The WBUR Festival

Joshua D. Greene is the Alfred and Rebecca Lin Professor of Civil Discourse, Professor of Psychology, and a member of the Center for Brain Science faculty at Harvard University. He’s the co-creator of Tango, a cooperative quiz game that builds trust respect across lines of division, and the co-fo... Read More →

Anthony Brooks is WBUR's senior political reporter, who brings decades of experience as a broadcast producer, editor, reporter and host for WBUR and NPR.

Before becoming WBUR’s senior political reporter, Brooks was co-host of Radio Boston, WBUR’s local news and talk show. For many years, Brooks worked as a Boston-based reporter for NPR, covering regional issues across New England, including politics, the economy, education, criminal... Read More →

Colin Woodard is director of Nationhood Lab at Salve Regina University, where he studies U.S. regionalism and nationhood. The author of seven books including American Nations and Nations Apart: How Clashing Regional Cultures Shattered America, as a journalist he won a George Polk Award and was a... Read More →

Lilliana Mason is SNF Agora Institute Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University.

She is the author of Uncivil Agreement: How Politics Became Our Identity and co-author, with Nathan P. Kalmoe, of Radical American Partisanship: Mapping Violent Hostility, Its Causes... Read More →