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The Science of Kindness Is Real
Episode 360
In many communities you often see people wearing a button that says Be Kind. In an ever competitive
and sometimes selfish world that’s not always eas…
6 years, 6 months ago
Why Health Care Is Broken, and How to Fix It...Hint..Medicare for All is Not the Answer
Episode 359
Imagine if you went to buy a car and rather than one price for the car, you had to essentially buy it ala carte. You had to negotiate a separate pric…
6 years, 6 months ago
Deep State: Trump, the FBI, and the Rule of Law: A conversation with James B. Stewart
Episode 358
The world is a complex place. The news comes at us at hyper-speed and 24/7. All while we have to deal with family, work and life.
Therefore more tha…
6 years, 6 months ago
Harold Bloom 1930 - 2019
Episode 357
Harold Bloom, who died last week at the age of 89, was one of our great teachers and literary critics. Often out of sync with contemporary literary f…
6 years, 6 months ago
A Conversation with the Recipients of This Years Nobel Prize in economics: Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee
Episode 356
Beyond the common denominator of poverty what are aspects of the poor that we just don't understand?
We've learned that poverty itself creates a diff…
6 years, 6 months ago
The End of America's Cultural Hegemony
Episode 355
A look at the news any day reminds us that America is no longer the singular dominant power in the world. This is true vis a vis soft power, moral pe…
6 years, 6 months ago
The Tyranny of Virtue: Political Correctness Run Amuck on Our Campuses
Episode 354
Once upon a time, we didn’t have to think about political correctness. And we survived as a culture! We self-corrected, we became more sensitive to o…
6 years, 6 months ago
Just Who is Brett Kavanaugh?
Episode 353
Most of us remember being transfixed, just one year ago, to the hearings from now Supreme Court Justice Brent Kavanaugh. This week, as the court begi…
6 years, 6 months ago
Why Understanding Silicon Valley History is Necessary To Deal With Today's Tech Issues
Episode 352
So much of what passes for history today is one dimensional. We see the events, the names, the places the timeline and the heroes and the villains. B…
6 years, 7 months ago
Trump's War on the FBI
Episode 351
Today Trump's war is against Congress and the intelligence community. Previously he went to war with the FBI with the same mob boss approach that r…
6 years, 7 months ago