Think from KERA

Think is a daily, topic-driven interview and call-in program hosted by Krys Boyd covering a wide variety of topics ranging from history, politics, current events, science, technology and emerging trends to food and wine, travel, adventure, and entertainment.

Think from KERA is a society podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 100 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Unknown Host hosts Think from KERA, a society show with 100 episodes published.

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  The man who taught Trump everything he knows

  Sep 14, 202644 min

  The legacy of the notorious lawyer Roy Cohn reverberates in politics today. Kai Bird is a Pulitzer-Prize winning biographer and journalist and executive director of the Leon Levy Center for Biography at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York City. He joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the life of the man who first prosecuted Julius and Ethel Rosenberg for espionage – which catapulted his career into the spotlight – his mentorship of a young Donald Trump and his eventual disbarment for unethical conduct. Bird’s book is “ American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn’s Dark Journey from Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump .” Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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  Is al-Qaeda functionally dead — or just dormant?

  Sep 11, 202647 min

  Twenty-five years after the world-altering terrorism of 9/11, is al-Qaeda still a threat? Graeme Wood is a staff writer at The Atlantic, and he joins host Krys Boyd to discuss whether the terrorist organization al-Qaeda has been lying low or regenerating power in the background, why analysts are split on the answer, and how disparate jihadist groups have been essentially allowed to “franchise” the name. His article is “ What Happened to al-Qaeda? ” Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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  Europe isn’t built for the heat

  Sep 10, 202646 min

  Paris used to be a cool 70 degrees in summer. Now it’s often 95 and climbing —with no A/C to help. Eric Klinenberg is Helen Gould Shepard Professor in the Social Sciences and director of the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University. He joins host Krys Boyd to discuss how Europe is warming at twice the rate of other continents due to global warming, what this means for people suffering – even dying – in these heat waves, and why air conditioning can’t be the ultimate answer. His article “ The End of the European Summer ” was published in The New Yorker. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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  Some dementia patients ‘come back’ at the very end

  Sep 9, 202646 min

  Days or even hours before death, some dementia patients become lucid again – and scientists want to know why. Journalist Billy Brennan joins host Krys Boyd to discuss “paradoxical lucidity,” where dementia patients seem to “wake up” and interact right before they decline again, what this “rally” means about our consciousness and brain activity before death, and why this happens more often than scientists realized. His article “ Why Do Some Dementia Patients ‘Return’ Just Before They Die? ” was published in The New York Times Magazine. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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  Do we still need post-9/11 surveillance?

  Sep 8, 202646 min

  After the Sept. 11 attacks, the Federal government enacted laws that aimed at both protecting Americans and keeping tabs on what we do. Now that 25 years have passed, is it time for us to revisit some of them? Abigail R. Hall is an Independent Institute Senior Fellow and professor of economics at the University of Tampa. She joins host Krys Boyd to make the case that some of these laws have outlived their intended purposes and violate our liberties. Her recent article for Reason magazine is “ 9/11 and the Surveillance Ratchet .” Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

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