The ‘Five Horsemen of the Techpocalypse’ with Kara Swisher
The so-called “Big Tech” industry has dramatically improved our daily lives, but at what cost? Few people have gotten a closer look at these companies than Kara Swisher, writer for The New York Times ...
22 Apr 202123min
Fighting Poverty And Pandemics, with Nobel Economist Michael Kremer
The solutions to global poverty can appear obvious, even if they’re difficult to implement. But, as University of Chicago economist Michael Kremer has discovered, interventions that may seem like comm...
8 Apr 202131min
Why Life After Incarceration Is Just Another Prison, with Reuben Jonathan Miller
For the more than 20 million people with a felony record, incarceration doesn’t end at the prison gate. They enter what University of Chicago scholar Reuben Jonathan Miller calls the “afterlife” of ma...
25 Mar 202136min
Anthony Fauci On What We Need To Get Over COVID-19
Anthony Fauci has spent the past year trying to curb the worst health crisis the world has seen in a century. In a recent University of Chicago event, Fauci reflected on how the COVID-19 pandemic has...
8 Mar 202128min
The Ethics of COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution, with Laurie Zoloth
The coronavirus pandemic has raised countless ethical questions: How do we balance restricting freedoms with protecting others, how do we ethically distribute vaccines, should we force people to get v...
25 Feb 202132min
The Doomsday Clock’s ‘Historic Wake-Up Call,’ With Rachel Bronson
The Doomsday Clock has been set at 100 seconds to midnight—as close to total destruction as we were in 2020. But after a year of increasingly dangerous weather and wildfires, not to mention the COVID-...
11 Feb 202134min
Unraveling the Mystery of Life’s Origins on Earth, with Jack Szostak
What are the biggest questions in science today: Can we cure cancer, solve the climate crisis, make it to Mars? For Nobel laureate Jack Szostak, the biggest question is still much more fundamental: Wh...
28 Jan 202121min
The Urgent Need to Reinvest in American Research, with Barbara Snyder
Our podcast is all about research. Every episode we investigate what scholars have discovered and why it matters. But we’re going to get meta on this episode and look at what makes this research possi...
14 Jan 202126min
