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Ep. 170 - The Women Behind Civil Rights
Season 1 Episode 170
The field of history is under fire these days, and not just from conservatives.
Perhaps as a result of a need for unambiguous heroes in dark, unsettl…
11 hours ago
Ep. 169 - Love Songs
Season 1 Episode 169
Readers of Commonweal and beyond will likely recognize Lawrence Joseph, the author of many books of poetry and prose, and whose work has often appear…
2 weeks ago
Ep. 168 - ‘All We Want Is to Live’
Season 1 Episode 168
By now, many of us are familiar with the realities of the Trump administration’s violent campaign of mass deportations. But how often do we listen to…
4 weeks, 1 day ago
Ep. 167 - The Objects We Call Bibles
Season 1 Episode 167
What happens when we read the Bible? Why do we read it? What does it do to us?
There are at least as many answers as there are people. Our interpreta…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Ep. 166 - A Middle Way for AI?
Season 1 Episode 166
Debates over artificial intelligence tend to vacillate between the poles of blustery optimism and spiraling despair, with AI boosters making stratosp…
2 months, 1 week ago
Ep. 165 - Is Anti-Vaxx Really Anti-Science?
Season 1 Episode 165
Vaccines have encountered resistance ever since they were invented in the late eighteenth century.
But vaccine skepticism has never been as vocal—or…
3 months, 1 week ago
Ep. 164 - How to Exit ‘Enemy Mode’ on Immigration
Season 1 Episode 164
Even as Donald Trump’s approval ratings continue to plummet across the country, voters in the deep-red state of Wyoming, where registered Republicans…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
The City and the Cross—Episode 3: Dots on a Map
Following the 1989 parish closures, the infrastructure that had supported Black Catholic leadership in Detroit was largely dismantled. Surviving pari…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
The City and the Cross—Episode 2: A Padlock on All the Doors
In September 1988, Cardinal Edmund Szoka, the archbishop of Detroit, announced via a closed-circuit television broadcast that the archdiocese would c…
3 months, 4 weeks ago
Ep. 163 - ‘A Coherent Picture of Reality’
Season 1 Episode 163
What can I know? What must I do? What may I hope?
These questions, originally formulated by philosopher Immanuel Kant, are some of the most essential…
4 months ago