The murder of George Floyd sparked what many referred to as a “racial reckoning” in this country. But to make progress in this conversation, my guests today argue it is helpful to look back at the roots of anti-Black racism and understand when — and why — the concept of race was invented in the first place.
In a new book titled “Who’s Black and Why?” renowned scholars Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Andrew Curran unearth a hidden chapter from the 18th Century invention of race.
The edited volume pulls together essays commissioned by the Bordeaux Royal Academy of Sciences in 1739. They trace European intellectual thinking about racial classification in the age of the trans-Atlantic slave trade – and the struggle to justify the treatment of enslaved Africans.
As the war in Ukraine grinds on, a look at the economic battlefield and how the conflict might permanently reshape the global economy. Diane talks to Sebastian Mallaby, senior fellow for international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations.
David Gergen was a White House adviser to four presidents, then founded the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard. In a new book he explains what it takes to become a leader and why fresh leadership is so necessary in this country today.
Title IX turns 50 in June. Diane talks to Elizabeth Sharrow, expert on the history and consequences of the landmark sex discrimination law, about how it transformed women's sports -- and how much there is left to be done to achieve equality on the playing field.
The New Yorker's Robin Wright on Russia's threatened use of nuclear weapons and what it says about the state of global security.
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