stoics, and Nonsense on Stilts. You can follow his work on his wonderful blog, Figs in Winter, joining his philosophy meet-up, called Philosophy Book Club, reading his books, or watching his TED Talk entitled Stoicism as a philosophy for an ordinary life. Books by Massimo Pigliucci: How to Be a Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life A Handbook for New Stoics: How to Thrive in a World Out of Your Control—52 Week-by-Week Lessons How to Live a Good Life: A Guide to Choosing Your Personal Philosophy A Field Guide to a Happy Life: 53 Brief Lessons for Living Nonsense on Stilts Answers for Aristotle: How Science and Philosophy Can Lead Us to A More Meaningful Life Books Recommended by Massimo Pigliucci: 1.Discourses and Selected Writings - Epictetus 2. The Demon-Haunted World - Carl Sagan 3. Why I Am Not a Christian - Bertrand Russell 4. Philip K.Dick Collected Works -Philip K.Dick 5. The Odyssey - Homer About the Inquiring Mind Podcast: I created The Inquiring Mind Podcast in order to foster free speech, learn from some of the top experts in various fields, and create a platform for respectful conversations. Learn More: https://www.theinquiringmindpodcast.com/​ Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-inquiring-mind-podcast/id1556213826 Spotify Podcasts: https://open.spotify.com/show/5PkxtA4Gl78yOy4HvD64Wj?si=5alt67VxQnSwQSzwJx7MUw Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCekWTqxDRcQmaou87NKvNZw Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theinquiringmindpodcast/

Charles Wheelan is a senior lecturer and policy fellow at the Rockefeller Center at Dartmouth College, where he has consistently been selected as one of Dartmouth's ten best professors. He teaches courses on health care, tax policy, education policy, income inequality, and a variety of similar subjects. Prior to teaching at Dartmouth, Wheelan was a senior lecturer in public policy at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago. He was also a journalist for The Economist until 2002. Mr.Wheelan is also the founder and co-chair of Unite America, an organization dedicated to bridging the partisan divide and electing a more representative and functional government, which he founded after his 2013 book The Centrist Manifesto. Learn more about Charles Wheelan by visiting his website, www.charleswheelan.com, reading his books, or listening to his TED talks entitled “Why You Should Love Government” and “An Insurgency of the Rational”. Books by Charles Wheelan: The Naked Series: Naked Economics, Naked Statistics, and Naked Money, The Rationing, We Came, We Saw, We Left, The Centrist Manifesto, and 10 ½ Things No Commencement Speaker Has Ever Said Books Recommended by Charles Wheelan: 1. The Righteous Mind - Jonathan Haidt 2. The Lyndon Johnson Series - Robert Caro 3. The Power Broker - Robert Caro 4. The Big Short - Michael Lewis 5. The Razor's Edge - W.Somerset Maugham 6. In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam - Robert McNamara and documentary called "The Fog of War" About The Inquiring Mind Podcast: I created The Inquiring Mind Podcast in order to foster free speech, learn from some of the top experts in various fields, and create a platform for respectful conversations. Learn More: https://www.theinquiringmindpodcast.com/

Richard Vedder is a Distinguished Professor of Economics at Ohio University. He spent a large part of his career on the economics of higher education. He served on the Spellings Commission on the Future of Higher Education under President George W.Bush, ran the Center for College Affordability and Productivity, and has administered the Forbes' Best Colleges rankings for years. Mr.Vedder also serves as an adjunct scholar at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a Senior fellow at the The Independent Institute, as well as an economist with Congress' Joint Economic Committee. He has testified in front of congress numerous times and actively discusses his ideas in public. Richard Vedder commonly writes for major publications including the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, USA Today, and the Christian Science Monitor. Mr.Vedder is also the author of 5 books, including "Essays in Nineteenth-Century Economic History", "Out of Work", "Going Broke by Degree", "The Wal-Mart Revolution", and most recently "Restoring the Promise." Books by Richard Vedder: "Essays in Nineteenth-Century Economic History" "Out of Work" "Going Broke by Degree" "The Wal-Mart Revolution" "Restoring the Promise" Books recommended by Richard Vedder: 1.Churchill: Walking With Destiny – Andrew Roberts 2.The Splendid and the Vile – Eric Larson 3. Margaret Thatcher: Herself Alone – Charles Moore About The Inquiring Mind Podcast: I created The Inquiring Mind Podcast in order to foster free speech, learn from some of the top experts in various fields, and create a platform for respectful conversations. Learn More: https://www.theinquiringmindpodcast.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theinquiringmindpodcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theinquiringmindpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/StanGGoldberg Subscribe to the Inquiring Mind Podcast: Spotify: http://spoti.fi/3tdRSOs Apple: http://apple.co/38xXZVJ Google Podcasts: http://bit.ly/3eBZfLl

Derek W.Black is a professor of law at the University of South Carolina Law School where he holds the Ernest F. Hollings Chair in Constitutional Law. He is an expert on education law and policy and civil rights. His work has been cited by the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and in several U.S. Supreme Court briefs. Mr.Black has taught at Howard University School of Law, where he founded and directed the Education Rights Center. He has also taught at the University of North Carolina School of Law (his alma mater) and the American University College of Law. He is a staunch supporter of public education and civil rights and was a member of the Obama-Biden Presidential Transition Team. Mr.Black is a sought-after speaker due to his knowledge of education law and policy and has a TED talk entitled "A well-informed citizenry: fact vs fiction in American media, then and now" in 2018. Most recently he is the author of the important and fascinating new book Schoolhouse Burning: Education and the Assault on American Democracy Books recommended by Derek W.Black: 1. Democracy in Chains – Nancy MacLean 2. If Beale Street Could Talk - James Baldwin 3. Another Country - James Baldwin 4. Collected Works of Cormac McCarthy - Cormac McCarthy 5. The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky About The Inquiring Mind Podcast: I created The Inquiring Mind Podcast in order to foster free speech, learn from some of the top experts in various fields, and create a platform for respectful conversations.

Dr. Azra Raza is the Chan Soon-Shiong Professor of Medicine and Director of the MDS Center at Columbia University. She is considered an authority on pre-leukemia and acute leukemia. Dr.Raza has published over 300 peer-reviewed manuscripts in famous journals ranging from Nature to the New England Journal of Medicine. She is the co-editor of the widely acclaimed website called 3quarksdaily, which I highly recommend. She is a recipient of numerous awards, including The Hope Award in Cancer Research. Dr.Raza is a member of the Founder Group, which is looking for a breakthrough in science alongside President Bill Clinton. She also met with the then-Vice President Joe Biden to discuss the Cancer Moonshot initiative. She also has a Ted Talk called “Why Curing Cancer is So Hard”. Most recently she is the author of the beautifully written book The First Cell: And the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last. Books recommended by Dr.Azra Raza: 1. Between the Kingdoms – Suleika Jaouad 2. History of the Atomic Bomb - Richard Rhodes 3. Don Quixote - Miguel de Cervantes 4. The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky 5. Moby Dick - Herman Melville 6. Beloved - Toni Morrison 7. Mrs. Dalloway - Virginia Woolf 8. Confessions - Jean-Jacques Rousseau 9. Confessions - Saint Augustine About The Inquiring Mind Podcast: I created The Inquiring Mind Podcast in order to foster free speech, learn from some of the top experts in various fields, and create a platform for respectful conversation.

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