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Navigating around Christopher Columbus: The Nine Lives of the Genoese Sailor Who Became History's Greatest Saint and Sinner
Next Monday is Columbus Day. Or should it be Indigenous People’s Day? According to the historian Matthew Restall we should be celebrating both Columb…
1 year ago
41 Years for a Crime He Didn't Commit: Gary Tyler's Journey from Death Row to Freedom
Last weekend, the English reggae band UB 40 played in the Orpheum in Los Angeles and included in the set their 1980 song “Tyler”.
Tyler is guilty whi…
1 year ago
Don't Be Yourself: Why the Cult of Authenticity Is Killing Not Just Your Career but Your Life
Just be yourself many career coaches tell us. But for the psychologist and entrepreneur Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, the reverse is true. Don’t Be Yours…
1 year ago
Two Freedoms and Two Americas: Barry Goldwater and Martin Luther King's Incompatible Versions of Liberty
What unites America, it used to be said, is a common commitment to “freedom”. But in our disunited times, it's worth remembering that two incompatib…
1 year ago
The Uberification of Academia: Why Adjunct Professors are Living in their Cars
We’ve done a couple (here and here) of shows recently about the war on cars. But we never discussed the connections, both literal and metaphorical, b…
1 year ago
How to Lose Loudly: What the Left can Learn from the NRA
One of the most painful lessons of the Kirk assassination is that conservatives are running rings around progressives in political mobilization - esp…
1 year ago
More Than Chinatown: Bruce Lee and the Invention of Asian American Identity
“Forget it, Jake. It’s Chinatown,” were, of course, the closing words from Polanski’s 1974 movie, Chinatown. But the point of Jeff Chang’s new biogra…
1 year ago
The AI Pioneer Who Chose Purpose Over Profit: Jim Fruchterman on Why Big Tech Can't Be Trusted with Our Future
Back in 1990, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur called Jim Fruchterman chose purpose over profit. In his new book, Technology for Good, Fruchterman expla…
1 year ago
World Enemy Number One: Nazi Germany's Obsession with 'Judeo-Bolshevism'
It’s not exactly news that the Nazis didn’t like the Jews. But according to the Rutgers historian Jochen Hellbeck, author of World Enemy Number One, …
1 year ago
The True Cost of Roadkill: Cars Have Caused 60 to 80 Million Deaths in the Last 100 Years
The numbers are mind blowing. According to Roadkill authors Henrietta Moore and Arthur Kay, cars have killed more people than both world wars combine…
1 year ago