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In his book, American Rule: How a Nation Conquered the World but Failed Its People, Jared Yates Sexton writes that “The American Myth paints the pr...
- Added: Jan 24, 2023
- Length: 29:00
Environmental, social and corporate governance, referred to as ESG, is a set of factors that conscientious capitalists use to identify worthy inves...
- Added: Jan 11, 2023
- Length: 29:00
This week on Sea Change Radio, the second half of our two-part series examining the effective altruism movement and "longtermism." We speak to phil...
- Added: Dec 14, 2022
- Length: 29:00
As the news that thirty year-old cryptocurrency baron, Sam Bankman-Fried‘s, FTX empire suddenly collapsed, the residual effects reverberated in the...
- Added: Nov 30, 2022
- Length: 29:00
With the right-leaning US Supreme Court poised to eliminate affirmative action in higher education around the country — this seemed like an opportu...
- Added: Nov 09, 2022
- Length: 29:00
Many followers of the highly publicized Adnan Syed case were delighted to see an innocent man set free after over two decades behind bars. But the ...
- Added: Oct 19, 2022
- Length: 29:00
With less than a month to go before the midterm elections, concerned citizens across the country are deciding which candidates to support through c...
- Added: Oct 13, 2022
- Length: 29:00
When it comes to the Middle East and the environment, many of us think first about the area's role in petroleum production. But climate change is h...
- Added: Sep 27, 2022
- Length: 29:00
About 24% of the US population resides in the West, a region already profoundly affected by climate change. In 2021 nearly 95% of the American West...
- Added: Sep 06, 2022
- Length: 29:00
What comes to mind when you hear the words “crime” and “safety?” For many, these words evoke images of poor people stealing things, or police enfor...
- Added: Aug 09, 2022
- Length: 29:00
Are you weary of having to care about where headline-seeking Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema land on important topics? Well, according to t...
- Added: Aug 02, 2022
- Length: 29:00
Anyone who paid attention to the ugly aftermath of the 2020 presidential election suddenly realized that a coterie of state-level bureaucrats had a...
- Added: Jul 27, 2022
- Length: 29:00
It’s no secret that polarization is deepening divides across the US. Over the past few years, many people have started or joined what are called br...
- Added: Jul 21, 2022
- Length: 29:30
It seems like these days every sentence that begins with "The Supreme Court..." finishes with truly appalling news -- another draconian ruling rega...
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- Added: Jul 05, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
The term “civil liberties” may connote different associations, depending on where you fall on the political spectrum. While some connect the term w...
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- Added: Jun 03, 2022
- Length: 29:00
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“It is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean and land. The scale of recent changes are unprecedented over many centurie...
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- Added: May 18, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
There are forces in the US that like to selectively bring up “states rights” from time to time – with the impending decision stripping the federal ...
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- Added: May 12, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
With around a billion dollars in annual revenue, The Nature Conservancy is the largest organization of its kind in America. Their stated mission is...
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- Added: May 03, 2022
- Length: 29:00
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More than 20 years ago, sociologist Barry Glassner wrote his bestseller The Culture of Fear, where he explains why Americans tend to be unreasonabl...
- Added: Apr 27, 2022
- Length: 29:00
In his astute and timeless book, "How to Lie with Statistics," Darrell Huff writes, “The secret language of statistics, so appealing in a fact-mind...
- Added: Apr 22, 2022
- Length: 29:00
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. famously instilled optimism with his proclamation that, “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward jus...
- Added: Apr 12, 2022
- Length: 29:00
According to a study conducted by Quantis International, footwear production is responsible for about 700 million metric tons of carbon dioxide, or...
- Added: Mar 29, 2022
- Length: 29:00
In this episode, we continue exploring the context of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine - or as our guest, political scientist Dr. Kathryn Stoner, clari...
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- Added: Mar 25, 2022
- Length: 29:30
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America loves to blame the President when gas prices are high but the fact is the U.S. President has very little control over the price we pay at t...
- Added: Mar 23, 2022
- Length: 29:00
In this episode, we explore the historical and geo-political context of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, as well as the role and actions of NATO.
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- Added: Mar 17, 2022
- Length: 29:30