Podcast Episodes

#135. Where Does Economic Inequality Come From?

Season 1 Episode 135

Jeffrey Zax is an economics professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder, whose research focuses on labor economics, public economics, and urban economics. He has served as a consultant for vario…

Published on 1 year ago

#134. Reflecting on (an Unusally) Long Career as a Child Protective Worker

Season 1 Episode 134

Tom Russell is a retired Child Protective Services investigator and foster care worker, who was employed by the state of Michigan. Although this honest and thoughtful interview does not go into graph…

Published on 1 year ago

#133. Benjamin Franklin's Scientific Dimension Underpinned Everthing Else

Season 1 Episode 133

Author and environmental activist, Richard Munson, has served as senior director of the Environmental Defense Fund, and senior vice president at Recycled Energy Development. He has been a coordinator…

Published on 1 year ago

#132. A Religious Movement that is Reshaping American Politics and is Threatening Our Democracy

Season 1 Episode 132

Matthew Taylor is a senior scholar at the Institute for Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies in Baltimore, where he specializes in American Christianity, American Islam, Christian extremism, and re…

Published on 1 year, 1 month ago

#131. A Daughter of Holocaust Survivors Reflects on Intergenerational Trauma, Memory, and Listening

Season 1 Episode 131

Award-winning novelist, poet, and non-fiction writer, Elizabeth Rosner, talks about themes from Survivor Café: the Legacy of Trauma and the Labyrinth of Memory, published in 2017, and her latest book…

Published on 1 year, 1 month ago

#130. State Laws that Promote Vigilante Intimidation

Season 1 Episode 130

David Noll is the former associate dean for faculty research and a professor of law at Rutgers University Law School. His scholarly work encompasses a broad set of interlocking aspects of the law, in…

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#129. An Evangelical Mega-Church that Fights Racism

Season 1 Episode 129

Hahrie Han is a Political Science Professor at Johns Hopkins University, whose research focuses on grass-roots political activism, particularly against systemic racism. She has partnered with a wide …

Published on 1 year, 2 months ago

#128. Space, Time, and the Universe

Season 1 Episode 128

Wladimir Lyra is an astronomer at New Mexico State University, whose research focuses around high-end computer simulations of planet formation, both in our own solar system and beyond, i.e., exoplane…

Published on 1 year, 2 months ago

#127. White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy

Season 1 Episode 127

Thomas Schaller and Paul Waldman and the co-authors of Rural White Rage: The Threat to American Democracy.

Tom Schaller, who is a professor of political science at the University of Maryland in Balti…

Published on 1 year, 2 months ago

#126. The Paranoia and Drama of the McCarthy Era

Season 1 Episode 126

Historians Andrea Balis and Elizabeth Levy are co-authors of the Bringing Down a President: The Watergate Scandal, published in 2019, and Witch Hunt: The Cold War, Joe McCarthy, and the Red Scare, pu…

Published on 1 year, 2 months ago