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#125. Immigrant Workers Take on America's Largest Meatpacking Company
Season 1 Episode 125
Alice Driver is a writer from the Ozark Mountains in Arkansas. She is the author of More or Less Dead: Feminicide, Haunting, and the Ethics of Representation in Mexico, published in 2015, and the tra…
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago
#124. Hypochondria: A Personal Story and Historical Exploration
Season 1 Episode 124
Caroline Crampton is a writer and a podcaster, and the author of two books. The Way to the Sea, published in 2019, recounts the stories, literature, and history about the Thames Estuary in the U.K. H…
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago
#123. Space Archaeology: Preserving Artifacts on the Moon
Season 1 Episode 123
Beth O’Leary is a Professor Emerita at New Mexico State University, whose areas of interest include both cultural anthropology and archaeology. She is one of the creators and experts in Space Archaeo…
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago
#122. The Life, Times, and Philosophy of Baruch Spinoza, a Founding Thinker of the Enlightenment
Season 1 Episode 122
Ian Buruma is a Professor of Human Rights and Journalism at Bard College. Originally from the Netherlands, he is a prolific writer with broad interests, including Japanese and Chinese culture and his…
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago
#121. Doing Philosophy with Children
Season 1 Episode 121
This interview is dedicated to Samantha Keleher Bursum, who died on March 1 of 2024 in a car accident at the age of 14. She participated in this interview, at age 11, with her mother, Lori Keleher, w…
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago
#120. A Muslim Scholar, Who Converted to Islam, Promotes Interfaith Dialogue
Season 1 Episode 120
Celene Ibrahim is a multidisciplinary scholar specializing in Islamic intellectual history, gender studies, and ethics. Her 2020 monograph, Women and Gender in the Qur'an, won the Association of Midd…
Published on 1 year, 4 months ago
#119. A History of American Inequality.
Season 1 Episode 119
Jamie Bronstein has been a history professor at New Mexico State University since 1996. She is the author of six books about American and British History: Land Reform and Working-Class Experience in …
Published on 1 year, 4 months ago
#118. Unjust Inequities in Bankruptcy Law
Season 1 Episode 118
Melissa Jacoby is a law professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she teaches commercial and bankruptcy law. Melissa is a frequent commentator in the news media and has spok…
Published on 1 year, 4 months ago
#117. A Cause Fraught with Peril: Exposing Abusive Medical Research
Season 1 Episode 117
Carl Elliott is a philosophy professor at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis and a recipient of the Erikson Institute Prize for Excellence in Mental Health Media. His work focuses on the infl…
Published on 1 year, 4 months ago
#116. What is the Universe Made of and What is its Destiny?
Season 1 Episode 116
Harry Cliff is a particle physicist at the University of Cambridge. He is a member of an international team of around 1400 physicists, engineers and computer scientists who use the CERN particle acce…
Published on 1 year, 4 months ago