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Diversity, Virtue, Healthcare: Dr. Andre Churchwell
Episode 55
What role might race play in today’s ever-increasing gaps of social and economic inequality? And what might we be able to do about it? In th…
4 years, 9 months ago
Why Liberalism Failed: Patrick Deneen
Episode 54
What if the seemingly-opposite political forces of Left and Right are really two sides of the same philosophical coin? Patrick Deneen discus…
4 years, 9 months ago
Peace, Justice, Ice Cream: Ben Cohen
Episode 53
“It has to be the joyful journey for justice,” says Ben Cohen, the world-famous “Ben” in Ben & Jerry’s. In this episode, we hear from Ben ho…
4 years, 9 months ago
Free Cyntoia: Cyntoia Brown Long
Episode 52
A special episode, taped in front of a live audience, in which Cyntoia Brown Long chronicles her experience leading to and within the Tennes…
4 years, 10 months ago
The (Not Really) War Between Science and Faith: David Wilkinson
Episode 51
The X-CLUB, and the invention of the supposed war between science and faith, with astro-physicist and theologian David Wilkinson of Durham U…
4 years, 10 months ago
Hope in the Age of Climate Change: Chris Doran
Episode 50
What does the resurrection of Jesus have to do with climate change? Chris Doran discusses why a rightly-seen eschatological hope should nece…
4 years, 10 months ago
Self-Compassion: Kristin Neff
Episode 49
Ever wonder about “everybody getting a trophy” and the cult of self-esteem? Kristin Neff discusses the potential dangers of self-esteem—like…
4 years, 10 months ago
Tuskegee, Healthcare, Justice: Quincy Byrdsong
Episode 48
“Health inequities started with slavery,” says Dr. Quincy Byrdsong in this episode on healthcare inequities. We discuss at length the infamo…
4 years, 11 months ago
Guns, Economics, Public Health: David Hemenway
Episode 47
The US, says Harvard Prof. David Hemenway, does not have a “violence problem” in comparison to other high-income countries in terms of robbe…
4 years, 11 months ago
Bad Faith—Race and the Rise of the Religious Right: Randall Balmer
Episode 46
Professor of Religion at Dartmouth College Randall Balmer tells of a meeting in Washington, DC that changed the course of his academic caree…
4 years, 11 months ago