In this week's episode...
- In her book “Stolen Pride,” the Berkeley professor emerita Arlie Russell Hochschild uses reactions to a 2017 white supremacist march in Pikeville as a window into the political and sociological shifts that have transformed the country. “It occurred to me,” she writes, “that a close look at this vulnerable patch of red America — Kentucky’s Fifth Congressional District — might offer clues to red America as a whole, and indeed to the winds of white nationalism blowing around the world.”
- What is moral psychology and how can the discipline help us understand and overcome today’s political and ideological divides? Eastern Standard contributor Carolyn Dupont talks with University of North Carolina moral psychologist and professor, Kurt Gray, author of “Outraged: Why We Fight About Morality in Politics and How to Find Common Grounds.”
- Kentucky is among 11 states that do not require civics education in its public schools. The Kentucky Student Voice Team is out to change that. Our guests are Chase Colvin, research coordinator for the Kentucky Student Voice Team and a junior at DuPont Manual High School in Louisville, and Daniela DiGiacomo, associate professor of youth development and learning sciences at the University of Kentucky and KSVT’s adult research partner.
