War Zones & Prisons: The Places We Hide Suffering and The Ways We Rationalize It
Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and the author of many bestselling nonfiction books. He began his career as a war correspondent, and was a reporter for the New York Times for fifte...
24 Feb 202247min
How Do Hedge Fund Managers Justify Their Existence?
Megan Tobias Neely is a sociologist whose book Hedged Out: Inequality and Insecurity on Wall Street takes a deep look inside the world of hedge funds, those small boutique investment banks that play w...
24 Feb 202248min
How To Think Sensibly About Apocalypse and Catastrophe
Phil Torres is a scholar of "global catastrophic risk," meaning that he studies the various ways in which terrible things could happen to humanity: nuclear war, global warming, asteroids, killer robot...
16 Feb 202255min
Why Is Climate Communication So Impossible and Frustrating?
George Monbiot has been working on issues of climate and environmental justice for three decades. A columnist for The Guardian, George's books include Heat: How to Stop the Planet From Burning, Out of...
16 Feb 202248min
Our Era of Scams & Hype: From the Fyre Festival to Trump's Career to NFTs
We live in an age where economic success can depend a lot more on hype and branding than offering actual useful things that help people. Occasionally, we see extreme examples of fakers and frauds, lik...
10 Feb 202246min
How Did Anyone Ever Believe WeWork's BS?
Maureen Farrell is a business reporter with the New York Times and co-author of the book The Cult of We: WeWork, Adam Neumann, and the Great Startup Delusion, which documents one of the most bizarre s...
3 Feb 202249min
Is The International Criminal Court a Functional Institution?
The International Criminal Court in the Hague is the place where war criminals are supposed to be tried and punished. It embodies a vision of global justice in which war crimes are universally forbidd...
3 Feb 202243min
Is Mocking the Deaths of Anti-Vaxxers "Necessary"? Or Cruel and Useless?
Michael Hiltzik is a Pulitzer Prize-winning business columnist for the Los Angeles Times. He has recently attracted a lot of (almost entirely negative) attention for a column and tweets arguing that m...
3 Feb 202248min
