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Home/Front: Marla's War
What do we owe innocent civilians who are killed or injured in war? This is one of the thorniest ethical questions that any military faces, but it wa…
4 years, 10 months ago
The Most Sacred Right (2020)
Frederick Douglass dreamed of a country where all people could vote and he did everything in his power to make that dream a reality. In the face of s…
4 years, 10 months ago
Bonus: Do The Golden Arches Bend Toward Justice?
This week we're featuring an episode from Code Switch, Do The Golden Arches Bend Toward Justice?. Calls for racial justice are met with a lot of diff…
4 years, 10 months ago
Capitalism: God Wants You To Be Rich
In the New Testament, Jesus says it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God. In the U…
4 years, 10 months ago
Capitalism: What Makes Us Free?
What's the role of government in society? What do we mean when we talk about individual responsibility? What makes us free? 'Neoliberalism' might fe…
4 years, 11 months ago
Bonus: The Vanishing of Harry Pace
This week we're featuring an episode from Radiolab's latest new series, The Vanishing of Harry Pace. Harry Pace founded the first major Black-owned r…
4 years, 11 months ago
Capitalism: What Is It?
What do we mean when we talk about capitalism? Our economic system might seem inevitable, but it's a construction project hundreds of years in the ma…
4 years, 11 months ago
Before Stonewall (2019)
In 1969, a gay bar in New York City called The Stonewall Inn was raided by police. It was a common form of harassment in those days but what followed…
4 years, 11 months ago
Who is NPR (For)?
Who is the media meant to serve? And why does it matter today, arguably, more than ever? 50 years ago, National Public Radio began as a small, scrapp…
4 years, 11 months ago
The Supreme Court
When, why, and how did the Supreme Court get the final say in the law of the land? The question of the Court's role, and whether its decisions should…
4 years, 11 months ago