EP 952 Have Our Solutions to the Climate Crisis Been Misguided?

EP 952 Have Our Solutions to the Climate Crisis Been Misguided?

 Have you ever started working on a puzzle and realized you had the whole picture wrong and needed to start over again?  Well, our guest thinks that we’ve been so focused on ‘managing tons’ of emissions, with regulatory and accounting nightmares like offsets, that we’ve lost sight of the goal of developing a new economic …

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EP 951 Diverse Schools and Workplaces Perform Better. There’s Science Behind It.

EP 951 Diverse Schools and Workplaces Perform Better. There’s Science Behind It.

 There was a time when our guest was a diversity skeptic.  He actually believed that Justice Clarence Thomas’s thinking on the matter had some validity.  Then he began to explore the history of the concept and became a true admirer of the benefits that diversity brings to academic settings, the workplace, science laboratories and all …

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EP 950 Your Digital Life Lives on Long After You’re Gone

EP 950 Your Digital Life Lives on Long After You’re Gone

Here’s a podcast subject I bet you’ve never thought about. It did briefly occur to me as I continue to get birthday reminders from Facebook about friends I know who have died.  What happens to your digital life when you pass away?  Unlike previous technologies to preserve the dead–cemeteries, archives, photo albums, home movies–the internet …

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EP 948 Social Security’s Future is Still Not Secure

EP 948 Social Security’s Future is Still Not Secure

  Social Security has been in the news lately because DOGE had a particular interest in finding waste, fraud and abuse in a system in which .05 percent of all funds are used to administer the program.  It appears they found none, despite initial reports that 150- year -olds were still on the rolls.  The …

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EP 947 The Bag of Tricks Used to Make Black Homeownership Difficult Continues to Grow

EP 947 The Bag of Tricks Used to Make Black Homeownership Difficult Continues to Grow

 If you go back and look at the history of how Blacks in America have been limited in their pursuit of the American Dream by way of home ownership, the record is staggering.  Historically there have been racial covenants, redlining, predatory mortgage lending, blockbusting, urban renewal and now we can add a new pernicious tool: …

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EP 946 Where Does the Truth Lie? Or How Can We Tell When Lies are Not the Truth?

EP 946 Where Does the Truth Lie? Or How Can We Tell When Lies are Not the Truth?

  I must admit that while I took a deep dive into Michael Shermer’s new book, “Truth: What It Is, How to Find It & Why It Still Matters,” I was not certain in what direction I would take the interview.  It raised so many questions about this moment when many believe that you can’t …

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EP 945 The New Food Pyramid Differs in Significant Ways from the Previous One

EP 945 The New Food Pyramid Differs in Significant Ways from the Previous One

You may have heard that there is a new food pyramid in town.  In January of this year, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released an updated version of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans.  The 10-page document is a major change from the one published five years …

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EP 944 America was Born in Protest and Makes Progress in Dissent

EP 944 America was Born in Protest and Makes Progress in Dissent

In 2025, more Americans have taken to the streets to protest various issues that concern them about our nation’s politics than in the recent past.  As a country that came about from rebellion against tyranny, it is an American birthright.  Various forms of protest have given energy to civil rights, improved labor conditions, a cleaner …

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EP 943 Can We Maintain Western Civilization if We Don’t Teach it?

EP 943 Can We Maintain Western Civilization if We Don’t Teach it?

Courses on Western Civilization were once a staple in schools.  No longer.  It’s been replaced by Global Civilization or Social Studies courses.  Our guest,  former Harvard Professor, James Hankins and his co-author, Professor Allen Guelzo, sought to change that so that the good resulting from the traditions of Western Civilization–its art, literature, law, philosophy, science, …

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