Former 3-term Mayor of New York City, Edward I. Koch, reunites with host Richard Heffner and speaks about how well New York City is doing compared to the rest of the nation, and how politicians need to do better in making our country stronger.
Richard D. Heffner Host, The Open Mind
Edward I. Koch Former Mayor, New York City
The Open Mind, produced and hosted weekly by Alexander Heffner, elicits guests’ insights into the challenges society faces in contemporary areas of public concern. The program's mission is to engage viewers, especially a generation of young Americans, through a thoughtful excursion into the world of ideas. In a September 2014 New York Times story, host Alexander Heffner described his goal to "interrogate ideas" rather than guests in order to further a "vision of communications and media serving the public interest." True to its roots of nonadversarial conversation, the program explores ideas of the most compelling writers, technologists, artists, practitioners of politics, policy, law and other realms of public life.
