Lene Rachel Andersen: Can Teaching History Prevent Authoritarianism?

As Donald Trump returns to the White House, many American citizens are willing to tear everything down. Where did these destructive inclinations come ...

In this short episode of How My View Grew, I offer an alternative to the false choice between despair and hope. After the recent U.S presidential elec...

When new political leaders promote disruptive and even violent change, then people accustomed to pressing the gas pedal on change may choose instead t...

The human brain craves certainty. It convinces us we know how next week's U.S. presidential election will turn out. We don't. Things are uncertain. Ye...

In the upcoming U.S. presidential election, democracy, many say, is on the ballot. But is democracy versus autocracy the best description of the stake...

In this five-minute episode of How My View Grew, I offer five perspectives about being a man today:It's confusingMen and women are differentThere is n...

Why might a liberal Democrat with progressive values hold a conservative disposition? Could it make sense to both advocate for positive change and hon...

In this final episode of season one, a short one, I describe how my view of history shifted after reading the memoir of Stefan Zweig, a popular early ...

In a Soviet-era bunker in an undisclosed location in Ukraine, a Ukrainian soldier reads books by the late historian Tony Judt and wonders: Is it possi...

This short episode is about asking clarifying questions, which involve far more than building rapport and trust. Clarifying questions provide powerful...

Do most Palestinians want their own state in the West Bank and Gaza, one that co-exists with the state of Israel? Is the conflict between Israel and P...

In this week's episode, I describe how to have difficult conversations about charged topics. It's a game called My Assessment, Your Assessment. I walk...