Monologue
Episode 1 – Frans de Waal: Great Apes and the Gift of Empathy
Season 2, Episode 1 • Animation, Documentary, TV-G, 30-Jul-2020
Biologist Frans de Waal studies the complex emotional life of apes—including how chimpanzees resolve conflicts. Here, de Waal discusses his subjects’ true capacity for fairness, reciprocity, and empathy, and how human beings measure up.
Up Next in Monologue: Season 2
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Episode 2 – Ta-Nehisi Coates: Dreams ...
Ta-Nehisi Coates’s memoirs and essays on race, politics, and culture are now some of the most widely read in American letters. In an interview with Topic recorded in Manhattan, Coates reflects on how parenthood made him the writer he is today.
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Episode 3 – Kirsten Gillibrand: Guns,...
New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand wasn’t always a proponent of gun control. But now she admits she had it wrong. In an interview with Topic recorded in Washington, D.C., in May 2018, Gillibrand calls out the NRA for being motivated by greed.
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Episode 4 – Dolores Huerta: Surviving...
Famed labor organizer and activist Dolores Huerta discusses her decades of work fighting sexual harassment and discrimination.
