Based on DNA Testing, Only One Twin Was Granted U.S. Citizenship. Why?
This episode is a conversation based on two of Nancy Segal's books The Twin Children of the Holocaust: Stolen Childhood and the Will to Survive and Gay Fathers, Twin Sons: the Citzenship Case that Cap...
1 Sep 20231h 42min
Evidence of Aliens? Harvard Astronomer Avi Loeb
Did Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb discover the remnants of an interstellar meteor in the form of spherules on the ocean floor? Could they be of alien origin? In today's special edition of The Michael Sh...
29 Aug 20231h 31min
Slavery in the U.S. Analyzed by a Pulitzer Prize-Winning Lawyer and Historian (Ed Larson)
New attention from historians and journalists is raising pointed questions about the founding period: was the American revolution waged to preserve slavery, and was the Constitution a pact with slaver...
22 Aug 20231h 45min
Maybe "Good Enough" Is Actually Enough? When Perfectionism Backfires.
"Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good." —anonymous "Perfection is man's ultimate illusion. It simply doesn't exist in the universe. If you are a perfectionist, you are guarantee to be a lose...
15 Aug 20231h 44min
Is a Human Life Worth $10 Million or Only $187,000? (Bjorn Lomborg)
World leaders have promised everything to everyone. But they are failing. Together with more than a hundred of the world's top economists, Bjorn Lomborg has worked for years to identify the world's be...
8 Aug 20231h 33min
Why We Get Fooled
From phishing scams to Ponzi schemes, fraudulent science to fake art, chess cheaters to crypto hucksters, and marketers to magicians, our world brims with deception. In Nobody's Fool, psychologists Da...
1 Aug 20231h 54min
The Saad Truth About Happiness
Everyone wants to be happy. The question "How can I be happy?" drives countless decisions across the world, and billions of dollars are spent on marketing a wide variety of answers to it. Increasing e...
25 Juli 20231h 57min
Christopher Rufo Decodes Cultural Shifts in America
In this conversation based on his new book, America's Cultural Revolution, Christopher Rufo exposes the inner history of the intellectuals and militants who slowly and methodically captured America's ...
18 Juli 20231h 39min
