College Campuses: The New Recruiting Ground for White Supremacists

Coming up on today’s show:

• Earlier this month, the Anti-Defamation League released a report that found that white supremacist propaganda on college campuses increased by 258 percent between fall 2016 and fall 2017. Jonathan Greenblatt, national director and CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, contextualizes the rise in white supremacist activity on college campuses nationwide. Journalist Candice Bernd has been examining specific incidents, and how universities are toeing the line between free speech, while students and the college community are demanding a more proactive approach. 

• The 142nd annual Westminster Kennel Club Dog show crowned a winner last night in New York City. Flynn, a bichon frisé, was named Best in Show. Sarah Montague, co-host of the podcastDog Story and The Takeaway’s resident Westminster reporter, brings us the highs and lows of this year’s competition.

• Dating sites aren’t just for humans. An advanced algorithm matches gorillas for mating, and has proved to be a central piece of helping western lowland gorillas survive. Dr. Kristen Lukas joins The Takeaway to explain. She’sthe chair of the gorilla-survival plan and the director of conservation and science at the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo.

• “The Heart is a Shifting Sea: Love and Marriage in Mumbai” is the product of a decade’s worth of immersive reporting, told through the eyes of three couples in Mumbai. The author, Elizabeth Flock, provides an intimate look at marriage in a country that is undergoing extraordinary change, especially for women. She shares with us what she discovered about marriage and love in India and beyond.

• Dacher Keltner, a professor of psychology at UC Berkeley and the director of Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center, and the host of PRI’s podcast The Science of Happiness, explores how 36 questions can foster intimacy, and even break barriers between people of different racial backgrounds.

This episode is hosted by Tanzina Vega