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#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 hone…
1 year, 3 months 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 Recy…
1 year, 3 months 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 Christi…
1 year, 4 months 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…
1 year, 4 months 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 …
1 year, 4 months ago
#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 again…
1 year, 5 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 …
1 year, 5 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 politi…
1 year, 5 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:…
1 year, 6 months ago
#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 Repres…
1 year, 6 months ago