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1151
Chris Heffer, "All Bullshit and Lies?: Insincer...
Chris Heffer argues that to analyze untruthfulness, we need a framework which goes beyond these two kinds of speech acts, bullshitting and lying...
59 min
1152
David Barash, "Threats: Intimidation and Its Di...
What are the similar ways in which animals and people try to intimidate others?
40 min
1153
Armstrong Williams, "What Black and White Ameri...
Willliams explores the complexity of race and culture in the United States....
32 min
1154
Joshua Chambers-Letson, "After the Party: A Man...
Through this diverse cast of characters, Chambers-Letson highlights moments of immanent communism: collaborations, romantic relationships, and serendipitous collisions that point towards a liberated future which also exists in our troubled present...
58 min
1155
EQ Spotlight Special: Roundtable on the 2020 Pr...
What are we to make of the year’s first presidential debate?
48 min
1156
Berit Brogaard, "Hatred: Understanding Our Most...
What is it that makes hatred so addicting?
36 min
1157
Gene Ludwig, "The Vanishing American Dream" (Di...
Gene Ludwig cares. The former banker, government regulator, and serial entrepreneur cares deeply about the hollowing out of the American middle class over the past several decades, not least of all in his hometown of York, PA....
49 min
1158
G. Smulewicz-Zucker and M. Thompson, "An Inher...
Democratic socialism is on the lips of activists and politicians from both the left and the right. Some call it extremism; some call it common sense. What are we talking about?
82 min
1159
William L. Patterson, "We Charge Genocide: The ...
It has been nearly 70 years since William Patterson and Paul Roberson when before the UN and charged the US government with genocide...
37 min
1160
Marlene Wind, "The Tribalization of Europe: A D...
The European Union is arguably facing the greatest existential threat in its history...
54 min
1161
Christopher Robertson, "Exposed: Why Our Health...
American have bad health insurance. What to do?
48 min
1162
Jody A. Forrester, "Guns Under the Bed: Memorie...
It is 1969 and Jody A. Forrester is in her late teens, transitioning from a Sixties love child to pacifist anti-Vietnam War activist to an ardent revolutionary...
67 min
1163
Alexander Keyssar, "Why Do We Still Have the El...
It's a good question....
49 min
1164
Nadine Strossen, “Hate: Why We Should Resist it...
Strossen dispels misunderstandings plaguing our perennial debates about "hate speech vs. free speech," showing that the First Amendment approach promotes free speech and democracy, equality, and societal harmony...
70 min
1165
Ben Burgis, "Give Them an Argument: Logic for t...
Both a professor of philosophy and a committed political leftist, Burgis wades through a host of contemporary examples, arguing that the common arguments for capitalism and against socialism often rely on questionable logic that can be debated...
102 min
1166
Postscript: A Discussion of Race, Anger and Cit...
Race now drives American political feeling. What does this mean for American democracy today?
77 min
1167
Gerald Posner, "Pharma: Greed, Lies, and the Po...
Posner explores the fascinating and complex history of pharmaceutical and bio-tech industries. It is an industry like no other and a story like no other...
78 min
1168
Edward C. Valandra, "Colorizing Restorative Jus...
This book is thus a wake-up call for European-descended restorative justice practitioners as it is validating for Indigenous practitioners and practitioners of color and enlightening for anyone wishing to explore the intersections of indigeneity, racial justice, and restorative justice...
45 min
1169
Albena Azmanova, "Capitalism on Edge: How Fight...
Capitalism seems to many to be in a sort of constant crisis, leaving many struggling to make ends meet...
66 min
1170
Matthew Yglesias, "One Billion Americans: The C...
What would actually make America great? More people.
58 min
1171
Iain Murray, "The Socialist Temptation" (Regner...
Just thirty years ago, socialism seemed utterly discredited. An economic, moral, and political failure, socialism had rightly been thrown on the ash heap of history after the fall of the Berlin Wall...
62 min
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Jessica Whyte, "Morals of the Market: Human Rig...
Whyte uncovers the place of human rights in neoliberal attempts to develop a moral framework for a market society....
68 min
1173
Kristin Kobez Du Mez, "Jesus and John Wayne: Ho...
One of the most perplexing elements of Donald Trumps’s 2016 electoral victory was the overwhelming support he received from white Evangelicals...
86 min
1174
Paul Offit, "Overkill: When Modern Medicine Goe...
Why Do Unnecessary and Often Counter-Productive Medical Interventions Happen So Often?
29 min
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Nathan J. Kelly, "America's Inequality Trap" (U...
Kelly argues that the increasing concentration of economic power effects political power, thus allowing the gap between the rich and everyone else to become more acute and more rigid...
38 min