Today Leonard speaks to director Stephanie Welch and co-writer Andrew Kimbrell.
The documentary “A Dangerous Idea: Eugenics, Genetics and the American Dream” reveals how biologically determined politics has disenfranchised women and people of color, provided a rationale for state sanctioned crimes committed against America’s most vulnerable citizens, and now gains new traction under the Trump administration. Featuring interviews with social thinkers such as Van Jones and Robert Reich, as well as prominent scientists, “A Dangerous Idea” is a radical reassessment of the meaning, use and misuse of gene science.
Today Leonard speaks to director Stephanie Welch and co-writer Andrew Kimbrell.
Kathleen Hill and Steven Gaines join Leonard in-studio for a discussion about what makes a great memoir. Beginning with a “Best American” award-winning narrative,...
Join Leonard for a conversation with Carrie Gibson on “El Norte” and the too often overlooked history that inspired it, on today's edition of...
Today on Leonard Lopate At Large, author Ann Beattie joins Leonard for the second installment in Leonard’s Underread Book Club, the short stories of...