55 Voices for Democracy – The Podcast

By Thomas Mann House

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How can democracy be renewed and defended today? A collaboration of the Thomas Mann House, the Goethe Institute, Wunderbar Together, and the Los Angeles Review of Books.

Episode Date
Patty Jenkins on the Power of Storytelling
Sep 27, 2024
Clint Smith on Cultures of Remembrance in the U.S. & Germany
Dec 14, 2023
Marina Weisband on What Gets us Through the Crisis
Nov 30, 2023
Lynne Thompson on the Role of Poetry in Democracies
Oct 19, 2023
Bill Wiggins on African-American History & Historically Black Colleges and Universities
Mar 23, 2023
Teresa Bücker on Time as a Political Resource
Mar 02, 2023
Roberto Lovato on the Tenderness that Survives the Terror
Feb 16, 2023
Antonia Juhasz on the Impact of Fossil Fuels on Democracy
Jan 05, 2023
Raul Krauthausen on Inclusion and Accessibility
Dec 08, 2022
Sarah Jaffe on Working Conditions & Labor Movements
Nov 22, 2022
Geraldo Cadava on the 2022 Midterm Elections & 'the Latino Vote'
Nov 10, 2022
Boris Dralyuk on Poetry, Translation and Émigrés
Oct 20, 2022
LaTosha Brown on Fighting Voter Suppression
Oct 06, 2022
Doris Kleilein on Changing Definitions of Urban Architecture
Sep 22, 2022
Christoph Bieber on Hate Speech, Deep Fakes and Other Challenges of the Internet
Aug 25, 2022
Veronika Fuechtner on Thomas Mann's construction of "Germanness"
Aug 11, 2022
Ulrich J. Schneider on Libraries as Democratic Spaces
Jul 28, 2022
Rosecrans Baldwin on Los Angeles as a City-State
Jul 14, 2022
Christine Landfried on the Democratic Potential of Citizens' Assemblies
Jun 30, 2022
Matthew Continetti on Populism and Conservatism in the American Right
Jun 15, 2022
Diana Garvin on the Political Implications of Food
Jun 02, 2022
Craig Calhoun on Nationalism & Protest Movements
May 19, 2022
Ruben Neugebauer on Sea Rescue and the Crisis on the Mediterranean Sea
May 05, 2022
Lawrence Douglas on Fixing the Electoral System
Apr 21, 2022
Mohamed Amjahid on the Protection of Minorities
Mar 10, 2022
Aurora Almendral on the Political Situation in the Philippines
Feb 24, 2022
David Kipen on the Renewal of the Federal Writers' Project
Feb 10, 2022
Birte Meier on Equal Pay
Jan 27, 2022
Sonia Faleiro on Political Oppression in India
Jan 06, 2022
Daniel Ziblatt on Resilient Democracies | A Collaboration with the German American Conference at Harvard
Dec 16, 2021
Tobias Boes on Thomas Mann’s War
Dec 02, 2021
Anniversary Episode: One Year of "55 Voices for Democracy"
Nov 18, 2021
Emilia Roig on Intersectionality
Nov 04, 2021
Timothy Snyder on Resisting Authoritarianism
Oct 21, 2021
Samuel Moyn on the idea of humane wars
Oct 07, 2021
Stephanie Kelton on Democracy and the Deficit Myth
Sep 16, 2021
Susan Bernofsky on Translation and the Plurality of Language
Aug 19, 2021
Mithu Sanyal on 'Transracialism' and Identity
Jul 15, 2021
David Himbara on Threatening Developments in Rwanda
Jul 01, 2021
Colm Toíbín on Thomas Mann & Democracy
Jun 17, 2021
Joyce Marie Mushaben on Post-Merkel Germany
Jun 03, 2021
Max Czollek on Diversity and the New German Nationalist Culture
May 20, 2021
Andreas Reckwitz on the COVID-19 Pandemic and Its Effect on Late Modern Societies
May 06, 2021
Nora Krug on Notions of Belonging and Historical Memory
Apr 22, 2021
Keisha N. Blain on African American History and Selective Memory
Apr 08, 2021
55 Voices for Democracy – Trailer
Mar 29, 2021
Luisa Neubauer on Dreaming as a Tool for Change
Mar 25, 2021
Deborah Feldman on Religion, Integration and Political Participation
Mar 11, 2021
John S. Adams on Donations as Threats for Democracies (Special Episode)
Mar 04, 2021
Brad Smith on the Role of Digital Technology in the World of Politics
Feb 25, 2021
Igor Levit on Music and Politics
Jan 12, 2021
Chantal Mouffe on Conflict as a Political Good
Dec 22, 2020
Daniel Kehlmann on Politics, Power, and Populism
Dec 08, 2020
Wolfgang Ischinger on Trust, Truth, and Transparency
Nov 24, 2020
Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya and Franak Viačorka and the Crisis in Belarus
Nov 17, 2020
Dipayan Ghosh on Digital Democracy
Nov 10, 2020
Conny McCormack on Election Mechanics
Nov 02, 2020
David Shimer on the Vulnerability of the Electoral Process
Oct 27, 2020
Rebecca Solnit on Hope in Politically Dark Times
Oct 17, 2020