Episode Twenty: Pondering A Meatless Future
Send us Fan Mail Climate change is forcing us to consider monumental changes to our way of life, including rethinking the wildly inefficient and unconscionably wasteful way we produce meat. Which beg...
12 Apr 202150min
Episode Nineteen: No News Is Not Necessarily Good News
Send us Fan Mail Since 2004, more than 1,300 communities in the USA have lost a newspaper, and when the daily paper is a thing of the past it will be replaced by ... what, exactly, and what might be ...
28 Mar 202145min
Episode Eighteen: Unpacking the Green New Deal
Send us Fan Mail Joe and Mark consider the Congressional resolution that has progressive hearts aflutter, while conservatives are in a tizzy at the prospect of losing access to the hamburger-industria...
14 Mar 202152min
Episode Seventeen: ERA Maybe
Send us Fan Mail Mark and Joe trace the history of the Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, from its genesis in the 1920s through the ratification wars of the 1970s, and try to guess wheth...
28 Feb 202142min
Episode Sixteen: Are We the Sum Total of Our Memories?
Send us Fan Mail Why do some people lose their memories? When you lose your memory, what is it that you’re losing? Joe and Mark discuss the umbrella of neurocognitive disorders known familiarly as ...
14 Feb 202149min
Episode Fifteen: Breaking Up (Big Tech) Is Hard to Do
Send us Fan Mail The recent federal antitrust lawsuits against Facebook and Google mark a rare area of agreement in our polarized political culture. Seemingly everybody wants to do something about Bi...
1 Feb 20211h 1min
Episode Fourteen: Here’s the Dope on Drug Legalization
Send us Fan Mail Without inhaling, Joe and Mark catch a whiff of the best arguments for and against legalizing drugs. Includes a brief history of drug use in the USA, a chronicle of the ill-advised "...
17 Jan 202153min
Episode Thirteen: Whitewashing the Negro Leagues
Send us Fan Mail Mark and Joe slide into Major League Baseball’s surprising decision to integrate the Negro Leagues with the major leagues. Is it even feasible to combine the statistical records of d...
3 Jan 202135min
