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Joseph Nye, leading scholar of international relations considers presidents and their foreign policy from FDR to Trump who come up short in the morality polls.

Are creepy crawlers and unwanted plants deserving of empathy as partners dwelling with us on earth? John Hainze, an entomologist, ethicist and former pesticide-developer calls for greater respect and moral consideration for humans and their natural world.

César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández takes a hard look at the immigration prison system’s origins, how it currently operates, and why. It tackles the outsized presence of private prisons and how those on the political right continue, disingenuously, to link immigration imprisonment with national security risks and threats to the rule of law.

AINISSA RAMIREZ is a material scientist who is passionate about getting everyone excited about science, so much so that she calls herself a "science evangelist". In her latest book, she looks at eight world-changing technologies and examines how we shape inventions out of matter, and then how those inventions, in turn, shape us - from clocks to silicon chips!

John Marzluff outlines a personal approach to sustainable agriculture. Through an ornithologist's lens, he observes current farming practices to see if we can broker a more harmonious relationship between our birds, farms, food and land.

This forum features performances by Revels musicians Jake Blount and Libby Weitnauer exploring the history and roots of traditional music of Appalachia.

Can Americans survive without their hamburgers? This juicy question raises many fundamental issues - nutritional, moral and environmental.

Are we living in a post-truth world where “alternative facts” replace actual facts and feelings have more weight than evidence? How did we get here? Lee McIntrye from the Center for Philosophy and History of Science, at Boston University discusses our modern dilemma: FAKE NEWS vs FACTS: Living in a Post-Truth World. Recorded June 12, … Continue reading Fake news vs facts: living in a post-truth world →

Happiness is a choice you make. So writes author John Leland who reflects on the timeless subject in his new book Happiness Is a Choice You  Make: Lessons From a Year Among the Oldest Old, (based on his New York Times  series.  The question to ponder is: Can we really just  choose to be happy?  

Boston Globe art critic Sebastian Smee and Paul Tucker, curator of the Monet exhibitions at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts discuss the ways that looking at a work of art can open it up to reveal a rich web of information about the work itself, its maker and the society in which it was created. How does a work of art become meaningful for the beholder? Where can that appreciation lead the ordinary person?