Our January 2026 episodes features IGS trustees Corey Anton, Susan Drucker, Thom Gencarelli, and Lance Strate discussing politics in the United States in light of recent events in Minneapolis. Their conveersation deals with the concerns brought on by the current media and semantic environment, the use of cell phone cameras and video recordings, the introduction of deep fakes, information overload and image culture, and the importance of language.

Our December 2025 episode features Susan Drucker, who is an IGS Trustee, Professor of Journalism at Hofstra University, and a founder of the Urban Communication Foundation, and Erik Garrett, a professor of communication and rhetoric at Duquesne University and a member of the Urban Communication Foundation's Board of Directors. In conversation with IGS President Lance Strate, they discuss areas of mutual interest between the Urban Communication Foundation and the Institute of General Semantics, and talk about topics such as language and the problems of definition, practical applications, policy and governance, city planning, architecture, postmodernism, maps and territories, the effects of technology, and the importance of human scale and organic community.

Our November 2025 episode features a recording of an IGS sponsored session that took place at the annual meeting of the National Communication Association. The program entitled Perspectives on Politics and the Future of Democracy that included IGS trustees Corey Anton, Peggy Cassidy, Susan Drucker, Thom Gencarelli, and Lance Strate. Their discussion touched on a variety of topics, including Alfred Korzybski's emphasis on science and progress, public discourse in the United States today, the role of news media in political campaigns, freedom of speech and the problem of hate speech, the rise of authoritarianism, and the relationship between technology and politics