Governing Trans Identity with Paisley Currah
Trans people have existed as long as, you know, people have. But the barriers to legal inclusion and equality are still higher than most people realize. “Sex is as Sex Does” author Paisley Currah join...
13 Heinä 20221h 2min
Asian American Histories Of The U.S. with Catherine Choy
Asian Americans are an essential part of the history of this country, but the true story is all too little told, especially in a time of rising anti-Asian sentiment and violence. Historian and author ...
6 Heinä 20221h 6min
Popping the Crypto Bubble with Nicholas Weaver
Crypto is crashing, which makes it the perfect time to ask whether blockchain technology is actually — you know — useful for anything. Computer scientist Nicholas Weaver joins Adam to discuss the inhe...
29 Kesä 20221h 15min
The Real Problem with A.I. with Emily Bender
Is artificial intelligence a problem, or is the real problem how we’re using the term in the first place? Linguistics professor Emily Bender joins Adam to discuss why we should resist the urge to be i...
22 Kesä 20221h 18min
Psychiatry’s Desperate Remedies with Andrew Scull
Despite our efforts, we seem to be no better at treating mental illness than we were hundreds of years ago. Desperate Remedies author Andrew Scull joins Adam to explain why, on the way touching on the...
15 Kesä 20221h 17min
What Happened to Criminal Justice Reform? with James Forman Jr.
In 2020, America went through a national reckoning about our racist criminal justice system. Just under two years later, has all that progress evaporated? Pulitzer winner, professor, and author of Loc...
8 Kesä 20221h 14min
Robots, Robots, Robots! with Kate Darling
When we picture robots, we normally think of an artificial being created in our own image. But what if this were deeply misleading? Author ofThe New Breed, Kate Darling, joins Adam to separate fact fr...
1 Kesä 20221h 1min
Junk Science and the Criminal Justice System with Chris Fabricant
Our criminal justice system gives the impression of being impartial and fact-based, but in reality, it’s anything but. Innocence Project lawyer and author of Junk Science Chris Fabricant joins Adam to...
25 Touko 20221h 22min
