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Back to SearchHow Can We Deal With America's Gun Problem?
Episode 171
David Hemenway is a professor of public health at the Harvard School of Public Health. He is the author of Private Guns, Public Health which argues t…
3 years, 10 months ago
The Moral Atrocity of Factory Farming and Why We Can't Look Away
Episode 170
Current Affairs is proud to be a publication that takes animal rights seriously. From our lighthearted looks at manatees, ants, and cats, to our more…
3 years, 10 months ago
Jeffrey Sachs On Why He Concluded COVID-19 Probably Came From a Lab (And Why Nobody Wants to Talk About It)
Episode 169
Prof. Jeffrey Sachs is the Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University and the President of the UN Sustainable Developm…
3 years, 10 months ago
Why Children Make Such Good Philosophers
Episode 168
In this episode, we discuss the strange creatures known as children. Scott Hershovitz is a professor of philosophy and law at the University of Michi…
3 years, 10 months ago
The Life of Murray Bookchin / Revolution in Rojava
Episode 167
Janet Biehl is one of the leading libertarian socialist writers in the country. For several decades, she was the partner and collaborator of the late…
3 years, 10 months ago
How Much Is a Whale Worth? (w/ Adrienne Buller)
Episode 166
In our last episode, we took a break from the depressing facts of the ecological crisis to simply marvel at the immense variety of experiences and se…
3 years, 10 months ago
The 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, 10 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, 11 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, 11 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, 11 months ago