Zócalo Public Square

Zócalo Public Square

Zócalo Public Square

Episodes 500
Avg. Duration 1h
Activity Declining
Apple Rating 4.8 (4)
Since Jan 2001
Latest Episode Mar 2026

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Every 2 Weeks
Consistency
43%
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About This Podcast

Zócalo Public Square’s podcast connects people to ideas and to each other through an innovative blend of ideas journalism and live events. Listen to conversations on topics ranging from politics and science to art and pop culture.

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Recent Episodes

How Do We Dance With Legacy?

Mar 12, 2026 56m

Amid great technological, political, and cultural shifts, who choreographs the great dance of America? Which tales have we inherited, which will we pass down, and what will future generations do with…

How Do Museums Resist Censorship?

Feb 24, 2026 1h 1m

Museums tell America’s story. Exhibit by exhibit, they acquire, study, preserve, and interpret art and artifacts for the public, offering proof to bolster thoughtful interpretations of our national…

How Will AI Reshape Our Elections?

Feb 13, 2026 57m

With the national midterm elections alongside high-profile contests such as the Los Angeles mayoral and California gubernatorial races, voters, election officials, and policymakers alike are being…

Where Does Deportation Come From?

Jan 08, 2026 1h 7m

Deportation has impacted communities across California and the country, and has become the face of U.S. immigration policy today. At the culmination of a year marked by violent ICE raids, it’s…

Is Hip-Hop America's Biggest Success Story?

Oct 22, 2025 1h 3m

Is hip-hop the driving force behind Black business and economic mobility? What can we glean from its innovative strategies and enterprising spirit? And how do the creative economies hip-hop has…

What Is the Language of Taste?

Oct 10, 2025 55m

A panel featuring Stanford IAJS faculty co-director Brian Lowery, James Beard Award-winning cookbook author and Jewish cuisine expert Joan Nathan, community organizer and immigration activist Power…

Will California's Future Be Exceptional?

Sep 25, 2025 1h 26m

Zócalo Public Square presents two back-to-back panels moderated by Zócalo’s California columnist Joe Mathews to ask: How exceptional do we want California to be? The first panel features expert…

Can Music Change Minds?

Sep 15, 2025 1h 2m

It used to be that Spanish-language artists had to perform in English to succeed in the U.S. Today, they can sing in their native tongue and top the charts. But with increased visibility, does…

How Is Migration Woven Into America?

Aug 18, 2025 1h 22m

This program is inspired by "So, I told her I was half-Indian" (2025) by Chicanx and Punjabi American weaver Kira Dominguez Hultgren. The piece, multiple looms woven together as a suspended…

Can Hip-Hop Be the Soundtrack for Change?

Jul 22, 2025 29m

Medusa, the “Godmother of West Coast Hip-Hop,” and reparations advocate and business manager to the stars Khansa T. Jones-Muhammad aka Friday Jones, discuss the role of women in hip-hop. Hip-hop…

2025 Zócalo Book Prize: Can We Reimagine How We Feed Ourselves?

May 30, 2025 1h 1m

Jean-Martin Bauer is the author of “The New Breadline: Hunger and Hope in the Twenty-First Century” and the winner of the 2025 Zócalo Public Square Book Prize. He’ll visit Zócalo to explore the role…

How Do We See Ourselves In Each Other?

May 09, 2025 1h 29m

This program is inspired by "Coatlicue & Las Meninas: The Stanford Edition" (2007/2025) by Mexican American artist Pedro Lasch, commissioned by IAJS and on view at Asheville Art Museum from April…

2023 Zócalo Book Prize: How Does a Community Save Itself? With Michelle Wilde Anderson

Apr 28, 2025 1h 4m

America’s high-poverty cities and counties have suffered for decades, enduring skyrocketing inequality, the opioid epidemic, rising housing costs, and widespread disinvestment. Governments have…

What Alliances Do We Need In Perilous Times?

Mar 14, 2025 1h 42m

Live from the Arizona State University California Center Broadway in Los Angeles, CA: As coalitions, partnerships, and allegiances shift and emerge, Zócalo and an alliance of partners convene two…

How Can Our World Rethink Climate Mobility?

Feb 07, 2025 57m

Live from the Natural History Museum Commons Theater in Los Angeles, CA: Artist Tanya Aguiñiga, paleobotanist and curator Regan Dunn, climate mobility scholar Liliana Gamboa, and New Nomad Institute…

Is Sport the Final Frontier for Queer Acceptance?

Jan 27, 2025 39m

Actors and athletes alike dress up and stage plays to entertain large audiences. Why is queerness so readily exhibited and accepted in the theater and still so taboo on the field? Can history show us…

What Is A Good Job Now? In Child Care

Dec 03, 2024 1h

Live from the San Bernardino County Museum in Redlands, CA: Child Care Law Center executive director Maisha Cole, child care worker and administrator Juanita Gutierrez, National Domestic Workers…

Will The Real Young Voters Please Stand Up?

Oct 23, 2024 55m

Live from the Arizona State University California Center Broadway in Los Angeles, CA: A panel of civically engaged Gen Zers and young millennials from across the political spectrum visit Zócalo to…

¿México y Estados Unidos se están convirtiendo en un solo país?

Sep 23, 2024 55m

This program is in Spanish. For a version with English audio interpretation, please visit: https://youtube.com/live/A9zQSsOYdhk Zócalo Public Square y la Universidad de Guadalajara transmiten en…

When Does Protest Make A Difference?

Aug 23, 2024 1h 36m

Live from the Arizona State University California Center Broadway in Los Angeles, CA: Zócalo convenes two back-to-back panels moderated by KQED correspondent and co-host of “The California Report”…

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