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 Mars 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 Mars 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
Episode 38: The Myth of the Myth of Altruism
Send us Fan Mail You know those good deeds you do for others and others do for you? What if somebody told you that every one of those acts is actually selfishness in disguise? Well, that’s what some...
9 Jan 202240min
Episode 37: Finally, Some Good News
Send us Fan Mail It’s hard not to be demoralized by the news these days, what with a worldwide pandemic still raging, climate devastation upon us, and a completely dysfunctional political system see...
21 Dec 202140min
