Can Streets Discriminate?
January 8, 2023
City streets play an important role in our everyday lives. We commute to work, walk…
Public Policy Tagged Episodes
Reading the Troubled Past
March 13, 2022
Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe lambasted Joseph Conrad’s novel Heart of Darkness as a deeply racist work that…
Frantz Fanon and the Violence of Colonialism
July 19, 2020
Frantz Fanon is a thinker who has inspired radical liberation movements in places ranging from…
White Privilege and Racial Injustice
June 7, 2020
“White privilege” has become a buzzword in discussions about racial inequality and racial justice. The…
Fractured Identities
April 5, 2020
Despite tremendous strides made towards civil and political rights in the United States, discrimination and…
Race Matters
February 2, 2020
Started in the wake of George Zimmerman’s 2013 acquittal in the death of Trayvon Martin,…
Altered States
March 3, 2019
Aldous Huxley explains his conception of the brain as a “reducing valve” of consciousness in…
Affirmative Action: Too Little or Too Much?
January 20, 2019
Addressing our nation’s history of racial injustice can be a truly backbreaking endeavor. Race-based affirmative…
Freedom and Free Enterprise
February 7, 2016
“Freedom” means the human capacity to choose among options, based on one’s own preferences and…
What Are Leaders Made of?
July 13, 2014
There seems to be a paradox in leadership: the qualities of ruthlessness and opportunism necessary…
The Military: What Is It Good For?
February 16, 2014
Is the military draft a natural expression of democratic values, or a challenge to our…
Drug Legalization
May 25, 2004
Does America’s drug problem rest on confused philosophy? Ken and John discuss the philosophical issues…
Marriage and the State
February 2, 2004
With what right does the state say who can and cannot marry? The state has,…
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