Derek Black and Matthew Stevenson — Befriending Radical Disagreement

We’d heard Derek Black, the former white-power heir apparent, interviewed before about his past, but never about the college friendships that changed him. After Derek’s ideology was outed at the New College of Florida, Matthew Stevenson (one of the only Orthodox Jews on campus) invited him to Shabbat dinner. What happened next is a roadmap for navigating some of the hardest and most important territory of our time. Find the transcript for this show at onbeing.org. This interview originally aired in May 2018.