Podcast Episodes

Good Girls No More

Season 3 Episode 45

As a woman, you can roll along with the assumption that your body belongs to you and you alone. That you are an autonomous human being like everyone else. But then your fertility, your baby-making ca…

Published on 11 months, 1 week ago

How To Build A Good Human

Season 3 Episode 44

What makes a good human?

We receive prescriptions for virtuous morality from all manner of religions, philosophies, and intellectual traditions - but is human morality something that is taught and l…

Published on 1 year ago

Uncontainable Trauma

Season 3 Episode 43

As new wars emerge across the world, wars that ended decades ago are still destroying the societies that waged them.

Guest on today’s episode, Olivera Simić, came of age in the intrastate war that br…

Published on 1 year, 1 month ago

Buy One, Buy All

Season 3 Episode 42

The institution of prostitution has received a re-branding in recent times, appropriating terms from labor and the corporate world such as “sex work”, “full-service”, “clients”, “sex workers” “doing …

Published on 1 year, 1 month ago

They Called Us Witches

Season 3 Episode 41

In the midst of The Enlightenment, when men in the West hailed reason and rationalism, and aspired towards lofty ideals such as liberty, equality and religious tolerance - another darker social pheno…

Published on 1 year, 2 months ago

We Are The Donkeys Here

Season 3 Episode 40

Motherhood, in our Western culture, is full of contradictions. On the one hand, mothers perform an essential task: creating and nurturing new human life. On the other, the status of mothers is that o…

Published on 1 year, 3 months ago

Engineers In Our Garden

Season 2 Episode 39

Science and technology is a synonym for progress. It is always considered a step forward, an improvement of our lives, a promise of new possibilities. A promise of a future that will necessarily cont…

Published on 1 year, 4 months ago

Mapping The Murder Of Women

Season 2 Episode 38

The prevalence of murder of women by men, across the world, is beyond dispute. The phenomenon - the murder of women because they are women - has become such a fixture of human life that it has acquir…

Published on 1 year, 5 months ago

Our Hidden Blueprint

Season 2 Episode 37

Our economic institutions - capitalism, trade, money, the market - are based on one fundamental principle: Quid Pro Quo. Something For Something.

It is said that these systems sprung out of the age-o…

Published on 1 year, 6 months ago

Tending To Our Brothers

Season 2 Episode 36

“Men don’t fall from trees - they subscribe to societal messages, they follow rules,” says Dr. Shahieda Jansen, clinical psychologist, scholar in masculinities, and author of Masculinity Meets Humani…

Published on 1 year, 7 months ago