Berkeley Talks

241 Episodes

1. Heather Cox Richardson on the evolution of the Republican Party

   Published: 3/7/2025
2. UC Berkeley political scientist asks: Does democracy work?

   Published: 2/21/2025
3. How hospitals collect medical debts can hurt patients. Why?

   Published: 2/7/2025
4. Coming of age as an unaccompanied migrant youth in the U.S.

   Published: 1/24/2025
5. A blueprint for creating a world where everyone belongs

   Published: 1/10/2025
6. Poet Ocean Vuong on disobedience and the power of language

   Published: 12/27/2024
7. How do we make better decisions?

   Published: 12/13/2024
8. Veteran news editors on how the media covered the election

   Published: 11/29/2024
9. Computational folklorist on how storytelling becomes belief

   Published: 11/15/2024
10. The future of American democracy

    Published: 11/1/2024
11. A return to monarchy? Bradley Onishi on Project 2025

    Published: 10/18/2024
12. With white helmets and GoPros, these volunteers risk it all in Syria’s civil war

    Published: 10/4/2024
13. Legal scholars on free speech challenges facing universities today

    Published: 9/20/2024
14. What is understanding? Berkeley scholars discuss

    Published: 9/6/2024
15. It’s not just psychedelics that change minds, says Michael Pollan. Storytelling does, too.

    Published: 8/23/2024
16. The science behind the emotions in 'Inside Out 2'

    Published: 8/9/2024
17. Journalist Jemele Hill on the intersection of sports and race (revisiting)

    Published: 7/26/2024
18. How the Supreme Court divided America

    Published: 7/12/2024
19. Reconsidering Black America’s relationship to the plantation

    Published: 6/28/2024
20. Adam Gopnik on what it takes to keep liberal democracies alive

    Published: 6/14/2024