Humor: What's so funny?

097 – The hosts take a personal look at what they find funny and why. Fair warning, political sensitivities aren't off-limits.

1619: What Troubles, What Remains?

096 – Even though the country's racist history still troubles the present, there are reasons to look up. What can we take away from @NYTimes 1619 project?

1619: Medical Apartheid

095 – The history of racism in medical care is not surprising, but the impact it continues to have on contemporary medical treatments is shocking. How do unscientific racial biases continue to distort evidence-based medicine?

1619: Food, Sugar, and Race

094 – The hosts talk about the history of food production in the United States and its connections to poverty, race, and slavery. How is the legacy of slavery connected to the contemporary obesity epidemic? Listen and find out.

1619: Music, Blackface, and Performing Freedom

093 – The hosts discuss the history of "performing blackness" in music, as well as other forms of media. What does it mean to "co-opt" another culture's music? What's fair and what's foul in artistic expression?

1619: Music as Cultural Appropriation

092 – The legacy of slavery is long, but should the criticism of it extend to musical appropriation? What exactly is musical appropriation, and what can Warren G's Regulate teach us about it?

1619: Beyond The New York Times Project

091 – The hosts, along with new contributor Sarah Bond, discuss their impressions of the 1619 project. Does it go far enough in reckoning with our past?

Climate Change: What We've Learned

090 – The podcast welcomes a new contributor, Sarah Bond, PhD, and the hosts reflect on their climate change discussion.

Climate Change: Art as Social Practice

089 – Contemplating the consequences of climate change is not only the purview of scientists. Artists are also helping to imagine the contours of a warming planet, as well as re-imagine what possibilities might emerge from this global crisis.

Climate Change: Revisiting "An Inconvenient Truth"

088 – How well does "An Inconvenient Truth" (2006) hold up after ten plus years of scientific research and political upheaval? The hosts engage not only with the film and its nominal protagonist, Al Gore, but the effectiveness of film as advocacy.