Daryl Davis on Befriending the Klan

Damon Linker writes the Substack newsletter “Notes from the Middleground.” He is a senior lecturer in the Department of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania and a senior fellow in the Open Society Project at the Niskanen Center. In this week’s conversation, Yascha ...  Show more

Yascha Mounk and Ian Bassin also report on what they got right—and wrong—over the past decade. Ian Bassin is co-founder and Executive Director of Protect Democracy. He previously served as Associate White House Counsel. In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Ian Bassin dis ...  Show more

Daryl Davis (@realdaryldavis) is a musician, author, lecturer, host of the Changing Minds podc ...

Stephen Sackur speaks to Daryl Davis, a black musician who has spent four decades trying to talk to America’s most diehard racists, the Ku Klux Klan. He claims to have forged friendships with white supremacists and opened their minds, but is reaching out to the KKK a distraction ...  Show more

On this week’s episode of Stay Tuned, “Thinking 2.0,” Preet answers listener questions about possible sedition charges against the Capitol insurrectionists, and Trump lawyer Sidney Powell’s unusual motion to dismiss a defamation suit stemming from her false election fraud claims. ...  Show more

Why did a black defense attorney, who fought against segregation in high school and battled racism in the courtroom, volunteer to defend the First Amendment rights of an Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan?

David Baugh is a Richmond, Virginia-based attorney, who, while ...