Experts in the News | Miller Center

Banning literature in prisons perpetuates system that ignores inmate humanity

In 2010, Alabama prison officials labeled as a security threat Slavery By Another Name, Douglas Blackmon’s Pulitzer Prize winning account of the systemic re-enslavement of blacks following the Civil War through incarceration and debt.

Douglas Blackmon

Are You Out of Your Mind?!

Paul Orzulak (D) and Mary Kate Cary (R) put their civil discourse to the test by discussing this week’s news — steel tariffs, Kushner’s status, and Nunberg’s media tour — all with a mindfulness expert listening in. Laurie Cameron, a communications and leadership development expert — and soon-to-be bestselling author — dissects our conversation and gives advice for having open, curious and mindful conversations when people really, really disagree with you.

Mary Kate Cary

Ex-Deputy Labor Sec. Lu Says Wage Growth is Still Lagging

Former U.S. Deputy Labor Secretary Christopher Lu discusses today's jobs report. He speaks with Bloomberg's Shery Ahn on "Bloomberg Markets: Balance of Power."

Chris Lu

February Jobs Report, Blockchain Hype

GUESTS: Chris Lu, former deputy secretary of labor, discussing the February jobs report and employment trends.

Chris Lu

The Threats from Russia and North Korea | Todd Sechser

Todd Sechser, Associate Professor in the Woodrow Wilson Department of Politics and Senior Fellow at the Miller Center at University of Virginia, specializing in questions of international security, and co-author of Nuclear Weapons and Coercive Diplomacy discusses with Les Sinclair the recent developments from Russia and North Korea.

Todd Sechser

‘I Need Loyalty’

“Most presidents, when they come into office, have a much more nuanced and complicated notion of loyalty than this idea of protecting the president and simply saluting and saying, ‘Yes, sir,’ and, ‘No, sir.’ And some of it may very well be rooted in the excesses of Nixon, because that highlighted the consequences of that sort of value-free embrace of loyalty,” Russell Riley, a presidential historian at the Miller Center at the University of Virginia, told me.

Russell Riley