The 2016 election day is coming up very soon, so we thought we’d give you all some things to think about as you head to the polls (or if you’re thinking about abstaining). Our producer Sandra Bertin shares some reporting she did on the ethics of voting. Listen in with our other producer Christiane Wisehart to hear the voices of experts and everyday people discussing their thoughts on how to vote. We managed to get through the entire episode without even mentioning who you should vote for!
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Links to people and ideas mentioned in the show
- Second presidential debate in St. Louis, Missouri
- Daniel McCarthy, editor of The American Conservative
- T.M. Scanlon, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity, Emeritus at Harvard University
- What We Owe Each Other (Harvard University Press, 1998)
- “What Happened in Ferguson?” (New York Times)
- Daniel Hopkins, Associate Professor of Political Science at University of Pennsylvania
- Political Polarization in American Politics (edited with John Sides) (Bloomsbury Academic, 2015)
- Derrick Darby
- Rights, Race, and Recognition (Cambridge University Press, 2009)
- Uncovering the Voting Rights Act: The Racial Progress Argument in Shelby County (SSRN, 2016)
- Jennifer L. Hochschild, H.L. Jayne Professor of Government, Professor of African and African American Studies, and Harvard College Professor at Harvard University
- Do Facts Matter? Information and Misinformation in American Politics (co-author Katherine Levine Einstein) (Oklahoma University Press, 2015)
- Tommie Shelby, Caldwell Titcomb Professor of African and African American Studies and of Philosophy at Harvard University
- Dark Ghettos: Injustice, Dissent, and Reform (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005)
- We Who Are Dark: The Philosophical Foundations of Black Solidarity (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2016)
- Frederick Douglass (American abolitionist, writer, orator and activist)
- William Lloyd Garrison (American journalist and abolitionist)
- Elizabeth S. Anderson, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor and John Dewey Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy and Women’s Studies at University of Michigan
- The Imperative of Integration (Princeton University Press, 2010)
Credits
Thanks to Evelyn Brosius for our logo. Music featured in the show:
“Badlands” by Cory Gray from the Free Music Archive. CC BY-NC 3.0
“Lahaina” by Blue Dot Sessions from the Free Music Archive. CC BY-NC 4.0
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