Unity Talks, produced by the Vanderbilt Project on Unity and American Democracy, is series of conversations and interviews featuring its co-chairs—Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jon Meacham, former Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam and Vanderbilt faculty member and entrepreneur Samar Ali—and renowned guests from the media, academia and government, focusing on the important issues facing and dividing America today. These conversation aim to restore and reinvigorate the national discourse, supplanting reflexive partisanship with reflective citizenship, anchored upon facts and evidence.