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David Sehat explains the ascendancy of Donald Trump as a symptom and an extension of Republican intellectual failure.

David Sehat talks to Marni Davis, associate professor of history at Georgia State University, about American Zionism, its critics, and her own tortured feelings toward Israel as an American Jew.

David Sehat talks to Joshua Weitz, professor of biology at Georgia Tech, about the attack on science, the values of science, and why he is marching.

David Sehat talks to Jeff Young, Senior Lecturer in History and guru in digital instruction at Georgia State University, about the digital revolution in higher education and the media, economic, and political challenges to traditional teaching.

David Sehat talks to Ryan Rowberry, Associate Professor of Law at Georgia State University and a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, about Mormons' tortured relationship to Donald Trump and their idea of constitutional faithfulness.

David Sehat talks to H. Robert Baker, Associate Professor of History at Georgia State University, about constitutional originalism as a mode of legal interpretation and as rhetoric to justify sweeping legal change.

David Sehat talks to Jake Selwood, Associate Professor of History at Georgia State University, about whether the stories of decline that explain contemporary politics have any legitimacy in this political moment or, in fact, in any political moment.

David Sehat talks to Mike O'Connor, author of A Commercial Republic: America's Enduring Debate over Democratic Capitalism, about the place of racial and gender concerns within contemporary liberalism and about whether those concerns have led the Democratic Party into electoral exile.

David Sehat talks to Greg Mohler, Chief Scientist of the Quantum Systems Division at the Georgia Tech Research Institute, about big data and whether computers have supplanted the soul.

David Sehat talks to Joy Rohde, Assistant Professor of Public Policy and History at the University of Michigan, about the use of big data in military strategy and foreign policy and about the potential loss of individual agency, moral integrity, and justice in a big data regime.