The Deep Dive

Philip welcomes Paulina Borsook, author of Cyberselfish: A Critical Romp Through the Libertarian Culture of High Tech. In their conversation, they discuss how Silicon Valley has been a long time incubator for libertarian ideas and what that means for their technological, social and economic agenda.

The Drop – The segment of the show where Philip and his guest share tasty morsels of intellectual goodness and creative musings.

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Philip welcomes Wahinkpe Topa (Four Arrows) and Darcia Narvaez authors/editors of Restoring the Kinship Worldview: Indigenous Voices Introduce 18 Precepts for Rebalancing Life on Planet Earth to the show. In their conversation, they highlight how a kinship worldview contrasts with the dominant narratives and how to shift our perspectives to incorporate these ideas.

The Drop – The segment of the show where Philip and his guest share tasty morsels of intellectual goodness and creative musings.

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Special Guests: Darcia Narvaez and Wahinkpe Topa (Four Arrows).

Philip welcomes Samuel Miller McDonald, author of Progress: How One Idea Built Civilization and Now Threatens to Destroy It to the show. In their conversation, they trace the idea of progress through western thought and how this dominant worldview threatens the world we live in.

The Drop – The segment of the show where Philip and his guest share tasty morsels of intellectual goodness and creative musings.

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Special Guest: Samuel Miller McDonald.

Philip welcomes retail executive/creative and author Ron Johnson to the show. In their conversation, they discuss Ron’s book Shop Different: How Retail Revealed Apple’s Genius. They look at Ron’s storied career across retail sectors, dive into the creation of the Apple store concept and explore the current retail environment.

The Drop – The segment of the show where Philip and his guest share tasty morsels of intellectual goodness and creative musings.

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Special Guest: Ron Johnson.

Philip welcomes Alexander Mikaberidze, historian and author of The Louisiana Purchase: The Grand Bargain and the Making of America to the show. In their conversation, they discuss the political and economic backdrop behind the Louisiana Purchase and how this played a pivotal role in making American empire.

The Drop – The segment of the show where Philip and his guest share tasty morsels of intellectual goodness and creative musings.

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Special Guest: Alexander Mikaberidze.

Greetings Glocal Citizens!

In this two-part conversation, Natasha R, Johnson, shares her impressive experience in both the nonprofit and academic sectors. For over two decades, she has been an activist, educator, lawyer, and artist working primarily on intersectional gender justice. She served as the executive director of several nonprofit organizations, as an anti-trafficking legal specialist drafting reform legislation in the Solomon Islands, and as a director of education working to support homeless LGBTQ youth. She is skilled at creating arts-based programming that integrates human rights and social justice awareness in elementary through graduate school environments. She has also taught courses in law, ethics, policy, civic engagement, education, nonprofit leadership, business development, and more. in her scholarly roles, she has been a professor and a director of academic programs at multiple colleges and universities, including Metropolitan College, St. Joseph’s College, Adelphi University, and Medgar Evers College.

In 2015, she founded the nonprofit Globalizing Gender, an organization committed to creating a just world and preventing gender-based violence through capacity building, law, governance, and awareness. In 2018, she organized New York City’s inaugural march to end female genital mutilation and cutting (FGM/C) in the United States and was one of the lead contributors to a local statute that created a mayoral-appointed culturally aware task force on FGM/C, the first of its kind in the country.

After years of selfless work in diverse communities across the globe, Natasha is at an inflection point in her career and we’re fortunate to get a glimpse of how she’s approaching finding and settling in to a new next.

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Philip welcomes Keri Leigh Merritt, author of An Inconvenient Woman: The Extraordinary Life of Lilliam Smith, The Southerner Who Defied Jim Crow America. In their conversation, they discuss the life, work and activism of Lillian Smith who championed anti-Black racism in the heart of the Jim Crow South.

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Philip welcomes Sarah Housley, author of Designing Hope: Visions to Shape Our Future. In their conversation, they discuss how hope operates beyond aspiration and can become a major part of any possible future(s) we desire to create.

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Philip welcomes Victoria Hetherington, author of The Friend Machine: On the Trail of AI Companionship. In their conversation, they explore how AI has become a substitute for human relationships and what that means to personal and societal intimacy.

The Drop – The segment of the show where Philip and his guest share tasty morsels of intellectual goodness and creative musings.

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Philip welcomes Matthew Leggatt, author of Play in Utopian and Dystopian Fiction and Wastelands and Wonderlands: Utopias and Dystopias in Film & Literature to the show. In their conversation, they discuss how the way utopia/dystopia is framed in our literature, media and film impact how we see our future possibilities.

The Drop – The segment of the show where Philip and his guest share tasty morsels of intellectual goodness and creative musings.

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