East Meets West – Podcast

Can you avoid the news? How’s the President doing? Economic confidence. Retirement. MP3

Politics, from Catalonia to New Zealand and China and beyond. Also housing. MP3

Tom tries to explain white people to Roger. MP3

Houston hurricanes, Do we need aliens to bring us together? Why we localize tragedies. MP3

Talking about what to talk about, the inability to have rational discussions, blurring of demography and geography, the psychology of uncertainty, will automation disrupt jobs. MP3

We check in on Doctor Who, is TV TOO good? Are we influencing TV too much? Touring the world through Netflix. MP3

The end of history, the beginning of history, and why we get so upset about politics. MP3

Governments are made of people, one problem with government is scale, do we need to disrupt representative democracy? Should we redraw state borders? Do we need a new social contract? MP3

How do we fix governance? MP3

The US presidential election. MP3

The US election, how to pick a President. MP3

Why we use base 10, vestigial digit removal or enhancement, bird brains, what dinosaurs tasted like, farming endangered animals, eating invasive species, making good choices for our environments, free trade. MP3

Car guys, status symbols, fashion, men vs. dudes, unfortunate last names, Star Trek Discovery, our hopes and fears. MP3

The Olympics? Rio and Ryan Lochte, Tokyo Olympics, Star Trek: Beyond, Risks of rebooting, comic book effect on movies. MP3

Why it’s unpopular to be independent, how political parties change, what causes unrest, restricting news, mean world syndrome, are we more stubborn now? the monotony of trailers. MP3