Old School: The Modern Trauma Toolkit (Christine Gibson)
"Trauma" has become a controversial word in the current culture wars. It's a point of pride for some, an excuse for others. But trauma is undoubtedly real, and it effects the body. Dr. Christy Gibson,...
28 Jul 55min
How to Hack Your Brain's Moral Code (Joshua Greene)
What if a quiz show could fix America's political divide? Amanda talks with Harvard psychologist Joshua Greene about the neuroscience behind moral decision-making, why people don't donate to the chari...
14 Jul 1h 3min
Humor as Catharsis
As she prepares for the premiere of her one-woman show, Cartwheel, at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this August, Amanda has been thinking about the relationship between tragedy and comedy. This episo...
9 Jul 16min
Old School: The Outlaw (Seth Ferranti)
Seth Ferranti is a former LSD kingpin and fugitive on the US Marshall’s Top 15 Most Wanted list who faced a highly publicized and lengthy prison sentence due to the DEA's early-'90s crackdown on LSD. ...
30 Jun 52min
Good News Bad News
Amanda woke up to good news and bad news arriving at the exact same moment — again. In true Hard Knocks fashion, that personal experience sends Chris and Amanda down a rabbit hole exploring one of lif...
23 Jun 48min
Why Fear Makes Bad Policy (Laura Porter)
The death penalty is often sold as justice. But what if it's just a very expensive decades-long process, doesn't deter crime, and gets it wrong often enough that 190 people have been exonerated from d...
16 Jun 1h 2min
Fifty Words for Snow
Amanda Knox is a multi-linguist and self-described word nerd. In this essay she explores the fascinating world of untranslatable words, the ones that exist in some languages but not others, and what t...
9 Jun 15min
Old School: The Canceling of the American Mind (Greg Lukianoff)
Greg Lukianoff is one of our nation's foremost defenders of free speech, co-author of "The Canceling of the American Mind," and president of FIRE, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression. ...
2 Jun 53min
