Episode 98: Humanistic Psychology Part I
In popular culture, there is often a morbid fascination with the psychology of evil, but what about the psychology of good? Social Psychology may get most of the headlines, but Humanistic Psychology c...
20 Sep 202128min
Episode 97: Mono No Aware
In a massive and seemingly uncaring universe, fatalism and the resignation of inevitability is one way to look at the world. The philosophical concept of Mono No Aware and Ken Liu's powerful short sto...
30 Aug 202120min
Episode 96: Running From Bondage with Karen Cook Bell
In this episode I sat down with historian Karen Cook Bell to talk about her book Running from Bondage: Enslaved Women and Their Remarkable Fight for Freedom in Revolutionary America. We discussed life...
9 Aug 202144min
Episode 95: Sprinting Through No Man's Land with Adin Dobkin
In this episode, I spoke with writer and journalist Adin Dobkin about his book "Sprinting Through No Man's Land: Endurance, Tragedy, and Rebirth in the 1919 Tour de France." We talked about conflict a...
19 Jul 202154min
Episode 94: The Cambodian Genocide Part V-Children of Cambodia's Killing Fields
Children often get overlooked in the study of history. But their stories can be useful tools to study the past as well as fascinating examples of human endurance in their own right. Compiled by Dith P...
28 Jun 202120min
Episode 93: The Cambodian Genocide Part IV- First They Killed My Father
Loung Ung's incredible memoir "First They Killed My Father" is a tragic reminder of the realities of the Killing Fields in Cambodia, but also a lesson in the importance of historical empathy. Her stor...
7 Jun 202132min
Episode 92: The Cambodian Genocide Part III: Reverberations of a Nightmare
What happened in Cambodia from 1975-1979 was especially cruel. What explains the brutality? While historians debate the underlying causes of the cruelty of the Khmer Rouge, the survivors of Cambodia a...
17 Mai 202128min
BONUS: The Paper Menagerie
Ken Liu's amazing short story "The Paper Menagerie" is simple but poignant. It provides an opportunity to think about some of the most important things in life: love, culture, history, regret, memorie...
6 Mai 202135min
