Think is a national call-in radio program, hosted by acclaimed journalist Krys Boyd and produced by KERA in Dallas. Each week, listeners across the country tune in to the program to hear thought-provoking, in-depth conversations with newsmakers from across the globe. Since launching in 2006, Think and Krys Boyd have earned more than a dozen local, regional and national awards, including the 2013 Regional Edward R. Murrow award for breaking news coverage.
During each episode of Think, listeners tweet, call or email with questions and comments for the show’s guest. Think can be heard on more than 75 stations, yielding a diverse pool of questions and comments from curious minds across the country. Previous guests on the program include former Secretaries of State Madeleine Albright and John Kerry, actor Bryan Cranston, Sen. John Cornyn and Sen. Ted Cruz, Melinda Gates, author Malcolm Gladwell, Jane Goodall, Rev. Jesse Jackson and more.
In addition to the radio program, Think also is among the most-downloaded local podcasts in the public radio system, receiving over 250,000 downloads each month.
Find a list of the latest episodes of Think below. Read more about Think here.
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NYU School of Law Professor Kenji Yoshino discusses how the language of DEI backfired and how to build a “multicultural meritocracy.”
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McKay Coppins, staff writer at The Atlantic, discusses how his magazine gave him $10,000 to use as seed money as he explored the rise of online sports gambling.
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Opinion columnist Megan McArdle discusses why she thinks the idea of a billionaire wealth tax is a short-sided idea.
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Plenty of crime dramas and horror films feature a psychopath on a rampage. That diagnosis, however, might be the real fiction. Rasmus Rosenberg Larsenis is assistant professor of forensic epistemology and philosophy of science at the University of Toronto Mississauga in Canada and an affiliated scientist at the National Center for Ontological Research in the U.S. He is also the author of “Psychopathy Unmasked: The Rise and Fall of a Dangerous Diagnosis.” He joins host Krys Boyd to discuss why psychopathy isn’t real, how that diagnosis came about, and why even serial killers don’t have all the traits we assume they do. His companion piece to his book, “There are no psychopaths,” was published in Aeon. Is psychopathy a scam? Emily Putnam, Think Intern Before there was psychopathy, there was “anomia,” a condition proposed in 1786 by Benjamin Rush, who was incidentally a co-signer of the Declaration of Independence. Early descriptions of psychopathy were predicated on the idea of a moral center in the brain – an extreme version of the structure-function framework used in neurological research today. “Scientists believed that our mind was divided into different faculties, each responsible for certain types of behaviors,” said epistemology researcher Rasmus Rosenberg
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Researcher Kyle Manley makes the case for leaving public lands as-is and how we can put a dollar value on ecological impact.
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Historian Helen Zoe Veit discusses her new book, Picky: How American Children Became the Fussiest Eaters in History.