E51: There's an Argument in There - On Critical Thinking with Jonathan Haber
Leverage the Power of Doubt • The Place of Critical Thinking in Education • On a Definition of Critical Thinking • Comparing Immersion and Infusion • The Application of Critical Thinking to Standing ...
1 Okt 202056min
E50: Transmit, Don't Indoctrinate
“In Praise of Idleness” • Leisure in a Constructive Sense • Recreational Guilt • The Remembered Self • Productivity Bias • Instrumental Tasks • On the Value of Conversations • Shit Canning Street Epis...
19 Aug 20201h 18min
E49: The New Paper
The News as a Broken System • The New Paper • Bias and Sensationalism • The Medium is the Message • Ad-driven News and the Subscription Model • Social Media and the Democratization of Media Are you i...
14 Jul 202051min
E48: A Gaudy Circus (The White Slave Traffic Act Considered)
Preface • The White-Slave Traffic Act Considered • The Everleigh Club Case Study • Party with Prince Henry of Prussia • The Murder of Marshall Field Jr. • Jack Johnson and the Mann Act • The Overwhe...
30 Jun 20201h
E47: The Cynical Historian (YouTube and Public History)
YouTube and Academia • The Cynical Historian • Journalistic Sensationalism • An Obligatory Discussion of Dan Carlin and Hardcore History • Pop History/Public History • Defacing the Culture • On the Li...
10 Jun 20201h 9min
E46: Open Access and Digital Piracy
Science Journalism • Sci-Hub • Alexandra Elbakyan • Popular and Academic Science • Carl Sagan • The Big Five Academic Publishers • Broader Implications • Misinformation • Henry Ford and Anti-Semitism ...
2 Jun 20201h 8min
E45: Army of Principles (Anti-intellectualism in the United States)
Skeptics • Radicals • Popularizers • Socialists • Isaac Asimov • Essentialism • Robert Green Ingersoll • History at the Primary and Secondary Level • American Anti-intellectualism • “My ignorance is j...
5 Mai 20201h 18min
E44: How Psychedelics Became Dangerous (Part 3 - Psilocybin)
Shrooms • LIFE Magazine • “mushrooms that cause strange visions" • Timothy Leary • The Harvard Psilocybin Project • Concord Prison Experiment • The Miracle at Marsh Chapel • Leary Fired • Crackdown • ...
28 Apr 202050min
