Episode 46: What We Get From Watching Sports
Send us Fan Mail Sports are not only big business, they’re emotionally meaningful to millions of people throughout the world. But why? Aren’t there so many better and more important things to do with ...
1 Mai 202241min
Episode 45: Spring Forward or Fall Back - Pick One
Send us Fan Mail The U.S. Senate’s recent unanimous passage of a resolution to make Daylight Saving Time permanent would save us the annoying chore of adjusting our clocks twice a year. But is it the...
17 Apr 202230min
Episode 44: Charity Begins Where, Exactly?
Send us Fan Mail It’s a choice a lot of us face every day: whether to give cash to a panhandler on the street or instead donate that money to a charity that serves the homeless and tries to get them...
3 Apr 202236min
Episode 43: Making Sense of Anti-Vaxxers
Send us Fan Mail Let’s face it: some people are never, ever going to take a COVID vaccine. A member of Joe’s family is one such person, and he really wanted to know where that point of view came fro...
20 Mar 202234min
Episode 42: What To Do About Homelessness
Send us Fan Mail If there were a list of intractable problems our country faces, homelessness would certainly be on it. The solution proffered by many advocates – more affordable housing – seems simp...
6 Mar 202243min
Episode 41: A Second American Civil War?
Send us Fan Mail There’s been a lot of chatter in the media lately – no doubt influenced by the publication of two recent books on the subject - about whether the United States is on the brink of a se...
20 Feb 202248min
Episode 40: The Skinny on Crime Statistics
Send us Fan Mail For the last few decades, Americans have taken it as gospel that crime has been falling, a belief that’s supported by reams of data. But what if the data is being manipulated by poli...
7 Feb 202247min
Episode 39: What’s Causing Havana Syndrome?
Send us Fan Mail U.S. diplomatic personnel stationed in Havana, Cuba first reported it more than five years ago: a piercing, high-pitched sound, often followed by headache, nausea, and vertigo. Since...
23 Jan 202231min
