Marcus Smith interviews a historian, Ronit Stahl, about the U.S. military chaplaincy and its role in shaping the relationship between religion and state. 

Using the Grand Canyon as a case study, Marcus Smith talks with a journalist about the competing interests of public and private lands, as well as the effects climate change could have on our treasured national parks.

This episode is an encore of an interview conducted in 2010 with Zina Petersen about the work of author Ursula K. Le Guin, who died on January 22, 2018.

Brown University's Amanda Anderson joins BYU Humanities Center director Matthew Wickman in a discussion about her latest book, "Bleak Liberalism."

Many of the cheap products we buy and use come from over-worked, underpaid and under-regulated employees and workplaces. There are however good people are working to change things, to remedy wrongs, promoting more humane economies and more ethical industry.

One such group of people can be found at the Alta Gracia factory.

We’re joined by John Kline and Sarah Adler Milstein to talk about this exemplary factory at the heart of their recent book. The title is “Sewing Hope: How One Factory Challenges the Apparel Industry’s Sweatshops.”

We’re joined by Joshua Davis, author of a fascinating account of the scrappy, entrepreneurial, and socially engaged American spirit. He trains his lens on a specific era of political engagement, in a history titled “From Head Shops to Whole Foods: The Rise and Fall of Activist Entrepreneurs.” Few of these thousands of small businesses survive today, but their style of conducting business left a mark on society that we haven’t quite forgotten.

Clayborne Carson, a leading scholar of Martin Luther King, Jr., joins the show to discuss the American icon and his global legacy.

Jane Austen expert Devoney Looser joins Marcus Smith to discuss the creation and phenomenon of the Jane Austen "brand."

Historian Robert Dallek joins us to talk about his new biography, "Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life," and discuss FDR's legacy as a uniter and deal maker.

Anthropologist James Suzman joins the show to talk about his experiences living among the Ju'/hoansi people of the Kalahari Desert and what we can learn from their hunter-gatherer economy.