Episode 54: The Hullabaloo Over Charter Schools
Send us Fan Mail When it comes to charter schools, people working on education policy tend to sort themselves into two camps: the lovers and the haters. Charters are either dramatically improving the...
25 Sep 202247min
Episode 53: I’m Scared, Therefore I’m Armed
Send us Fan Mail It’s a simple question, really: Why can’t we control guns in America? The answer is also deceptively simple: It's because we’re afraid. Mark and Joe explore the deep divisions arou...
5 Sep 202240min
Episode 52: Wrapping Our Brains Around Love
Send us Fan Mail In college, one of Mark’s professors warned him not to interpret a memorable line about love in Homer’s Iliad to mean romantic love, which was, she said, a notion that first arose in ...
14 Aug 202241min
Episode 51: Is There a Link Between Abortion and Crime?
Send us Fan Mail A controversial 2001 academic paper suggested that there’s a connection between Roe v. Wade’s legalization of abortion in 1973 and the reduction in crime that followed a generation l...
24 Jul 202233min
Episode 50: Why We Laugh
Send us Fan Mail It’s strange to think that laughter – involving the involuntary and sometimes loud expulsion of air, and which sometimes renders us helpless, struggling to breathe and with tears str...
10 Jul 202239min
Episode 49: Are Cities In Trouble?
Send us Fan Mail The COVID-19 pandemic killed millions of people around the globe and devastated cities that experienced the seismic shock of a severe economic downturn that emptied downtowns and shut...
18 Jun 202242min
Episode 48: I Own It, Now You Pay For It
Send us Fan Mail Mark can’t fathom how it’s legal to take out a big loan to buy a company, then transfer all that debt to the newly-acquired company and force it, in effect, to pay off its own purchas...
29 Mai 202242min
Episode 47: College Is For Girls
Send us Fan Mail On a recent tour of college campuses with his daughter, Joe noticed how many more women were on campus than men, so he asked Mark whether this was true, and if so, why. Join Mark and...
14 Mai 202232min
