Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchMulticulturalism and Lessons From the Rwandan Genocide
Episode 396
As it absorbs record numbers of new immigrants, the U.S. faces critical questions: is it better to promote a unifying, shared identity that transcend…
2 years, 4 months ago
The Meaning of Life (A Message for the Holidays)
The meaning of life is in the here and now.
2 years, 4 months ago
A Trial by Media Ended Caylan Ford's Career in 4 Hours
Episode 395
Caylan Ford is a documentary filmmaker, charter school founder, and a former political candidate. She holds a Bachelor's degree (Hons.) in Chinese hi…
2 years, 4 months ago
How Not to Age
Episode 394
When Dr. Michael Greger, founder of NutritionFacts.org, dove into the top peer-reviewed anti-aging medical research, he realized that diet could regu…
2 years, 4 months ago
How to Cultivate Your Imagination as an Adult
Episode 393
Imagination is commonly thought to be the special province of youth―the natural companion of free play and the unrestrained vistas of childhood. Then…
2 years, 4 months ago
Nobel Prize Winner Explains Inequality and Capitalism
Episode 392
When economist Angus Deaton immigrated to the United States from Britain in the early 1980s, he was awed by America's strengths and shocked by the ex…
2 years, 4 months ago
The Purpose of the Universe
Episode 391
Why are we here? What's the point of existence? On the 'big questions' of meaning and purpose, Western thought has been dominated by the dichotomy of…
2 years, 5 months ago
How Media, Politics, and Identity Drive Our Appetite for Misinformation
Episode 390
Why are so many of us wrong about so much? From COVID-19 to climate change to the results of elections, millions of Americans believe things that are…
2 years, 5 months ago
JFK 60th Anniversary of the Assassination
Episode 389
A conversation with Warren Commission Assistant Counsel Burt W. Griffin, Case Closed author and Lee Harvey Oswald scholar Gerald Posner, and JFK cons…
2 years, 5 months ago
The Scientific Search for Alien Life
Episode 388
Everyone is curious about life in the Universe, UFOs and whether ET is out there. Over the course of his thirty-year career as an astrophysicist, Ada…
2 years, 5 months ago