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Back to SearchWhat Policing Looks Like From The Inside
Episode 121
Rosa Brooks is a professor of law at Georgetown University and the author Tangled Up In Blue: Policing The American City, named one of the best books…
4 years, 4 months ago
War Zones & Prisons: The Places We Hide Suffering and The Ways We Rationalize It
Episode 120
Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and the author of many bestselling nonfiction books. He began his career as a war correspondent, …
4 years, 4 months ago
How Do Hedge Fund Managers Justify Their Existence?
Episode 119
Megan Tobias Neely is a sociologist whose book Hedged Out: Inequality and Insecurity on Wall Street takes a deep look inside the world of hedge funds…
4 years, 4 months ago
How To Think Sensibly About Apocalypse and Catastrophe
Episode 118
Phil Torres is a scholar of "global catastrophic risk," meaning that he studies the various ways in which terrible things could happen to humanity: n…
4 years, 4 months ago
Why Is Climate Communication So Impossible and Frustrating?
Episode 117
George Monbiot has been working on issues of climate and environmental justice for three decades. A columnist for The Guardian, George's books includ…
4 years, 4 months ago
Our Era of Scams & Hype: From the Fyre Festival to Trump's Career to NFTs
Episode 116
We live in an age where economic success can depend a lot more on hype and branding than offering actual useful things that help people. Occasionally…
4 years, 4 months ago
How Did Anyone Ever Believe WeWork's BS?
Episode 115
Maureen Farrell is a business reporter with the New York Times and co-author of the book The Cult of We: WeWork, Adam Neumann, and the Great Startup …
4 years, 5 months ago
Is The International Criminal Court a Functional Institution?
Episode 114
The International Criminal Court in the Hague is the place where war criminals are supposed to be tried and punished. It embodies a vision of global …
4 years, 5 months ago
Is Mocking the Deaths of Anti-Vaxxers "Necessary"? Or Cruel and Useless?
Episode 113
Michael Hiltzik is a Pulitzer Prize-winning business columnist for the Los Angeles Times. He has recently attracted a lot of (almost entirely negativ…
4 years, 5 months ago
Why Judge Judy Is A Reactionary Enemy of the Poor Who Must Be Destroyed
Episode 112
Judge Judy Sheindlin has long been one of the highest-paid TV stars, earning a staggering $47 million per year for her show, Judge Judy. She is unive…
4 years, 5 months ago