The Purple Principle Episodes Jump to season Season 1 Season 2 Season 3 Featured Episodes Will Latinization Bring Moderation?October 5, 2022Deval Patrick Talks GoverningSeptember 14, 2022Less Partisan Elections in Alaska 2022?August 16, 2022 Season 3 Election Lessons Unheeded?December 19, 2022Is the Fever Breaking?December 7, 20222022 Elections: Context & PerspectiveNovember 10, 2022Test Driving Ranked Choice VotingOctober 27, 2022No Such Thing as The Latino Vote?October 12, 2022Will Latinization Bring Moderation?October 5, 2022End of Bay State Bipartisanship?September 28, 2022Deval Patrick Talks GoverningSeptember 14, 2022Less Partisan Elections in Alaska 2022?August 16, 2022The Decline of Moderates & Rise of PopulismAugust 2, 2022Andrew Heaton on Liberty, Justice, & Satire for AllJuly 19, 2022Amy Chua on Political TribalismJuly 4, 2022Strength in Diversity, Weakness in One Party Rule?June 28, 20222022 California Primaries by Faction & TortillaJune 21, 2022One Golden State, Two Democratic PartiesJune 7, 2022Georgia On All Our MindsMay 24, 2022Politically Persuadable But Focused on Jobs?May 10, 2022Like Family, Like Nation: A Braver AngelApril 26, 2022Is Texas the Future of America?April 12, 2022A New American Operating System?April 1, 2022Lone Star Launch Pad for Rear-Guard America?March 29, 2022Polarized Politics & Hispanic IdentityMarch 22, 2022Growth, Diversity & One Party Politics?March 15, 2022Strongest Identity of Them Y’all?March 8, 2022Messing with that Texas Identity?March 1, 2022 Season 2 Heard the One About a Centrist Congressman?February 22, 2022Voice of Reason for Independent MindsFebruary 8, 2022The United States of Narcissism?January 25, 2022Wait, I’m Not the Crazy One!January 11, 2022Speaking Truth in Polarized TimesDecember 28, 2021Holiday Survival Kit (Part 3)December 14, 2021Holiday Survival Kit (Part 2)November 30, 2021Holiday Survival Kit (Part 1)November 16, 2021Hollywood Presidents for a Partisan Nation, Part 4November 2, 2021Hollywood Presidents for a Partisan Nation, Part 3October 19, 2021Amazing Grace For Our Partisan TimesOctober 5, 2021Liberty & Justice For SomeSeptember 21, 2021A Civic Way to Reverse Polarization?September 7, 2021Woking up to BacklashAugust 24, 2021Passing the MicAugust 24, 2021Hollywood Presidents For A Partisan Nation, Part 2August 10, 2021Hollywood Presidents For A Partisan Nation, Part 1July 27, 2021Nicest Troll in TownJuly 13, 2021Embrace Complexity To Overcome PolarizationJune 29, 2021Online Conspiracies & Virtual CultsJune 15, 2021Online Conspiracies and Virtual CultsJune 1, 2021What combats Vax Skepticism?May 18, 2021The Politics Industry at WorkMay 5, 2021The Senate FilibusterApril 20, 2021What’s Behind Those Red and Blue Maps?April 6, 2021When Martians Land, Pigs Fly, and Americans Reach ConsensusMarch 23, 2021Portrait of the Arsonist As Young CongressmanMarch 9, 2021 Season 1 We’re Polarized: Now What?February 1, 2021Polarization as PlagueJanuary 30, 20212020 Polling in HindsightJanuary 27, 2021Polarization at the Tipping PointJanuary 1, 2021Independents, Alaska Style: A repodcastDecember 31, 2020Civil Society and Campus PoliticsDecember 22, 2020Party Dynamics and the 2020 ElectionDecember 16, 2020Democracy & Elections Under StressDecember 9, 2020Centennial of Yeats’ The Second ComingNovember 19, 2020Declaration of Independents, Alaska StyleOctober 27, 2020A Non-partisan Candidate for CongressOctober 20, 2020Science, Comedy & PartisanshipOctober 13, 20202020 Election PollingSeptember 29, 2020The Brain on Partisan PoliticsSeptember 17, 2020Comedy & PartisanshipSeptember 3, 2020Congress and PartisanshipAugust 20, 2020Social Media & PartisanshipJuly 31, 2020Broadcast Media and PartisanshipJuly 31, 2020Heard from the HerdJuly 23, 2020America’s Independent Voters and VoicesJuly 9, 2020Partisanship from All AnglesJune 30, 2020Front Lines of PartisanshipJune 19, 2020