Requiring Vaccines, Male Friendships, Historic Evil

Top of Mind with Julie Rose

Can Employers Require Workers to Get the COVID-19 Vaccine? (0:31) When the COVID-19 vaccine becomes more widely available, will employers be able to demand their workers get one? Let’s ask employment law expert Jonathan Segal, a partner at the law firm Duane Morris. How the Pandemic is Affecting Relationships—Especially Male Friendships (17:23) The pandemic has strained friendships, but men, in particular, report finding their friendships adrift, more so even than women. Why would that be? Geoffrey Greif wrote a book on male friendships called, “Buddy System.” Greif is a professor of social work at the University of Maryland. Behind Bars But No Longer Behind in School (35:16) For the first time in 25 years, prison inmates can receive a government Pell Grant to cover the cost of taking college courses behind bars. Is that a good use of taxpayer dollars? Andrea Cantora is a Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Baltimore, and she directs the university’s college program at a maximum-security prison in Maryland. How Will You Remember 2020? (52:21) A conversation with Sam Payne, the host of BYUradio's the Apple Seed. Why More People Are Opting to Get Married by Proxy (1:03:13) Double proxy weddings–where the couples are not in the same place–are only legal in Montana. But the pandemic has made these kinds of marriages vital for some couples. April and Chris Coen are stand-ins for these proxy marriages through a company they co-own called A Big Sky Event. Slavery, Apartheid, Nazism: A Look at How Nations Deal with Past Sins (1:17:12) How does a nation deal with evil in its past - an evil that the country endorsed at its highest levels? Legal scholar Justin Collings says that the post-slavery United States could learn from the examples of post-Nazi Germany and post-apartheid South Africa. Collings is a professor at Brigham Young University’s law school and author of the new book, “Scales of Memory: Constitutional Justice and Historical Evil.”