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The Case for "Regime Change" in Iran: Majid Sadeghpour on why the Current Iranian Theocracy can't be Reformed
Feb 2, 202325 min
How to Kick Addictive Ideologies: Dr Emily Bashah on ending violence in Israel/Palestine
Feb 1, 202330 min
The Return of the Dissident Academic Model: Balazs Trencsenyi on the Invisible University for Ukraine
Feb 1, 202337 min
Eleanor Shearer on RIVER SING ME HOME: A post-slavery West Indian novel celebrating motherhood and female resilience.
Feb 1, 202329 min
When Everyone Leads: Julia Fabris McBride on what she claims as a "revolutionary approach" to fixing our toughest challenges
Feb 1, 202325 min
The Revolution WILL Be Podcasted: Zencastr founder Josh Nielsen on the democratization of professional podcasting
Feb 1, 202336 min
Will Donald Trump EVER Go to Jail? Elie Honig on Trump's Houdini-like Ability To Get Away With It
Jan 31, 202330 min
Why the Second World War Still Hasn't Ended in the Netherlands: Nina Siegal on Dutch Moral Complicity in the Nazi Persecution of Holland's Jews
Jan 31, 202339 min
Dean Koontz on how to Sell 500 Million Books and Why AI Engines like ChatGPT Will Never Replicate the Human "Soul"
Jan 31, 202331 min
What Will Things Be like in 60,000 Years time? Annalee Newitz imagines the future of species, real-estate, love and dogs who shun humans
Jan 30, 202336 min
The Death of Unicorns, the birth of AI and the irrelevance of social media: That Was the Week in Tech for 1.27.23
Jan 28, 202330 min
Journeys of a Humanitarian: How Jane Olson Emulated her Heroine Eleanor Roosevelt to Become a World Citizen
Jan 27, 202339 min
In the Nation's Service: Philip Taubman on George P. Shultz's UnTrumpian Role in Ending the Cold War
Jan 27, 202334 min
Why BLK ART matters: Zaria Ware on the Audacious Legacy of Black Artists and Models in Western Art
Jan 27, 202330 min
How Political Dysfunction in DC is Effing Up U.S. Democracy: Lee Drutman on Breaking the American Two=Party Doom Loop
Jan 26, 202332 min
Hunger, Loneliness and Misery at Work: Jon Clifton on the Global Rise of Unhappiness
Jan 26, 202330 min
This Is Not Who We Are: Zachary Shore on America's Struggle Between Vengeance and Virtue
Jan 25, 202335 min
No Longer Pale, Male or Stale: Valentine Low on How the British Royal Family is Transforming itself into a 21st Century Institution
Jan 25, 202324 min
Forget Generative AI: Margaret Heffernan on Why the Future is Up To Us
Jan 25, 202325 min
Say It Loud and Say It Proud: Natalie Lue on the Joy of Saying NO
Jan 24, 202328 min
Frank Vogl on the American Bankers and Politicians Enabling Kleptocracy Around the World
Jan 24, 202332 min
George McCalman's Illustrated Black American History: How to Honor Both the Iconic and the Unseen
Jan 24, 202327 min
What Will Become of Syria in 2023? Joby Warrick on the Future of a Catastrophe
Jan 24, 202327 min
Confessions of an Optimist: Publishing mogul Stephen Rubin on why he remains cheerful - even if 85% of books could have been written by a chatbot
Jan 23, 202336 min
Damian Dibben on the Venetian Renaissance, Color in Art, and why We Should All Visit Venice Once in our Lives
Jan 23, 202330 min
An Existential Healthcare Crisis? Dr Robert Pearl on how the U.S. Medical System is Now Deeply Resistant to All Innovation
Jan 23, 202337 min
A Peculiarly American Sickness: Paul Auster and Spencer Ostrander on BLOODBATH NATION
Jan 23, 202334 min
DLD 2023: Quantum computing, Auschwitz-Birkenau, designing living brains & ubiquitous AI
Jan 22, 202337 min
Danielle Clode on Koalas: A Natural History and an Uncertain Future
Jan 22, 202315 min
The End of the Silicon Valley Myth: Why Big Tech now faces a Reckoning
Jan 21, 202333 min
01.20.23: That Was The Week in Tech
Jan 21, 202319 min
GEORGE KENNAN: A Life Caught Between the United States and the Soviet Union
Jan 20, 202336 min
Curtis White on Transcendence: How Art and Dharma Can Save Us in a Time of Collapse
Jan 20, 202335 min
Can an Updated Version of Dale Carnegie's 20th Century Help Us Fix Our 21st Century Future
Jan 20, 202334 min
Why the Best Lessons in Life are Experienced rather than Learned
Jan 20, 202328 min
The Revolt against Humanity: Adam Kirsch Imagines a Future Without Humanity"
Jan 20, 202332 min
LIFE ON MARS: IMAGINING THE FIRST CITY ON THE RED PLANET
Jan 19, 202330 min
Jacqueline Jones: What Does the Plight of Boston's Black Workers in the Civil War Era Tells Us About the Struggle Today of All Americans For an Honest Living?
Jan 9, 202333 min
Jayne Ann Krentz: Genre Fiction Matters Because It Enables Writers to Address Perennial Moral Issues Like Honor and How to Distinguish Between Right and Wrong
Jan 7, 202327 min
Pico Iyer: Why Travel Writing is a Form of Memoir and How Covid Has Changed How We See the World
Jan 5, 202342 min
Jared Yates Sexton: Midnight in America? Why the Coming Crisis in the Republic Offers Hope For a Better Future
Jan 5, 202332 min
Angela Stent: Why 2023 Probably Won't Bring An End to the War in Ukraine and Other Unpalatable Truths From the Putin World
Jan 5, 202328 min
Corinne Sawers: Why the Pro-Market American Model of Confronting Today's Climate Emergency Might Offer the Most Realistic Way to Get to Net Zero
Jan 4, 202322 min
Jim Campbell on the Ponzi Boys: What Makes Bernie Madoff and Sam Bankman-Fried the Same Type of Monstrous Human-Being?
Jan 4, 202331 min
Martha Nussbaum: Why Justice for Animals Means Eliminating the Word "Pet" and Perhaps Even Giving Citizenship to Other Species
Jan 4, 202334 min
Brad Feld: The Tech Community Needs To Be Humble to Survive With What Will Be a "Challenging" 2023
Jan 3, 202339 min
Beezy Marsh: Remembering a London of 1946 in Which Fearsome Female Gangsters Ran the Show
Jan 3, 202325 min
Leigh Goodmark on the Case for Abolition Feminism: Why We Need to Decriminalize Domestic Violence
Jan 3, 202330 min
Frank Smyth: Don't Shoot Me, I'm Only the Messenger: Why the Bad 2022 News About Gun Proliferation and Violence in America Will Probably Only Get Worse in 2023
Jan 2, 202331 min
Peter Pomerantsev: Why the "Evil" Russian Invasion of Ukraine Will Only End When the West Arms Ukraine With Missiles That Can Reach Russian Cities
Jan 2, 202334 min