December 1, 2022
Silent Spring, 60 Years Later
November 24, 2022
Origin Stories
This show was originally broadcast on December 5, 2019. Origin stories can be educated guesses, or leaps of collective imagination as to who we are,...| More
November 17, 2022
Multipolarity
Our unipolar moment may be remembered as the United States’ turn as “king of the hill,” two decades or so between the collapse of the...| More
November 10, 2022
The New Right
The hatching of a New Right Republican party, under fire, is the substance of this radio hour. It was simpler in Gilbert and Sullivan when...| More
November 3, 2022
Polycrisis
Finally, there’s a word for it: the polycrisis, to describe the multiple messes we’re in. Our guest the historian Adam Tooze says it’s a polycrisis...| More
October 27, 2022
A Just Cause
Talking time around the war in Ukraine may be approaching. This radio hour may be a moment in that trend: reaching out for strong views...| More
October 20, 2022
Taiwan, the World-Class Puzzle
Next on the global agenda comes Taiwan, the island off China once known as Formosa, meaning shapely, beautiful. Today it’s a puzzle with moving parts:...| More
October 13, 2022
Humane Wartime
Try a simple riddle, about the time and climate we Americans are living in, today: Do we call it (a) wartime or (b) peacetime? Tense...| More
October 6, 2022
The Historians’ Diagnosis
The conversation about a world in disarray feels urgent, elusive, etherized. Who will name this crisis and the roots of it: war, tribalism, maldistributed money,...| More
September 29, 2022
Cruel Britannia
This show first aired on May 19, 2022. George Orwell said, “It’s so easy to be witty about the British Empire.” As in the throwaway...| More
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