Brooke Gladstone

Host, On The Media

Brooke Gladstone appears in the following:

The Party Convention, Reimagined

Friday, August 28, 2020

The Republicans and Democrats took two very different approaches to their virtual party conventions.

The Long-Brewing Crisis in Higher Education

Friday, August 28, 2020

How financial realities have driven colleges and universities across the country to reopen despite the public health risk — and what might happen next.

With #SaveTheChildren Rallies, QAnon Sneaks Into The Offline World

Wednesday, August 26, 2020

This past weekend, more than 200 cities saw modest events organized by believers in the dangerous conspiracy theory. 

Is the Far Right Fringe the Future of the Republican Party?

Friday, August 21, 2020

QAnon candidates and a self-described "Islamophobe" are Republican nominees to congress this fall. Is this where the party is headed?

The 'Think Tank' Behind the Kamala Harris Birther Lie

Friday, August 21, 2020

All roads lead to the Claremont Institute.

Is the Press Better at Calling Out Birther Lies?

Friday, August 21, 2020

Learning from mistakes made during the Obama presidency.

Kim Stanley Robinson on Our Future Cities

Friday, August 14, 2020

How we're currently "living in a science fiction story we're writing together."

The Desert Reasserts Itself

Friday, August 14, 2020

In a novel by Claire Vaye Watkins, a growing sand dune is threatening the Southwest. What can we learn from it?

"Solastalgia," and Other Words for Our Changing World

Friday, August 14, 2020

The distress caused by environmental change needs its own term, and so do other new phenomena in the Anthropocene.

When Science Fiction Isn't Fiction

Friday, August 14, 2020

Author Jeff VanderMeer has been called the "weird Thoreau" for his nature-inspired science fiction. But what's sci-fi when the future of the planet is unpredictable?

How Close is the End?

Wednesday, August 12, 2020

Will our world become a ruin for archaeologists to dig up and explore?

A Plane Crash Unites A Country...Then Divides It In Two

Friday, August 07, 2020

Since 2014, a far-right nationalist party has been in power in Poland. How a conspiracy theory helped it get there.

Making Sense of 'Cancel Culture'

Wednesday, August 05, 2020

The YouTube star ContraPoints on her own cancellations.

The Supreme Court Justice With The Most To Say

Friday, July 31, 2020

Clarence Thomas has a comprehensive vision for America. We ignore it at our own peril. 

The Summer Camp That Inspired The Disability Rights Movement

Friday, July 24, 2020

Crip Camp, a new Netflix documentary, examines the origins of a human rights movement.

Monumental Questions

Friday, July 24, 2020

Should we even have monuments at all?

The Lincoln Project Is Sorry About All That

Thursday, July 23, 2020

Doctor Frankenstein, welcome to the resistance. 

40 Acres

Friday, July 10, 2020

Eviction, and the long history of racist housing discrimination in America. 

Who Is Lady Liberty, And What Does She Want?

Wednesday, July 08, 2020

The many faces, and political uses, of the statue.

"This Is Always Going To Be What Happened"

Friday, July 03, 2020

So, what happens when a nation commits itself to the task of confronting its history?