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Toxic Masculinity In An Oil Boomtown
Episode 460
The nature of work in America has changed. Good paying jobs in the manufacturing sector have been diluted, the service sector has exploded, and the g…
5 years ago
Elon Musk IS Leading Us Into The Future
Episode 459
Someone once said that the best way to predict the future is to invent it. In many ways that’s been the story of scientific progress. It seems there …
5 years ago
Imagining the Next World War : 2034
Episode 458
There was once a time when we didn’t think a global pandemic was possible in the 21st century. The events of 9/11 took us by surprise as they did at …
5 years, 1 month ago
Come Fly With Me: The World of The Pan Am Stewardess Before "Me Too"
Episode 457
Those of you that are old enough, will remember when people got dressed up to fly. When having a meal onboard, especially on a transcontinental fligh…
5 years, 1 month ago
The Royals Have Outlived Their Value: Gilded Lives at the Expense of the British People
Episode 456
It’s been a while since the British monarchy was so front and center in our consciousness. The Crown, on Netflix, and Meghan and Harry have pulled ba…
5 years, 1 month ago
Frida Kahlo and the Timelessness of Her Work and Her Ideas
Episode 455
Racial identity, socialism, the role of art in society, the responsibilities of artists and the position of the artist in popular culture. These sub…
5 years, 1 month ago
Coffee, Globalization and and Why We Care About A Hill of Beans
Episode 454
While the world has changed in so many ways lately and turned most of our routines upside down, the one constant I suspect for many is their ritualis…
5 years, 1 month ago
Rethink Everything You Know About Policing
Episode 453
Georgetown law professor Rosa Brooks was working at the Pentagon when she heard about the D.C. Metropolitan police corp program. Intrigued, much to t…
5 years, 2 months ago
Where Is The Information We Have Lost In Data
Episode 452
During the past year, perhaps a year like no other year, we have been bombarded with statistics. Covid cases, numbers of deaths, positivity rates and…
5 years, 2 months ago
Mike Nichols: A Life
Episode 451
Amidst the cacophony of social and cultural noise that’s all around us, we have too often neglected the role of the arts in shaping who we are and ho…
5 years, 2 months ago