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What's a disagreement you can’t get out of your head? When We Disagree highlights the arguments that stuck with us, one story at a time.
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Signup to Generate a PitchWhat's a disagreement you can’t get out of your head? When We Disagree highlights the arguments that stuck with us, one story at a time.
When We Disagree is hosted by Michael Lee. The show has published 141 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Season 3 Finale: Can Civility Survive Modern Politics? Meet a Lawmaker Who Said Yes" (27 May 2026, 24 minutes), "You Are Not a Pawn: Reclaiming Attention in a Wired World" (27 May 2026, 20 minutes), and "Anatomy of a Digital Boycott: When the Crowd Demands Retribution" (20 May 2026, 27 minutes).
When We Disagree publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 25 minutes across 141 episodes.
Booking probability for When We Disagree is 35%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. When We Disagree requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. When We Disagree's contact route on record: verified email.
Michael Lee hosts When We Disagree, a society podcast with 141 episodes published.
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Episode #59
Former Minnesota State Representative Sandra Feist , who led the state's Civility Caucus and practices as an immigration attorney, shares two contrasting stories of political conflict. She details how an out-of-context...
Episode #58
Gloria Mark (attention expert, author of Attention Span and The Future of Attention Substack) challenges the reigning cultural narrative that tech giants have completely hijacked our brains. Debating those she calls...
Episode #57
Katherine Brodsky , host of the Forbidden Conversations podcast and author of No Apologies: How to Find and Free Your Voice in an Age of Outrage , was the target of a cancellation attempt. While managing an online...
Episode #56
Lauren Hall , author of The Medicalization of Birth and Death and T he Radical Moderate's Guide to Life Substack and the co-host of the We Made This Political podcast, breaks down why labeling half the country as...
Episode #55
Annie Rappeport , who brings 15 years of dialogue design and facilitation experience at various universities, explores the professional friction between immediate productivity and deep, collaborative engagement. She has...
Episode #54
Attorney, certified mediator, and conflict resolution educator Catherine Wilhoit discusses how to bring problem-solving tools to young learners as early as possible. She explores how the philosophy of the "trained...
Episode #53
Steven Olikara (founding CEO of Bridge Entertainment Labs , former U.S. Senate candidate in Wisconsin, and one of the stars of the documentary The Reunited States ) pulls back the curtain on what he calls the "division...
Episode #52
Frances Lee (professor of political science at Princeton , author of Insecure Majorities , co-author of In Covid's Wake ) challenges the common narrative that the United States Congress is a hopelessly dysfunctional...
Episode #51
Kent Lenci , an educator, founder of Middle Ground School Solutions, and author of Learning to Depolarize , dissects a depolarization story in three acts. What starts as a heated confrontation over a seemingly neutral...
Episode #50
Is civic education a fundamental duty of higher education or a dangerous political risk? Alex Kappus of Carnegie Higher Education Consulting and the Democratic Knowledge Project to discuss the growing institutional fear...
Episode #48
Jennifer Borda , professor of communication at the University of New Hampshire and the co-director of the Civil Discourse Lab , reflects on a family crisis that sparked a lasting insight into the nature of conflict. A...
Episode #49
Andrew Perrin , SNF-Agora professor of sociology at Johns Hopkins University , reflects on leading a high-stakes effort to redesign general education at the University of North Carolina, revealing how institutional...
Episode #47
Sarah Igo , the Andrew Jackson chair in American history at Vanderbilt University and the faculty director of Dialogue Vanderbilt , explores why some people rarely experience heated conflict and what that reveals about...
Episode #46
A firsthand witness to January 6 recounts a surreal argument at a casual gathering. Sherman Tylawsky , founder of the George Washington Institute and host of the Friends and Fellow Citizens podcast, reflects on the...
Episode #45
What happens when a heated professional conflict comes back years later with unexpected consequences? In this episode, Bill Imada , Chairman and Chief Connectivity Officer at IW Group , shares a high-stakes agency clash...
Episode #44
In this episode of When We Disagree , host Michael Lee sits down with advocate Radia Baxter , a community advocate and political advisor in South Carolina, explores a powerful tension: our desire for economic growth...
Episode #42
School choice sparks some of the most heated arguments in education, and Shaka Mitchell , senior fellow at the American Federation for Children and the founder of the Come Together Music Project , lives them firsthand...
Episode #43
Wilk Wilkinson , host of the Derate the Hate podcast and a leader with Braver Angels , about what it really takes to bridge deep divides. During the pandemic, Wilk worked at a job where he was forced to enforce a mask...
Episode #40
Steve Cody , veteran public relations and strategic communications strategist and founder of Peppercomm , shares the story of a dramatic “business divorce” with his longtime partner that nearly destroyed the company...
Episode #41
John Inazu , the Sally D. Danforth Distinguished Professor of Law and Religion at Washington University in St. Louis , reflects on a painful argument with his father and what it taught him about humility, boundaries...
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