Why Children Make Such Good Philosophers
In this episode, we discuss the strange creatures known as children. Scott Hershovitz is a professor of philosophy and law at the University of Michigan and the author of Nasty, Brutish, and Short: Ad...
19 Aug 202244min
The Life of Murray Bookchin / Revolution in Rojava
Janet Biehl is one of the leading libertarian socialist writers in the country. For several decades, she was the partner and collaborator of the late political theorist Murray Bookchin, who stood, in ...
19 Aug 202254min
How Much Is a Whale Worth? (w/ Adrienne Buller)
In our last episode, we took a break from the depressing facts of the ecological crisis to simply marvel at the immense variety of experiences and sensations in the animal kingdom. Today we return to ...
19 Aug 202246min
The Wonderful World of Animal Senses and How They Expand Our View of The Universe (w/ Ed Yong)
Ed Yong of The Atlantic is the author of the new bestselling book An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us, which is about all of the fascinating ways in which animal sen...
19 Aug 202241min
Have the Suburbs Ruined Everything? (w/ Bill McKibben)
Bill McKibben is a legendary activist and writer whose 1989 book The End of Nature introduced the problem of global warming to a general audience. Since then, he has been one of the world's leading en...
31 Juli 202242min
A Set of Progressive Economic Principles That Can Actually Win Elections
Things do not look good for Joe Biden and the Democratic Party right now. Polls show that nearly 3/4 of Americans, including a staggering 94% of people under 30, do not want Biden to run for reelectio...
31 Juli 202250min
A Neuroscientist Critiques the Dangerous "Populist" Pseudoscience of Yuval Noah Harari
Yuval Noah Harari is an Israeli historian whose books have been major bestsellers, praised by Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and Barack Obama. Harari not only offers a sweeping chronicle of the human pa...
31 Juli 202255min
Cory Doctorow on The Wondrous World of the Early Internet & How To Destroy Surveillance Capitalism
Pioneering blogger and science fiction writer Cory Doctorow has been an activist for online freedom since the early days of the history of the internet. He has long been one of the major voices opposi...
31 Juli 202244min
