The Purple Principle
Nonpartisan podcast for independent-minded Americans exploring the perils of partisanship in U.S. politics, society and daily life.
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Passing of the Mic: New Co-Host Jillian Youngbl...
New Co-Host Jillian Youngblood Gets a Bit of Purple Orientation
7 min
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Hollywood Presidents for a Partisan Nation (Par...
Hail the Independent & Designated Survivor
21 min
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Hollywood Presidents for a Partisan Nation (Par...
Hail the Independent Commander in Chief
34 min
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Nicest Troll in Town: On and Offline identity, ...
On and Offline identity, Extremism, and Polarization
27 min
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Embrace Complexity To Overcome Polarization? Di...
Discussing a Way Out with Dr. Peter Coleman of The Difficult Conversations Lab
29 min
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Online Conspiracies & Virtual Cults, Part 2: Ce...
Celebrity Makes the World Go Flat
27 min
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Online Conspiracies & Virtual Cults: Social Ext...
Social Extremes in Our Hyperpartisan Age
35 min
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Vaccines Prevent Viruses; What Combats COVID Va...
An Interview with Dr. Jeanine Guidry, Director of VCU’s Health & Media Lab
31 min
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The Politics Industry at Work: And How Would Yo...
And How Would You Like Your Gridlock?
38 min
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The Senate Filibuster: Weapon of Obstruction or...
Weapon of Obstruction or Shield Against Polarization?
37 min
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What’s Behind Those Red and Blue Maps? The Soci...
The Social Geography of U.S. Polarization
32 min
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When Martians Land, Pigs Fly, and Americans Rea...
Civic Genius & Citizen Panel Forums
28 min
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Portrait of the Arsonist As Young Congressman: ...
Historian Julian Zelizer (Burning Down the House) on the inflammatory influence of Newt Gingrich
34 min
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We're Polarized; Now What? The Hard Work of Dep...
Season One Finale (Part Two of Two)
29 min
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Polarization as Plague: Season One Finale (Part...
Season One Finale (Part One)
21 min
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2020 Polling in Hindsight: Someone Please Answe...
Someone Please Answer the Phone
35 min
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Polarization at the Tipping Point: The Long Ter...
The Long Term and Wide-Angled Views
26 min
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Repodcast of Declaration of Independents, Alask...
Ballot Measure Two Takes on Polarization
28 min
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Civil Society and Campus Politics: Two Collegia...
Two Collegians Take on Polarization
19 min
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Party Dynamics and the 2020 Election in Context...
A Discussion with Historian Geoffrey Kabaservice (Niskanen Center)
39 min
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Democracy & Elections Under Stress: A Discussio...
A Discussion with Trevor Potter of the Campaign Legal Center
41 min
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The Second Coming Turns 100 (Part II): A Discus...
A Discussion of W.B. Yeats’ Classic Poem of Polarization with Briona Nic Dhiarmada, documentary filmmaker & Concurrent Professor of Film & Irish Studies (University of Notre Dame)
27 min
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The Second Coming Turns 100 (Part I): A Discuss...
A Discussion of W.B. Yeats’ Classic Poem of Polarization with Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, Paul Muldoon (Princeton University)
22 min
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Declaration of Independents, Alaska Style: Ball...
Ballot Question Two Takes on Political Partisanship
25 min
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Non-Partisan David vs. the D.C. Disenfranchisem...
18 min