Delving In with Stuart Kelter

Robert W. Derlet, MD is a Professor Emeritus at the medical school of the University of California, Davis, former Chief of Emergency Medicine at the Davis Medical Center, candidate for Congress in 2016, and author of the recent book,  Corporatizing American Health Care. Recorded 6/16/21.

Michele Nishiguchi, a professor of molecular and cell biology at the University of California, Merced, she runs the Nishiguchi Symbiosis Lab, specializing in the study of the association and interaction between the tiny Bobtail squid and a light emitting bacteria called Vibrio fischeri, which are relevant to the evolution of both beneficial and detrimental bacteria in humans. Before her recent mov...

Bruce Hoffman  and  Jacob Ware are the coauthors of the recently published,  God, Guns, and Sedition: Far-Right Terrorism in America . Dr. Hoffman is a professor at Georgetown University, professor emeritus of terrorism studies at the University of St Andrews, Fellow at the U.S. Military Academy’s Combating Terrorism Center, and a Fellow for Counterterrorism and Homeland Security at...

Coleman Hughes is a writer, podcaster, and musician, focusing on race, public policy, and applied ethics. At the age of 28, he is already becoming a well-known commentator and critic on issues related to race-based policies. He was a fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research and a fellow and contributing editor at their  City Journal.  He is also the host of the pod...

Ernest Scheyder is a senior correspondent for Reuters covering the green energy transition and the mining of the minerals required for its implementation. He previously covered the U.S. shale oil revolution, politics, and the environment. He is the author of the recently published book,  The War Below: Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power our Lives . Recorded 3/6/24.

Tanya Marie Luhrmann is an anthropologist of religion at Stanford University, whose work focuses on the edge of human experience: hearing voices, having visions, the world of the supernatural, and the world of psychosis, whether on the streets of Chicago with homeless and psychotic women, with people who hear voices in India, Ghana, and southern California, with evangelical Christians who seek to...

Ken Hammond is a professor of East Asian and global history at NMSU since 1994, who lived in Beijing from 1982 to 1987 prior to completing his PhD at Harvard in 1994. He subsequently joined the history faculty of NMSU, specializing in East Asian history, particularly 16th century China. From 2007 to 2015 he was co-director of the Confucius Institute at NMSU. Long interested in human rights and pro...

Richard ("Dick") Scobie was the Executive Director of the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee from 1972 to 1998. Under his direction, the UUSC defended human rights and promoted humane solutions to social problems worldwide, from war zones in Central America, Africa and Asia, to America’s broken systems of criminal justice and child welfare. His memoir,  To Advance Justice ,  publis...

Ben Alderson-Day is a professor of psychology at Durham University in the UK, researching the phenomena of voice-hearing and unusual sensory experiences. Specializing in atypical cognition and mental health, his work spans cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry, philosophy, and child development. He is the co-founder and co-chair of the Early Career Hallucinations Research group, a network comprising...

Aveek Bhattacharya was the Chief Economist and is now the Interim Director of the Social Market Foundation (SMF), a non-partisan think tank based in the U.K., which aims to promote evidence-based policy and cross-party co-operation in politics. Prior positions include Senior Policy Analyst at the Institute of Alcohol Studies, researching and advocating for policies to reduce alcohol-related harm....

Michael Yassa is a professor at the University of California at Irvine, where he is the director of the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory. His research focuses on how the brain learns and remembers information, and how learning and memory mechanisms are altered in aging and neuropsychiatric disease, especially dementia. Today's interview also explores the crucial role of memory in...

Neil Harvey is a professor and academic department head in the Government Department at New Mexico State University. His main areas of interest encompass politics in Mexico and Latin America, especially social movements in the struggle for democracy and new forms of political representation. He has carried out field research in Chiapas, Mexico, into their independent peasant movements, land confli...

Roger Berkowitz is a professor of Political Studies and Human Rights, as well as the founder and academic director of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and the Humanities, both at Bard College. He is the author of  The Gift of Science: Leibniz and the Modern Legal Tradition,  an account of how the rise of science led to the divorce of law and justice and the editor of  Reve...

Jennifer Michael Hecht  is a poet and historian, teacher and public speaker, the author of several intellectually provocative books, translated into many languages. Her bestseller,  Doubt: A History , explores religious and philosophical doubt throughout the world and over the centuries. Her book, entitled  Stay, focuses on the  history of suicide and a secular argument ag...

Jay Rothman has been a professor, practitioner, and author in the field of conflict resolution for the past 30 years. In the course of his career, Jay has worked with diplomats, business executives, opposing leaders of embattled communities, union leaders, university leadership, school boards and superintendents, community activists, and students around the world. He has lectured and taught around...

Hans-Dieter Sues is a senior research geologist at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, specializing in the study of dinosaurs and other vertebrates from the Paleozoic and Mesozoic eras. Dr. Sues has collected fossil vertebrates across the United States as well as in Canada, China, Germany, and Morocco. Today’s interview will focus on the history of evolutionary theory and some of...

Dov Waxman  is a political science professor and chair of Israel studies at UCLA, whose research focuses on the conflict over Israel-Palestine, Israeli politics and foreign policy, U.S.-Israel relations, American Jewry’s relationship with Israel, Jewish politics, and anti-Semitism. He is the author of dozens of scholarly articles and four books:  The Pursuit of Peace and The Crisis of Is...

Seth David Radwell is an internationally known business executive and thought leader in consumer marketing with a keen interest in democratic values and American public policy. Past leadership roles include President of eScholastic, the digital arm of the global children’s publishing and education conglomerate; President of Bookspan/ Bertelsmann, which includes Book of the Month Club, Doubleday Bo...

Pamela Pereyra is the founder and CEO of  Media Savvy Citizens  and the New Mexico Chapter Chair of  Media Literacy Now . She conducts media literacy trainings with teachers throughout New Mexico, facilitates workshops in digital literacy skill-building with families, and leads networking meetings for NM educators statewide and nationally. Her works involves multiple audie...

Faith Rogow is a media literacy leader, innovator, and author, who for twenty years has been one of the few people in the United States advocating for and creating media literacy education for young children. She is the founder of  Insighters Educational Consulting , the founding president of the National Association for Media Literacy Education or NAMLE, a founding editorial board member of...

Philip Powell is a senior research fellow at the University of Sheffield in London, who studies a universal emotion that has only recently become the object of empirical investigation --  disgust  -- exploring how it affects on decision-making, psychological functioning, and well being. He is a contributor to and co-editor, with Nathan Consedine, of the  Handbook of Disgust Res...

Katja Hoyer is a German British historian and journalist who was born in East Germany and moved to the UK as a young adult.. A visiting research fellow at King’s College London and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society, she is a columnist for the Washington Post and host of the podcast, The New Germany . Hoyer has published two books about the history of Germany. Her first book, ...

Kostas Kampourakis is author and editor of several books about evolution, genetics, philosophy, and the history of science, and the editor of the Cambridge University Press book series,  Understanding Life . He is a former Editor-in-Chief of the journal  Science and Education , as well as two other science education book series. He is currently a researcher at the University of Geneva, w...

Steven Sloman is a professor in the department of Cognitive, Linguistic & Psychological Sciences at Brown University, who studies how our habits of thought influence the way we see the world, how we make decisions, how we process conversations, and how we respond to conflict. His current research focuses on collective cognition, or how we think as a community, explored in his book co-authored...

Carl Safina is a world-renowned ecologist and conservationist, award-winning writer and professor, political activist and visionary. He has won numerous awards for his work, including the MacArthur Genus Prize and National Science Foundation Fellowships.  Audubon  magazine named Carl Safina among its “100 Notable Conservationists of the 20th Century” and  Utne Reader  list...