43. GREAT SOCIETY and AMERICAN CONSERVATISM with Amity Shlaes

46. PANDEMICS, VACCINES, & COVID-19 with Nicholas Christakis

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 [https://www.amazon.com/Connected-Surprising-Networks-Friends-Everything/dp/0316036137/ref=sr_1_2?qid=1640671044&refinements=p_27%3ANicholas+A.+Christakis+MD++PhD&s=books&sr=1-2&text=Nicholas+A.+Christakis+MD++PhD], Blueprint [https://www.amazon.com/Blueprint-Evolutionary-Origins-Good-Society/dp/0316230049/ref=sr_1_3?qid=1640671073&refinements=p_27%3ANicholas+A.+Christakis+MD++PhD&s=books&sr=1-3&text=Nicholas+A.+Christakis+MD++PhD], and Apollo's Arrow [https://www.amazon.com/Apollos-Arrow-Profound-Enduring-Coronavirus/dp/0316628204/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1640671020&sr=1-1].  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/ [https://www.theinquiringmindpodcast.com/] Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theinquiringmindpodcast/ [https://www.instagram.com/theinquiringmindpodcast/] Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theinquiringmindpodcast [https://www.facebook.com/theinquiringmindpodcast] Twitter: https://twitter.com/StanGGoldberg [https://twitter.com/StanGGoldberg%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8B]  [https://twitter.com/StanGGoldberg%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8B] TikTok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMdKj2GeG/ [https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMdKj2GeG/] Subscribe to the Inquiring Mind Podcast: Spotify: http://spoti.fi/3tdRSOs  [http://spoti.fi/3tdRSOs%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8B] Apple: https://apple.co/3lGlEdB [https://apple.co/3lGlEdB] Google Podcasts: http://bit.ly/3eBZfLl [http://bit.ly/3eBZfLl] Youtube: https://bit.ly/3tiQieE [https://bit.ly/3tiQieE]

45. The THREAT of CHINA with Amelia Pang

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/ [https://www.theinquiringmindpodcast.com/] Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theinquiringmindpodcast/ [https://www.instagram.com/theinquiringmindpodcast/] Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theinquiringmindpodcast [https://www.facebook.com/theinquiringmindpodcast] Twitter: https://twitter.com/StanGGoldberg [https://twitter.com/StanGGoldberg%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8B]  [https://twitter.com/StanGGoldberg%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8B] TikTok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMdKj2GeG/ [https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMdKj2GeG/] Subscribe to the Inquiring Mind Podcast: Spotify: http://spoti.fi/3tdRSOs  [http://spoti.fi/3tdRSOs%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8B] Apple: https://apple.co/3lGlEdB [https://apple.co/3lGlEdB] Google Podcasts: http://bit.ly/3eBZfLl [http://bit.ly/3eBZfLl] Youtube: https://bit.ly/3tiQieE [https://bit.ly/3tiQieE]

44. IMPACT of the COLD WAR on the WORLD with Louis Menand

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/ [https://www.theinquiringmindpodcast.com/] Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theinquiringmindpodcast/ [https://www.instagram.com/theinquiringmindpodcast/] Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theinquiringmindpodcast [https://www.facebook.com/theinquiringmindpodcast] Twitter: https://twitter.com/StanGGoldberg [https://twitter.com/StanGGoldberg%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8B]  [https://twitter.com/StanGGoldberg%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8B] TikTok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMdKj2GeG/ [https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMdKj2GeG/] Subscribe to the Inquiring Mind Podcast: Spotify: http://spoti.fi/3tdRSOs  [http://spoti.fi/3tdRSOs%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8B] Apple: https://apple.co/3lGlEdB [https://apple.co/3lGlEdB] Google Podcasts: http://bit.ly/3eBZfLl [http://bit.ly/3eBZfLl] Youtube: https://bit.ly/3tiQieE [https://bit.ly/3tiQieE]

43. GREAT SOCIETY and AMERICAN CONSERVATISM with Amity Shlaes

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/ [https://www.theinquiringmindpodcast.com/] Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theinquiringmindpodcast/ [https://www.instagram.com/theinquiringmindpodcast/] Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theinquiringmindpodcast [https://www.facebook.com/theinquiringmindpodcast] Twitter: https://twitter.com/StanGGoldberg [https://twitter.com/StanGGoldberg%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8B]  [https://twitter.com/StanGGoldberg%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8B] TikTok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMdKj2GeG/ [https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMdKj2GeG/] Subscribe to the Inquiring Mind Podcast: Spotify: http://spoti.fi/3tdRSOs  [http://spoti.fi/3tdRSOs%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8B] Apple: https://apple.co/3lGlEdB [https://apple.co/3lGlEdB] Google Podcasts: http://bit.ly/3eBZfLl [http://bit.ly/3eBZfLl] Youtube: https://bit.ly/3tiQieE [https://bit.ly/3tiQieE]

42. GENERATION MYTH with Bobby Duffy

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/ [https://www.theinquiringmindpodcast.com/] Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theinquiringmindpodcast/ [https://www.instagram.com/theinquiringmindpodcast/] Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theinquiringmindpodcast [https://www.facebook.com/theinquiringmindpodcast] Twitter: https://twitter.com/StanGGoldberg [https://twitter.com/StanGGoldberg%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8B]  [https://twitter.com/StanGGoldberg%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8B] TikTok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMdKj2GeG/ [https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMdKj2GeG/] Subscribe to the Inquiring Mind Podcast: Spotify: http://spoti.fi/3tdRSOs  [http://spoti.fi/3tdRSOs%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8B] Apple: https://apple.co/3lGlEdB [https://apple.co/3lGlEdB] Google Podcasts: http://bit.ly/3eBZfLl [http://bit.ly/3eBZfLl] Youtube: https://bit.ly/3tiQieE [https://bit.ly/3tiQieE]