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episode 18: Bioethics, Humility, and Responsibility: A Conversation with Arthur Caplan
For this episode we welcome Dr. Arthur Caplan, who is currently the Drs. William F. and Virginia Connolly Mitty Professor and founding head of the Division of Medical Ethics at NYU’s Grossman School of Medicine in New York City. Dr. Caplan is the author or editor of 35 books and more than 800 papers in peer reviewed journals...
episode 212: Lee D. Baker, "From Savage to Negro: Anthropology and the Construction of Race, 1896-1954" (U California Press, 1998)
An interview with Lee D. Baker
episode 50: The Future of the News: A Discussion with Roger Mosey
What is the future of news? In the twentieth century Western-educated journalists championed impartial, unbiased news – which always seemed rather odd as everyone agreed it wasn’t possible for journalists to shed all their biases. That fundamental contradiction has been replaced by something even more problematic – fake news and worse than that, fake news which people believe and even the idea that everyone can publish their own news. So where are we headed in the twenty first century...
episode 271: Ijlal Naqvi, "Access to Power: Electricity and the Infrastructural State in Pakistan" (Oxford UP, 2022)
An interview with Ijlal Naqvi
episode 1299: James Raven, "The Oxford Illustrated History of the Book" (Oxford UP, 2022)
An interview with James Raven
episode 167: The Geopolitics of Microchips: China, the EU, and the US
An interview with Hermann Aubié
episode 58: Seeing Truth in the Archives
A Conversation about the AMNH and What Gets Saved with Joel Sweimler
episode 31: How a California Electricity Utility Caused Deadly Wildfires
A Conversation with Katherine Blunt