This Week in the News

Episode 23 (3/11/22) Listeners weigh in on how developmental thinking helps us relate and respond to the Russian war on Ukraine

Episode 22 (3/4/22) The War on Modernity in Ukraine

Episode 21 (2/25/22) Russia’s invasion of Ukraine seen through a developmental lens

Episode 20 (2.18.22) On Yuval Harari’s “Direction of History” and David Brooks’ “Century of the Strongman?” What’s missing?

Episode 19 (1/7/22) Capitol riot, one year later. Democracy in peril, fears on the left and right.

Episode 18 (12/17/21) Worlds collide and integrate in Steven Spielberg’s new telling of “West Side Story”

Episode 17 (12/10/21) Embrace our inner Jussie? * Techno-optimism

Episode 16 (12/3/21) Not “The New York Times” anymore * Horizontal evolution * Integral media

Episode 15 (11/19/21) “Morning Joe” Scarborough decries political tribalism as he stokes it * Steve Bannon, grifter or holy warrior?

Episode 14 (11/12/21) Jeff takes a look at the coverage and reactions to a major new book, “The Dawn of Everything, A New History of Humanity” by archeologist David Wengrow and the late anthropologist David Graeber

Episode 13 (10/29/21) Looking at two new books that argue about progress: Our Country Friends, by Gary Shteyngart, and Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce and Why It Matters, by Steven Pinker

Episode 12 (10/22/21) A “hard but real compromise is possible” on abortion * The role of women devolves, and evolves, in the Muslim world

Episode 11 (10/15/21) The global minimum tax * Facebook and Instagram on the block * Farhad Manjoo cautions against moral panic

Episode 10 (10/1/21) The Infrastructure and Reconciliation bills, David Brooks on “Why We Need to Spend $4 Trillion”

Episode 9 (9/24/21) John McWhorter says celebrate new gender pronouns * France’s submarine snub * Vaccines in Uganda

Episode 8 (9/17/21) - A pro-life Christian column: “Texas’s Abortion Law Should Force America to Change Its Ways”

Episode 7 (9/10/21) Critiquing David Brooks’ “When Dictators Find God” * Why premodern sensibilities must be integrated, not converted or paved over

Episode 6 (9/3/21) - Ross Douthet rebuts Brett Stephens on Afghanistan (I believe both of them) * Harvard Divinity School chooses an atheist Head Chaplain 

Episode 5 (8/27/21) - Afghanistan through the developmental lens * The march of the Karens and three definitions of racism 

Episode 4 (8/20/21) - Brett Stephens denounces Biden on Afghanistan * How to think your way to God

Episode 3 (8/13/21) - The IPCC climate story: religious in a bad way and religious in a good way

Episode 2 (8/6/21) - Was I too green last week? * Mondo Duplantis pole vaults into integral territory * Heather Cox Richardson and Roxanne Gay on why is everybody so mad * Come In, a poem by Robert Frost

Episode 1 (7/30/21) - Simone Biles Olympic withdrawal * Seeing the unseen worker, and the unseen aspects of every worker