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124: Resisting the Arrogance of Certainty, with Andy Mills

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 03:37:11 +0000

If you listen to podcasts, you’re probably familiar with Andy Mills' work. He was a co-creator of The Daily, the award-winning podcast for the New York Times that attracts millions of listeners each week. He’s also created, produced, and edited Rabbit Hole, Caliphate, and The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling, among others. Andy is a deeply thoughtful, intentionally curious human, and that is readily apparent in his newest show, Reflector, co-created with Matthew Boll.

We get into a lot in this conversation, like why has storytelling become increasingly political over the last decade? What happens when politics comes to fill a space in society that religion once did? And how do we get to the truth of an event that involves multiple valid perspectives? If there’s a though line here, it’s a call to reject what Andy calls, “The arrogance of certainty.”

Reflector (Substack) // Reflector (Spotify)

Rabbit Hole

The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling

andymills.work

Andy Mills: Quitting The New York Times and making 'The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling' - ReasonTV

Andy Mills on How Curiosity Can Save Journalism -- and Us - Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em Podcast

Episode 201: Mills Spills (with Andy Mills) - Blocked & Reported

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123: A Field Manual for Veterans, with Rob Sarver & Alex Gendzier

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 13:00:00 +0000

Rob Sarver is a former Navy SEAL. Assigned to SEAL Team 3, he completed seven deployments during his service. Rob's awards and decorations include the Bronze Star Medal with a combat "V" device and oak leaf cluster and the Combat Action Ribbon with a gold star device. Rob is the Co-Founder of Servius Group and serves as the Co-CEO and Co-Founder of The Heroes Journey.

Alex Gendzier is a partner at a top law firm, where he is involved in veteran’s affairs. At his prior firm, he acted as a senior advisor to the VALOR Group, which provides pro bono legal services to veterans and their families, and where he lead his law firms’ efforts to assist Afghan allies and friends.

Warrior to Civilian: The Field Manual for the Hero’s Journey, by Rob Sarver & Alex Gendzier

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122: Striving for a Life of Service, with Danny Miranda

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 13:00:00 +0000

Danny Miranda is the host of The Danny Miranda Podcast and cofounder of Alignment Academy.

David Perell Interviews Me | The Danny Miranda Podcast 305 - YouTube

Living In Alignment With Nick Sweeney (Danny's return to the podcast) - YouTube

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The 3rd Annual Very Special Boxing Day Episode, with Jay Shapiro

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 13:00:00 +0000

This is the 3rd Annual Very Special Boxing Day Episode of Where We Go Next, with longtime friend of the show Jay Shapiro.

We discuss:

• What Jay's been up to in Madrid over the last year
• Jay's new book
• The upcoming addition to the Callahan family
• Jay & Michael's holiday traditions
• What we like in a good horror film
• Jay's Horror Film Recommendation: Funny Games (1997)
• Michael's Horror Film Recommendation: The Thing (1982)
• Our shared resolution for 2025
• ...and more!

Chasing History and When My World Changed - Dilemma Podcast (YouTube)

Palestine and the Growing Defiance of the Global South With Vijay Prashad - Dilemma Podcast (YouTube)

whatjaythinks.com

"Despair less. Cherish more."

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A Welcome Respite

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 3 Dec 2024 13:00:00 +0000

To get the most out of The 3rd Annual Very Special Boxing Day Episode, watch The Thing (1982) and Funny Games (1997) by December 26th.

Thanks for sticking around.

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Re-Release: Going to Space, Reusing the Entire Rocket, and Flying Again in 24 Hours, with Andy Lapsa

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Andy Lapsa is the co-founder of Stoke Space, a reusable rocket company started in 2019 with the knowledge that fully and rapidly reusable rockets represent the inevitable and necessary future of the space industry. Prior to founding Stoke, Andy was one of the original three members of Blue Origin’s BE-4 team, where he held architecture, design, analysis, and development test leadership roles.

Stoke Space

Stoke Space Aims to Build Rapidly Reusable Rocket With a Completely Novel Design - Ars Technica

First-Of-Its-Kind Rocket Engine Nears First Flight Test - Freethink

How Stoke Space's Unique Rocket Works // Exclusive Tour & Interview - Everyday Astronaut (YouTube)

Full Reusability By Stoke Space - Everyday Astronaut

The Pollution Caused by Rocket Launches - BBC

Air Pollution From Reentering Megaconstellation Satellites Could Cause Ozone Hole 2.0- Space.com

Radiative Forcing - MIT Climate Portal

71: Rescuing Animals From the Brink of Extinction, with Forrest Galante - Where We Go Next

The Risky Rush for Mega Constellations - Scientific American

Kessler Syndrome- Wikipedia

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121: The Inner Workings and Outsized Benefits of Artificial Intelligence, with Harper Carroll

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 01:36:42 +0000

Harper Carroll is an AI and Machine Learning software engineer and educator known for making complex AI concepts accessible to a wide audience. She has multiple degrees from Stanford University in Computer Science specializing in AI, and industry experience at Meta, working on augmented reality and civic integrity projects. Her online educational content has gained her a following of over 300,000 subscribers on Instagram and YouTube.

Harper's 10 Days of AI Basics

AI Avatar Demonstration

10 Days of AI x Nuclear: AI's Energy Needs

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120: Hot Gossip, Hard-Nosed Reporting, and the Tabloid That Changed America, with Susan Mulcahy & Frank Digiacomo

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 8 Oct 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Susan Mulcahy and Frank DiGiacomo are former reporters for The New York Post and co-authors of Paper of Wreckage: The Rogues, Renegades, Wiseguys, Wankers, and Relentless Reporters Who Redefined American Media. Susan worked on Page Six from 1978 to 1985, including three years as editor. She has also written for The New Yorker and The New York Times. Frank worked as a Page Six freelancer in the late 1980s and was its editor from 1991 to 1993. He is currently an executive editor at Billboard.

The Gossip Behind the Gossip, by Frank DiGiacomo for Vanity Fair

Confessions of a Trump Tabloid Scribe, by Susan Mulcahy for Politico

A Tabloid Alum Blasts News to the New York Post Nation, by Susan Mulcahy for The New Yorker

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Re-Release: Black Culture Is Not a Monolith, with Bertrand Cooper

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Wed, 2 Oct 2024 00:59:04 +0000

Bertrand Cooper is a writer and education professional based in Los Angeles. Drawing on twenty six years of deprivation and a Master's in Education Theory and Policy, his writing explores the depictions of poverty in society.

Who Actually Gets to Create Black Pop Culture?, by Bertrand Cooper

I Escaped Poverty, But Hunger Still Haunts Me, by Bertrand Cooper

The Failure of Affirmative Action, by Bertrand Cooper

Is it Possible for Black Creatives to Exploit the Poor? w/ Damon Young & Bertrand Cooper - Bad Faith podcast

Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life, by Karen and Barbara Fields

Blacks See Growing Values Gap Between Poor and Middle Class (2007) - Pew Research Center

The Devastating Effects of Concentrated Poverty, by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Architecture of Segregation, by Paul Jargowsky

Neighborhood Income Composition by Household Race and Income, 1990 - 2009 - Stanford

Black Boy Fly, by Kendrick Lamar (YouTube)

Identity Theft, by Zaid Jilani

Black Jeopardy with Tom Hanks - SNL (YouTube)

Roger Ebert Speaks Out at a Better Luck Tomorrow Screening - YouTube

1,000 True Fans, by Kevin Kelly

Inequality Is High Within the Black Community, by Bertrand Cooper

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119: The Virtues of Being a Black Sheep, with Salomé Sibonex

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Salomé Sibonex is a writer, artist, and co-founder of The Black Sheep, a publication that frees people to take the path less traveled. She's given talks at FreedomFest and LibertyCon on how creative freedom allows us all to forge our own path—if we dare.

The Black Sheep

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118: Making Paleontology the Next TikTok Trend, with Harrison Duran

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Harrison Duran is a field paleontologist whose popular social media accounts document his preparation and excavation in the American West. His videography and storytelling convey the work and skill required by paleontology, as well as its significance to our understanding of the natural world. Species which he has excavated and prepared include Triceratops, Edmontosaurus, and Tyrannosaurus rex.

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Re-Release: Solving the Crisis of Boys and Men, with Richard Reeves

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Where We Go Next will be back to its regularly scheduled programming next week. Until then, enjoy this re-release of Episode 68, with the brilliant Richard Reeves.

Reeves is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and writes for a wide range of publications, including the New York Times, the Guardian, National Affairs, The Atlantic, Democracy Journal, and Wall Street Journal. His book Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do about It, shows how the basic social structures defining masculine maturity and success have been shattered, and how they can — and must — be reinvented.

Episode 68: Episode Link & Show Notes

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117: The Things We're Afraid to Talk About (But Should), with Sarah Hepola & Nancy Rommelmann

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 3 Sep 2024 23:49:28 +0000

Nancy Rommelmann is an investigative journalist, columnist, and author - most recently of To the Bridge: A True Story of Motherhood and Murder. Her work appears in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Reason Magazine, and her Substack, Make More Pie.

Sarah Hepola is the author of the bestselling memoir, Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, The Guardian, the Atlantic, Texas Monthly, and Salon. She is a staff writer at the Dallas Morning News.

Together, Nancy & Sarah host the Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em Podcast.

8. What Do Women Want? - Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em Podcast

The Things I’m Afraid to Write About, by Sarah Hepola for The Atlantic

On John Wayne Gacy, Actor Michael Chernus, and Why We Do the Work We Do - Make More Pie (Nancy's Substack)

Was Alice Munro An Art Monster?, by Meghan Daum

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116: The Unintended Consequences of Great Design, with Carissa Carter & Scott Doorley

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 22:03:33 +0000

Carissa Carter is a designer, geoscientist, and the academic director at the Stanford d.school. She's the author of The Secret Language of Maps: How to Tell Visual Stories with Data, and teaches design courses on emerging technologies, climate change, and data visualization. Her work on designing with machine learning and blockchain has earned multiple design awards, including Fast Company Innovation and Core 77 awards.

Scott Doorley is a writer, designer, and the creative director at the Stanford d.school. He has overseen everything from books to workspaces to digital products and initiatives focused on the future of learning and design. He co-wrote the book Make Space: How to Set the Stage for Creative Collaboration and teaches courses in design communication. His work has been featured in museums from San Jose to Helsinki and in publications such as Architecture + Urbanism and the New York Times.

Assembling Tomorrow: A Guide to Designing a Thriving Future

Stanford d.school (The Hasso Plattner Institute of Design)

Stanford 2025 - YouTube

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115: Spaceships, Silicon Valley, and Psilocybin, with Ashlee Vance

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 06:58:49 +0000

Ashlee Vance is a feature writer at Bloomberg Businessweek, host of the innovator-focused travel show Hello World, and the New York Times bestselling author of two books: Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future, and most recently, When the Heavens Went on Sale: The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach, which was the inspiration for his new HBO documentary Wild Wild Space.

Wild Wild Space - Trailer

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114: Our Complicated Relationship with the First Amendment, with Jonathan Turley

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Jonathan Turley is a law professor, columnist, television analyst, and litigator. Since 1998, he has held the Shapiro Chair for Public Interest Law at George Washington University Law School. He has served as counsel in some of the most notable cases in the last two decades, representing members of Congress, judges, whistleblowers, five former Attorney Generals, accused spies and terrorists, journalists, protesters, and workers at Area 51. He has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post, and has worked as a legal analyst for CBS, NBC, BBC, and Fox.

The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage

jonathanturley.org

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113: Freethinkers Only, Please, with Meghan Daum

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 6 Aug 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Meghan Daum is the host of The Unspeakable Podcast, co-host of A Special Place in Hell, the author of six books, and the founder of The Unspeakeasy, a community for free-thinking women who crave honest conversations about subjects that don’t come with easy solutions.

I Wasn’t Canceled. I Was Problematized.

Who Killed Creative Writing?

Was Alice Munro An Art Monster?

The Problem with Everything: My Journey Through the New Culture Wars

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112: 40% of Kids Don't Live with Married Parents and Why It Matters, with Melissa Kearney

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Melissa Kearney is the Neil Moskowitz Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland. She is also Director of the Aspen Economic Strategy Group, a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution.

The Two-Parent Privilege: How Americans Stopped Getting Married and Started Falling Behind

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111: The Hidden Forces Driving Our Online Behavior, with Steve Rathje

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Steve Rathje is a postdoctoral researcher in social psychology at New York University. Broadly, he studies the psychology of technology, and explores how polarization and intergroup conflict interact with social media and artificial intelligence. He is also a science communicator with over one million followers on his psychology TikTok channel.

steverathje.com

The Global Social Media Experiment

Social Identity & Morality Lab

Heineken: Worlds Apart

Psychology Experiment on Conformity - Steve's TikTok

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110: The Mounting Evidence That COVID-19 Leaked from a Lab, with Alina Chan

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Alina Chan is a molecular biologist at the Broad Institute of M.I.T. and Harvard, and a co-author of Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19. She was a member of the Pathogens Project, which the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists organized to generate new thinking on responsible, high-risk pathogen research.

Why the Pandemic Probably Started in a Lab, in 5 Key Points, by Alina Chan for the New York Times

Jon Stewart on Vaccine Science and the Wuhan Lab Theory - The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

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109: Bringing the World’s First Solar-Powered EV to Market, with Steve Fambro

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 9 Jul 2024 14:17:45 +0000

Steve Fambro is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Aptera Motors, which is aiming to deliver the world’s first mass market solar-powered electric vehicle.

Aptera Motors

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108: Investigative Journalism Is in Jeopardy, with Nancy Rommelmann

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Nancy Rommelmann is an investigative journalist, columnist, and author. Her on-the-ground reporting includes covering the war in Ukraine, the fight over abortion rights in Kansas City, and Donald Trump’s New York trial. Her work appears in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Reason Magazine, and elsewhere, and she posts on her Substack - titled “Make More Pie” about “Portland, New York, media, murder, culture, and pie - both literal and figurative.” She also co-hosts the Smoke ‘Em If You Got ‘Em podcast with Sarah Hepola.

Make More Pie - Nancy's Substack

Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em Podcast - cohosted with Sarah Hepola

Bubba: A Cancel-Culture Casualty

Destruction and Hope in Portland

The Last #MeToo: Part 1
The Last #MeToo: Part 2

The Slow Leave Taking: On Watching My Mother Slip Away

To the Bridge: A True Story of Motherhood and Murder

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107: We're Getting "Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion" All Wrong, with Chloé Valdary

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 21:00:56 +0000

Chloé Valdary is an American writer and entrepreneur whose company “Theory of Enchantment” teaches social and emotional learning in schools and diversity and inclusion in companies and government agencies.

Theory of Enchantment

Enchanted Dojo

TED: How Love Can Help Repair Social Inequality, with Chloé Valdary

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106: Making Media for the Middle Ground in an Era of Extremes, with Gen Kimura

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 4 Jun 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Gen Kimura is a YouTube creator and documentary filmmaker tackling controversial political topics via on-the-ground reporting with average citizens and inquisitive interviews with relevant experts.

Gen's YouTube Channel

Bridging the Bias newsletter

Squatters Invaded America. Here's How. - YouTube

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105: Religious Cults, Fringe Science, and the Need for Belief, with Ross Blocher & Carrie Poppy

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 28 May 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Carrie Poppy and Ross Blocher are the hosts of Oh No, Ross and Carrie!, an investigative podcast with over half a million downloads monthly. Whether it's joining secretive religious cults, searching for the paranormal, or experimenting with alternative medicine, they bring a skeptical yet open-minded approach to uncovering the truth.

Oh No, Ross and Carrie!

A Scientific Approach to the Paranormal - Carrie's TED Talk

Testing the Perimeter Fences - Ross's SkeptiCamp Talk

"I am, among humans, a very lucky god." A Eulogy for Ella.

We miss you, Darcy.

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104: The War for Critical Minerals and Our Electrified Future, with Ernest Scheyder

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 21 May 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Ernest Scheyder is a senior correspondent for Reuters and the author of The War Below: Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives.

The War Below: Lithium, Copper, and the Global Battle to Power Our Lives

Ernest Scheyder at Reuters

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103: Making Movies is Hard (But Worth It), with Liz Manashil

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 14 May 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Liz Manashil is a feature film writer and director, a distribution consultant for independent films, and the co-host of Making Movies is Hard, a podcast about the trials and tribulations of independent filmmaking.

Bread and Butter (2014)

Speed of Life (2019)

Making Movies is HARD!!! Podcast

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102: The Art and Technique of Directing Actors, with Judith Weston

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 7 May 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Judith Weston is a sought-after coach and teacher to first-class filmmakers and actors around the world, and has been supporting them with workshops, consultations and books for nearly 40 years. Her first book, Directing Actors, was originally published in 1996 and a 25th Anniversary Edition came out in 2021. Her second book, The Film Director’s Intuition, was published in 2003 and the audiobook version is out now.

Directing Actors - 25th Anniversary Edition: Creating Memorable Performances for Film and Television

The Film Director's Intuition: Script Analysis and Rehearsal Techniques

The Director Whisperer: Judith Weston Teaches Filmmakers How to Talk to Actors - Vanity Fair

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101: Uncovering the Hidden Truths in Political Memoirs, with Carlos Lozada

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Carlos Lozada is an opinion columnist at The New York Times and co-host of the “Matter of Opinion” podcast. He has won the Pulitzer Prize for criticism, and is the author of What Were We Thinking: A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era. His new book, The Washington Book: How to Read Politics and Politicians, is out now.

The Washington Book: How to Read Politics and Politicians

Carlos Lozada at The New York Times

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100: When Victimhood is Leveraged for Personal Gain, with Andrew Boryga

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Andrew Boryga is a writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, and The Atlantic. His debut novel Victim, from Doubleday Books, is out now.

Victim

andrewboryga.com

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99: How to Reset and Retrain Our Brains, with Tali Sharot

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Dr. Tali Sharot is a professor of cognitive neuroscience at MIT and University College London, and the founder and director of the Affective Brain Lab, a cognitive neuroscience research laboratory dedicated to unraveling the mysteries of the human brain. She’s the author of The Optimism Bias: A Tour of the Irrationally Positive Brain, The Influential Mind: What the Brain Reveals About Our Power to Change Others. Her newest book, co-authored with Cass Sunstein is titled Look Again: The Power of Noticing What Was Always There.

Look Again: The Power of Noticing What Was Always There

Affective Brain Lab

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98: The Corrosive Costs of Vulture Capitalism, with Grace Blakeley

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 9 Apr 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Grace Blakeley is an economist, journalist, and political commentator. She is the author of Stolen: How to Save the World from Financialization, The Corona Crash: How the Pandemic will Change Capitalism, and her newest: Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom.

Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom

GraceBlakeley.co.uk

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97: Climate Change Comes for Small-Town America, with Jonathan Vigliotti

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 2 Apr 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Jonathan Vigliotti is an Emmy and Edward R. Murrow Award–winning CBS News national correspondent and the author of Before It's Gone: Stories from the Front Lines of Climate Change in Small-Town America.

Before It's Gone: Stories from the Front Lines of Climate Change in Small-Town America

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A Very Special Crossover Episode with the Converging Dialogues Podcast

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 12:00:00 +0000

This is a Very Special Crossover Episode with Xavier Bonilla, host of Converging Dialogues - a podcast focused on honest conversations about philosophy, psychology, politics, and important social issues.

Listen to Converging Dialogues

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96: America's Broken Primaries are Tearing Us Apart, with Nick Troiano

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 5 Mar 2024 13:00:00 +0000

Nick Troiano is the founding executive director of Unite America, a philanthropic venture fund that invests in nonpartisan election reform to foster a more representative and functional government. Since 2019, Unite America has invested over $50 million to help win three major statewide ballot initiatives and over a dozen state legislative and municipal policy victories. In 2014, Troiano ran for the US House of Representatives in Pennsylvania’s 10th District and was both the youngest candidate of the cycle and the most competitive independent Congressional candidate nationally in over two decades. His new book, The Primary Solution: Rescuing Our Democracy from the Fringes, is out now.

The Primary Solution: Rescuing Our Democracy from the Fringes

Unite America

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95: The Government Is Seizing Innocent People’s Property, with Billy Binion

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 13:00:00 +0000

Billy Binion is an associate editor at Reason magazine, where he writes about criminal justice and government accountability. He has been published in Newsweek, the San Francisco Chronicle, HuffPost, The Saturday Evening Post, and the Washington Examiner, among other publications, and his work has been cited by The New York Times, The Atlantic, National Review, Fox News, and CNN.

Billy's Writing for Reason

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94: Helping Millennials Build Healthy, Loving Relationships, with Dre Smith

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 6 Feb 2024 13:00:00 +0000

Dre Smith is the founder and CEO of Relationship Restored, a podcast network that delves into all things related to establishing and maintaining healthy romantic relationships. He's also the Executive Podcast Producer & Head of Podcasting at Urban One and the Co-Founder of All About It Social Media & Branding.

Relationship Restored

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Guest Appearance: The Local Maximum

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 13:00:00 +0000

On Episode 92 I had the pleasure of speaking with Max Sklar. He's a software engineer, with a focus on machine learning, content discovery, and Bayesian inference - all of which we talk about during his episode. He's also the host of The Local Maximum podcast.

Max's podcast appeals to me because it touches on a wide array of complex topics in nuanced, digestible ways. Like the intricacies of intellectual property or quantum computing, even the faults of and potential fixes for US Constitution. Max has a seemingly insatiable curiosity, an addiction to learning new things, and he's a generous host. So it was an honor to be his guest on The Local Maximum, and I'd like to share our conversation with you. We went to some provocative and at times deeply personal places - parts of my story I've never discussed this in-depth before. So I hope you enjoy our chat, and I highly recommend checking out additional episodes of The Local Maximum, available on your podcast player of choice, and at localmaximum.substack.com.

93: Solving the Childhood Independence Crisis, with Lenore Skenazy

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 13:00:00 +0000

Lenore Skenazy started the Free-Range Kids movement and wrote the book, “Free-Range Kids.” Now she is cofounder and president of Let Grow, the national nonprofit promoting childhood independence. Lenore says our kids are smarter, safer, and stronger than our culture gives them credit for.

‘Old Enough’ Generates Parenting Debate, Latest Netflix Sensation (Featuring Lenore!) - YouTube

50% of Parents Won’t Let Their Kids Go to Another Aisle in Grocery: Poll - Free Range Kids

Let Grow

Free Range Kids

Raising Independent Kids - Facebook

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92: Bayesian Thinking and the Future of Artificial Intelligence, with Max Sklar

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 9 Jan 2024 13:00:00 +0000

Max Sklar is the creator of the Local Maximum, a weekly podcast exploring current topics in tech, math, and political philosophy. Over the past five years, he has hosted many discussions and debates with top engineers, authors, and entrepreneurs. While working at Foursquare he wrote their city guide rating system, and he's currently working on an open-source database system (Newmap.ai) that is attempting to rethink from the ground up how engineers and scientists build data stores, algorithms, and artificial intelligence.

The Local Maximum

Toward a New Great Compromise A Constitutional Plan to Promote Liberty, Renew Democracy, and Restore Federalism, by Max Sklar

Bayesian Inference - Wikipedia

Monty Hall Problem - Wikipedia

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The 2nd Annual Very Special Boxing Day Episode, with Jay Shapiro

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 26 Dec 2023 13:00:00 +0000

This is the 2nd Annual Very Special Boxing Day Episode of Where We Go Next, with longtime friend of the show Jay Shapiro. We discuss Jay's move to Madrid (hasta luego, Mexico City!), what Jay's been up to with the Dilemma Podcast, and we analyze The Green Knight, the 2021 film adaptation of the 14th century poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.

whatjaythinks.com

S03E09: Israel and Palestine - Malevolent Machinery - Dilemma Podcast

S03E10: Antisemitism and the Future of Analysis - Dilemma Podcast

S03E11: Monsters and Distance - David Livingstone Smith - Dilemma Podcast

How to watch The Green Knight - JustWatch

The Green Knight (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) - Spotify

How to watch Old Joy - JustWatch

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91: Free Speech Isn't Just for People We Like, with Kat Rosenfield

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 13:00:00 +0000

Kat Rosenfield is a culture writer, a columnist for Unherd, the co-host of the Feminine Chaos podcast, and the author of five novels. Her latest is called You Must Remember This, a Knives-out style whodunnit, which is now available in paperback.

You Shouldn’t Be Fired for Being a Jerk, by Kat Rosenfield for The Washington Post

katrosenfield.com

Kat's Unherd Essays

Blackface Incident at Post Cartoonist’s 2018 Halloween Party Resurfaces Amid Protests - The Washington Post

A Letter on Justice and Open Debate - Harper's Magazine

A Racial Slur, a Viral Video, and a Reckoning - The New York Times

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90: In Defense of Free Speech, the Eternally Radical Idea, with Greg Lukianoff

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 5 Dec 2023 13:00:00 +0000

Greg Lukianoff is the President & CEO of The Foundation for Individual Rights & Expression. He is the author of Unlearning Liberty and Freedom from Speech and co-authored the 2018 New York Times bestseller, The Coddling of the American Mind with Jonathan Haidt. Most recently, he co-authored The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All—But There is a Solution with Rikki Schlott.

FIRE - Foundation for Individual Rights & Expression

2024 College Free Speech Rankings - FIRE

2024 College Free Speech Rankings: Student Survey - FIRE

Free Speech Is in Trouble, by Nate Silver

The Canceling of the American Mind: Cancel Culture Undermines Trust and Threatens Us All―But There Is a Solution, by Greg Lukianoff and Rikki Schlott

The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure, by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt

The Latest Victims of the Free-Speech Crisis, by Greg Lukianoff

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89: Harnessing the Revolutionary Power of Nuclear Energy, with Nick Touran

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 13:00:00 +0000

Nick Touran is a Ph.D. nuclear engineer with expertise in new nuclear reactor development and old reactor history. He's worked on new reactors professionally for over 15 years, and has run the public education website, whatisnuclear.com since 2006. He believes that nuclear energy can help the world decarbonize rapidly, and enjoys discussing this with anyone and everyone.

whatisnuclear.com

13: Nuclear Energy Can Save the World, with Nick Touran - Where We Go Next

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88: Pursuing Truth, Goodness, and Beauty in Education, with Daniel Scoggin

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 7 Nov 2023 13:00:00 +0000

Dr. Daniel Scoggin is the co-founder of Great Hearts Academies. Over twenty years ago, he started as the headmaster of a classical, liberal arts academy in Tempe, AZ. In 2004, Dan authored the original Great Hearts business plan. Great Hearts now serves 26,000 students at 42 schools in Phoenix, San Antonio, and North Texas, with immediate plans to expand into Louisiana and Florida. In addition to serving on the Great Hearts America board, Dan is the Academies Officer, overseeing school operations and improvement as well as further brick-and-mortar expansion nationally.

Great Hearts Academies

Great Hearts, Great Minds - City Journal

Meditations, by Marcus Aurelius: The Annotated Edition

The Lost Tools of Learning, by Dorothy Sayers (PDF)

The Great Conversation: the Substance of a Liberal Education, by Robert Maynard Hutchins

How to Think About the Great Ideas, by Mortimer Adler

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22: Changing the Lives of Working-Class Kids, with Katharine Birbalsingh - Where We Go Next
23: Children Need Freedom to Grow Independent, with Lenore Skenazy - Where We Go Next
48: The Classics Belong to Everyone, with Dr. Anika Prather - Where We Go Next

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87: Mentoring Kids Without Fathers as "The Internet's Dad," with Rob Kenney

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 12:00:00 +0000

Rob Kenney is the creator and host of the YouTube Channel, "Dad, How Do I?" offering technical, practical, and fatherly advice about all aspects of life. His channel has grown to 4.5 million subscribers since launching in April of 2020, and he has come to be known affectionally as "The Internet's Dad."

Dad, How Do I? - YouTube

Dad, How Do I?: Practical "Dadvice" for Everyday Tasks and Successful Living, by Rob Kenney

68: Solving the Crisis of Boys and Men, with Richard Reeves - Where We Go Next

76: Helping Young Men Find Meaning, Purpose, and Self-Worth, with Richie Hardcore - Where We Go Next

74: Going to Space, Reusing the Entire Rocket, and Flying Again in 24 Hours, with Andy Lapsa - Where We Go Next

Stumbling on Happiness, by Daniel Gilbert

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86: How Civility Can Heal America, with Alexandra Hudson

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Wed, 4 Oct 2023 04:47:38 +0000

Alexandra Hudson is a writer, speaker, and the founder of Civic Renaissance, a publication and intellectual community dedicated to beauty, goodness and truth. She was named a 2020 Novak Journalism Fellow, and contributes to Fox News, CBS News, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, TIME Magazine, POLITICO Magazine, and Newsweek. Her new book - The Soul of Civility: Timeless Principles to Heal Society and Ourselves - comes out next week on October 10th.

The Soul of Civility: Timeless Principles to Heal Society and Ourselves, by Alexandra Hudson

alexandraohudson.com

Can Beauty Be Trusted?, by Alexandra Hudson

The Philosophy of Michel de Montaigne - YouTube

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85: Crafting Beer and Community in Small-Town America, with Gary Fish

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 02:33:07 +0000

Gary Fish founded Deschutes Brewery in downtown Bend, Oregon in 1988. It began as a small pub that focused on handcrafted food, house-brewed beer and the purpose of bringing people together. Under Gary’s leadership, Deschutes Brewery has grown to become the 10th-largest craft brewery in the United States.

Deschutes Brewery

Old Mill District in Bend

Flagship on the River: A Deschutes Brewery Documentary - YouTube

Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community, by Robert Putnam

The Third Place - Wikipedia

Gary Fish Interview - Beer Advocate

The Bend Ale Trail

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84: Understanding Testosterone: The Most Controversial Hormone, with Carole Hooven

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 5 Sep 2023 12:00:00 +0000

Carole Hooven is the author of T: The Story of Testosterone, the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us. From 2002 until 2023 she was a Lecturer in the department of Human Evolutionary Biology, and served for many years as the department's Co-Director of Undergraduate Studies. Her "Hormones and Behavior" class was named one of Harvard Crimson's "top ten tried and true" courses. She is now an associate in the Harvard Department of Psychology.

carolehooven.com

T: The Story of Testosterone, the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us, by Carole Hooven

74: Going to Space, Reusing the Entire Rocket, and Flying Again in 24 Hours, with Andy Lapsa - Where We Go Next

68: Solving the Crisis of Boys and Men, with Richard Reeves - Where We Go Next

Carole Hooven on Testosterone and Masculinity - Dialogues with Richard Reeves

21: Defending the Rights of the Incarcerated, with Samuel Weiss - Where We Go Next

Original Position / Veil of Ignorance - Wikipedia

Brown v. Board and “The Doll Test” - Legal Defense Fund

Carole Hooven On Testosterone - The Dishcast with Andrew Sullivan

40: Great Writers Must Be Vulnerable in Public, with Andrew Sullivan - Where We Go Next

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83: Building Autonomous Vehicles to Clean Up Outer Space, with Trevor Bennett

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 12:00:00 +0000

Trevor Bennett is the co-founder of Starfish Space, a fully autonomous satellite servicing company. He earned a PhD from the University of Colorado where he was a NASA Space Technology Research Fellow and one of Aviation Week’s 20 Twenties. Trevor has worked at both NASA Goddard and JPL on robotic missions and also at Blue Origin on New Glenn. He has broad technical expertise in Guidance, Navigation and Control, with a particular focus on rendezvous, proximity operations, and docking.

starfishspace.com

Otter Pup by Starfish Space - YouTube

74: Going to Space, Reusing the Entire Rocket, and Flying Again in 24 Hours, with Andy Lapsa - Where We Go Next

78: The Final Frontier Fire Sale: Chronicling the Pioneers Commercializing Space, with Ashlee Vance - Where We Go Next

Clearing Space Debris Is Good Business - SpaceNews

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A Very Special Episode About Video Games and Growing Up in the '90s, with Dan Bulich & Pat Brennan

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 15 Aug 2023 12:00:00 +0000

Dan Bulich and Pat Brennan costar in Console Wars, a YouTube series that puts Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis games in head-to-head competition for 16-bit supremacy.

Console Wars - YouTube

Console Wars - TV Tropes

57: 16-Bit Video Games and the Lasting Power of Nostalgia, with Dan Bulich & Pat Brennan - Where We Go Next

Console Wars' First Episode in 2011: Aladdin (Super Nintendo vs Sega Genesis) - YouTube

Why 16-Bit Games Look Better on Old TVs - YouTube

Console Wars: The Adventures of Batman & Robin (Super Nintendo vs Sega Genesis) - YouTube

Ys III: Wanders From Ys (Super Nintendo) Soundtrack - YouTube

The Adventures of Batman & Robin (Sega Genesis) Soundtrack - YouTube

Blade (1998): Opening Scene - YouTube

Donkey Kong Country Soundtrack - YouTube

1993 Sega Genesis Commercial: Blast Processing - YouTube

SNES Drunk: Chrono Trigger: Why the Hype? - YouTube

Sega Lord X: Golden Axe 2 - Sega Genesis Review - YouTube

Splash Wave: The Making of Streets of Rage 2 (Sega Genesis) - YouTube

The Adventures of Batman & Robin (Sega Genesis): Mad Hatter Fight - YouTube

Console Wars: Earthworm Jim (Super Nintendo vs Sega Genesis) - YouTube

Console Wars: Earthworm Jim 2 (Super Nintendo vs Sega Genesis) - YouTube

Stimpy's First Fart | The Ren & Stimpy Show - YouTube

A Pesky Fly Interrupts Rocko’s Barbecue | Rocko's Modern Life - YouTube

"Turn the Page, Wash Your Hands" | Rocko's Modern Life - YouTube

"Call the Police" | The Ren & Stimpy Show - YouTube

Garbage Pail Kids - Wikipedia

Splash Wave: The Making of Aladdin (Sega Genesis) - YouTube

Spider-Man Cartoon (1990s): Opening Credits - YouTube

Earthworm Jim (Sega Genesis) Soundtrack - YouTube

Game Maker's Toolkit: Why Does Celeste Feel So Good to Play? - YouTube

Angry Video Game Nerd: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (NES) - YouTube

Mike & Bootsy: Ducktales (NES) - YouTube

SNES Drunk: X-Men 2: The Clone Wars (Sega Genesis) - YouTube

Sega Lord X: Comix Zone - Sega Genesis Review - YouTube

Nintendo Power: Issue #1 (July/August 1988) - Internet Archive

Console Wars: Batman Returns (Super Nintendo vs Sega Genesis) - YouTube

Splash Wave: The Making of Donkey Kong Country & Killer Instinct (Super Nintendo) - YouTube

Console Wars: Zombies Ate My Neighbors (Super Nintendo vs Sega Genesis) - YouTube

Gaming Historian: The Story of Super Mario World - YouTube

Splash Wave: The Making of Super Mario World & Yoshi's Island - YouTube

Gaming Historian: The Story of Super Mario Kart - YouTube

Smells Like Nirvana, by "Weird Al" Yankovic - YouTube

Bedrock Anthem, by "Weird Al" Yankovic - YouTube

Super Mario Kart Soundtrack - YouTube

Rob McElhenney & Charlie Day Debate the Correct Creative Approach for It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia - YouTube

Console Wars: Super Bomberman vs Mega Bomberman (Super Nintendo vs Sega Genesis) - YouTube

How Cuphead's Devs Gambled On A Dream | The Making of Cuphead - YouTube

Console Wars Behind the Scenes: Recreating Doom - YouTube

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82: Stand-Up Comedy is a Punk Rock Art Form, with Joel Jimenez

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 8 Aug 2023 12:00:00 +0000

Joel Jimenez is a standup comedian, musician and a native of Northeast Los Angeles. For years he was the drummer for the #1 live podcast in the world, Kill Tony. These days you can find him at the World Famous Comedy Store, in regular rotation on some of LA's top comedy podcasts, a co-host on both the Dogs of Brown Town and Lesser Known Characters podcasts, as well as the drummer for the punk rock band Mad Peaceful.

Comic Routines - Joel Jimenez - YouTube

Nardwuar vs. Pharrell Williams - YouTube

The Ramones - The KKK Took My Baby Away - YouTube

Ludwig Artists: Joel Jimenez

The Offspring - Pretty Fly (For A White Guy) - YouTube

Neil Peart's Ultimate Drum Solo on Late Show with David Letterman - YouTube

Joel's First Kill Tony Set - YouTube

Kill Tony #202: The Birth of "Joelberg" - YouTube

Best "Joelberg" Roasts on Kill Tony - YouTube

Kill Tony #500: "Ski Mask Pete" & Joel's Return - YouTube

Kill Tony #605: The Return of the Original Kill Tony Band - YouTube

Relentless Ones: Joel Jimenez - YouTube

The Dogs of Browntown Podcast - Apple Podcasts

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81: Mining Universal Truths From Personal Stories, with Sarah Hepola

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 12:00:00 +0000

Sarah Hepola is the author of the 2015 bestselling memoir, Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget. She's the host and creator of "America's Girls," a podcast about the history of the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, and the co-conspirator of Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em, a weekly podcast about what's burning through the culture right now. She's a writer-at-large for Texas Monthly, and she lives in Dallas.

sarahhepola.com

Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget, by Sarah Hepola

Why I’m Doing a Podcast on the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, by Sarah Hepola

Cheerleaders, Cheerleaders Everywhere, by Sarah Hepola

Smoke 'Em If You Got "Em Podcast

Lush for Life, by Sarah Hepola - Salon

23: Children Need Freedom to Grow Independent, with Lenore Skenazy - Where We Go Next

"Twitter: where personality disorders become careers." - Meghan Daum

Common Cognitive Distortions - Wikipedia

Those College Students Might Surprise You: Sarah Hepola's Report From the Classroom - The Unspeakable Podcast

How to watch TÁR - JustWatch

I Could Get Married Here (But Didn't), by Sarah Hepola - The New York Times

My Drinking Years: ‘Everyone Has Blackouts, Don’t They?’, by Sarah Hepola - The Guardian

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80: The Black British Experience Is Not an American One, with Tomiwa Owolade

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 16:18:13 +0000

Tomiwa Owolade is a journalist and critic based in London. He has written for publications that include the New Statesman, the Times, and the Sunday Times, and he is the author of This is Not America: Why Black Lives in Britain Matter.

This is Not America, by Tomiwa Owolade

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3: A Challenge to Move Beyond Racialized Identities, with Inaya Folarin Iman - Where We Go Next

12 Million Black Voices, by Richard Wright

The Omni-Americans: Some Alternatives to the Folklore of White Supremacy, by Albert Murray

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Black Jeopardy with Tom Hanks - SNL

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For Kevin

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 12:00:00 +0000

Please stay.

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79: Perfecting the Painful Pleasure of Nashville Hot Chicken, with Johnny Ray Zone

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Wed, 31 May 2023 08:00:46 +0000

A Los Angeles native, Chef Johnny Ray Zone began his culinary career as an apprentice, working as a garde manger at Figaro Bistrot in Los Feliz. He worked under chefs like Thomas Keller in Beverly Hills, Gordan Ramsay in London, and Nobu Matsuhisa in West Hollywood, before becoming the executive chef at La Poubelle in LA's Franklin Village. Most people today know him as the cofounder and executive chef of Howlin' Rays, the first Nashville hot chicken spot to open on the West Coast, and the restaurant many say kickstarted our national hot chicken craze.

howlinrays.com

Jonathan Gold Reviews Howlin’ Ray’s Hot Chicken - Los Angeles Times

Howlin' Rays Dominates Nashville Hot Chicken in Los Angeles! | Where to Eat - YouTube

Anton Ego Tastes Ratatouille - Flashback Scene - Scene from Ratatouille

How McDonald's Invented Modern Fast Food - Scene from The Founder

12: How Tragedy Can Lead to Growth, with Ayishat Akanbi - Where We Go Next

74: Going to Space, Reusing the Entire Rocket, and Flying Again in 24 Hours, with Andy Lapsa - Where We Go Next

1982 Pepsi Cola “Take the Pepsi Challenge” TV Commercial - YouTube

60: The Unknown History and Surprising Benefits of Fasting, with Steve Hendricks - Where We Go Next

The Story Of Prince's Hot Chicken | Southern Living - YouTube

LA's Lost Hot Chicken History - Eater

How Hot Chicken Really Happened - The Bitter Southerner

Howlin' Ray's' Instagram: @howlinrays

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78: The Final Frontier Fire Sale: Chronicling the Pioneers Commercializing Space, with Ashlee Vance

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 16 May 2023 15:35:53 +0000

Ashlee Vance is the New York Times bestselling author of Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future, and a feature writer at Bloomberg Businessweek. He's also the host of Hello World, a travel show that centers on inventors and scientists all over the planet. Previously, he worked as a reporter for The New York Times, The Economist, and The Register. His new book, When the Heavens Went on Sale: The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach, is out now.

ashleevance.com

When the Heavens Went on Sale: The Misfits and Geniuses Racing to Put Space Within Reach, by Ashlee Vance

Hello World - Bloomberg

Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future, by Ashlee Vance

Elon Musk: The Fantastic Future Quest | Ashlee Vance | Talks at Google - YouTube

70: Making Extinction a Thing of the Past, with Ben Lamm & George Church - Where We Go Next

72: A Self-Help Book for Societies, with Tim Urban - Where We Go Next

Outliers: The Story of Success, by Malcolm Gladwell

How LeoLabs Is Using New Tech to Target Space Junk - Hello World

Ashlee's Twitter: @ashleevance

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77: From Fear to Fascination: Understanding Each Other in a Divided World, with Mónica Guzmán

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 2 May 2023 13:29:34 +0000

Mónica Guzmán is Senior Fellow for Public Practice at Braver Angels, a nonprofit working to depolarize America. She's also founder and CEO of Reclaim Curiosity, an organization working to build a more curious world, and author of "I Never Thought Of It That Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times."

moniguzman.com

I Never Thought of It That Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times, by Mónica Guzmán

38: Curiosity Is a Skill We Can Learn, with Mónica Guzmán - Where We Go Next

66: Embracing Commitment in an Age of Infinite Browsing, with Pete Davis - Where We Go Next

Braver Angels

Mónica Guzmán - I Never Thought of It That Way - with Jonathan Rauch - YouTube

Heineken: Worlds Apart Campaign - YouTube

Why Would a Lefty Talk to Glenn Beck? | Monica Guzman | The Glenn Beck Podcast | Ep 138 - YouTube

Self-Reliance, by Ralph Waldo Emerson

1: How to Bridge Political Divides, with John Wood, Jr. - Where We Go Next

Mónica's Twitter: @moniguzman

Mónica's Instagram: @moniguzman

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76: Helping Young Men Find Meaning, Purpose, and Self-Worth, with Richie Hardcore

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 18 Apr 2023 12:00:00 +0000

Richie Hardcore is a New Zealand-based public speaker and educator who discusses domestic and sexual violence, mental health, and masculinity. As a former alcohol and drug harm reduction community worker, he is also passionate about the causes of and remedies for addiction. He was a radio host in Auckland for 15 years as a music DJ and interviewer of politicians, celebrities, and musicians. He's also a now-retired multiple Muay Thai Champion, with 30 years in martial arts. He currently trains some of New Zealand's most accomplished fighters, and works with young people - especially young men - to form a healthier understanding of masculinity and sexuality.

richiehardcore.com

Adult Children of Alcoholics & Dysfunctional Families

Should We Teach Porn Literacy? Richie Hardcore Shares His Lesson Plans - The Unspeakable Podcast

68: Solving the Crisis of Boys and Men, with Richard Reeves - Where We Go Next

Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It, by Richard Reeves

Hegemonic Masculinity - Wikipedia

"The way some super woke people go about things, actually make a lot of men not want to get involved in the healthy masculinity movement, which is a real shame." - Richie's Instagram post

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, by Bessel van der Kolk

Why modern America creates fragile children | Jonathan Haidt - Big Think

Standpoint Theory - Wikipedia

Toward Freedom: The Case Against Race Reductionism, by Touré F. Reed

Pornography Is What the End of the World Looks Like, by Robert Jenson

The Children of Pornhub, by Nicholas Kristof

75: Why All the Sex We’re Having Is Unsatisfying, with Christine Emba - Where We Go Next

Rethinking Sex: A Provocation, by Christine Emba

T: The Story of Testosterone, the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us, by Carole Hooven

Follow Richie on Instagram: @RichieHardcore

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Offering Empathy: A Retrospective

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 02:29:20 +0000

This is a special retrospective episode of Where We Go Next.

At the end of the first 45 episodes of the show I asked each guest the same final question. This is a compilation of all of their answers, back-to-back.

I am so grateful to the guests who have joined us and shared their knowledge, time, and empathy. And I am grateful to you for supporting this show.

Wherever we go next, I hope you’ll be there too.

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75: Why All the Sex We’re Having Is Unsatisfying, with Christine Emba

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 4 Apr 2023 12:00:00 +0000

Christine Emba is the author of Rethinking Sex: A Provocation, and an opinion columnist and editor at the Washington Post. At the Post and elsewhere, she writes about ideas, society, and culture. She is based in Washington, DC.

Rethinking Sex: A Provocation, by Christine Emba

Did the Sexual Revolution Really Make Sex Better? | The Agenda - YouTube

How to watch The Apartment - JustWatch

Tea Consent - YouTube

33: The Struggle to Stay Heterodox in a Tribal World, with Meghan Daum - Where We Go Next

68: Solving the Crisis of Boys and Men, with Richard Reeves - Where We Go Next

The Downside of Cohabiting Before Marriage - The New York Times

The Profound Sadness of the Jordan Peterson Phenomenon, by Christine Emba

How Do You Stop Abortion? Here’s What Antiabortion Marchers Told Me, by Christine Emba

Read Christine at The Washington Post

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74: Going to Space, Reusing the Entire Rocket, and Flying Again in 24 Hours, with Andy Lapsa

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 12:00:00 +0000

Stoke Space

Stoke Space Aims to Build Rapidly Reusable Rocket With a Completely Novel Design - Ars Technica

First-Of-Its-Kind Rocket Engine Nears First Flight Test - Freethink

How Stoke Space's Unique Rocket Works // Exclusive Tour & Interview - Everyday Astronaut (YouTube)

Full Reusability By Stoke Space - Everyday Astronaut

The Pollution Caused by Rocket Launches - BBC

Air Pollution From Reentering Megaconstellation Satellites Could Cause Ozone Hole 2.0 - Space.com

Radiative Forcing - MIT Climate Portal

71: Rescuing Animals From the Brink of Extinction, with Forrest Galante - Where We Go Next

The Risky Rush for Mega Constellations - Scientific American

Kessler Syndrome - Wikipedia

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73: Ensemble Acting, Bilingual Comedy, and the Benefits of Being an Outsider, with Samba Schutte

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 7 Mar 2023 22:42:29 +0000

Samba Schutte is a Dutch-Mauritanian actor for television, movies, and video games, as well as a writer and stand-up comedian. He plays the character of Roach, the surgeon / cook aboard a pirate ship in the HBO Series Our Flag Means Death, co-starring Rhys Darby and Taika Waititi.

Our Flag Means Death - HBO Max

sambaschutte.com

Samba's First Role as a Doctor - Vimeo

Two Cars, One Night, by Taika Waititi - YouTube

Samba’s Audition for the Character of Roach - Facebook

One of Samba's First Stand-Up Performances - Facebook

The Right Way To Order Ethiopian Food, by Samba Schutte - YouTube

Kung Fu Hustle (Trailer) - YouTube

U.S. Immigration Officers, by Samba Schutte - Facebook

Dog Passports, by Samba Schutte - YouTube

First Paintball Experience, by Samba Schutte - YouTube

Hakim Tricks the Trickster - Clip from NBC's Sunnyside

Roach's 40 Orange Glaze Cake Recipe - Instagram

Samba's Black Forest Birthday Cupcakes for Kristian Nairn - Instagram

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72: A Self-Help Book for Societies, with Tim Urban

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 21 Feb 2023 13:00:00 +0000

Tim Urban is the writer, illustrator and co-founder of Wait But Why, a long-form, stick-figure-illustrated website about almost everything with over 600,000 subscribers. Tim's 2016 TED talk is the third most-watched of all time at 66 million views. His book, What's Our Problem?: A Self Help Book for Societies - an exploration of political polarization - is out now.

What's Our Problem?: A Self-Help Book for Societies, by Tim Urban

Wait But Why

Why Procrastinators Procrastinate - Wait But Why

Taming the Mammoth: Why You Should Stop Caring What Other People Think - Wait But Why

A Short History of My Last Six Years - Wait But Why

The Elon Musk Post Series (Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink, and more) - Wait But Why

Doing a TED Talk: The Full Story - Wait But Why

The AI Revolution: The Road to Superintelligence - Wait But Why

The Fermi Paradox - Wait But Why

The Big and the Small - Wait But Why

Your Life in Weeks - Wait But Why

The Tail End - Wait But Why

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71: Rescuing Animals From the Brink of Extinction, with Forrest Galante

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 13:00:00 +0000

Forrest Galante is a conservationist, wildlife biologist, and public advocate for endangered species. He's been called "The Indiana Jones of Biology" and is especially passionate about finding and preserving animals once thought to be extinct. He is the host of Extinct or Alive on Animal Planet, as well as the series Mysterious Creatures. He's hosted multiple Shark Week shows across the years, and been featured on many other broadcast, digital, and independent shows. His book Still Alive: A Wild Life of Rediscovery - part memoir, part biological adventure - was published in 2021. And he's recently been doing work with Colossal Biosciences, a de-extinction company working to bring back the woolly mammoth, the thylacine, the dodo, and more.

www.forrestgalante.com

Still Alive: A Wild Life of Rediscovery, by Forrest Galante

The Wild Times Podcast

Colossal Biosciences

70: Making Extinction a Thing of the Past - Where We Go Next

Living Planet Report 2022 - World Wildlife Fund

The Company Trying to Clone Woolly Mammoths - The Joe Rogan Experience #1927

#1403 - Forrest Galante - The Joe Rogan Experience

Pleistocene Park

Saving Baby Elephants from a Deadly Herpes Virus - Discovery

De-Extinction Startup Colossal Biosciences Raises $150M To Bring Back The Dodo - Crunchbase

Trophic Cascade - Wikipedia

Predator-Prey Equation (Lotka–Volterra Equation - Wikipedia

Researcher Discovers An “Extinct” Pondicherry Shark! | Extinct Or Alive - YouTube

Wildlife Expert Breaks Down Animal Scenes from Movies | GQ - YouTube

Wildlife Expert Forrest Galante Breaks Down More Animal Scenes from Movies | GQ - YouTube

Wildlife Expert Breaks Down Animal Scenes from Movies Part 3 | GQ - YouTube

How to watchArrival - JustWatch

Listening to Whales: What the Orcas Have Taught Us, by Alexandra Morton

"The Greatest Galapagos Discovery In Over 100 Years!" | Extinct or Alive - YouTube

Vox + Netflix: Does Your Dog Really Love You? - Facebook (Clip)

Follow Forrest on Instagram: @Forrest.Galante

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70: Making Extinction a Thing of the Past, with Ben Lamm & George Church

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 13:00:00 +0000

Ben Lamm and George Church are co-founders of Colossal, a bioscience and genetics company that will rapidly advance the field of species de-extinction. Ben is CEO, and is a serial technology entrepreneur driven to solve the most complex challenges facing our planet. Dr. Church is Colossal's lead genetic advisor and the recognized leader in genomics, pioneering a number of advances and breakthroughs that have progressed the entire field.

Colossal Biosciences

A Case for De-Extinction | Ben Lamm & Eriona Hysolli at SXSW 2022 - YouTube

Siberia’s Pleistocene Park: Bringing Back Pieces of the Ice Age to Combat Climate Change - 60 Minutes

Saving Baby Elephants from a Deadly Herpes Virus - Discovery

Form Bio Spins Out of Colossal Bioscience to Offer Scientists the ‘Missing Piece’ - Dallas Innovates

Fresh Effort to Clone Extinct Animal - BBC News

Elephants Could Be Key to Saving the Planet — Here’s Why - Inverse

Pleistocene Park

How CRISPR Lets You Edit DNA - TED-Ed

54: Growing Healthier and Tastier Seafood in a Lab, with Justin Kolbeck - Where We Go Next

Follow Colossal on Instagram: @ItsColossal

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69: Creating a Space for Empathy on YouTube, with Gen Kimura

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 13:00:00 +0000

Gen Kimura makes documentaries and interviews on complex and controversial social issues on his YouTube channel. The purpose of the channel is, “To live courageously and authentically to inspire others to explore the unfamiliar."

GEN - Explore the Unfamiliar

32: Pursuing a Lifetime of Personal Growth, with Brittany Talissa King - Where We Go Next

How a False Accusation Almost Ruined my Life. - GEN (YouTube)

20: The New Science of Self-Actualization, with Scott Barry Kaufman - Where We Go Next

65: Untangling Partisan Narratives and Fixing Political News, with Isaac Saul - Where We Go Next

67: The News Doesn’t Have to Make Us Anxious, with Michele Carroll - Where We Go Next

Why Asian Racism is Allowed - GEN (YouTube)

Looking for Love in the Loneliest Generation - GEN (YouTube)

Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown - Wikipedia

Why Gay Men Run Fashion | Full Interview with Sneako - GEN (YouTube)

Errol Morris - Wikipedia (The legendary documentary filmmaker who Michael forgot to name)

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68: Solving the Crisis of Boys and Men, with Richard Reeves

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 3 Jan 2023 13:00:00 +0000

Richard Reeves is the President of the American Institute for Boys and Men, a non-partisan, non-profit research organization focused on the wellbeing of boys and men. He writes for a wide range of publications, including the New York Times, the Guardian, National Affairs, The Atlantic, Democracy Journal, and Wall Street Journal. His book Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It, shows how the basic social structures defining masculine maturity and success have been shattered, and how they can — and must — be reinvented.

Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do about It, by Richard Reeves

Of Boys and Men - Substack

richardvreeves.com

A New Breed: The Pre-First Grader - The New York Times (1991)

66: Embracing Commitment in an Age of Infinite Browsing, with Pete Davis - Where We Go Next

Bottlenecks: A New Theory of Equal Opportunity, by Joseph Fishkin

Richard Reeves: Of Boys and Men - Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)

The Profound Sadness of the Jordan Peterson Phenomenon, by Christine Emba

Dad, How Do I? - YouTube

"Knock Knock," by Daniel Beaty - YouTube

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A Very Special Boxing Day Episode, with Jay Shapiro

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Mon, 26 Dec 2022 13:00:00 +0000

This is a Very Special Boxing Day Episode of Where We Go Next, with longtime friend of the show Jay Shapiro. We discuss Jay's recent move to Mexico City, how we find and make meaning in community, the history of Boxing Day, what Jay's been up to with Sam Harris, and we analyze two films that are meaningful to us: SLC Punk! and Wendy and Lucy.

How to watch Jay's Movie, SLC Punk! - JustWatch

How to watch Michael's movie, Wendy and Lucy - JustWatch

whatjaythinks.com

Dedicated: The Case for Commitment in an Age of Infinite Browsing

Why Honor Matters, by Tamler Sommers

#126 - In Defense of Honor - Making Sense with Sam Harris (featuring Tamler Sommers)

Standings Bar, NYC - Instagram

66: Embracing Commitment in an Age of Infinite Browsing, with Pete Davis - Where We Go Next

The Last Dance - Netflix

"You're actually rooting for the clothes, when you get right down to it." - Jerry Seinfeld

Boxing Day - Wikipedia

The Human Capacity - An Essay from the Writer of The Essential Sam Harris, by Jay Shapiro

63: Choosing Between a Drowning Child and a New Pair of Shoes, with Jay Shapiro - Where We Go Next

Hype! (1996) - Wikipedia

Nothing Gold Can Stay, by Robert Frost

Reality Bites - Wikipedia

Kelly Reichardt - Wikipedia

Lynn Shelton - Wikipedia

John Cassavetes - Wikipedia

Jeremy Kagan - Wikipedia

How to watch A Woman Under the Influence - JustWatch

@GEN - Gen Kimura's YouTube Channel

Husbands - Wikipedia

Your Sister's Sister - Wikipedia

Old Joy - Wikipedia

Observer Effect - Wikipedia

Castaway - Wikipedia

S01E01: Fire at the Louvre - Susan Wolf - Dilemma Podcast

Sometimes a Great Notion (film) - Wikipedia

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67: The News Doesn’t Have to Make Us Anxious, with Michele Carroll

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 13:00:00 +0000

Michele Carroll is host of 'The News Diet', a daily news show on YouTube for those who want to learn about the world without the typical anxiety or fear often associated with the news industry.

The News Diet - YouTube

Exploring Minds with Michele Carroll - YouTube

Nuance: A Love Story, by Meghan Daum

33: The Struggle to Stay Heterodox in a Tribal World, with Meghan Daum - Where We Go Next

Dinner Discussion - SNL

31: Investigating the Origins of COVID-19, with Dr. Alina Chan - Where We Go Next

"If you're gonna trust people to vote, you have to trust them to have open and honest dialogue with each other." - Destiny, on the Lex Fridman Podcast

Noise music - Wikipedia

65: Untangling Partisan Narratives and Fixing Political News, with Isaac Saul - Where We Go Next

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The Dictionary Podcast and a Very Special Boxing Day (Bonus Content)

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 13:00:00 +0000

The News Diet, by Michele Carroll

SLC Punk! - Jay's Boxing Day movie

Wendy and Lucy - Michael's Boxing Day movie

#D129 (dial tone to diammonium phosphate) ft. Michael Callahan - The Dictionary

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66: Embracing Commitment in an Age of Infinite Browsing, with Pete Davis

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 6 Dec 2022 13:00:00 +0000

Pete Davis is a writer and civic advocate from Falls Church, Virginia. He works on civic projects aimed at deepening American democracy and solidarity. He's the cofounder of the Democracy Policy Network, a state policy organization focused on raising up ideas that deepen democracy. In 2015, he cofounded Getaway, a company that provides simple, unplugged escapes to tiny cabins outside of major cities. His Harvard Law School graduation speech, “A Counterculture of Commitment,” has been viewed more than 30 million times.

Dedicated: The Case for Commitment in an Age of Infinite Browsing, by Pete Davis

A Counterculture of Commitment, by Pete Davis (YouTube)

PeteDavis.org

The Abnormal Is Not Courage, by Jack Gilbert

1: How to Bridge Political Divides, with John Wood, Jr. - Where We Go Next

11: Being Polite Can Hinder Moral Progress, with Alexandra Hudson - Where We Go Next

38: Curiosity Is a Skill We Can Learn, with Mónica Guzmán - Where We Go Next

Does Diversity Really Work? - An Interview with Robert Putnam (NPR)

Bridget Loves Bernie - Wikipedia

30: How to Resolve Intractable Conflicts, with Amanda Ripley - Where We Go Next

WWI's Christmas Truce: When Fighting Paused for the Holiday - History.com

The Virtue of Not Being a Genius, by Pete Davis

Democracy Policy Network

Getaway - Making Space for More Free Time

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65: Untangling Partisan Narratives and Fixing Political News, with Isaac Saul

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 22 Nov 2022 13:00:00 +0000

Isaac Saul is a reporter by trade and the founder of Tangle, an independent, ad-free, non-partisan politics newsletter that summarizes the best arguments from the left and right on the news of the day. Tangle has been recognized by The New York Times, Forbes, The Hustle, Substack and many others as one of the most successful politics newsletters on the internet.

Tangle News

Tangle Podcast

IsaacSaul.com

63: Choosing Between a Drowning Child and a New Pair of Shoes, with Jay Shapiro - Where We Go Next

Semafor

25: A Robust Defense of Free Speech, with Greg Lukianoff - Where We Go Next

The Week | All You Need to Know About Everything That Happens

Kanye Is Right — And So, so Very Wrong. - Tangle News

30: How to Resolve Intractable Conflicts, with Amanda Ripley - Where We Go Next

1: How to Bridge Political Divides, with John Wood, Jr. - Where We Go Next

38: Curiosity Is a Skill We Can Learn, with Mónica Guzmán - Where We Go Next

Tangle on Instagram: @tangle.news

Tangle on Twitter: @TangleNews

Isaac Saul on Twitter: @Ike_Saul

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64: An Electric Vehicle With 1,000 Miles of Range That You'll Never Need to Charge, with Steve Fambro

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 8 Nov 2022 13:00:00 +0000

Steve Fambro is Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Aptera Motors, the solar mobility company that delivers the world’s most technologically advanced solar electric vehicles, made possible by breakthroughs in battery efficiency, aerodynamics, material science, and manufacturing.

Aptera Motors

Aptera - A True Zero-Emission Vehicle - YouTube

Aptera at Fully Charged Live - YouTube

The Interior Design of Aptera - YouTube

Aptera Drag Races a Tesla Model 3 and Audi R8 - YouTube

Aptera Does the "Moose Test" - YouTube

Aptera Solves "The Problem of Solar" - YouTube

Additional Details About Aptera's Carbon Fiber Body - YouTube

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63: Choosing Between a Drowning Child and a New Pair of Shoes, with Jay Shapiro

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 25 Oct 2022 12:00:00 +0000

Jay Shapiro is a writer, filmmaker, and host of the Dilemma Podcast.

whatjaythinks.com

Dilemma: A Philosophy Podcast

Famine, Affluence, and Morality, by Peter Singer

The Life You Can Save: How to Do Your Part to End World Poverty, by Peter Singer

Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion, by Paul Bloom

#48 - What Is Moral Progress? - Making Sense with Sam Harris (featuring Peter Singer)

#300 - A Tale of Cancellation - Making Sense with Sam Harris (featuring Meg Smaker)

#14 - The Virtues of Cold Blood - Making Sense with Sam Harris (featuring Paul Bloom)

Consequentialism - Wikipedia

Deontology - Wikipedia

Utilitarianism - Wikipedia

Moral Realism - Wikipedia

Divine Command Theory - Wikipedia

Is–Ought Problem - Wikipedia

Virtue Ethics - Wikipedia

Moral Luck - Wikipedia

29: Our Lives Are All a Matter of Luck, with Aaron Rabinowitz - Where We Go Next

#31 - Evolving Minds - Making Sense with Sam Harris (featuring Jonathan Haidt)

Boxing Day - Wikipedia

Streaking, Recycling Hell, & Hyperthymesia with Jay Shapiro - Human Values

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62: Working 50 Jobs in One Year, and the Upside of Rejection, with Daniel Seddiqui

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 12:00:00 +0000

Daniel Seddiqui is America's Most Traveled Man, and author of two best-selling books about his journeys throughout the United States. His story has been featured in NPR, ABC, NBC, and USA Today. He's harvested corn in Nebraska, caught lobster in Maine, mined coal in West Virginia, coached football in Alabama, and married couples in Las Vegas. His most recent book - Piecing Together America - explores the best local features of every major American city, with an emphasis on local craftsmanship.

50 Jobs in 50 States: One Man’s Journey of Discovery Across America, by Daniel Seddiqui

Going the Extra Mile, by Daniel Seddiqui

Piecing Together America, by Daniel Seddiqui

Living the Map

Writer, Cross-Country Traveler Visits Seattle and Spokane on His Cultural Tour of the United States - Seattle Times

Minnesotan Had 50 Jobs in 50 States; Now He’s Tackling American Bucket List - Star Tribune

Daniel Seddiqui: 50 Jobs in 50 States - TEDxUSC

Quantum Leap - Opening Credits

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61: The Secret to Great Stand-up, and Being Authentic on Stage, with Christina Galston

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 12:00:00 +0000

Christina Galston is a self-proclaimed “Jewrican” and has spent her life honing her cross-cultural upbringing into a powerfully honest sense of humor and razor sharp wit. A master storyteller, she has been performing stand-up at clubs and colleges all over the US for 17 years, and was an "Up Next” comic at Comedy Central’s Clusterfest in 2019. Watch her new comedy feature on mental health on Comedy Central's YouTube channel.

Showering Together Is Not Sexy - Christina Galston on Comedy Central

The Silver Lining to Blacking Out - Christina Galston on Comedy Central

Kill Tony #252 & #253 - Christina Galston

Christina's Instagram: @freakinjewrican

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60: The Unknown History and Surprising Benefits of Fasting, with Steve Hendricks

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 6 Sep 2022 12:00:00 +0000

Steve Hendricks is a freelance reporter and author, most recently, of The Oldest Cure in the World: Adventures in the Art and Science of Fasting. One of his previous books, The Unquiet Grave: The FBI and the Struggle for the Soul of Indian Country, made several best-of-the-year lists. He has written about fasting for Harper’s, aphrodisiac hunting for Outside, soccer for Slate, and books for the Washington Post. He lives in Boulder, Colorado, with his wife (a law professor) and dog (a border lab).

The Oldest Cure in the World: Adventures in the Art and Science Of Fasting, by Steve Hendricks

Starving Your Way to Vigor: The Benefits of an Empty Stomach, by Steve Hendricks for Harpers

The Unquiet Grave: The FBI and the Struggle for the Soul of Indian Country, by Steve Hendricks

Fasting Increases Health and Lifespan in Male Mice - National Institutes of Health

Professor Valter Longo: Fasting and Healthy Aging - YouTube

True North Health Center

stevehendricks.org

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What's Your Price? (Bonus Content)

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 30 Aug 2022 12:00:00 +0000

Listen to Human Values:

Website

Apple Podcasts

Spotify

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59: Sketch Comedy, Spoofing Genres, and Sparking Creativity, with Chris Smith & Jack De Sena

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 10:15:57 +0000

Chris Smith and Jack De Sena (aka Chris & Jack) have been friends for ages and use their natural chemistry to make high-quality, high-concept sketch comedy for their eponymous Youtube channel. They've amassed over 100k subscribers, received more than 30 million views across all platforms, and won the 2020 Streamy award for Best Indie Series. Chris also performs as a Blue Man in Blue Man Group and Jack voices the character of Sokka on Avatar the Last Airbender, as well as the lead roles in The Dragon Prince animated series on Netflix and the Lego Monkie Kid animated series on Amazon Prime.

Chris & Jack - YouTube Channel

Tahoe Jugglers Head to Hollywood - Tahoe Daily Tribune, 2002

Jack De Sena Gets Covered in Honey & Chicken Mash - SNICK On-Air Dare, 2004

Jack De Sena Puts a Live Scorpion in His Mouth - SNICK On-Air Dare, 2004

Avatar: The Last Airbender - Netflix

Spider-Man 3 Puppet Show - UCLA's Company Sketch Group Performs During Spring Sing 2007

Dorm Life Episode 101: Roommates - YouTube

The White Room - Chris & Jack

Movies in Space - Chris & Jack

Déjà Vu - Chris & Jack

Groundhog Daying - Chris & Jack

The Art of the Heist - Chris & Jack

Rebel Without a Crew: Or How a 23-Year-old Filmmaker With $7,000 Became a Hollywood Player, by Robert Rodriguez

True Friendship - Chris & Jack

Will the Robots Let Us Live? - Chris & Jack

JulySixth Park - Chris & Jack

Follow Chris & Jack on Twitter: @chris_and_jack

Follow Chris & Jack on Instagram: @chrisandjacksketch

Chris's Instagram: @chrissmithwho

Jack's Instagram: @jackdesena

Chris & Jack's Discord

Chris & Jack's Facebook Page

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58: Making Andrew Yang a Household Name, with Zach Graumann

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 5 Jul 2022 11:43:29 +0000

Imagine it's 2017. You've been given the task of running a presidential campaign for 2020. Your candidate has no previous political experience and zero name recognition with the public. You must get them on stage at the first Democratic primary debate on June 27th, 2019. Not only that, you have to get them to the debates 6 more times, so that they're one of only seven candidates left on stage in a race that will ultimately field 29 contenders. Helluva long shot, right? But former presidential campaign manager Zach Graumann did exactly that, and wrote a behind-the-scenes book that serves as a how-to guide for tomorrow's hopefuls looking to bet against the odds.

Longshot: How Political Nobodies Took Andrew Yang National--and the New Playbook That Let Us Build a Movement - Zach Graumann

"My first move was not to run for president of the United States, because I am not insane." - Andrew Yang, 2019

SuitUp

Young Storytellers

The War on Normal People: The Truth About America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future - Andrew Yang

Venture for America

Making Movies - Sidney Lumet

The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Parents are Going Broke - Elizabeth Warren

"I'm a Staunch Republican... I'm Willing to Give Him a Shot" | Andrew Yang for President

The Forward Party

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57: 16-Bit Video Games and the Lasting Power of Nostalgia, with Dan Bulich & Pat Brennan

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 21 Jun 2022 12:00:00 +0000

The internet provided a way for creatives around the world to share their talents with all of us. Forming alongside these new creators were vibrant, dedicated communities hungry for hyper-specialized content. In our interconnected 21st century, niche isn't a dirty word - it's an opportunity. Dan Bulich and Pat Brennan - co-hosts of the YouTube channel Console Wars - create long-form videos that exist at the intersection of two of today's most popular topics online: Video Games and Nostalgia.

Console Wars

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters (Super Nintendo vs Sega Genesis) - Console Wars

Why Nostalgia For Video Games Is Uniquely Powerful - Kotaku

53: Making Music, with Joe Sumner - Where We Go Next

Shigeru Miyamoto - Wikipedia

Ys III: Wanderers from Ys (SNES) - YouTube

Cinemassacre (Angry Video Game Nerd)

Death Valley Rally vs Desert Demolition (Super Nintendo vs Sega Genesis) - Console Wars

The Lawnmower Man (Super Nintendo vs Sega Genesis) - Console Wars

Super Bomberman vs Mega Bomberman (Super Nintendo vs Sega Genesis) - Console Wars

Heroes of the Game - Slaps - YouTube

The Toys That Made Us - Netflix

The Movies That Made Us - Netflix

Genesis Does What Nintendon't - YouTube

Link: The Faces of Evil, for CD-i - YouTube

Dan's Chrono Trigger High Score (Page 80) - Nintendo Power

King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (Trailer) - YouTube

The Wizard (Trailer) - YouTube

Super Mario Bros Super Show - Episode 1 - YouTube

X-Men: Mutant Apocalypse (SNES) - YouTube

Rocko's Modern Life: The Complete Series (Trailer)

Bob Camp - Wikipedia

Bob Camp co-creator of Ren and Stimpy explains GROSS-UPS - YouTube

Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 (Super Nintendo vs Sega Genesis) - Console Wars

Hot Dog Car Sketch - I Think You Should Leave

Has This Ever Happened to You? - I Think You Should Leave

T2: The Arcade Game (Super Nintendo vs Sega Genesis) - Console Wars

Making Movies, by Sidney Lumet

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56: Telling Your Wildest Stories for Everyone to Hear, with Rocky Powell

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Wed, 8 Jun 2022 07:54:01 +0000

When was the last time you got a little bit wild? Stayed out later than you should have, drank a bit too much, made out with an absolute stranger or did a ton of illicit drugs and trespassed on federal property? "Wild" is subjective, and comedian Rocky Powell hosts a podcast that invites guests to define the word however they see fit - with outrageous, scandalous, ridiculous, and even poignant results.

Wild Nights with Rocky Powell

Howie Mandel Meets the Family - Take Your Shoes Off Podcast

"I can talk to all of you, but I can't talk to any of you." - Jerry Before Seinfeld

Episode 1: Rich Templeton - Wild Nights with Rocky Powell

Episode 8: Andrea Allan - Wild Nights with Rocky Powell

Rocky Powell Gets The Shakes When The Bong Hit Takes - The Hot Mess Comedy Hour

"The Rocky Rundown: Valentine's Day" - Wild Nights with Rocky Powell (Timestamped)

Follow Rocky on Instagram: @wildnightswithrocky

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55: Why We Want What We Want, and How to Change That, with Luke Burgis

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Thu, 26 May 2022 06:21:13 +0000

Have you ever wondered why the decisions you make keep leaving you unfulfilled? How you'll doggedly pursue something - a career, a relationship, some Big Life Goal - and once you've finally got it, you find yourself underwhelmed? Like you keep aiming your bow at a target, but even when you hit dead center it still feels like you missed. You're not alone. Author Luke Burgis provides insight into why our wants so often lead us astray, and how we may harness that knowledge to desire differently.

Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life, by Luke Burgis

lukeburgis.com

What is Mimetic Theory? Philosophies of René Girard with Luke Burgis - Garry Tan

Wanting with Luke Burgis - The Innovation Show with Aidan McCullen

René Girard - Wikipedia

René Girard Explains Mimetic Desire - YouTube

Why Do Inequality and Deprivation Produce High Crime and Low Trust? - Nature

Maximillian Kolbe - Wikipedia

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, by Malcolm Gladwell

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54: Growing Healthier and Tastier Seafood in a Lab, with Justin Kolbeck

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 10 May 2022 16:46:47 +0000

"Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime." That works well enough as a piece of proverbial wisdom, but global seafood consumption today is roughly 160 million tons per year. So ensuring that our global fish populations remain sustainable into the future isn't some leisurely thought experiment, it's a pressing issue to be solved. And that doesn't even address other troubling factors affecting this ecosystem, like harmful micro-plastics and mercury. But what if we could harvest fish without fisheries? What if we could make real, authentic, delicious salmon... from stem cells? Justin Kolbeck is the cofounder of Wildtype, a company on a mission to create the cleanest, most sustainable seafood on the planet - inside of a high-tech lab in San Francisco.

Wildtype: The Future of Seafood

Could Lab-Grown Salmon Be The Future Of Fish? - Science Insider

Mark Post: First to Present a Proof of Concept for Cultured Meat - Wikipedia

How Your Brain Makes You Think Expensive Wine Tastes Better - Psychology Today

Good Meat - Cultured Meat Legally Sold in Singapore Today

Golden Rice - Wikipedia

The Golden Rice Project

Steve Jobs' 2007 iPhone Keynote - YouTube

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53: Making Music, Prioritizing Family, and Touring the World, with Joe Sumner

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 26 Apr 2022 19:10:34 +0000

An artist's work - autobiographical or not - is a reflection of where they are in their life at any given moment. And so over time the collection becomes a kind of map, that traces the twists and curves of an ever-evolving through-line of inspiration and introspection. Musician Joe Sumner takes a brief break from his tour to reflect on his music career, and the interwoven intersections of his life and his art.

Smells Like Teen Spirit, by Nirvana - YouTube

Heavier Than Heaven: A Biography of Kurt Cobain, by Charles R. Cross

Nine Stories, by J.D. Salinger

Hate, by Fiction Plane - YouTube

In My Shoes, by Fiction Plane - YouTube

Paul McCartney starts creating Get Back in studio - The Beatles: Get Back (documentary)

The Parable of the Sower of Seed, (Matthew 13: 1–9, 18–23)

Fiction Plane - Joe Sumner Interview (2007) - YouTube

49: Welcoming Divergence, with Jenara Nuremberg - Where We Go Next

Hope, by Joe Sumner - YouTube

Jellybean, by Joe Sumner - SoundCloud

Stumbling on Happiness, by Daniel Gilbert

“Making the decision to have a child - it is momentous..." - Elizabeth Stone

Looking For Me, Looking For You, by Joe Sumner (Live in Tuscany) - YouTube

Don't Disappear, by Jay Shapiro

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52: The Amazing and Optimistic Future of Augmented Reality, with David Rose

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 12:00:00 +0000

What if you could suddenly understand every language on earth? Identify any object or living thing around you with nothing but a glance? See exactly how a new outfit might look on your body before trying on a single piece of clothing? What if you could customize your entire life the way you would your living room? Ambient and spatial computing expert David Rose bears the good news of the coming augmented reality revolution, and tackles some of the hazards that may occur when we can all create our own, individually-tailored worlds.

SuperSight

Enchanted Objects

Clearwater AR - The First Augmented Reality Experience for Boating and Fishing

Home Outside - Online Landscape Design Services

Enchanted Objects: Design, Human Desire, and the Internet of Things | David Rose - TEDx Talk

"Blocked" - a scene from Black Mirror's White Christmas - YouTube

"Planes of Projection" as imagined / demonstrated in Iron Man 2

"Planes of Projection" as imagined / demonstrated in Minority Report

What Technology Wants, by Kevin Kelly

1,000 True Fans, by Kevin Kelly

27: Developing Accessibility, with Jennison Asuncion - Where We Go Next

Xander: Augmented Listening

"The Entire History of You" - Black Mirror

We Will Forget Much of the Pandemic. That’s a Good Thing. - The New York Times

Modsy - Online Interior Design

The Matrix Awakens - An Unreal Engine 5 Experience

47: Championing Progress, with Jason Crawford - Where We Go Next

Nreal - Building Augmented Reality for Everyone

The surprising science of happiness | Dan Gilbert - TED Talk

The Buena Vista Hypothesis

"A computer is like a bicycle for our minds." - Steve Jobs

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51: Drawing Comics for the Underdogs and Living Your Passion, with Barry Deutsch

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Thu, 31 Mar 2022 04:40:14 +0000

The world of comics is as vast as it is diverse. From colorful, fanciful stories geared toward children to gritty, realistic artwork crafted for more a mature crowd, if it can be drawn, there's an audience for it. But what motivates an artist to pursue a particular style or genre? To put it another way: What draws them to it? Comic artist Barry Deutsch shares how he became passionate about cartooning, and why he creates comics about communities that are often overlooked and underserved.

Lefty Cartoons, by Barry Deutsch

Hereville: How Mirka Got Her Sword, by Barry Deutsch

Hereville: How Mirka Met a Meteorite, by Barry Deutsch

Hereville: How Mirka Caught a Fish, by Barry Deutsch

SuperButch, by Barry Deutsch & Becky Hawkins

Pogo (comic strip) - Wikipedia

Making Movies, by Sidney Lumet

“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me." - Ira Glass

Will Eisner - Wikipedia

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, by Michael Chabon

A Contract with God, by Will Eisner

Make 'Em Laugh, by Donald O'Connor from Singin' in the Rain

Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art, by Scott McCloud

Carl Barks - Wikipedia

Jaime Hernandez - Wikipedia

Chester Brown - Wikipedia

In the Blink of an Eye: A Perspective on Film Editing, by Walter Murch

Holy Days: The World Of The Hasidic Family, by Lis Harris

Robert Rodriguez Had to Push Dimension for ‘Spy Kids’ Family to Be Latino - IndieWire

Love and Rockets, by Jaime, Mario & Gilbert Hernandez

Usagi Yojimbo, by Stan Sakai

Smile, by Raina Telgemeier

Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community, by Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy & Madeline D. Davis

The Essential Dykes To Watch Out For, by Alison Bechdel

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, by Alison Bechdel

Fiction or Qualified Immunity? - Lefty Cartoons

How City Budgets Work - Lefty Cartoons

O How They Suffer - Lefty Cartoons

The Existence of Trains Debate - Lefty Cartoons

The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book, by Bill Watterson

What Racism Is(n't) About - Lefty Cartoons

Oil and Gas are So Cheap! - Lefty Cartoons

White Lies (a sequel) - Lefty Cartoons

Real America vs The Coastal Elites - Lefty Cartoons

We Mustn't Ruin HIS Life - Lefty Cartoons

Young Storytellers

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Reaching Milestones, with You

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Thu, 24 Mar 2022 20:47:17 +0000

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50: America Has Failed Its Working Poor, with Joanne Goldblum & Colleen Shaddox

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 06:33:57 +0000

More than 1 in 3 Americans - roughly 38% - are having difficulty meeting their basic needs each month. You may be one of them, or know someone who is. Or you don't know, because they're hiding it from you. Regardless, the number remains: 123 million people. Broke in America authors Joanne Samuel Goldblum and Colleen Shaddox believe it doesn't have to be this way, and they're ready to prove their case.

Broke in America: Seeing, Understanding, and Ending US Poverty, by Joanne Samuel Goldblum & Colleen Shaddox

National Diaper Bank Network

Alliance for Period Supplies

"John Steinbeck once said..." - Ronald Wright, A Short History of Progress

10 Policies to Prevent and Respond to Childhood Lead Exposure - Pew Charitable Trusts

"You're Not You When You're Hungry" - Snickers Commercial

Does 'Medicare For All' Cost More Than The Entire Budget? - PolitiFact

Western Regional Advocacy Project

Feeding America

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49: Thriving in a World That Wasn’t Designed for You, with Jenara Nerenberg

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Wed, 2 Mar 2022 00:13:25 +0000

What does it mean to be "different"? Who decided on the definition? Who drew the boundaries around "normal"? Author and founder of The Neurodiversity Project Jenara Nerenberg explores where and why these definitions diverge, and how we might remake them to better reflect the reality we all share.

Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World That Wasn't Designed for You, by Jenara Nerenberg

The Neurodiversity Project, by Jenara Nerenberg

Has “Neurodiversity” Gone Rogue?, by Jenara Nerenberg

In Conversation With Judy Singer - Autism Awareness Australia

A History of Modern Psychology, by Duane and Sydney Schultz

Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong - and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story, by Angela Saini

As We See It - Amazon Prime

Five Questions with Jenara Nerenberg: Founder of the Neurodiversity Project - Invisible Talks

Calvin and Hobbes: July 30, 1989, by Bill Watterson

Follow Jenara on Instagram: @NeurodiversityProject

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48: The Classics Belong to Everyone, with Dr. Anika Prather

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 22 Feb 2022 17:52:20 +0000

History is only a story. Events happen. People exist. But how and why we talk about them and what we decide to study is a matter of choice. It's completely up to us. And that's the story. Dr. Anika Prather helps students of all backgrounds reexamine assumptions we often make about history, in order to reframe it in a healthier, more inclusive, and more accurate way.

The Living Water School

Martin Luther King Jr. In Dialogue With the Ancient Greeks - The Conversation

The Souls of Black Folk - W.E.B. Du Bois

"I sit with Shakespeare, and he winces not." - W.E.B. Du Bois

Anna J. Cooper

Phillis Wheatley - Poetry Foundation

Frank M. Snowden Jr.

Blacks in Antiquity: Ethiopians in the Greco-Roman Experience - Frank M. Snowden Jr.

Before Color Prejudice: The Ancient View of Blacks - Frank M. Snowden Jr.

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind - Yuval Noah Harari

Viola Liuzzo

Kebra Nagast - Ethiopian National Epic

Sudbury Pedagogical Approach

Classical Education Movement

The Charlotte Mason Method

The Cedarsong Way

https://drprather.com

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47: A New Philosophy of Progress and Why We Don’t Have Flying Cars, with Jason Crawford

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 15 Feb 2022 13:00:00 +0000

How exactly am I able to communicate with you? We're not in the same room - we're likely not even in the same state. And if my listener stats are accurate - 30% of you reading this right now live in a completely different country! So... how did we get here? What makes the world modern - technologically, socially, morally - is often under-appreciated, but the history of the modern world is a history of progress. The Roots of Progress founder Jason Crawford believes that understanding that history is key to empowering the next generation to progress ever further.

The Roots of Progress

We Need a New Science of Progress, by Patrick Collison and Tyler Cowen for The Atlantic

Why Did We Wait So Long for the Bicycle? - The Roots of Progress

Scientists May Have Discovered How the Ancient Greeks’ ‘First Computer’ Tracked the Cosmos - Smithsonian Magazine

A Dashboard for Progress - The Roots of Progress

Progress, Stagnation, and Flying Cars - The Roots of Progress

Technological Stagnation - The Roots of Progress

The Roots of Progress Is Now a Nonprofit Organization - The Roots of Progress

Industrial Literacy - The Roots of Progress

Progress Isn't Natural, by Joel Mokyr for The Atlantic

1984 World's Fair

1982 World's Fair

The Institute for Progress

Academy of Thought and Industry

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46: The Many Ways We Process Our Pain, with Jay Shapiro

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 8 Feb 2022 13:00:00 +0000

How do you process your pain? We all experience traumas - big and small - over the course of our lives. And we all deal with them differently. A painful event can often feel like a physical location - a topography stretching out ahead that needs to be traversed. Some may sprint across the landscape while others crawl - I've sometimes found myself believing I've covered real distance, only to realize I've been walking in circles. But the journey - however it is made - is a substantial one. Writer and documentary filmmaker Jay Shapiro opens up about how he has managed - and manages - his terrain.

Don't Disappear, by Jay Shapiro

TIRIS Film - Heirloom Documentary Service, from Jay Shapiro

S03E01: Our Modern Disquiet - Benjamin Storey - Dilemma Podcast

Why We Are Restless: On The Modern Quest for Contentment, by Benjamin Story & Jenna Silber Story

Opposite Field, by Jay Shapiro

The House of Small Cubes, by Kunio Katō

On Directing Film, by David Mamet

S03E03: Competing Against Everything - Alfie Kohn - Dilemma Podcast

The Sane Society, by Erich Fromm

Episode 151 - The Frankfurt School - Erich Fromm on Freedom — Philosophize This!

Death and the Present Moment, by Sam Harris

Stories We Tell, by Sarah Polley

whatjaythinks.com

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45: Filming the News as It Happens, with Ford Fischer

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Thu, 30 Dec 2021 06:31:46 +0000

When we think of news reporting, what may immediately come to mind is the highly produced, frequently editorialized content that we consume via our mainstream media. But the on-the-ground footage contained in those edited segments - of speeches, rallies, protests, riots, and more - is often captured in whole by independent journalists who see a fuller, more complicated picture than the one the general public is shown. Independent news videographer Ford Fischer goes in-depth on what he's witnessed and learned covering some of America's most tumultuous and historic events of the last several years.

News2Share

News2Share YouTube Channel

Ford's Twitter: @FordFischer

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44: The Unresolvable Tension of Overlapping Identities, with Tomiwa Owolade

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 21 Dec 2021 13:00:00 +0000

We all possess multiple identities. You are both a brother and a son. A daughter and a mother. Chinese, and American, and Asian. Gay, and Polyamorous. The combinations are nearly endless. And these identities are not always in parallel. They do not necessarily exist in harmony with one another. Sometimes - often - there is tension. Writer Tomiwa Owolade explores the conflicting and even discomforting intersections of identity, and the importance of embracing that tension.

What Does It Mean to Be Black?, by Tomiwa Owolade

Please Stop Imposing American Views about Race on Us, by Tomiwa Owolade

Queen Mary Alumni Profile: Tomiwa Owolade

Boudica

Ira Aldridge

Seesaw, by Timothy Ogene

Black Paper: Writing in a Dark Time, by Teju Cole

Windrush Generation: Who Are They and Why Are They Facing Problems? - BBC

The Chicken Connoisseur - YouTube

Being John Malkovich

Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life, by Karen and Barbara Fields

We Are All Madame Bovary, by Tomiwa Owolade

Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything, by David Bellos

Tomiwa's Twitter: @tomowolade

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43: Teaching Children to Read With the Help of Horses, with Caitlin Gooch

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 7 Dec 2021 09:11:52 +0000

Can you remember the first book that left a lasting impact on you? That widened how you saw the world, made you curious about a new frontier of knowledge, or expanded the very boundaries of your mind? The ability to read is a powerful tool, as much as it is a lifelong gift. Saddle Up and Read founder Caitlin Gooch has made it her mission to increase child literacy rates across her home state, with a little help from her horses.

Saddle Up and Read

Ways to Donate to Saddle Up and Read

Meet the Black Cowgirl Behind the Literacy Program That Combines Reading and Horseback Riding - Vogue

GOAT Goes Over the Rainbow Bridge

Black Equestrian Coloring Book: Volume One: The Trailblazers

The Lesser-Known History of African-American Cowboys - Smithsonian Magazine

Detroit Horse Power

Cowgirl Makes It Mission To Help Kids Learn To Read - The Kelly Clarkson Show

Kelly Starling Lyons - Children's Book Author

Robert Lemmons (1848 - 1947)

Bass Reeves (1838 - 1910)

Cherokee Bill (1876 - 1896)

Freedom Reigns Counseling

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42: A Battle of Conflicting Perspectives at Elite Universities, with David Lat

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 23 Nov 2021 13:00:00 +0000

Much of what we perceive is subjective. When you and I look at a text, a film, a painting - we carry the weight of our experiences with us into that encounter. So what happens when we look at the same exact thing in radically different ways? Which interpretation takes precedent, and why? Lawyer turned writer David Lat explores how clashing perspectives are roiling one of our nation's most prestigious universities.

The Latest (Ridiculous) Controversy at Yale Law School, by David Lat

The Newest Insanity Out of Yale Law School, by David Lat

How Yale Law School Pressured a Law Student to Apologize for a Constitution Day ‘Trap House’ Invitation, by Aaron Terr

David's Twitter Thread on the Yale Law School Controversy

Op-Ed: People Ask Me if I’ve Recovered From COVID-19. That’s Not an Easy Question to Answer, by David Lat

SCOTUS Watch, by Jeffrey Toobin (2006)

Liberalism and Its Discontents, by Francis Fukuyama

Foundation for Individual Rights in Education

The Federalist Society: About Us

Who Actually Gets to Create Black Pop Culture?, by Bertrand Cooper

Magic Eye: A New Way of Looking at the World

Lindsay Shepherd - Wikipedia

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41: Long Prison Sentences Are Cruel and Unusual, with Peter Moskos

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 06:05:36 +0000

Imagine you're in a courtroom. You've been charged with a crime and the verdict has now been decided by the jury: "Guilty." The judge offers you two choices: Go to prison for five years, or immediately receive ten lashes and walk free. Which option do you choose? If you chose the lashes, you're not alone. Criminology professor and former Baltimore police officer Peter Moskos has written a book arguing against the unconsidered cruelty of prison sentences, and uses this very hypothetical to make his case.

Cop in the Hood: My Year Policing Baltimore's Eastern District, by Peter Moskos

Two Shades of Blue: Black and White in the Blue Brotherhood, by Peter Moskos

In Defense of Flogging, by Peter Moskos

Sir Robert Peel's "Nine Principles of Policing"

Broken Windows, by George Kelling and James Wilson

Murders Are Spiking. Police Should Be Part of the Solution, by German Lopez

NYPD Firearm Usage Stats

fatalencounters.org

Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2020 - Prison Policy Initiative

Delancey Street Foundation

copinthehood.com

qualitypolicing.com

Peter's Twitter: @PeterMoskos

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40: Great Writers Must Be Vulnerable in Public, with Andrew Sullivan

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 26 Oct 2021 12:00:00 +0000

What does it mean to be vulnerable at scale? To go out on a limb and lay bare not just one's opinions, but the private details of a life? The most effective political writing often exists at the intersection of quantitative data and personal anecdote. A writer's argument - if it is to convince - must accurately speak to the external reality we all share while inviting us to understand the author's internal experience that provides the emotional anchor. Writer and political commentator Andrew Sullivan has gathered his essays from the last 31 years - a record of joys, sorrows, missteps and victories - all written down, in public.

Out on a Limb: Selected Writing, 1989 - 2021, by Andrew Sullivan

The Weekly Dish, by Andrew Sullivan

Intimations Pursued: The Voice of Practice in the Conversation of Michael Oakeshott, by Andrew Sullivan

What Andrew Sullivan Taught Me About Michael Oakeshott, by Giles Fraser

Alone Again, Naturally, by Andrew Sullivan (Originally appeared November 28, 1994, in The New Republic)

Nighthawks (1942), by Edward Hopper

New York Movie (1939),by Edward Hopper

Automat (1927), by Edward Hopper

The End of Gay Culture, by Andrew Sullivan

Andrew's Twitter: @sullydish

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39: Black Culture Is Not a Monolith, with Bertrand Cooper

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 12 Oct 2021 17:50:24 +0000

“Black” is not a synonym for “poor.” But one could be forgiven for thinking that it were based on the way so many people talk about race in this country. The majority of Black Americans are in the middle class or above, yet the national imagination often seems to struggle to reflect this reality. And those who are living in poverty are often the last ones to tell their own stories. Bertrand Cooper writes about the importance of being accurate in our descriptions of our impoverished communities, and the need for representation that reflects the nuances of class that exist within this thing we call "race."

Who Actually Gets to Create Black Pop Culture?, by Bertrand Cooper

Is it Possible for Black Creatives to Exploit the Poor? w/ Damon Young & Bertrand Cooper - Bad Faith podcast

Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life, by Karen and Barbara Fields

Blacks See Growing Values Gap Between Poor and Middle Class (2007) - Pew Research Center

The Devastating Effects of Concentrated Poverty, by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Architecture of Segregation, by Paul Jargowsky

Neighborhood Income Composition by Household Race and Income, 1990 - 2009 - Stanford

Black Boy Fly, by Kendrick Lamar (YouTube)

Identity Theft, by Zaid Jilani

Black Jeopardy with Tom Hanks - SNL (YouTube)

Roger Ebert Speaks Out at a Better Luck Tomorrow Screening - YouTube

1,000 True Fans, by Kevin Kelly

Inequality Is High Within the Black Community, by Bertrand Cooper

Bertrand's Twitter: @_BlackTrash

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38: Curiosity Is a Skill We Can Learn, with Mónica Guzmán

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Wed, 29 Sep 2021 05:48:58 +0000

When was the last time you were really, truly curious about something? Something new, different, foreign, uncomfortable, even? And not just a passing glance, or a quick perusal, but a deep, active interest that takes you places you never thought you'd go? Director of Digital & Storytelling at Braver Angels Mónica Guzmán believes that for us to better understand our world and each other we must be intentionally, proactively curious.

Braver Angels

Northwest Newsmakers - Crosscut

The Science Behind Road Rage, by Ryan Fan

Speak or Be Spoken For - TEDx Talk by Mónica Guzmán

How to Make Seattle Your Own in 10 Easy Steps - Mónica Guzmán

The Evergrey - a newsletter all about Seattle

How The Evergrey Fosters Community in Ever-Growing Seattle - Seattle Met

How The Evergrey Bridged Political Divides in Washington and Oregon - Gather

moniguzman.com

Monica's Twitter: @moniguzman

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37: A Better Way to Police Communities, with Peter Moskos

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 21:49:54 +0000

Policing - as both an action and a concept - has been on the front page and at the front of many of our minds over the last several years, as we've reexamined our assumptions around its utility and purpose. When is law enforcement actually needed? When does it go too far? And what does good policing look like? Criminology professor and former Baltimore police officer Peter Moskos has combined his academic training with on-the-ground experience to try and answer those very questions.

Cop in the Hood: My Year Policing Baltimore's Eastern District, by Peter Moskos

Broken Windows, by George Kelling and James Wilson

Walking in a Police Officer's Shoes: A Conversation with Dr. Peter Moskos - YouTube

Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America

Neighborhoods and Police: The Maintenance of Civil Authority, by George Kelling and James Stewart

Two Shades of Blue: Black and White in the Blue Brotherhood, by Peter Moskos

In Defense of Flogging, by Peter Moskos

copinthehood.com

Peter's Twitter: @PeterMoskos

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36: True Inclusivity Requires Moral Courage, with Irshad Manji

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 31 Aug 2021 12:00:00 +0000

The first episode of Where We Go Next was recorded just over a year ago. We've talked about a range of subjects since then - from nuclear power, to mRNA vaccines, from Maslow's hierarchy of needs to Montessori's method, just to name a few. But a recurring theme of the podcast - guest after guest - has been identity. How do we understand ourselves and how do we understand one another? How do we create a diversity that strives for common ground while respecting the very things that make us who we are? How do we speak truth to the power of our ego when it threatens to get in the way of progress? Bestselling author and founder of the Moral Courage Project Irshad Manji shows others how to have the courage to do exactly that.

Don't Label Me: How to Do Diversity Without Inflaming the Culture Wars, by Irshad Manji

Moral Courage Project

Moral Courage ED - Diversity Without Division

Irshad Manji on Firing Line, with Margaret Hoover - Video

Why the Writer Richard Rodriguez Refuses to Be Put Into a Box - American Magazine

irshadmanji.com

Irshad's Twitter: @IrshadManji

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35: Making Movies in an Era of Creative Gatekeeping, with Nadia Gill

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 17 Aug 2021 17:19:28 +0000

Should a storyteller's identity define what stories they're allowed to tell? Does our sex, race, or sexuality set the boundaries around either the fictions we can dream up or the nonfictions we investigate and explore? Filmmaker Nadia Gill is speaking out against a worrying trend within her industry that suggests storytelling might be better off if we all simply kept to "our own."

Encompass Films

Soul Deep, by Encompass Films

Climbing Out of Disaster, by Encompass Films

Last Call For The Bayou, by Encompass Films

Who Are you to Tell That Story?, by Nadia Gill

"Decolonize" the Documentary?, by Nadia Gill

Babies - Trailer

Cartel Land - Trailer

Whores' Glory - Trailer

The Act of Killing - Trailer

Cutie and the Boxer - Trailer

Donald Trump Made Inroads in South Texas This Year. These Voters Explain Why. - Texas Tribune

Nadia's Twitter: @Egypxican

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34: Wrongfully Accused for Trying to Save Lives, with Dr. Hasan Gokal

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 3 Aug 2021 16:39:11 +0000

What happens when you're suddenly thrust into the spotlight at the intersection of two of the most pressing topics of our day - the criminal justice system, and the COVID-19 vaccine? Emergency medical physician Dr. Hasan Gokal found himself in the middle of a firestorm after he spent one fateful evening trying to do the right thing.

The Vaccine Had to Be Used. He Used It. He Was Fired. - The New York Times

Cleared of Accusation He Stole Vaccine, Dr. Hasan Gokal Wonders if His Reputation Will Recover - Houston Chronicle

Dr. Hasan Gokal on The View - YouTube

How Israeli Hospitals Administered Leftover Vaccine Doses - Twitter

@gokalmd

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33: The Struggle to Stay Heterodox in a Tribal World, with Meghan Daum

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 20 Jul 2021 12:00:00 +0000

Being a "heterodox thinker" often involves being exceedingly content with a whole bunch of people disliking you. Sometimes it's people to the Right of you, then people to the Left, and folks who were your strongest allies two days ago may suddenly hate your guts next Thursday. This is not to say that people who are consistently in one camp aren't principled - far from it. It's more that all of that "going against the grain-ing" can be rather... draining. Author and podcast host Meghan Daum shares what drives her to keep speaking about so many unspeakable things.

The Unspeakable with Meghan Daum - Substack

The Problem with Everything: My Journey Through the New Culture Wars, by Meghan Daum

The State of American Friendship: Change, Challenges, and Loss - Survey

I Don't Know What To Think Anymore: A Few Words From Your Host - The Unspeakable Podcast

Nuance: A Love Story, by Meghan Daum

I Left New York for Greener Pastures — and a Puppy, by Meghan Daum

Self Care: A Novel, by Leigh Stein

They Shall Not Grow Old, a documentary by Peter Jackson

The Delve podcast, with guest Meghan Daum

meghandaum.com

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32: Pursuing a Lifetime of Personal Growth, with Brittany Talissa King

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 6 Jul 2021 17:00:36 +0000

It's good to push yourself to think differently - to reexamine your priors, question your beliefs, and change your mind. But it's not enough to switch from Right to Left, or Left to Right, or from Heterodox Pepsi to Heterodox Coke. Introspection is a train without a station - something that should keep going. Writer and YouTube host Brittany Talissa King returns to discuss the sometimes difficult but rewarding task of remaining a work in progress.

2 Perspectives, Let's Talk - Live Show with Kimi Katiti - #AmericanShade

DarkHorse Podcast with Brittany Talissa King and Bret Weinstein

Free Black Thought, by Brittany Talissa King for Tablet Magazine

A Panel Discussion on Critical Race Theory - #AmericanShade

Black Like Them, by Malcolm Gladwell for The New Yorker

Brittany Talissa King on Medium

Brittany's Twitter: @KingTalissa

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31: Investigating the Origins of COVID-19, with Alina Chan

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 22 Jun 2021 12:00:00 +0000

While the United States is now recovering from a year of death, disease, and economic destruction, we still don't know exactly where or how Covid-19 actually began. Molecular biologist Dr. Alina Chan has spent the last year investigating the true origins of the virus, long before it was politically convenient to do so.

COVID-19 CoV Genetics - Global Lineage Surveillance

Coronavirus: Facebook Reverses Ban on Posts Claiming COVID-19 Came From Chinese Lab - South China Morning Post

More Questions Than Answers On COVID-19 Origin - The Mehdi Hasan Show

Many Scientists Still Think The Coronavirus Came From Nature - NPR

Gain of Function Research - Wikipedia

Alina's Twitter: @ayjchan

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30: How to Resolve Intractable Conflicts, with Amanda Ripley

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 8 Jun 2021 16:54:24 +0000

Have you ever found yourself so gripped in the throes of a conflict - with a friend, a family member, some stranger online - that you're blinded by a kind of rage that feels like it could overtake you at any moment? Have you found yourself questioning the other person's sanity, baffled as to why they would ever believe what they believe? Then you've experienced what is known as High Conflict. Bestselling author and investigative journalist Amanda Ripley has spent the last several years figuring out why we get trapped in this kind of conflict, and how we can work together to find our way out.

High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out, by Amanda Ripley

The Least Politically Prejudiced Place in America, by Amanda Ripley

Resetting the Table

A Guide to Divorce Mediation, by Gary Friedman

National Association for Community Mediation

Find Mediators at Mediate.com

amandaripley.com

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29: Our Lives Are All a Matter of Luck, with Aaron Rabinowitz

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 11 May 2021 12:00:00 +0000

What does it mean to have luck? Good luck, or bad? Is luck something that only happens selectively, or is our entire existence a kind of luck that we've had zero control over? And if that's true - what does it mean for our society? What does it say about our educational system, our criminal justice system, and how we treat and empathize with each other? What does it mean for our world if all of us are exactly where we are due only to pure chance? Aaron Rabinowitz, host of the Embrace the Void podcast, grapples with the philosophical and moral implications of that hypothesis.

Moral Luck, by Thomas Nagel

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Moral Luck

Embrace the Void - 186 Starmanning with Angel Eduardo Pt. 1

Embrace the Void - 183 Moderate Conservatism with Stephen Dause

The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good? by Michael Sandel

Embrace the Void - 044 Moral Luck

Ethical Realism in a Universe Without Free Will, featuring Aaron Rabinowitz - Skeptics in the Pub

Every Rubin Report Ever - FreedomToons

36 Arguments for the Existence of God, by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein

Philosophers in Space

Embrace the Void's Twitter: @ETVPod

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28: Reconsidering How We Form Our "Tribes," with Jay Shapiro

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Thu, 29 Apr 2021 03:45:34 +0000

How do we define our "tribes"? That's a word that gets thrown around a lot these days - political tribes, ideological tribes, religious tribes, national tribes... it's just tribalism all the way down. Tribalism, factionalism - whatever you want to call "strong loyalty to one's own social group" - has been with us forever, and we'll never be rid of it. But we can redefine and expand our tribes to include more people, and decrease the animosity we may feel toward our "outgroups." Writer and filmmaker Jay Shapiro has been thinking a great deal about how to do just that.

Who Gets to Wear the Hat?: Replacement and Representation, by Jay Shapiro (companion essay to this episode)

Opposite Field - a film by Jay Shapiro

Are Humans Hard-Wired for Racial Prejudice? - Los Angeles Times

Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations, by Amy Chua

I Can Tolerate Anything Except the Outgroup, by Scott Alexander

Your Roots Are Showing, by Razib Khan

"50% of the 5,000 pilots we train in the next decade to be women or people of color." - United Airlines

Deficit Gives a Tarnish to Golden Gate Bridge - The New York Times

From “Is” to “Us” the Words That Define Impeachments, by Jay Shapiro

Moral Saints, by Susan Wolf

Dilemma Podcast - hosted by Jay Shapiro

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27: How to Make the Internet Accessible for Everyone, with Jennison Asuncion

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 20 Apr 2021 12:00:00 +0000

How often do you think about how you access the internet? Not in the general sense, but the actual act of accessing it: the descriptive text you read underneath an item for sale, the buttons you click or tap to signal an intent or complete an action, or an input field to type a credit card number, select a country or state, or scroll through a set of dates. This is the stuff that, for many of us, fades away as we aimlessly look at memes or news stories. But it's important. Vital, even. Jennison Asuncion, LinkedIn's Head of Accessibility Engineering Evangelism, dedicates his time to ensuring that the digital world is accessible to everyone.

Episode Transcript - Accessible PDF

Global Accessibility Awareness Day

Accessibility Camp Bay Area

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) - Wikipedia

#a11y

WebAIM

Agile Web Development - Comprehensive Overview

jennison.ca

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26: Effective Science Messaging Can Save Society, with Sarah Mojarad

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Thu, 8 Apr 2021 06:25:31 +0000

If there's anything we've learned over the last year, it's that it's not enough to get important information right - you have to communicate that information successfully, too. Because if the data you need to share isn't being heard by the very people that need to hear it, it may as well not exist! Social media consultant and communication specialist Sarah Mojarad teaches and advocates for effective science messaging.

Communicating Science on Social Media, by Sarah Mojarad (YouTube)

10 Facts About Americans and Coronavirus Vaccines - Pew Research

A Year of U.S. Public Opinion on the Coronavirus Pandemic - Pew Research

"Food Science Babe" - Instagram

Online Harassment: Death by 1,000 Tweets, by Sarah Mojarad

First Draft News

RAND Research

Sarah's Twitter: @Sarah_Mojarad

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25: A Robust Defense of Free Speech, with Greg Lukianoff

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Wed, 31 Mar 2021 09:14:05 +0000

How do you know what's true, and what's false? What's right, or wrong? How do you know... what you know? You likely heard all of it somewhere, and for you to hear it, somebody had to say it. Because for us to be able to figure out what's true - in order to form a more perfect union - we must be able to speak with one another, freely. Greg Lukianoff, President and CEO of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, fights against speech restrictions being enacted in the very institutions that should be bastions of free expression.

Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression

State of the Law: Speech Codes - FIRE

Papish v. Board of Curators of the University of Missouri (1973)

Innovation in the Collective Brain, by Michael Muthukrishna and Joseph Henrich

What Is Cognitive Behavioral Therapy? - American Psychological Association

Types of Distorted Automatic Thoughts

How Americans Became So Sensitive to Harm, by Conor Friedersdorf

Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought, by Jonathan Rauch

Eugene V. Debs' Canton Speech (June 18th, 1918)

Report of the Committee on Freedom of Expression at Yale (1974)

Nicholas Christakis Yale Confrontation (2015)

Greg's Twitter: @glukianoff

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24: Understanding mRNA Vaccines, with Dr. Monica Gandhi

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Thu, 25 Mar 2021 23:54:13 +0000

The vaccines are here, and they're amazing. But there's still so much pessimism and confusion about how effective these vaccines actually are, which ones are "best," and what anyone can actually do after they've been vaccinated. This is a special episode, to get you justifiably excited about the rest of the year, and your life going forward. Share it with friends and family who are doubtful or scared, because Dr. Monica Gandhi, Professor of Medicine and Associate Chief in the Division of HIV, Infectious Diseases, and Global Medicine at UCSF, has the credentials and the knowledge required to prescribe some much-needed optimism.

Follow Monica: @MonicaGandhi9

How Do mRNA Vaccines Work? Here's What You Should Know - Johns Hopkins YouTube

How the Oxford-AstraZeneca Vaccine Works - The New York Times

University of Pennsylvania mRNA Biology Pioneers Receive COVID-19 Vaccine Enabled by their Foundational Research - Penn Medicine

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23: Children Need Freedom to Grow Independent, with Lenore Skenazy

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Wed, 24 Mar 2021 00:14:06 +0000

These days, when we hear the phrase "growing up," it tends to mostly reference the growth in inches and feet. But for a child to a grow up, they don't just need to physically grow, they need to grow mentally and emotionally as well. The recent cultural normalization of what is colloquially referred to as "helicopter parenting" has brought with it ever-hovering adults and minute-by-minute-scheduled weekdays and weekends, which have significantly stunted that growth. Lenore Skenazy, Co-founder and President of Let Grow, shares both data and anecdotes that help to illustrate exactly why children need the freedom to grow independent.

Why I Let My 9-Year-Old Ride the Subway Alone, by Lenore Skenazy

I Let My 9-Year-Old Ride the Subway Alone. I Got Labeled the ‘World’s Worst Mom.’ by Lenore Skenazy

Mother May I? by Lizzie Widdicombe

Learn How the Let Grow Project Can Help Kids with Anxiety, Let Grow YouTube

Let Grow

Free Range Kids

Raising Independent Kids - Facebook

Lenore's Twitter: @FreeRangeKids

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22: Changing the Lives of Working-Class Kids, with Katharine Birbalsingh

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 9 Mar 2021 20:04:01 +0000

Children need adults. They need them for guidance, for discipline, for inspiration, and of course, formal education. But often when we talk about education, our attention is almost exclusively focused on those adults. What are they doing right? What are they doing wrong? What are they doing too much or too little of, and how can we stop them? And we too often lose sight of how the children are actually performing. Michaela Community School founder and headmistress Katharine Birbalsingh shares how her staff have gone about providing underserved children the ability to change their stars.

Michaela Community School

The Power of Culture: The Michaela Way, edited by Katharine Birbalsingh

Controversial Michaela Free School Delights in GCSE Success - The Guardian

Success Academy Charter Schools

The Butterfly of Freedom, by Edward Monkton

Michaela student achieves perfect GCSE scores - Twitter

Katharine's Twitter: @Miss_Snuffy

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21: Defending the Rights of the Incarcerated, with Samuel Weiss

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Wed, 3 Mar 2021 23:44:36 +0000

In John Rawls' 1971 book, A Theory of Justice, he offers a thought experiment known as the Veil of Ignorance. Behind this veil, no knows who they are. They don't know their race, class, age, sex, privileges, disadvantages, or even their personality. Only once they step through the veil will they know their place in society. But before they take that step, they are tasked with designing it - its laws and its structures, its benefits and punishments. Imagine yourself behind the veil. How would you construct the world, if you weren't sure of your own place within it? Samuel Weiss, Executive Director of Rights Behind Bars, has a deep understanding of what certain corners of our society look like when that veil goes unconsidered.

Rights Behind Bars

Prison Policy Initiative - Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2020

American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment, by Shane Bauer

The Jailhouse Lawyer's Handbook

ACLU National Prison Project

Prison Law Office

Civil Rights Corps

Right Behind Bars' Twitter: @RightsBehind

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20: The New Science of Self-Actualization, with Scott Barry Kaufman

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 23 Feb 2021 20:01:49 +0000

Social distancing has separated us from the ones we care about, and cut us off from the day-to-day lives we've so long known. The mental and emotional toll of this prolonged isolation has been excruciating for many. But can we find a silver lining? May we use this time to become better friends and better partners, even fuller versions of ourselves? Humanistic psychologist Scott Barry Kaufman offers insight into how we may overcome life's struggles through continued growth and even, potentially, transcendence.

The Psychology Podcast with Scott Barry Kaufman

Transcend: The New Science of Self-Actualization, by Scott Barry Kaufman

Sailboat Metaphor, by Scott Barry Kaufman

Transcend with Scott Barry Kaufman, interviewed by physicist Sean Carroll - The Psychology Podcast

Maslow’s hierarchy of needs: Updated for the 21st century, with Scott Barry Kaufman for Big Think

The Science of Self-Transcendent Experiences with David Yaden - The Psychology Podcast

Humanistic Psychology - Wikipedia

Jiro Dreams of Sushi (2011)

scottbarrykaufman.com

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19: Finding Commonality Across the "Racial Divide," with Rahmaan Mwongozi

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Wed, 17 Feb 2021 09:00:21 +0000

Society has got you figured out: they talk about you like they know you, like you're part of a collective. They take a group, and pair it with either an adjective or a noun. "White this." "Black that." There's too many of "you," and too few of "them." You talk like this long enough, and it can be easy to slip into a way of thinking about other people that makes them sound so different from you, and you lose sight of the fact that they're really... not. Motivational speaker and author Rahmaan Mwongozi has written extensively about his journey to discovering our human commonalities.

Talking $#!t podcast, with Rahmaan Mwongozi

Inner Demons: Blazing A Path To Happiness, by Rahmaan Mwongozi

Talking $*** About Life, Parenting, Sacrifice and Work w/ My Mother - Talking $#!t podcast

We Need a Second Great Migration, by Charles M. Blow via The New York Times

“My N****s” & “White People," by Rahmaan Mwongozi

223 w/ Van Lathan - "Productive Disagreements and Common Ground" - The Fifth Column

rocsworld.com

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18: The Struggle to Define Liberalism in the 21st Century, with Jay Shapiro

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 9 Feb 2021 13:00:00 +0000

Why does nothing seem to make sense, anymore? Why do all of our important words seem so slippery, and our definitions ever harder to define? What is a liberal? What really is a conservative? And what does 'liberalism' - the philosophy that undergirds the foundation of American society - actually mean today? Writer and filmmaker Jay Shapiro has spent much of his life trying to figure out society's most confounding dilemmas.

Criticizing Freedom: Food First, Philosophy Later, by Jay Shapiro

S02E17: Atheistic Search for God - Dilemma Podcast

Talking $*** About Tech, Capitalism, Culture, & Philosophy - Talking $#!t Podcast

"Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly;" - Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle

Dogs' Eyes Evolve to Appeal to Humans - BBC News

Walden, by Henry David Thoreau

"God is dead." - Friedrich Nietzsche

Why We Drive: Toward a Philosophy of the Open Road, by Matthew B. Crawford

After Riding With Spanish Speakers, White Commuters Favored Anti-Immigration Policies - Big Think

Chesterton's Fence: A Lesson in Second Order Thinking, by Shane Parrish

Ethics Explainer: Deontology

Ethics Explainer: Consequentialism

Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do: The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in a Free Society, by Peter McWilliams

The Actual Abortion Debate, by Jay Shapiro

Fundamental Attribution Error - Ethics Unwrapped

The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good? by Michael Sandel

On Directing Film, by David Mamet

Original Position (Veil of Ignorance) - John Rawls

"Abby Singer" - Filmmaking slang for 'Second to last shot of the day'

Optimistic Nihilism - Kurzgesagt

The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World, by David Deutsch

How to Build a Dyson Sphere - Kurzgesagt

The Fermi Paradox - Wait But Why

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17: The Conservative Case for Solving Climate Change, with Quill Robinson

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 2 Feb 2021 13:00:00 +0000

Climate change is a pressing issue that requires both our attention and our action. But why does so much of modern environmental activism seem to come from one side of the aisle? The American Conservation Coalition's Quill Robinson offers a conservative case for solving climate change.

American Conservation Coalition

Trump Is Out of Touch With Republican Voters on Climate Change, by Quill Robinson

Market-Based Strategies - Center for Climate and Energy Solutions

How an Alzheimers 'Cabal' Thwarted Progress Towards a Cure, by Sharon Begley

Solar's Future Is Insanely Cheap, by Ramez Naam

The Nature Conservancy

This Japanese Shop is 1020 Years Old. It Knows a Bit About Surviving Crises - The New York Times

Stop Blaming Climate Change for California’s Fires, by Michael Shellenberger

It's Time for the American Climate Contract, with Quill Robinson

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16: A Compassionate Approach to Anti-Racism Training, with Chloé Valdary

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 26 Jan 2021 13:00:00 +0000

Racism is real. Its devastating historical effects can still be felt today, and the misguided and harmful beliefs that we've inherited from previous generations can have a profound impact on how we see and treat one another. The anti-racist movement is a response to these injustices, and anti-racism training has sprung up across private and public businesses. But is there only one way to do anti-racism training, or to be anti-racist? Theory of Enchantment founder Chloé Valdary has spent the last several years developing a compassionate alternative.

Theory of Enchantment

TED: How Love Can Help Repair Social Inequality, with Chloé Valdary

The True and Only Heaven, by Christopher Lasch

The Omni-Americans: Some Alternatives to the Folklore of White Supremacy, by Albert Murray

James Baldwin & Nikki Giovanni, a conversation

Saudade

Shadow and Act, by Ralph Ellison

A Prayer for Owen Meany, by John Irving

On the Shortness of Life, by Seneca

Chloé's Twitter: @cvaldary

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15: The Complicated Story of America, with Razib Khan

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 19 Jan 2021 13:00:00 +0000

America isn't just a geographical location, or a mass of 330 million people living within a set of lines drawn on a map. America is the story it tells itself about itself. And adding new chapters feels natural enough - time marches forward, and so does a story. But what happens if, while expanding the scope of what's in front of us, we narrow the scope of what came before? Geneticist and cultural commentator Razib Khan shares how America's rich, complicated, and multi-ethnic history is at risk of being flattened by modern narratives.

Your Roots Are Showing, by Razib Khan

In God We Trusted, by Razib Khan

The Utility of White-Bashing, by Reihan Salam

The Consolations of Free Thought, by Razib Khan

The Original Chinese Man, by Razib Khan

Justin Lin's Better Luck Tomorrow, a movie review by Roger Ebert

Razib Khan's Unsupervised Learning - Substack

razib.com

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14: Patriotism Shouldn’t Be Partisan, with Siddak Ahuja

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Wed, 30 Dec 2020 07:39:06 +0000

Why is patriotism increasingly a partisan issue, divided by party affiliation? Writer Siddak Ahuja has some theories on why certain political demographics are less patriotic than others.

The Case for a Left Patriotism, by Siddak Ahuja

Why Are Poor Americans More Patriotic Than Their Wealthier Counterparts? - The Guardian

The Left Case Against Open Borders - American Affairs Journal

The Road to Somewhere by David Goodhart – a Liberal’s Rightwing Turn on Immigration - The Guardian

How Race Politics Liberated the Elites - UnHerd

Thorstein Veblen’s Theory of the Leisure Class—A Status Update - Quillette

A Left-Right Populist Agenda to Take Jobs Back From China, by Siddak Ahuja

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13: Nuclear Energy Can Save the World, with Nick Touran

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Wed, 23 Dec 2020 09:26:57 +0000

When we talk about ways to combat climate change and address our nation's energy needs, we consistently leave the safest, most reliable, and most efficient energy source out of the discussion altogether. Joining us this week is nuclear engineer Nick Touran, PhD, who happens to be an expert in that exact type of energy.

whatisnuclear.com

Bicycles for Our Minds, with Steve Jobs

Nuclear Power May Have Saved 1.8 Million Lives Otherwise Lost to Fossil Fuels, Scientific American

Radiation Dose Chart, XKCD

Spontaneous Generation (Flies From Meat), Wikipedia

3 Reasons Why Nuclear Energy Is Awesome, Kurzgesagt

A Brief History of Tiny Nuclear Reactors, Popular Mechanics

Floating Nuclear Power Plant, Popular Mechanics

Nick's Twitter: @whatisnuclear

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12: How Tragedy Can Lead to Growth, with Ayishat Akanbi

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 15 Dec 2020 17:40:00 +0000

When we talk about the "culture wars" - issues of identity, race, ethnicity, immigration, gender, sex, sexuality - we often don't fully understand why exactly we believe the things we believe. Fashion stylist and cultural commentator Ayishat Akanbi says true understanding can come from deep introspection, and she has the experience to back it up.

The Problem with Wokeness, with Ayishat Akanbi

The Importance of Free Speech, with Ayishat Akanbi

The Problem with Cancel Culture, with Ayishat Akanbi

Ayishat Akanbi with Coleman Hughes, on Conversations with Coleman

Ayishat Akanbi with David Fuller, on Rebel Wisdom

Ayishat Akanbi: 'My problematic ideas are my favourite ones', The Guardian

ayishatakanbi.com

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11: Being Polite Can Hinder Moral Progress, with Alexandra Hudson

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 8 Dec 2020 13:00:00 +0000

What if I told you that sometimes, being polite does more harm than good? That the niceties we use to grease the wheels of our daily interactions can actually hurt the very people we want to help, and slow the pace of progress? Writer and speaker Alexandra Hudson advocates for an alternative to politeness that has a long and storied history in American politics.

The Value of Exercising Civility—in Both Oikos and Polis, by Alexandra Hudson

Bowling Alone at Twenty, by Alexandra Hudson

What's the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon? - How Stuff Works

Fundamental Attribution Error - Wikipedia

Civility and the Challenge of Ordered Liberty, by Alexandra Hudson

Daryl Davis: The Black Musician Who Converts Ku Klux Klan Members - The Guardian

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Alexa, Teach My Child to Be Polite, Please, by Alexandra Hudson

alexandraohudson.com

Alexandra's Twitter: @LexiOHudson

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10: The Merits of a Modern Montessori Education, with Ray Girn & Matt Bateman

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Wed, 2 Dec 2020 08:17:48 +0000

Our national conversation around childhood education usually revolves around or devolves into a sort of generic bifurcation of public vs private. But only when we really break a topic down into its constituent parts can we begin to see it more clearly. So what educational method might work best? Ray Girn and Matt Bateman of Higher Ground Education believe that the method they practice will best equip children to flourish as adults.

Higher Ground Education

The Goals of Montessori Education, with Ray Girn

Q & A with Matt Bateman

A Day in the Life at Michaela, Britain's Strictest School

Ray's Twitter: @raygirn

Matt's Twitter: @mbateman

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9: The Widening Gap Between the Wealthy and Working Classes, with Rob Henderson

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 24 Nov 2020 13:44:40 +0000

The working and wealthy classes in America are further apart than they've been in 60 years. Wages, wealth generation, savings - these are the obvious ones, but marriage stability and self-reported rates of wellbeing are also way down for blue collar Americans. "Deaths of despair" - from suicide, drug overdose, and alcoholism - number 150,000 a year, nearly all of them concentrated in working class communities. And many of these problems begin in childhood and compound into adulthood. What's causing so many of our children to fall so far behind, and why do today's elite seem to care so little? Writer and researcher Rob Henderson has experience living in both worlds, and has dedicated much of his time to finding the answers.

How I Went From Troubled Foster Kid to Scholar at Yale and Cambridge, by Rob Henderson

‘Luxury Beliefs’ Are the Latest Status Symbol for Rich Americans, by Rob Henderson

Thorstein Veblen’s Theory of the Leisure Class—A Status Update, by Rob Henderson

Everything I Know About Elite America I Learned From ‘Fresh Prince’ and ‘West Wing’, by Rob Henderson

Subscribe to Rob's Newsletter on Substack

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8: The Complexities and Contradictions Within Racial "Communities," with Brittany Talissa King

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 17 Nov 2020 13:00:00 +0000

If you were tasked with summing up the worldview of 50 million people, could you do it? Sounds a little ridiculous, right? Well, there are just about 50 million people in the "Black Community" in the United States, and it's not uncommon for Americans to speak about this "community" as if they had a single, unified voice. But that sort of language leaves a lot of worthwhile perspectives out of the conversation. Writer and YouTube host Brittany Talissa King shares her story of embracing the complex and often contradictory opinions that can exist within any "community."

American Shade - Brittany's YouTube Channel

Free Black Thought: The Case for Heterodoxy in Views on Race, by Brittany Talissa King

Our Skin Problem: America's Toxic Bias of Color, by Brittany Talissa King

#AmericanShade with Brittany King

The Case for Black Optimism, by Coleman Hughes

Ami Horowitz: Are Voter ID Laws Racist?

Brittany's Twitter: @KingTalissa

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7: Challenging the Ethics of ”Cancel Culture,” with Angel Eduardo

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 13:00:00 +0000

If you've ever stopped yourself from saying something that you know is pretty innocuous, then you've experienced the chilling effect of a phenomenon known as "cancel culture." But what can happen when we stand up for the ability to think freely? And how can we improve our discourse so that all of us can feel comfortable speaking - and changing - our minds? Writer and musician Angel Eduardo has experience doing both.

A Letter on Justice and Open Debate - Harper's Magazine

I'm a Nobody. The Harper's Letter was for Me, by Angel Eduardo

Why Keeping Your Beliefs to Yourself Is Immoral, by Angel Eduardo

3 Tips for Having Difficult Conversations, by Angel Eduardo

angeleduardo.com

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6: Every News Story Is a Kind of Fiction, with Shaun Cammack

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 3 Nov 2020 13:00:00 +0000

Humans are natural-born story machines. And those stories - those narratives - can help bring us closer together, or push us further apart. Today is Election Day, and we seem more divided than we have in a long time, largely because we can't seem to agree on a shared story. So how can we find one? Is that even possible? Shaun Cammack of The Narratives Project has some special insights on the power and pliability of our cultural and political narratives.

The Narratives Project

Kenosha Shooting: Narrative Evolution, by Shaun Cammack

Ancient Chinese Descriptions of "Daqin" (Roman Empire)

Wait But Why: The Fermi Paradox, by Tim Urban

Shaun's Twitter: @shaunjcammack

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5: The Inherent Value of Lived Experiences, with Roderick Graham

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Wed, 28 Oct 2020 03:14:45 +0000

When we discuss groups of people, we often speak in terms of data - polls, graphs, percentages - and while this can offer us insight on the macro level, it leaves a lot of valuable, relevant information out. We're more than numbers, after all - we're individuals! So how can we temper our data sets with our personal, lived experiences? Professor and researcher Roderick Graham offers up a way to strike a balance.

roderickgraham.com

Thinking Critically About Lived Experiences

The Hard Bigotry of Soft Racism, by Roderick Graham

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4: Racial Nationalism Is a Really Dumb Idea, with Wilfred Reilly

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 20 Oct 2020 12:00:00 +0000

What if America were split into racialized ethnostates? A “White” country and a “Black” one? Would we all be better off? Writer and HBCU professor Wilfred Reilly explains why racial nationalism is a dumb idea, and debunks some common misinformation about American race relations.

Taboo: 10 Facts You Can't Talk About, by Wilfred Reilly

No, There Is No Coming Race War, by Wilfred Reilly

Rioting Over a Narrative, by Wilfred Reilly

Wilfred's Twitter: @wil_da_beast630

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3: A Challenge to Move Beyond Racialized Identities, with Inaya Folarin Iman

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 13 Oct 2020 12:00:00 +0000

Skin color is real, but what we call “race” - the way we categorize and limit people based on their appearance - is a fiction. Are we stuck with this falsehood forever? British journalist and television presenter Inaya Folarin Iman believes we can - and must - transcend race.

The Equiano Project

InayaFolarin.com

We Can't Just Oppose Racism: We Must Transcend Race, by Inaya Folarin Iman

Black Lives Matter UK: An Anthology

Inaya's Twitter: @InayaFolarin

Inaya's Instagram: @InayaFolarinIman

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2: Expanding What It Means to Be American, with Zaid Jilani

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 6 Oct 2020 14:00:00 +0000

As America continues to become more racially and ethnically diverse, and our concept of what it means to be American changes, how do we widen our tribe while maintaining a common narrative? Journalist Zaid Jilani shares his thoughts on the future of American identity.

Identity Theft, by Zaid Jilani

The Diversity Trap, by Zaid Jilani

The Backchannel podcast, by Zaid Jilani and Leighton Woodhouse

Zaid's Twitter: @ZaidJilani

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1: How to Bridge Political Divides, with John Wood, Jr.

michael@wherewegonext.com (Michael Callahan) — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 21:24:00 +0000

When it comes to the political, it's not unusual to agree to disagree. But when our modern discourse so often feels toxic, how can we be more agreeable in our disagreement? John Wood, Jr. of Braver Angels offers a path forward.

There Are Evils Worse Than Racism, by John Wood, Jr.

BraverAngels.org

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