The Hinckley Institute Radio Hour (Air date: Jan. 22, 2014) – Sasha Issenberg is a journalist who covers politics, business, and culture, for the online magazines Slate and Monacle. In The Victory Lab, which came out just before the 2012 election, Issenberg chronicles the development of the behind-the-scenes strategies, social science theories, and statistical modeling…
The Hinckley Institute Radio Hour (Air date: Jan. 15, 2014) – Senator Mike Lee has served as Utah’s 16th senator since 2010. During his 2009 election, Senator Lee harnessed strong support from conservative Tea Party voters who helped him to successfully unseated 18-year incumbent Republican senator Bob Bennett. Since his election Sen. Lee has emerged…
The Hinckley Institute Radio Hour (Air date: Jan. 8, 2014) – John de Graaf is a filmmaker, activist, and co-author of Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic (2001) and What’s the Economy For, Anyway?: Why It’s Time to Stop Chasing Growth and Start Pursuing Happiness (2011). He also founded the organization Take Back Your Time, that examines…
The Hinckley Institute Radio Hour (Air date: Jan. 1, 2014) – Transgender people in Utah regularly face discrimination and challenges in meeting their basic needs, such as finding housing, getting a job, receiving health care, or having their gender identity respected. But for transgender people who are also people of color, day-to-day life can become…
The Hinckley Institute Radio Hour (Air date: Dec. 25, 2013) – Dee Benson, a U.S. Federal District Court judge for the District of Utah, served from 2004 to 2011 on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC). This is the same secret court that is now under scrutiny for having empowered the NSA to amass vast…
The Hinckley Institute Radio Hour (Air date: Dec. 18, 2013) – Saleh “Gadi” Johar is an author and human trafficking activist focused on the ordeal of human trafficking victims from Eritrea in the Sinai desert. According to Johar and a human rights report released in December 2013, The Human Trafficking Cycle: Sinai and Beyond, since…
The Hinckley Institute Radio Hour (Air date: Dec. 11, 2013) – Chris Burbank has served as chief of police for Salt Lake City since 2006. Before then he served with the police force for 15 years. Burbank has received national attention as a vocal opponent of any policies requiring police officers to act as immigration…
The Hinckley Institute Radio Hour (Air date: Dec. 4, 2013) – Allan Nairn is an investigative journalist, human rights activist, who has reported on various conflicts overseas, including in El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, and Indonesia. In 1991, Nairn witnessed an Indonesian government crackdown on East Timorese protesters during which he, along with Amy Goodman of…
The Hinckley Institute Radio Hour (Air date: Nov. 27, 2013) – The 50th anniversary of the assassination of President John F Kennedy on November 22, 1963, has received much attention. Yet, the events of Kennedy’s life, and his legacy continue to shape our lives even now. Several Utah scholars gathered for a commemoration for the…
The Hinckley Institute Radio Hour (Air date: Nov. 20, 2013) – Sam Daley Harris founded the organization ‘RESULTS’, an international citizens’ lobby effort that significantly influenced policy actions that helped to reduce global hunger and poverty in the 1980’s and 1990’s by promoting micro-lending, working with UNICEF, and increased child vaccinations. Now more recently, Harris’s…
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