Video: How One Polygamous Family Changed the Law
The Darger family, a husband and three wives with twenty-five children, fought to decriminalize polygamy in Utah—and won.
Jan 2021
The Darger family, a husband and three wives with twenty-five children, fought to decriminalize polygamy in Utah—and won.
Dec 2020
Andrew Solomon discusses the need to acknowledge the humanity we share with all human beings; humans’ relations to pets and objects; and the potentially positive outcomes of lockdowns.
Oct 2020
Andrew Solomon joins Perri Klass to discuss her new book, A Good Time to Be Born: How Science and Public Health Gave Children a Future.
Oct 2020
Author Andrew Solomon and school counselor Amanda Jo Bustamante discuss the psychological effects — fear, anxiety and social isolation — of the COVID-19 pandemic on children.
Oct 2020
Andrew Solomon joins author Danielle Spender for a discussion of her new book, Metagnosis: Revelatory Narratives of Health and Identity.
Sep 2020
Andrew Solomon joins Derrick Hull, Talkspace’s VP of Clinical Research and Development, for a discussion of scientific research on depression and how it fits into the broader systemic way in which we approach mental illness.
Sep 2020
Andrew Solomon discusses the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health.
Jul 2020
Andrew Solomon joins NPR journalist Scott Simon for a wide-ranging, informal conversation.
Jul 2020
Andrew Solomon and Alex Halberstadt discuss whether creative genius is partly a function of timing, its uneasy relationship to race and gender, and Solomon’s contention that “genius reflects the ability to add something of value to human consciousness.”
Jun 2020
Andrew Solomon and Beyond Well host Sheila Hamilton discuss the COVID-19-induced epidemic of depression, anxiety, loneliness, job insecurity, and fears for the future.