JAMES FISHKIN

March 20, 2025/ Interviewed by Mia Funk & Virginia Moscetti

Director of the Deliberative Democracy Lab
Author of Can Deliberation Cure the Ills of Democracy?

Deliberative democracy is itself, when properly done, a kind of democracy that can speak to the interests of a community. And we need that all over the world. The three ills of democracy that I propose to address with this method, which we've perfected over the last several decades. Democracy is supposed to make some connection with the "will of the people." But how can we estimate the will of the people when everyone is trying to manipulate it?

February 14, 2025

The Creative Process

February 14, 2025/ Interviewed by Mia Funk

JULIE ANDREWS · PAUL SCHRADER · JOHN PATRICK SHANLEY · ETGAR KERET · JOY GORMAN WETTELS · CHAYSE IRVIN · MANUEL BILLETER
Share their Stories

January 07, 2025

Female Desire · Sex & Intimacy

January 07, 2025/ Interviewed by Mia Funk & Donna Sanders

Emmy-nominated Producer, Writer, Playwright LAURA EASON on THREE WOMEN

I think the show conveys to the women watching that their lives matter. They don't have to be some gorgeous aspirational person, although Sloane absolutely fits that mold. But for others living in the Midwest, struggling and feeling unseen, hopefully, the mirrors of Lina and Maggie will help them not feel so alone and remind them that their stories are important and matter.

January 01, 2020

JENNY BHATT

January 01, 2020/ Interviewed by Mia Funk & Diya Basu

Writer, Literary Translator, Book Critic & Host of Desi Books Podcast

People talk about the work life, the line between your work and your life and keeping them separate and keeping the balance. For me, it’s always been that my work defines who I am and who I am in my personal life also defines who I am at my workplace. I don’t know how you separate those identities because I take all my belief systems and who I am to my workplace.