Dr. Sandro Galea talks about how we should rethink our understanding of what it means to be healthy – and how that shift will guide our approach to healthcare.
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The Reality Of Ransomware
ProPublica technology reporter Renee Dudley explains how these attacks work, how firms can sometimes recover the stolen data, and how sometimes the solution is just to pay up.
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Why Societies Recover– or Don’t– from Crises
Pulitzer Prize-winner Jared Diamond joins host us to talk about his latest effort on the topic, which looks specifically at why some countries recover from trauma while others don’t.
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Why We’ve Got The Suburbs Wrong
Amanda Kolson Hurley joins us to talk about planned communities that have bucked conventional thinking of suburbs – from a tiny-house anarchist neighborhood in New Jersey to a Modernist enclave in Massachusetts.
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Cities, Not Sprawl: The Future Of Urban Development
Architect and urban planner Peter Calthorpe joins us to talk about how urban planners are thinking through how to handle large populations living in close quarters.
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Should We Stop Taking Your Huddled Masses?
David Frum joins us to walk through the many complicated issues at play with immigration like the question that divides us– how much is too much?
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Does Trade Really Prevent War?
Daniel Drezner, professor of international politics at Tufts University, joins us to talk about how the current breakdown of international trade agreements eerily resembles the run-up to the First World War.
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Are We Safer Since 9/11?
Janet Napolitano joins us to take stock of our post-9/11 efforts to root out terrorism without crippling our free society. Her new book is called “How Safe Are We?: Homeland Security Since 9/11.”
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Millennials Come Of Age In A One-Child China
Karoline Kan joins us to talk about how her experiences growing up in China differed from older family members – including her mother who defied the country’s One-Child Policy when she gave birth to Karoline. Her new memoir is called “Under Red Skies: Three Generations of Life, Loss, and Hope in China.”
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Terrorism Is The Least Of Our Problems
Political scientist Micah Zenko joins us to talk about why – relative to other time periods – we’ve never had less to worry about. His new book, written with Michael A. Cohen, is called “Clear & Present Safety: The World Has Never Been Better and Why That Matters to Americans.”
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We Can’t Stop Climate Change: Here Is What We Can Do
Roger Sedjo joins us to talk about global warming as two parallel tracks: One focused on slowing global warming and another planning for its inevitability. His new book is called “Surviving Global Warming: Why Eliminating Greenhouse Gases Isn’t Enough.”
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Why We Think We’re Ready for Natural Disasters And Why We’re Wrong
Seismologist Lucy Jones joins us to talk about the long-term psychological toll natural disasters have on the people who experience them. Her book “The Big Ones: How Natural Disasters Have Shaped Us (And What We Can Do About Them)” has just been released in paperback.
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