Medical doctor and author of “Successful Aging”, John Rowe re-examines his ground-breaking book in the light of new scientific evidence.
Richard D. Heffner Host, The Open Mind
John Rowe Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health/ Chairman of the MacArthur Foundation Research Network
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.
