Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThe Wonderful World of Animal Senses and How They Expand Our View of The Universe (w/ Ed Yong)
Episode 165
Ed Yong of The Atlantic is the author of the new bestselling book An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us, which is ab…
3 years, 7 months ago
Have the Suburbs Ruined Everything? (w/ Bill McKibben)
Episode 164
Bill McKibben is a legendary activist and writer whose 1989 book The End of Nature introduced the problem of global warming to a general audience. Si…
3 years, 7 months ago
A Set of Progressive Economic Principles That Can Actually Win Elections
Episode 163
Things do not look good for Joe Biden and the Democratic Party right now. Polls show that nearly 3/4 of Americans, including a staggering 94% of peop…
3 years, 7 months ago
A Neuroscientist Critiques the Dangerous "Populist" Pseudoscience of Yuval Noah Harari
Episode 162
Yuval Noah Harari is an Israeli historian whose books have been major bestsellers, praised by Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and Barack Obama. Harari n…
3 years, 7 months ago
Cory Doctorow on The Wondrous World of the Early Internet & How To Destroy Surveillance Capitalism
Episode 161
Pioneering blogger and science fiction writer Cory Doctorow has been an activist for online freedom since the early days of the history of the intern…
3 years, 7 months ago
Debunking The Right's Bad History of Abortion Laws w/ Leslie Reagan
Episode 160
Prof. Leslie Reagan is the probably the country's leading expert on the history of abortion laws. Her award-winning book When Abortion Was a Crime: W…
3 years, 8 months ago
Robin D.G. Kelley on the Importance of Utopian Visions for Social Movements
Episode 159
Robin D.G. Kelley is a professor of American History at UCLA. His classic study Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination is about to be re-relea…
3 years, 8 months ago
The 20-Year Catastrophe of the War In Afghanistan
Episode 156
The war in Afghanistan was a calamity from the start and four US presidents (Bush, Obama, Trump, Biden) have deceived the American public about it as…
3 years, 8 months ago
Oxford and the Making of the British Ruling Class
Episode 158
Financial Times journalist Simon Kuper's book Chums: How a Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over the UK argues that in order to understand how power …
3 years, 8 months ago
Why Web3 Is Going Just Great (w/ Molly White)
Episode 157
Molly White is the world's foremost critic of cryptocurrency, according to a recent profile in the Washington Post. A veteran Wikipedia editor and so…
3 years, 8 months ago