Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchDecoteau Irby, "Stuck Improving: Racial Equity and School Leadership" (Harvard Education Press, 2021)
Episode 322
An incisive case study of changemaking in action, Stuck Improving: Racial Equity and School Leadership (Harvard Education Press, 2021) analyzes the c…
3 years, 6 months ago
The Tamiflu Trials: Profit and Public Health
Episode 35
Before Remdesivir and Hydroxycloroquin there was Tamiflu.
To prepare for Swine Flu and Bird Flu, governments spent billions stockpiling this drug call…
3 years, 6 months ago
Ryan T. Anderson and Alexandra DeSanctis, "Tearing Us Apart: How Abortion Harms Everything and Solves Nothing" (Regnery, 2022)
Episode 148
According to political philosopher Ryan T. Anderson and journalist Alexandra DeSantis, abortion harms everything it touches. It is an act of lethal v…
3 years, 6 months ago
Lee C. Bollinger and Geoffrey R. Stone, "Social Media, Freedom of Speech, and the Future of Our Democracy" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Episode 163
One of the most fiercely debated issues of this era is what to do about "bad" speech, hate speech, disinformation, propaganda campaigns, incitement o…
3 years, 6 months ago
The Heroin Clinic
Episode 34
At Crosstown Clinic, doctors are turning addiction treatment on its head: they’re prescribing heroin-users the very drug they’re addicted to. This is…
3 years, 6 months ago
John M. Kinder and Jason A. Higgins, "Service Denied: Marginalized Veterans in Modern American History" (U Massachusetts Press, 2022)
Episode 1257
Wartime military service is held up as a marker of civic duty and patriotism, yet the rewards of veteran status have never been equally distributed. …
3 years, 6 months ago
Jillian Peterson and James Densley, "The Violence Project: How to Stop a Mass Shooting Epidemic" (Harry N. Abrams, 2021)
Episode 19
Using data from the writers' groundbreaking research on mass shooters, including first-person accounts from the perpetrators themselves, The Violence…
3 years, 6 months ago
Howard Yaruss, "Understandable Economics: Because Understanding Our Economy Is Easier Than You Think and More Important Than You Know" (Prometheus Books, 2022)
Episode 116
Incomes are stagnating, middle-class jobs are disappearing, economic growth is slowing, and the meager gains are mostly going to those who are alread…
3 years, 6 months ago
This is Your Brain on Trial
Episode 33
Imagine reading or watching The Minority Report and thinking of that as a model for the criminal justice system. Well, plenty of forensic types are d…
3 years, 6 months ago
Pathological: The Work of Dr. Charles Smith
Episode 32
Dr. Charles Smith performed autopsies at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, ON. The cops kept turning to him with new corpses, and he kept cl…
3 years, 6 months ago