Animal Crisis with Lori Gruen and Alice Crary.
How can we best help animals, when it’s we humans who cause their suffering? Animal Crisis authors Alice Crary and Lori Gruen join Adam to explain how the same systems that hurt and kill animals also ...
27 Jul 20221h 10min
The Rise and Reign of the Mammals with Stephen Brusatte
In times of turmoil, it can be useful to take a longer view of history. Like, a LOT longer. Paleontologist and author of “The Rise and Reign of the Mammals” Stephen Brusatte joins Adam to explain how ...
20 Jul 20221h 3min
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 Jul 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 Jul 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 Jun 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 Jun 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 Jun 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 Jun 20221h 14min
