
Teen Spirit
Teenagers have been a mystery for generations of parents and guardians. This week’s guests have unmatched insight.

REPLAY: The Shondaland Revolution
Grey’s Anatomy, Scandal, and How to Get Away with Murder aren’t just popular tv shows–they’re also groundbreaking. Michaela Meyer (Christopher Newport University) says showrunner Shonda Rhimes has changed the way …

REPLAY: Music that Mends
Much is written about incarcerated people. This week, we hear what they are writing and thinking about themselves.

Policing The Jig
There’s no such thing as silence. This week’s guests reveal that there’s always something to hear.

Writing Through
What do the mythological Chimera and motherhood have in common? In her work, poet Julie Phillips Brown (Virginia Military Institute) dissects this and other biological queries, cleverly unveiling what makes …

The Environmental Imagination
Climate change is real, and perhaps imaginations may be our best tool for understanding and keeping up with the changes.

Outdoor Archives
Cemeteries are outdoor archives. After decades of neglect, volunteers are clearing the brush and illuminating America’s repressed histories.

REPLAY: Stirring the Pot
Have you noticed the lettuce shortage? This week, With Good Reason is taking you back to the art of canning and preserving food.

Separate and Unequal
Desegregation took a lot of nerve from brave students, who mourned leaving behind their all-black schools to enter hostile spaces.

How It’s Made
With Good Reason (WGR), our weekly, nationally-broadcast, public radio program, has been on the air for more than twenty years, consistently placing interesting, Virginia-based scholarship in the hands—or ears—of curious …

Everybody’s Gotta Eat
Parents spend a lot of time refereeing. No, you can’t have hot fries and ice cream for dinner. Yes, please, have some more kale. We go to the dinner tables of “natural parents,” who left city life behind to bring kids closer to their food source.