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Planet: CriticalBad Environmentalism | Gordon KaticGordon Katic is the founder of the award-winning podcast production company, Cited Media. This week, they’re launching Green Dreams, the new season of their flagship podcast which tells stories of radical environmental thinkers and their dreams for our green future, asking: Should we make those dreams reality, or are they actually nightmares?Gordon contacted me to arrange a mutual podcast shout-out, and instead I invited him on the show to discuss both the season and their innovative research method which prioritises and plural and collaborative approach. Gordon braids in much of what he’s learned into this...
2025-09-0453 min
PullbackEnd of Year Quiz 2024Kristen and Kyla host their annual end of year quiz featuring friends of the pod Stefan Hostetter, the Director of Programs and Community with the Centre for Social Innovation and co-host of Green Majority Radio, Gordon Katic, host of the award winning Cited podcast series featuring stories about the politics of science and expertise, and Ryan MacRae, an advocate for migrant worker rights featured earlier this season for his work with the Cooper Institute on the report Permanent Jobs, Temporary People.
Stefan's charity shout-out: Rainbow Railroad
Ryan's charity shout-out: Women of the First Light
2025-01-0243 min
Academic EdgelordsAre Humans Actually Irrational? (On Thaler and Sunstein's Libertarian Paternalism) Feat. Gordon Katic
In this episode, we ask, how irrational are human beings really? To answer this, we read Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein’s classic essay on “libertarian paternalism” which argues that because human beings are easily manipulated by their surrounding “choice architecture”, governments should use this mechanism to manipulate encourage citizens to make better choices.
We are also joined by our co-founder and former co-host Gordon Katic. We discuss Gordon’s excellent new Cited podcast series on the “Rationality Wars” that explores the way libertarian paternalism has benefitted big corporations and might be based on questionable evidence. Our di...
2024-10-051h 14
Give Them An ArgumentThursday Night Debate Breakdown: Piers Morgan vs. Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali BennettGordon Katic joins Ben Burgis to watch Piers Morgan's recent faceoff with former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett over the war in Gaza.Follow Gordon on Twitter: @gordonkaticFollow Ben on Twitter: @BenBurgisFollow GTAA on Twitter: @Gtaa_ShowBecome a GTAA Patron and receive numerous benefits ranging from patron-exclusive postgames every Monday night to our undying love and gratitude for helping us keep this thing going:patreon.com/benburgisVisit benburgis.com
2024-03-111h 29
New Books in Physics and ChemistryThe Science Wars: Post-Truth and the Nature of ScienceWelcome to the final day of our weeklong deep dive into the politics of education. Today, we’ve got another episode of Cited for you. If you haven’t heard a Cited episode before, it’s the documentary show that came before Darts and Letters and it specialised in immersive storytelling.This piece takes us on a journey through a little-known, long-past set of debates on the nature of science in democratic society: the Science Wars. They may seem lost to time, but some scholars say the Science Wars might just explain how we got our 'post-truth' moment...
2022-07-291h 08
New Books in the History of ScienceThe Science Wars: Post-Truth and the Nature of ScienceWelcome to the final day of our weeklong deep dive into the politics of education. Today, we’ve got another episode of Cited for you. If you haven’t heard a Cited episode before, it’s the documentary show that came before Darts and Letters and it specialised in immersive storytelling.This piece takes us on a journey through a little-known, long-past set of debates on the nature of science in democratic society: the Science Wars. They may seem lost to time, but some scholars say the Science Wars might just explain how we got our 'post-truth' moment...
2022-07-291h 08
New Books in EducationThe Science Wars: Post-Truth and the Nature of ScienceWelcome to the final day of our weeklong deep dive into the politics of education. Today, we’ve got another episode of Cited for you. If you haven’t heard a Cited episode before, it’s the documentary show that came before Darts and Letters and it specialised in immersive storytelling.This piece takes us on a journey through a little-known, long-past set of debates on the nature of science in democratic society: the Science Wars. They may seem lost to time, but some scholars say the Science Wars might just explain how we got our 'post-truth' moment...
2022-07-291h 08
New Books in Politics and PolemicsThe Science Wars: Post-Truth and the Nature of ScienceWelcome to the final day of our weeklong deep dive into the politics of education. Today, we’ve got another episode of Cited for you. If you haven’t heard a Cited episode before, it’s the documentary show that came before Darts and Letters and it specialised in immersive storytelling.This piece takes us on a journey through a little-known, long-past set of debates on the nature of science in democratic society: the Science Wars. They may seem lost to time, but some scholars say the Science Wars might just explain how we got our 'post-truth' moment...
2022-07-291h 08
New Books in Higher EducationThe Science Wars: Post-Truth and the Nature of ScienceWelcome to the final day of our weeklong deep dive into the politics of education. Today, we’ve got another episode of Cited for you. If you haven’t heard a Cited episode before, it’s the documentary show that came before Darts and Letters and it specialised in immersive storytelling.This piece takes us on a journey through a little-known, long-past set of debates on the nature of science in democratic society: the Science Wars. They may seem lost to time, but some scholars say the Science Wars might just explain how we got our 'post-truth' moment...
2022-07-291h 08
New Books in ScienceThe Science Wars: Post-Truth and the Nature of ScienceWelcome to the final day of our weeklong deep dive into the politics of education. Today, we’ve got another episode of Cited for you. If you haven’t heard a Cited episode before, it’s the documentary show that came before Darts and Letters and it specialised in immersive storytelling.This piece takes us on a journey through a little-known, long-past set of debates on the nature of science in democratic society: the Science Wars. They may seem lost to time, but some scholars say the Science Wars might just explain how we got our 'post-truth' moment...
2022-07-291h 08
New Books in Biology and EvolutionThe Science Wars: Post-Truth and the Nature of ScienceWelcome to the final day of our weeklong deep dive into the politics of education. Today, we’ve got another episode of Cited for you. If you haven’t heard a Cited episode before, it’s the documentary show that came before Darts and Letters and it specialised in immersive storytelling.This piece takes us on a journey through a little-known, long-past set of debates on the nature of science in democratic society: the Science Wars. They may seem lost to time, but some scholars say the Science Wars might just explain how we got our 'post-truth' moment...
2022-07-291h 08
Darts & LettersThe Science Wars: Post-Truth and the Nature of ScienceWelcome to the final day of our weeklong deep dive into the politics of education. Today, we’ve got another episode of Cited for you. If you haven’t heard a Cited episode before, it’s the documentary show that came before Darts and Letters and it specialised in immersive storytelling.This piece takes us on a journey through a little-known, long-past set of debates on the nature of science in democratic society: the Science Wars. They may seem lost to time, but some scholars say the Science Wars might just explain how we got our 'post-truth' moment...
2022-07-291h 08
New Books in Environmental StudiesThe Battle of Buxton: Saving a Lighthouse in the Era of Climate ChangeIf you tuned in to our “ideas in strange places” themed programming last week, you would have heard an episode of Darts and Letters’ predecessor: Cited. (If you didn’t, check it out - there’s everything from science fiction to prison activism back there!)Today, as we continue exploring the politics of education, we’re bringing you another episode of Cited. This one was produced in collaboration with 99% Invisible. It tells a vivid story of science, politics, nature, and a heated battle over a small town’s beloved lighthouse.The forces of nature versus the forces of h...
2022-07-2832 min
New Books in the American SouthThe Battle of Buxton: Saving a Lighthouse in the Era of Climate ChangeIf you tuned in to our “ideas in strange places” themed programming last week, you would have heard an episode of Darts and Letters’ predecessor: Cited. (If you didn’t, check it out - there’s everything from science fiction to prison activism back there!)Today, as we continue exploring the politics of education, we’re bringing you another episode of Cited. This one was produced in collaboration with 99% Invisible. It tells a vivid story of science, politics, nature, and a heated battle over a small town’s beloved lighthouse.The forces of nature versus the forces of h...
2022-07-2832 minDarts & LettersThe Battle of Buxton: Saving a Lighthouse in the Era of Climate ChangeIf you tuned in to our “ideas in strange places” themed programming last week, you would have heard an episode of Darts and Letters’ predecessor: Cited. (If you didn’t, check it out - there’s everything from science fiction to prison activism back there!)Today, as we continue exploring the politics of education, we’re bringing you another episode of Cited. This one was produced in collaboration with 99% Invisible. It tells a vivid story of science, politics, nature, and a heated battle over a small town’s beloved lighthouse.The forces of nature versus the forces of h...
2022-07-2832 min
New Books in LawExiled in America: About the Lives of Registered Sex OffendersBefore Darts and Letters there was a documentary series called Cited. This is one of those documentaries.This episode is about the lives of sex offenders in the USA. The researcher in this story, Chris Drum actually went and lived with sex offenders, so it’s a fascinating insight into life with some of the most reviled people in the country.This is the last of our “ideas in strange places” theme, next week our theme is “politics of education”, and we’ll be running episodes from our catalogue with a different theme each week until we lau...
2022-07-2234 min
New Books in Policing, Incarceration, and ReformPrison Notebooks: Thinking (and Writing) about IncarcerationI can point you to mountains of research about prisons. I can also recommend at least a dozen Netflix documentaries, and highlight a handful of radical activists and scholars. There’s a lot of intellectual work done about prison. But what about intellectual work done in prison?As part of this week’s “ideas in strange places” theme, we want to play you this episode from right near when we started Darts and Letters, where we ask what kind of radical thought can come from the extreme oppression prisoners endure.We’ll be back with brand new epi...
2022-07-211h 03New Books in LawPrison Notebooks: Thinking (and Writing) about IncarcerationI can point you to mountains of research about prisons. I can also recommend at least a dozen Netflix documentaries, and highlight a handful of radical activists and scholars. There’s a lot of intellectual work done about prison. But what about intellectual work done in prison?As part of this week’s “ideas in strange places” theme, we want to play you this episode from right near when we started Darts and Letters, where we ask what kind of radical thought can come from the extreme oppression prisoners endure.We’ll be back with brand new epi...
2022-07-211h 03
New Books in Public PolicyPrison Notebooks: Thinking (and Writing) about IncarcerationI can point you to mountains of research about prisons. I can also recommend at least a dozen Netflix documentaries, and highlight a handful of radical activists and scholars. There’s a lot of intellectual work done about prison. But what about intellectual work done in prison?As part of this week’s “ideas in strange places” theme, we want to play you this episode from right near when we started Darts and Letters, where we ask what kind of radical thought can come from the extreme oppression prisoners endure.We’ll be back with brand new epi...
2022-07-211h 03Darts & LettersPrison Notebooks: Thinking (and Writing) about IncarcerationI can point you to mountains of research about prisons. I can also recommend at least a dozen Netflix documentaries, and highlight a handful of radical activists and scholars. There’s a lot of intellectual work done about prison. But what about intellectual work done in prison?As part of this week’s “ideas in strange places” theme, we want to play you this episode from right near when we started Darts and Letters, where we ask what kind of radical thought can come from the extreme oppression prisoners endure.We’ll be back with brand new epi...
2022-07-211h 03
New Books in Science FictionDarts and Lasers: The Future of Science Fiction, Afro-Futurism, and Feminist Speculative FictionIt’s stardate 99040.01 and lead producer Jay Cockburn is temporarily taking over command of Darts and Letters for an episode.For this episode, as part of the week’s theme of “ideas in strange places” we boldly go into the strange new worlds of science fiction, revealing how it’s long been a vehicle for radical thought. We dig into post-scarcity, Afrofuturism, and feminist speculative fiction as we set our phasers to fun and go where no podcast has gone before.This episode is a rebroadcast from our catalogue. We’re revisiting some of our favourites unt...
2022-07-201h 02
New Books in GenderDarts and Lasers: The Future of Science Fiction, Afro-Futurism, and Feminist Speculative FictionIt’s stardate 99040.01 and lead producer Jay Cockburn is temporarily taking over command of Darts and Letters for an episode.For this episode, as part of the week’s theme of “ideas in strange places” we boldly go into the strange new worlds of science fiction, revealing how it’s long been a vehicle for radical thought. We dig into post-scarcity, Afrofuturism, and feminist speculative fiction as we set our phasers to fun and go where no podcast has gone before.This episode is a rebroadcast from our catalogue. We’re revisiting some of our favourites unt...
2022-07-201h 02
New Books in African American StudiesDarts and Lasers: The Future of Science Fiction, Afro-Futurism, and Feminist Speculative FictionIt’s stardate 99040.01 and lead producer Jay Cockburn is temporarily taking over command of Darts and Letters for an episode.For this episode, as part of the week’s theme of “ideas in strange places” we boldly go into the strange new worlds of science fiction, revealing how it’s long been a vehicle for radical thought. We dig into post-scarcity, Afrofuturism, and feminist speculative fiction as we set our phasers to fun and go where no podcast has gone before.This episode is a rebroadcast from our catalogue. We’re revisiting some of our favourites unt...
2022-07-201h 02Darts & LettersDarts and Lasers: The Future of Science Fiction, Afro-Futurism, and Feminist Speculative FictionIt’s stardate 99040.01 and lead producer Jay Cockburn is temporarily taking over command of Darts and Letters for an episode.For this episode, as part of the week’s theme of “ideas in strange places” we boldly go into the strange new worlds of science fiction, revealing how it’s long been a vehicle for radical thought. We dig into post-scarcity, Afrofuturism, and feminist speculative fiction as we set our phasers to fun and go where no podcast has gone before.This episode is a rebroadcast from our catalogue. We’re revisiting some of our favourites unt...
2022-07-201h 02
New Books in SportsDonald Trump Loves WrestlemaniaDarts and Letters is a show about the politics of ideas, and this week we’re searching for progressive politics in strange places… such as pro-wrestling.There have been 37 Wrestlemanias. That’s a lot of wrestling. And a lot of entertainment for the millions of people who enjoy watching wrestling, including our host, Gordon Katic. Maybe you’re a fan, maybe not. Fans and non-fans alike have often dismissed wrestling as frivolous. But there’s more to wrestling than meets the tombstone piledriver. Pro wrestling is like a Rosetta Stone for our politics; It brought us one President...
2022-07-191h 26
New Books in Popular CultureDonald Trump Loves WrestlemaniaDarts and Letters is a show about the politics of ideas, and this week we’re searching for progressive politics in strange places… such as pro-wrestling.There have been 37 Wrestlemanias. That’s a lot of wrestling. And a lot of entertainment for the millions of people who enjoy watching wrestling, including our host, Gordon Katic. Maybe you’re a fan, maybe not. Fans and non-fans alike have often dismissed wrestling as frivolous. But there’s more to wrestling than meets the tombstone piledriver. Pro wrestling is like a Rosetta Stone for our politics; It brought us one President...
2022-07-191h 26New Books in Politics and PolemicsDonald Trump Loves WrestlemaniaDarts and Letters is a show about the politics of ideas, and this week we’re searching for progressive politics in strange places… such as pro-wrestling.There have been 37 Wrestlemanias. That’s a lot of wrestling. And a lot of entertainment for the millions of people who enjoy watching wrestling, including our host, Gordon Katic. Maybe you’re a fan, maybe not. Fans and non-fans alike have often dismissed wrestling as frivolous. But there’s more to wrestling than meets the tombstone piledriver. Pro wrestling is like a Rosetta Stone for our politics; It brought us one President...
2022-07-191h 26New Books in Politics and PolemicsPigeon Shit Bookstore: On Street Bookselling, Populism, and Public IntellectualsHi! This is Darts and Letters. We’ve just become a part of New Books Network, so we want to introduce ourselves.Fundamentally, This is a show about the politics of ideas. Another way to say that would be “intellectuals”, but we don’t really gel with this classic idea of intellectuals being white guys at Harvard. We’re more populist than that, and we have a whole segment in this episode about what we really mean by populism.This is our first episode, and we made it in 2020 in the run up to Biden’s election...
2022-07-181h 17Darts & LettersPigeon Shit Bookstore: On Street Bookselling, Populism, and Public IntellectualsHi! This is Darts and Letters. We’ve just become a part of New Books Network, so we want to introduce ourselves.Fundamentally, This is a show about the politics of ideas. Another way to say that would be “intellectuals”, but we don’t really gel with this classic idea of intellectuals being white guys at Harvard. We’re more populist than that, and we have a whole segment in this episode about what we really mean by populism.This is our first episode, and we made it in 2020 in the run up to Biden’s election...
2022-07-181h 17
Darts and LettersEP60: Not Alright Alright Alright (Big Shiny Takes ft. Gordon Katic)
Canadian media is full of galaxy brain columnists. Luckily there is a show who reads their crap so that you don’t have to: Big Shiny Takes, aka Jeremy Appel, Eric Wickham and Marino Greco.We’re featuring this episode because your esteemed host and editor Gordon Katic made an appearance to discuss the latest unfathomably smart take: Matthew McConaughey has a moral obligation to run for president of the United States. It’s stunning intellectual work like this that has led Big Shiny Takes to become the world’s first anti free speech podcast. They’re also our collea...
2022-06-301h 27
Darts and LettersNot Alright Alright Alright (Big Shiny Takes ft. Gordon Katic)
Canadian media is full of galaxy brain columnists. Luckily there is a show who reads their crap so that you don’t have to: Big Shiny Takes, aka Jeremy Appel, Eric Wickham and Marino Greco.
We’re featuring this episode because your esteemed host and editor Gordon Katic made an appearance to discuss the latest unfathomably smart take: Matthew McConaughey has a moral obligation to run for president of the United States. It’s stunning intellectual work like this that has led Big Shiny Takes to become the world’s first anti free speech podcast. They’re also our c...
2022-06-301h 27Darts and LettersMutually-Assured Dysfunction (ft. Jessica Hurley & Mark Winfield)
The war in Ukraine has brought nuclear technology to the forefront. There’s the threat of nuclear weapons, and the danger of nuclear power plants melting down under military fire. Yet, the nuclear industry also promises to deliver us from our dependency on fossil fuels. It’s an interesting duality with nuclear: is it the end of the world, or is it salvation? Professor Jessica Hurley, author of Infrastructures of Apocalypse: American Literature and the Nuclear Complex, walks us through the history of nuclear dystopia and nuclear utopia, and how they have always been closely connected.
Also: happy...
2022-04-2359 minDarts and LettersDugin: Russia’s Imperial Philosopher
We look at the mind behind Russia’s imperial vision, Aleksandr Dugin. Political theorist Matt McManus walks us through this far-right thinker’s strange and often contradictory ideas, from: his geopolitical clash-of-civilizations narrative, his flirtation with left-wing postmodernism, his Nietzschean great man-visions, his rejection of all things liberal, and his more ancient and mystical imagination.
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This episode is inspired by the Pill Pod’s take on Duggin, with Matt McManus and friends. Their episode has a deeper dive into what Duggin means for postmodernism, Bruno Latour, and the left–check it out!
Duggin is a kind of postmodern conse...
2022-04-0839 minDarts and LettersSurvival of the Leftest: Should We Embrace Behavioural Genetics?
Can genetics play a role in crafting left social policy? Or should we not touch those ideas ever again–even with a 10 foot pole? Paige Harden’s new book, “The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality” makes a forceful case for an egalitarian politics informed by DNA. However, geneticist Joseph Graves critiqued the book in the pages of the Lancet, arguing that we do not need sophisticated genetic knowledge to make a more socially just world. Managing producer Marc Apollonio guest hosts, talking to both.
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You may have noticed the last couple weeks we have been posting...
2022-03-2546 min
Harbinger Society PresentsIntroducing Harbinger's Board of Directors (w/ Darts & Letters)On ep28 Dr. Jess Green, Kai Nagata and Dr. Roberta Lexier from Harbinger's board of directors join host Andre Goulet to explore where the Gitxsan blockade, academic strike organizing and re-thinking climate policy intersect. Plus: what role does new media play as a space for popular education in confronting the far-right?And: Gordon Katic reveals the origins of the exceptional Darts & Letters podcast and Atlantic correspondent James Brown says goodbye to Erin O'Toole's political career.
2022-02-1253 minDarts and LettersDon’t hate the player (ft. Alexander Lee)
Guest host (and regular lead producer) Jay Cockburn gets ready to enter the world of e-sports, with a lesson in Super Smash Bros from a top player and professional coach. Find out why he won’t make it (spoiler alert: he doesn’t have that reaction time he used to); but also, find out why he might not want to make it. Unfortunately, e-sports have many of the problems that ‘real’ sports do, and some are even worse. E-sports have lower pay, more stringent IP regimes, singular corporate control, and less labour organizing. However, could things be changing? Jay talks to...
2022-02-1132 minDarts and LettersPlague Robbers: Nothing Spreads Like Greed (ft. John Nichols)
Has the pandemic taught us anything? As we look forward and imagine what the future might look like, we like to think ‘next time will be different.’ But, if we don’t take a serious look back, it won’t. Not as long as the people who made this pandemic so bad face zero consequences. In this episode of Darts and Letters, John Nichols says it’s time for a COVID reckoning. His new book is Coronavirus Criminals and Pandemic Profiteers: Accountability for Those Who Caused the Crisis. Nichols, who is also national affairs correspondent of the Nation, retraces his report...
2022-01-2843 minDarts and LettersNew Years Resolutions from, and for, the left
Happy new year! We’re a few days behind, but as we catch up after the holidays and prepare to enter the third year of the plague, we wanted to bring you a few resolutions from, and for, the left by way of the Darts and Letters team and a handful of our past guests.
This episode features offerings from:
Robert Greene II
Victor Pickard
Nora Loreto
Hilary Agro
Jasmine Banks
David Moscrop
Jay Cockburn
Gordon Katic
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2022-01-0717 minDarts and LettersBONUS: Bantering with Bannon [Rebroadcast]
Note: As the one-year anniversary of the January 6 attack on the United States Capitol approaches, we are revisiting an episode on Steven Bannon and traditionalism with a rebroadcast of this bonus episode from late January 2021.
In this bonus episode, host Gordon Katic speaks with Ben Teitelbaum, author of a fascinating new-ish book called War for Eternity. He spent over 20 hours with Steve Bannon, as well as a wider network of far-right thinkers and strategists. Honestly, the things they say will surprise you. These proto-fascist thinkers of today are Traditionalists, with a capital T. They’re nothing like old-school conservatives; th...
2021-12-301h 18Darts and LettersGamify Everything (ft. Sebastian Deterding, Paris Martineau & Mostafa Henaway)
Setting goals for the new year? Learning a language? Going for a run? Delivering food? Picking packages off a warehouse shelf for delivery? There’s a game for that. Or, at least, a gamified system designed to nudge you in a series of pre-programmed directions in the service of the state, techno-capitalist overlords, or any number of other groups and entities that chart the course of our hyper-connected, cutting-edge, dystopian 21st century lives. This week on Darts and Letters, guest host Jay Cockburn and our guests take us through gamification of…everything.
Also, on a quick programming note...
2021-12-1749 minDarts and LettersWar Games (ft. Tanner Mirrlees)
Why are there so many war games? They exploded in popularity post 9/11. Maybe you’ve played some of them. Or all of them. SOCOM: US Navy Seals. Call of Duty. Battlefield. Splinter Cell—and the entire deep library of Tom Clancy games. There’s plenty more, too. This ain’t just a story about the free market and our own proclivities—it’s the state. Games have a long history of being developed by, with, and for the military. From the earliest DARPA-funded projects at public universities, to today’s DOD-subsidized military/corporate partnerships. This week on Darts and Letters, Tanne...
2021-11-1250 minDarts and LettersThe Bland Corporation (ft. Daniel Bessner)
There’s a foreign policy intellectual blob that serves as the architects for empire. They’re at academic departments, quasi-academic think tanks, and places like the RAND Corporation–famously lampooned in Dr. Strangelove as the BLAND Corporation. These boring calculator men are part of why we have forever war. These people are part of a long tradition that sees citizens as a problem to be managed.
The national security state is particularly contemptuous of the people it ostensibly serves. Left, right, doesn’t matter. The technocrats rule, making life and death decisions for home and abroad. And if you d...
2021-10-0142 minDarts and LettersGord and Nora’s Infinite Liberal Minority (ft. Nora Loreto)
Canada’s federal election is over. And if you were expecting a boring, uninspired contest followed by a return to the status quo, you weren’t disappointed. Zombie politics shuffles along trailing dead ideas and dead dogmas.
On this episode, host Gordon Katic sits down with independent journalist, author, and podcaster Nora Loreto for a wide-ranging conversation about Canada’s status quo. Nora has been tirelessly documenting the COVID-19 pandemic and systemic under-reporting of deaths in long term care. Some academics have taken notice, but few journalists. We ask Nora about the early days of the pandemic and ou...
2021-09-2454 minDarts and LettersAcademic Disaster Capitalism (w/Gary Rhoades)
School’s back. Alongside the usual challenges of managing college and university life comes sorting out how to keep people on campus safe during the Covid-19 pandemic. Colleges and universities are trying to find their way forward after a rough 18 months, with more difficult times to come. But while the pandemic has affected higher education, it’s done so against the backdrop of “academic capitalism”–a form of neoliberal managerialism that pervades the academy. On this episode of Darts and Letters, we speak with Gary Rhoades, professor at the College of Education at the University of Arizona and former...
2021-09-1147 minDarts and LettersSummer Bonus EP: Decolonizing Marxism (w/Boaventura de Sousa Santos)
Writing in 19th century Europe, Karl Marx was reflecting a time and place: Europe in the wake of the closing years of the Industrial Revolution. Marx himself, later in life, recognized that his crowning work, Das Kapital, had a limited scope, fitted for Europe but not for the rest of the world. In the 21st century, Marxism must speak to the experiences and context of contemporary colonialism and Indigenous politics if it is to remain current, internationalist, and anti-colonial. On this summer bonus episode of Darts and Letters, we speak with Boaventura de Sousa Santos, a global...
2021-09-0343 minDarts and LettersSummer Bonus EP: Dan Denvir and The Dig
This week, Darts and Letters brings you a summer bonus episode with the host of one of our favourite podcasts, The Dig. Dan Denvir joins us to talk about his podcast, the place of academia and intellectuals on the left, radical media, ideas and political change, and more. Then, we air an extraordinary interview from Dan and The Dig with Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò on “Identity, Power, and Speech.”
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First and foremost, check out The Dig, a podcast from Jacobin Magazine. You can follow the pod on Twitter.
Check o...
2021-08-202h 04Darts and LettersSummer Bonus EP: Ivy League elitism versus Black Power (w/ Stefan Bradley)
Universities and colleges are often caricatured as hotbeds of radicalism. In reality, they’re institutionally conservative and elitist — especially Ivy League schools. What happens when folks push back against that? What happens when Black scholars, activists, and others demand better? On this summer bonus episode of Darts and Letters, we speak with Stefan Bradley, Professor of African American Studies and Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts Coordinator for Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives at Loyola Marymount University, about his book Upending the Ivory Tower: Civil Rights, Black Power, and the Ivy League. He takes us through the racialized history of h...
2021-08-1346 minDarts and LettersThe Conquest of Bread [Rebroadcast]
Note: Hey all, We’re on break this week as we rest up and prepare for more top-notch programming, so this week’s episode is a rebroadcast of one of our favourites.
You know McKinsey and Co. They worked for a company that was fixing the price of bread in Canada. They helped on Trump’s immigration policies, but their ideas were too extreme even for ICE. More recently, they proposed that Purdue Pharma “turbocharge” their sales of OxyContin by offering $14,810 rebates for ODs. Yeah, that’s McKinsey.
We could go on and on. They have...
2021-08-051h 18Darts and LettersLetters From Herzl (ft. Rashid Khalidi & Faisal Bhabha)
Gazans live in an open-air prison within an apartheid state. Backed by the United States and USD $3.8b a year in military aid, Israel dominates Palestinians. Recent Israeili airstrikes on Gaza have left over 200 Palestinians and a dozen Irsaelis dead. The moment continues a history that is settler colonial, one-sided, and disproportionate. And yet media and academic censorship has consistently silenced or punished those who speak out in support of Palestinians. In the face of that, many radical academics simply remain silent. In an age where ‘decolonization’ has become an academic buzzword, we must ask: will we stand by our...
2021-05-211h 18Darts and LettersBONUS: Solid Strunk (ft. Trevor Strunk of No Cartridge)
In this bonus episode, we talk more with Trevor Strunk of No Cartridge. Trevor has a forthcoming book called Story Mode: Video Games and the Interplay Between Consoles and Culture. It’s coming out this November.
The book looks at the shifting politics of major franchises, including Metal Gear. Metal Gear offered a trenchant critique of war, militarism, big data, surveillance, and the deep state. But for Trevor, Metal Gear eventually lost its way– the series ended up lionizing warriors. By the end of the series, its politics aren’t much better than a Marvel movie.
2021-05-1950 min
Darts and LettersCited: America’s Chernobyl (2 of 2)We’re on break for two weeks. But we thought this was a good opportunity to celebrate our predecessor show, Cited Podcast. America’s Chernobyl is our favourite episode. Here’s part #2.
Hanford is the most-polluted place in America. On our last episode, you heard about the nuclear plant’s largely-forgotten history–how it poisoned the people living downwind. On our season finale: a nuclear safety auditor tries to get it shut down, the downwinders struggle for justice, and we take you into the plant itself. The story of Hanford reveals that expertise is always a political battle, and...
2021-05-0600 min
Darts and LettersCited: America’s Chernobyl (1 of 2)
We’re on break for two weeks. But we thought this was a good opportunity to celebrate our predecessor show, Cited Podcast. America’s Chernobyl is our favourite episode. Here’s part #1.
Richland, Washington is a company town that sprang up almost overnight in the desert of South Eastern Washington. Its employer is the federal government, and its product is plutonium. The Hanford nuclear site was one of the Manhattan Project sites, and it made the plutonium for the bomb that devastated Nagasaki. Here, the official history is one of scientific achievement, comfortable houses, and goo...
2021-04-3000 minDarts and LettersThe People’s President (ft. Steve & Larson of Going in Raw)
Last weekend was Wrestlemania. There have been 37 Wrestlemanias. That’s a lot of wrestling. And a lot of entertainment for the millions of people who enjoy watching wrestling, including our host, Gordon Katic. Maybe you’re a fan, maybe not. Fans and non-fans alike have often dismissed wrestling as frivolous. But there’s more to wrestling than meets the tombstone piledriver. Pro wrestling is like a Rosetta Stone for our politics; It brought us one President, and a recent poll suggests it might give us another. On this episode, we jump from the top rope into the wild, layered, comple...
2021-04-171h 24Darts and LettersBONUS: Mesmerizing Convolutions: The Rise of Fingerprint Identification
In this bonus episode, Gordon Katic speaks with Simon A. Cole, a professor of Criminology, Law and Society at University of California Irvine. He’s the author of “Suspect Identities: A History of Fingerprinting and Criminal Identification”. We do a deep dive into the social and political story of fingerprinting, and how it took more than a century before anyone tried to figure out if it actually worked.
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Read Simon A. Cole’s excellent book, “Suspect Identities: A History of Fingerprinting and Criminal Identification”
Cole is also a co-author of Truth Machine: The Contentious Histo...
2021-04-0754 minDarts and LettersBONUS: Gamers of the World, Unite! (w/ Paolo Pedercini)
In this bonus episode, Gordon Katic speaks with Paolo Pedercini, a professor in the School of Art at Carnegie Mellon University and a game developer who runs Molleindustria. Pedericini’s games offer systemic critiques of capitalism, and invite players to wonder whether video games can be a source of organizing and consciousness-raising.
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Dive into Pedericini’s games, such as Democratic Socialism Simulator, Building a Better Mousetrap, the McDonald’s Videogame, Every Day The Same Dream, Phone Story, Operation: Pedopriest, Tamatipico, Rules and Roberts, and Kosmosis — “an arcade game from an alternate socialist universe.”
Hav...
2021-03-061h 05Darts and LettersBONUS: Bantering with Bannon
In this bonus episode, host Gordon Katic speaks with Ben Teitelbaum, author of a fascinating new-ish book called War for Eternity. He spent over 20 hours with Steve Bannon, as well as a wider network of far-right thinkers and strategists. Honestly, the things they say will surprise you. These proto-fascist thinkers of today are Traditionalists, with a capital T. They’re nothing like old-school conservatives; they have a lot more in common with hippies and new age gurus than people like William F. Buckley. We touched on this school of thought in the last episode, but in this bo...
2021-01-291h 16Darts and LettersIt Takes Coup to Tango
We’re all still processing what just happened on Capitol Hill. Clearly, there is a mounting proto-fascist threat that must be stopped. But liberals are being rash in their response, and this is likely to only enflame things. How can we address these dangers in an intelligent way? More in the weeks to come.
This week, we look squarely at the role of Big Tech. There’s a newly-formed Alphabet Worker’s Union, which could be a game-changer for labour organizing and class consciousness in Silicon Valley. We talk about the future of the big tech m...
2021-01-151h 09Darts and LettersKatichisms
What’s the matter with Catholics? They are strangely over-represented in the conservative intellectual ranks. From William F. Buckley to Steve Bannon and many others, Catholics have long been the brains of the modern American right. On this holiday episode, we look at the Catholic intelligentsia, and the battle between left and right Catholic voices.
First, in host Gordon Katic’s opening essay, he discusses his Catholic upbringing. The young atheistic Gordon waged a war of attrition against his parents, and eventually won. Now, he looks at his Catholic upbringing and the broader Catholic intelligentsia with a cer...
2020-12-241h 16Darts and LettersPrison Notebooks
I can point you to mountains of research about prisons. I can also recommend at least a dozen Netflix documentaries, and highlight a handful of radical activists and scholars. There’s a lot of intellectual work done about prison. But what about intellectual work done in prison?
First, in the opening essay, host Gordon Katic discusses the long history of radical prison writing. From Thoreau to Gramsci, MLK, Oscar Wilde, Eugene Debs, Emma Goldman, and even Wittgenstein.
Next (@5:36), Chandra Bozelko served 6 years, three months, and 11 days in a women’s prison in Connecticut. While inside, she start...
2020-12-201h 01
The Pulse on CFROThe Pulse on CFRO: Monday, Dec 14Cited Podcast executive producer Gordon Katic (@gordonkatic) talks about his new show Darts & Letters (@dartsandletters), from public intellectuals to populism, Big Pharma's opioid decisions & social change ideas.
2020-12-1428 minThe Pulse on CFROThe Pulse Interview: Cited Podcast executive producer Gordon KaticCited Podcast executive producer Gordon Katic (@gordonkatic) talks about his new show Darts & Letters (@dartsandletters), from public intellectuals to populism, Big Pharma's opioid decisions & social change ideas.
2020-12-1425 minDarts and LettersThe Conquest of Bread
You know McKinsey and Co. They worked for a company that was fixing the price of bread in Canada. They helped on Trump’s immigration policies, but their ideas were too extreme even for ICE. More recently, they proposed that Purdue Pharma “turbocharge” their sales of OxyContin by offering $14,810 rebates for ODs. Yeah, that’s McKinsey.
We could go on and on. They have a long and sordid record as ‘capitalism’s willing executioners,’ to quote a Current Affairs article by an insider. Now, they’re coming onto our turf: higher education. So, we take a closer look. Wh...
2020-12-121h 16Darts and LettersBONUS: Decoding Dominionism
You liked our last episode, Pew Research Center, so I wanted to bring you more. We were just scratching the surface on far-right political theology. On this bonus episode, Andre Gagne takes us deeper. We talk through an intellectual history of the key ideas — Christian Dominionism, Prosperity Gospel, and the Seven Mountains — and its key players.
This is a bonus episode and an experiment. It’s a companion piece and a loosely edited deep dive into the themes we discussed in the last episode. It’s for the real heads. If you like it (or if you don’t), let me know. I...
2020-12-111h 07Darts and LettersPew Research Center
You’ve seen hilarious videos of the evangelicals for Trump. You might be inclined to ignore them, mock their excesses, or dismiss their threat. But the evangelical right is a force to be reckoned with, even with Trump on his way out. So, who are these evangelicals? What do they believe?
For years, evangelicals have been plotting a political course, a far-right “theology” that includes Christian nationalism and spiritual warfare. It’s paying off. And we need to understand why it works, and for whom. This is the first in a series of episodes we’ll be rele...
2020-12-041h 31Darts and LettersTrump, interrupted
We can breathe a sigh of relief with Biden’s victory, but it ain’t time to check out and go to brunch. Because Trumpism is not going anywhere. In a razor-thin election, Trump expanded his base—despite his bungling of COVID-19. In light of that, we have to accept this plain fact: Trump is more popular than we thought, and to more people. And again, the DNC, the pollsters, and elite media establishment clearly missed the mark. So, what is Trumpism actually, and how can we defeat it?
First, in host Gordon Katic’s opening essay, h...
2020-11-251h 17
Cited PodcastAmerica’s Chernobyl (2 of 2)
Hanford is the most-polluted place in America. On our last episode, you heard about the nuclear plant’s largely-forgotten history–how it poisoned the people living downwind. On our season finale: a nuclear safety auditor tries to get it shut down, the downwinders struggle for justice, and we take you into the plant itself. The story of Hanford reveals that expertise is always a political battle, and never as straightforward as simply collecting facts–whether it’s executives putting profit over a safety auditor’s well-documented warnings, a community-based research pitted against government-backed studies, or turning a world-changing nuclear reactor in...
2020-08-0857 min
Cited PodcastAmerica’s Chernobyl (1 of 2)
Richland, Washington is a company town that sprang up almost overnight in the desert of South Eastern Washington. Its employer is the federal government, and its product is plutonium. The Hanford nuclear site was one of the Manhattan Project sites, and it made the plutonium for the bomb that devastated Nagasaki. Here, the official history is one of scientific achievement, comfortable houses, and good-paying jobs. But it doesn’t include the story of what happened after the bomb was dropped — neither in Japan, nor right there in Washington State. On part one of our two-part season finale, we tell the...
2020-07-3050 min
Cited PodcastThe Heroin Clinic (Rebroadcast)
At Crosstown Clinic, doctors are turning addiction treatment on its head: they’re prescribing heroin-users the very drug they’re addicted to. This is the story of one clinic’s quest to remove the harms of addiction, without removing the addiction itself.
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This is one of the best episodes in our archive. It was broadcast March 9th, 2017, and was honoured with a 2017 Jack Webster Foundation award for excellence in feature reporting in radio. The Jack Webster Awards are BC’s most prestigious journalism awards.
Our next original documentary will be out next week.
T...
2020-07-1647 min
Cited PodcastThe Poison Paradigm
On a daily basis, we are exposed to thousands of toxic chemicals. This is no accident; it is by design. They are everywhere – coating our consumer products, in our food packaging, being dumped into our lakes and sewers, and in countless other places. However, for the most part, regulators say that we need not worry.
That assessment is based on a simple 500-year-old adage, “the dose makes the poison.” The logic is simple: anything is poisonous, depending on how large a dose. Dosing yourself with a minuscule amount of lead will cause no harm; while drinking an enormous...
2020-07-0355 min
Cited PodcastThe Tamiflu Trials
Medical experts are rushing to see which drugs might help treat COVID-19. There are dozens of candidates: Remdesivir, Hydroxycloroquin, Actemra, Kevzara, Favipiravir, the list goes on. They better pick the right one; because billions of dollars of public money is at stake, not to mention 100s of thousands — if not millions — of lives.
We don’t know what will happen with COVID-19 drug research. But the story of past pandemics might give us a clue. To prepare for Swine Flu and Bird Flu, governments spent billions stockpiling a drug called Tamiflu. You’d think governments used the best evid...
2020-06-1858 min
Cited PodcastThe Battle of Buxton (Rebroadcast)
The town of Buxton, North Carolina loves their lighthouse. But in the 1970s, the ocean threatened to swallow it up. For the next three decades, they fought an intense political battle over what to do. Fight back against the forces of nature, or retreat? It’s a small preview of what’s to come in a time of rising seas. We team up with 99% Invisible to tell the story.
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This is a rebroadcast from January 2018. We’ll have a new episode of Cited for you next week.
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2020-05-2830 min
Cited PodcastMade of Corn
When genetically modified corn was found in the highlands of Mexico, Indigenous campesino groups took to the streets to protect their cultural heritage, setting off a 20-year legal saga.
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This two of our series on genetically modified maize. If you haven’t already, listen to the first episode first. You can find it in this feed.
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This episode has loads more information, citations, and resources. You can find those on our website, citedpodcast.com. Research assistant James Rhatigan has an article on the promise and limitations of the precautionary principle...
2020-05-2042 min
Cited PodcastModifying Maize
How the accidental finding of genetically modified corn in the highlands of Mexico set off a twenty-year battle over scientific methods, academic freedom, Indigenous rights, environmental law and international trade. Part one of two.
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This episode has loads more information, citations, and resources. You can find those on our website, citedpodcast.com. Research assistant James Rhatigan has an article on the promise and limitations of the precautionary principle, and another on the intellectual history of liberal environmental thought. Also, we have a transcript.
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For more, follow Cited on Twitter, Facebook, and...
2020-05-1353 min
Cited PodcastThe Pavillion
Expo 1967 was the centrepiece of Canada’s 100th birthday. In a country of only 20 million, 50 million people attended Expo ’67. Amid the crowds and the pageantry, one building stood out. The Indians of Canada Pavilion. This was more than a tall glass tipi. It revealed (at least partly) Canada’s sordid colonial history, and it challenged the myth of Canada being a peace-loving and tolerant society. We tell the surprising story of the historical experts who put this thing together, and the public’s reaction to their work.
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05/27/2020: In an earlier version of this podcast, we mistakingly mentione...
2020-05-0652 min
Cited PodcastRepeat After Me
In 2011, an American psychologist named Daryl Bem proved the impossible. He showed that precognition — the ability to sense the future — is real. His study was explosive, and shook the very foundations of psychology.
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This episode was produced by Alexander B. Kim. Edited by Sam Fenn and Gordon Katic, with production support from from Polly Leger, Tom Lowe, and Emma Partridge. Research advising from Dr. Dave Ng, Dr. Candis Callison, and Dr. Ed Kroc.
Our theme song and original music is by our composer, Mike Barber. Dakota Koop is our graphic designer. Our production m...
2020-05-0557 min
Cited PodcastExiled: A Year in New York’s Infamous ‘Sex Offender Motel’ (Rebroadcast)
Growing up, Chris Dum has a morbid fascination with ‘deviant behavior.’ It led him down an unusual career path: he decided to study most reviled people in our society. Sex offenders. But it wasn’t enough to study them from a distance. No, abstract crime statistics or rigorously controlled laboratory experiments would not suffice. Rather, Chris wanted to know what their lives were actually like. So as a PhD student, he decided to actually live with them. He moved from his home near the university to a run-down motel on the rough part of town. Over the next year, he lea...
2020-04-2931 minThe Pulse on CFROCFRO The Pulse news hour: Mon 20 AprGordon Katic is executive producer of Cited Podcast. We talk about their latest episode - "Secondary Symptoms: Tin Foil Hats Stop Covid" - on how longtime standing distrust in experts and skepticism are impacting our societies' response to the Covid-19 pandemic.CFRO The Pulse, your independent reporting from Vancouver's front lines - weekdays from 7-8 am, on Vancouver Co-op Radio 100.5fm, and at thepulse.coopradio.org. Our reporters and co-hosts David P. Ball and Meixi Tan bring us our daily update on the latest Covid-19 news and what you need to know.Produced by Vancouver Co-op...
2020-04-201h 00The Pulse on CFROInterview: Gordon Katic (Cited Podcast) - 20 Apr on CFRO The PulseGordon Katic is executive producer of Cited Podcast. We talk about their latest episode - "Secondary Symptoms: Tin Foil Hats Stop Covid" - on how longtime standing distrust in experts and skepticism are impacting our societies' response to the Covid-19 pandemic.CFRO The Pulse, your independent reporting from Vancouver's front lines - weekdays from 7-8 am, on Vancouver Co-op Radio 100.5fm, and at thepulse.coopradio.org. Our reporters and co-hosts David P. Ball and Meixi Tan bring us our daily update on the latest Covid-19 news and what you need to know.Produced by Vancouver Co-op...
2020-04-2018 min
Cited PodcastSecondary Symptoms #1: Tin Foil Hats Stop Covid
We never planned for this. Cited was going to just make documentaries for you this season, but then the whole world changed. So, we had to change too. For at least the next two months, we’ll be releasing a weekly news-magazine style show about the Covid-19 pandemic. We’re calling it Secondary Symptoms.
In medicine, secondary symptoms (sometimes called ‘secondary complications’) are symptoms that might arise from the disease, but are not directly of the disease. We’ll be talking about the secondary symptoms of Covid-19. Not so much the disease itself, and what it does to one’s r...
2020-04-1758 min
Cited PodcastThe Science Wars
Before there was the War on Science, there were the Science Wars. In the 1990’s, the Science Wars were a set of debates about the nature of science and its place in a democratic society. This little-known and long-forgotten academic squabble became surprisingly contentious, culminating in an audacious hoax. Today, some scholars say the Science Wars might just explain how we got our ‘post-truth’ moment. To figure out if they’re right, we go back to the beginning.
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You can also find related materials on our website, citedpodcast.com. Including an essay on the science wars fro...
2020-04-151h 05Cited Podcast#0: Technocracy and its Discontents (Season Preview)The Obama years were the closest thing we’ve had to technocracy. The President and his administration celebrated science and expertise, and they gave enormous regulatory powers to ‘the smartest people.’ During these years, the prevailing posture — culturally, politically, and within academia — suggested that the public was dim-witted and irrational, but well-meaning experts could fix things. As you know, that didn’t didn’t last. With Trump and Brexit came post-truth and a revolt against scientific and scholarly expertise.
How do we get out of this mess? Is the choice merely between centrist technocrats and reactionary post-truthers, or is there an...
2020-04-0900 min
HeavyweightHeavyweight: #13 KennyPublished on 16 Nov 2017. Ken Carter was a Canadian daredevil who dreamt of performing the biggest stunt the world had ever seen. He wanted to jump a rocket car one mile over a river. For 5 years he prepared, only to have his dream hijacked at the very last moment by the very last person he ever expected.Thanks to the National Film Board of Canada for their use of audio from The Devil At Your Heels. You can watch the movie here: https://www.nfb.ca/film/devil_at_your_heels/Also check out Aim For The Roses, a musical docudrama...
2018-11-2000 min
Hot & Bothered: A Dissent Climate PodcastWhat Does Climate Migration Really Look Like?This is part two of a three-part collaboration between Hot & Bothered and Cited, an award-winning documentary radio show out of the University of British Columbia. Over the course of the three broadcasts, Kate Aronoff and Daniel Aldana Cohen will be joining Cited producers Sam Fenn, Josh GD, and Gordon Katic to talk environmentalism, jobs, climate migration, indigenous sovereignty, and more. Here’s episode 2.
What does climate migration really look like? On today’s show we meet two Bangladeshi Canadians, Afroza Begum and her son Souri Zaman, whose stories speak to the unequal ways...
2017-12-1435 minHot & Bothered: A Dissent Climate PodcastWhy Environmentalism Needs Class PoliticsWe know—it’s been a long, hot summer without us, but the Hot & Bothered team is dipping its toes back in the rising waters of international climate politics with a special project to close out 2017.
As we warm up for season two, we’re excited to launch a special, three-part miniseries in collaboration with Cited, an award-winning documentary radio show out of the University of British Columbia. Over the course of these next three broadcasts, Kate and Daniel will be joining Cited producers Sam Fenn, Josh GD, and Gordon Katic to talk environmentalism, jobs, climate migration, indige...
2017-11-1759 min
Heavyweight#13 KennyKen Carter was a Canadian daredevil who dreamt of performing the biggest stunt the world had ever seen. He wanted to jump a rocket car one mile over a river. For 5 years he prepared, only to have his dream hijacked at the very last moment by the very last person he ever expected.Thanks to the National Film Board of Canada for their use of audio from The Devil At Your Heels. You can watch the movie here: https://www.nfb.ca/film/devil_at_your_heels/Also check out Aim For The Roses, a...
2017-11-1646 min
Life of the Law104: Heroin TownHeroin is illegal in Canada. And just like in the United States many doctors and treatment centers treat heroin addiction by providing a legal alternative, such as methadone. But methadone treatment doesn’t always work. So what do you do?
These people are currently injecting heroin in alleyways, facing overdose and risk of disease and causing all kinds of problems for the public. Why wouldn't you want them to be getting the heroin from a doctor to bring them in off the street and in contact with the health care system?
-- Martin Schechter, professor at the School of Population an...
2017-03-0851 min
CiTR -- UBC Insiders On AirEpisode 16 - Fall Season Finalen this week's special show, we have UBC Insiders alum Alex Lougheed on the news beat. We then interview Philip Steenkamp, UBC's brand new VP External on how it feels to be the adult in the room after a tumultuous season of UBC news.Then, we have a special segment with Sam Fenn and Gordon Katic, the men at the helm of the Cited podcast, to help us look back on our first season on the radio and give us advice. We go out on the single from Christmas Happens Every Year, the seasonal offering from our friends...
2015-12-1931 min
2014-02-2700 minCiTR -- The Terry PodcastTerry Project EP #31 - Sam and Chirag play highlights in this mid-season recap
2014-01-1500 min
CiTR -- Radio FreethinkersRadio Freethinker Episode 236 - Pentecostal History Maker Edition - 10-Dec-2013Radio Freethinker Episode 236 - Pentecostal History Maker EditionRandolf Richardson returns as one of our irregular regulars. Don's Rant is about the impact of Nelson Mandela, how he may be the greatest person for generations and how he turned hate to love, and as he put it "The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity...my mission, to liberate the oppressed and the oppressor both.".We talk to Sam Fenn and Gordon Katic who created the documentary History Maker 2013...a Pentecostal event for teenagers. We discuss the history of the church...
2013-12-1159 minCiTR -- The Terry PodcastThe Terry Project Podcast #11: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the BombThis weeks episode discusses anxiety around nuclear technology, including both weaponry and nuclear energy. We really upped our game here. We start with the little-known story of Vasili Arkhipov, who might have saved the world. Then, we speak to two nuclear scientists about nuclear energy. Next, we discuss nuclear technology and culture from Strangelove to comic books. Finally, former US assistant secretary of defense, Lawrence Korb, calls in from the NATO summit in Chicago to discuss the Iranian nuclear program.
2012-05-2300 minCiTR -- The Terry PodcastThe Terry Project Podcast #10: HighlightsThis week, highlights from our first year.
2012-04-1100 minCiTR -- The Terry PodcastThe Terry Project Podcast #9: George StroumboulopoulosOn this weeks Terry Project Podcast, we have the very special pleasure of sitting down with CBCs George Stroumboulopoulos. We talk about radio, the CBC, hockey, and how The Clash changed his life.
2012-03-2800 minCiTR -- The Terry PodcastThe Terry Project Podcast #8: Food and PowerOn this episode of our podcast: we speak to historian Marcy Norton about the role of chocolate and tobacco in the colonial experience, nutritionist Gwen Chapman about the choices we make in the grocery store, and close with local Vancouver restauranteurs.
2012-03-1400 minCiTR -- The Terry PodcastThe Terry Project Podcast #7: Climate Change, Conservation, and CollapseOn this week's Terry Project Podcast, we discuss how to think about sustainability, the famous conservationist John Muir, the collapse of complex societies, and Canada's approach to climate change.
2012-02-1500 minCiTR -- The Terry PodcastThe Terry Project Podcast #6: The 2011 TEDx Terry TalksToday we have a very special highlights episode of the TEDx Terry Talks, which were held last November. For the full talks, including talks by Ratib Islam and Hussein Janmohamed, visit terry.ubc.ca
2012-01-1800 minCiTR -- The Terry PodcastThe Terry Project Podcast #5: Journalism and Media (Part 2 of 2)In this week's episode, we discuss how new technologies are changing our media landscape. I sat down with Ethan Zuckerman just before he gave a lecture entitled "Cute Cats and the Arab Spring," for Vancouver's 2nd annual human rights lecture. I'm also joined with Alfred Hermida, from UBC Journalism.
2011-12-0700 minCiTR -- The Terry PodcastThe Terry Project Podcast #4: Journalism and Media (Part 1 of 2)On this episode of the Terry Project Podcast, we look at journalism and media. First, we speak to the Emmy award winning investigative journalist and former producer of 60 minutes, Peter Klein. Then, we speak with Jennifer Siebel Newsom, the director of Miss Representation. In conclusion, we review the film. Tune in next time for Part 2 of this episode, in which we play the second half of the roundtable, and speak Ethan Zuckerman of MIT.
2011-11-3000 min