#112 - Should College Students Be Allowed To Take Smart Drugs?
If you could take a pill that would help you study and get better grades, would you? Off-label use of “smart drugs” – pharmaceuticals meant to treat disorders like ADHD, narcolepsy, and Alzheimer’s – ...
9 Nov 201552min
#111 - Should We Raise The Federal Gas Tax To Fund Infrastructure?
The Highway Trust Fund provides funding for road, bridge, and mass transit projects across the country – and it’s running out of money. Its revenue source, the federal gas tax, has not been raised in ...
4 Nov 201552min
Bonus Podcast: Is Death Final?
If consciousness is just the workings of neurons and synapses, how do we explain the phenomenon of near-death experience? By some accounts, about 3% of the U.S. population has had one: an out-of-body ...
29 Okt 201548min
#110 - Are China And The U.S. Long-Term Enemies?
Is China’s ascendancy a threat to the U.S.? China’s rise as an economic and military power, coupled with its aggression in the South China Sea, have led some to call for a major re-balancing of U.S. p...
21 Okt 201557min
#109 - Should Courts Or Campuses Decide Sexual Assault Cases?
High-profile cases have recently put campus sexual assault in the spotlight. One question that has repeatedly come up: why are these cases being handled by campuses at all? Campus investigations may s...
23 Sep 201554min
Bonus Podcast: Should We Abolish the Minimum Wage?
This is a special podcast for Labor Day. The first attempt at establishing a national minimum wage, a part of 1933’s sweeping National Industrial Recovery Act, was struck down by the Supreme Court in ...
4 Sep 201550min
#108 - Does The U.S. Need To Defeat ISIS, Or Is Containment Enough?
The region under the control of ISIS continues to expand, despite airstrikes and the deployment of U.S. military advisers. Should the U.S. goal be containment, or can ISIS be defeated? Learn more abou...
18 Aug 201552min
Bonus Podcast: Israel Can Live With A Nuclear Iran
The U.S., Iran, and other world powers have reached a final deal to limit Iran's ability to build a nuclear weapon. According to President Obama, "every pathway to a nuclear weapon is cut off." But to...
20 Juli 201552min
