In February 2025, the House of Hope opened the doors of ECHO Village, the first pallet shelter pilot community in Rhode Island. House of Hope is a non-profit corporation that originated in Rhode Island in 1989. They began in Warwick, with founders wh...
In this interview, Yifan Guo, a second-year graduate student studying and teaching mathematics at Brown University, shares her thoughts on California’s push to make their math curriculum more “equitable.” Recently, California ended a years-long...
Dr. Craig Spencer MD, MPH is an emergency medicine physician, epidemiologist and an Associate Professor of Health Services, Policy, and Practice at the Brown University School of Public Health. Dr. Spencer has over a decade of international field exp...
Garett Jones is an economist at George Mason University. His most recent book is 10% Less Democracy: Why You Should Trust the Elites a Little More and the Masses a Little Less. His last book was Hive Mind: How Your Nation’s IQ Matters So Much M...
Garett Jones is an economist at George Mason University. His most recent book is 10% Less Democracy: Why You Should Trust the Elites a Little More and the Masses a Little Less. His last book was Hive Mind: How Your Nation’s IQ Matters So Much M...
John P. Walters served as the Director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy under President George W. Bush. Ryan Frant: I would like to ask about one of your mentors, Allan Bloom. Apart from being an expert of the great texts, Bl...
John P. Walters served as the Director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy under President George W. Bush. Ryan Frant: I would like to ask about one of your mentors, Allan Bloom. Apart from being an expert of the great texts, Bl...
Dr. Azim Shariff is a social psychologist whose research focuses on where morality intersects with religion, cultural attitudes and economics. Shariff is one of the researchers behind the Moral Machine study, the largest ever study on machine ethics,...
Dr. Azim Shariff is a social psychologist whose research focuses on where morality intersects with religion, cultural attitudes and economics. Shariff is one of the researchers behind the Moral Machine study, the largest ever study on machine ethics,...
Elaine Sheldon is an American filmmaker who centers much of her work around the opioid crisis. Her documentary “Heroin(e)” was nominated for an Academy Award and won an Emmy. This award-winning documentary follows the lives of three women, ...
Elaine Sheldon is an American filmmaker who centers much of her work around the opioid crisis. Her documentary “Heroin(e)” was nominated for an Academy Award and won an Emmy. This award-winning documentary follows the lives of three women, ...
Jason Crawford is an entrepreneur and writer. He is a leader in the incipient field of Progress Studies. He blogs at The Roots of Progress, which is funded by a grant from Emergent Ventures. This post is the first in an ongoing series of interviews o...
Jason Crawford is an entrepreneur and writer. He is a leader in the incipient field of Progress Studies. He blogs at The Roots of Progress, which is funded by a grant from Emergent Ventures. This post is the first in an ongoing series of interviews o...
Ambassador Gerónimo Gutiérrez Fernández served as the Mexican Ambassador to the United States from 2017-2018. He is a believer in fostering a strong relationship between the United States and Mexico. He is currently working to develop infrastructu...
Ambassador Gerónimo Gutiérrez Fernández served as the Mexican Ambassador to the United States from 2017-2018. He is a believer in fostering a strong relationship between the United States and Mexico. He is currently working to develop infrastructu...
Patrisse Cullors is an artist-activist and co-founder of Black Lives Matter. She was named one of Fortune’s World’s Greatest Leaders, Glamour Woman of the Year, and honored as an NAACP History Maker. Cullors is an organizer of the For Freedoms Co...
Patrisse Cullors is an artist-activist and co-founder of Black Lives Matter. She was named one of Fortune’s World’s Greatest Leaders, Glamour Woman of the Year, and honored as an NAACP History Maker. Cullors is an organizer of the For Freedoms Co...
Yonas Mellesse, better known to fans around the world under mononym YONAS, is a leading independent hip-hop artist. Growing up in the South Bronx, he used classical music to cope with the death of his father and ensuing financial hardship. YONAS dedi...
Yonas Mellesse, better known to fans around the world under mononym YONAS, is a leading independent hip-hop artist. Growing up in the South Bronx, he used classical music to cope with the death of his father and ensuing financial hardship. YONAS dedi...
Bobby Henline is a standup comedian and retired military Staff Sergeant who served four tours in Iraq. More than ten years after enlisting to fight in Desert Storm at 17, he was moved to re-enlist immediately following the September 11th terrorist at...
Bobby Henline is a standup comedian and retired military Staff Sergeant who served four tours in Iraq. More than ten years after enlisting to fight in Desert Storm at 17, he was moved to re-enlist immediately following the September 11th terrorist at...
As part of the Harvard men’s swim team for all four years of college, Schuyler Bailar is the first transgender athlete to compete in any NCAA Division 1 sport. Currently, Schuyler is an inspirational speaker and advocate for transgender rights, bod...
As part of the Harvard men’s swim team for all four years of college, Schuyler Bailar is the first transgender athlete to compete in any NCAA Division 1 sport. Currently, Schuyler is an inspirational speaker and advocate for transgender rights, bod...
Alan Dershowitz is a constitutional and criminal attorney. He taught at Harvard Law School, entering as the youngest professor in its history at 25, becoming their youngest tenured professor at 28, and going emeritus after 50 years. Professor Dershow...
Alan Dershowitz is a constitutional and criminal attorney. He taught at Harvard Law School, entering as the youngest professor in its history at 25, becoming their youngest tenured professor at 28, and going emeritus after 50 years. Professor Dershow...
Ted Kooser is a native of the Midwest and served as the Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004 to 2006. He also won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2005. Ryan Frant: Much of your work focuses on brief, evocative im...
Ted Kooser is a native of the Midwest and served as the Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004 to 2006. He also won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2005. Ryan Frant: Much of your work focuses on brief, evocative im...