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From The Crusades To The Holocaust: Why History and Love Stories Matter
Episode 208
Religion, violence, anti-semitism, and the fate of the Catholic Church. All subject as contemporary as today’s headlines. To often we see these headl…
8 years ago
Tribes May Be Killing Our Politics, But They May Be The Cure for Depression
Episode 207
Spend any time watching television and you’ll see the apotheosis of western medicine. There is a drug for everything. We live in a pharmaceutical cul…
8 years ago
What Maxed Out Political Corruption Looks Like
Episode 206
Lately, there have been countless articles about the rise of authoritarian regimes. One aspect of all of these regimes is, even as we’re seeing here …
8 years ago
Why Our Systems Fail and What We Can Do About It...Or Why Is Everything So Damn Complex?
Episode 205
I don’t think there is anyone that would argue that the world is a far more complex place today. All of the machines and technology that are supposed…
8 years, 1 month ago
The Israel of 1948 is Over: A conversation with Avraham Burg
Episode 204
Back in the 1960s, Richard Nixon would talk and write a lot about the Middle East in general, and about the Israeli situation specifically, and he ta…
8 years, 1 month ago
The Power of Stories to Shape People, History, Civilization
Episode 203
Every so often the media picks up the meme that books and readers are on the decline. That our short attention span, along with our Twitter and Faceb…
8 years, 1 month ago
Why Economic Inequality Can Take Down Our Republic
Episode 202
What is the nexus between our political system and our economic system? Certainly during the Cold War we fought to defend our political system agains…
8 years, 1 month ago
Growing Up Muslim: The Everyday Lives of Muslim American Teenage Boys.
Episode 201
Everyday we are reminded how difficult it is growing up, and being a teenger. The work of Jean Twenge and others has shown the impact of technology a…
8 years, 1 month ago
Can The Behavior of School Shooters Be Profiled and Shootings Averted?
Episode 200
There is no question that the easy availability of guns, especially assault weapons, has contributed in some way to the rash of school shootings. How…
8 years, 1 month ago
Timothy Leary and Richard Nixon, Together Again
Episode 199
Every day the news gets darker. Polarization is increasing, constitutional norms are being overthrown, the social fabric is tearing and as Yeats said…
8 years, 1 month ago