Anxiety, depression and suicide rising on university campuses as well as nationally. Speakers shouted down, students and professors afraid to speak honestly – but why?  Steve interviews Greg Lukianoff, co-author of The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas are Setting Up a Generation for Failure before a live audience […]

We are in a really weird economy.  Jobs, wages, taxes and inflation are all in play.  Steve talks with Professor David G. Blanchflower, author of Not Working: Where Have All The Good Jobs Gone?

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Our health care system is the subject of much controversy over access, cost and quality. Steve talks with Tandice Urban and Chloe Harrouche, founders of www.thelanby.com about one approach to improvement.

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If education is the key to creating a better world, American schools are not doing that job well.  Steve talks with Fredrik DeBoer, author of The Cult of Smart: How our Broken Education System Perpetuates Social Injustice.

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People who were raised in a society that is Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic tend to be highly individualistic, control-oriented, nonconformist, analytical and trusting of strangers and are in many other ways different from most of the other people in the world.  Steve talks with Professor Joseph Henrich, author of The Weirdest People […]