Thinking Aloud

Thinking Aloud

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Thinking Aloud episodes

  • Why Studying Ethics Matters in a University Education
    Elaine Englehardt is a Utah Valley University professor who has devoted her career to the study of ethics and the central role it can and should play in both universities and a host of other institutions.  She helped to establish a hugely successful ethics program as the cornerstone of General Education at UVU.  She talks to guest host Mark Burns today about what ethics is and why it is more important than ever today in business, education, science, and many other fields.
    31 min
  • Saudi Arabia: A Complicating Look at a Mysterious Culture
    Loring Danforth had the rare opportunity to travel to a place much different than America: Saudi Arabia. His book of essays about it attempts to neither condemn nor condone Saudi culture. Instead, he says, he seeks to complicate our ideas about it and challenge the polarized and simplified opinions we may have formed about the often mysterious and foreboding country of Saudi Arabia.
    30 min
  • Turkey: The Country, The Coup and What Happens Next
    Christopher de Bellaigue is a freelance journalist who has spent much of his life in Turkey and Iran. He has just returned from several weeks in Turkey after the failed coup of July 15, 2016 and is here to share his insights on Turkey's President Erdogan, the aftermath of the coup attempt, and the future of Turkey.
    30 min
  • Anu Partanen: Why Finland is Now the Real Home of the American Dream
    For centuries, the U.S.A. has inspired the world with its values of equality, democracy, and economic possibility.  There's just one problem with those lofty values these days: in many ways, scholars argue, they are no longer found in the U.S.A.  But fear not, there is a place where one can still live the American dream, it's just not in America.  It's Finland, a country which has somehow achieved almost unbelievable social and economic progress over the last half-century.  Our guest today, a citizen of both countries, explains how Finland has managed to become a 21st miracle. 
    29 min
  • Roger Crowley: Conquerors--How Portugal Forged the First Global Empire
    In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue.  We all know that and probably at least something about the Spanish Conquest of the Americas in the 16th century.  Spain's neighbor Portugal, however, has an equally stirring and incredible story.  At the same time as Spain, Portugal was forging their own far-flung empire around the Indian Ocean.  Guest host Mark Burns talks to the author of a new book on the Portuguese conquerors on today's Thinking Aloud.
    30 min
  • James Brooks: Mesa of Sorrows--The Hopi Massacre at Awat'ovi Pueblo in 1700 (rebroadcast)
    Today’s guest on Thinking Aloud is James F. Brooks, a renowned scholar of the southwest and author of the new book Mesa of Sorrows: Archaeology, Prophecy, and the Ghosts of Awat’ovi Pueblo.  His book combines history, archaeology, native studies, religious studies, and CSI-like detective work of the highest order to discover the complex and surprising reasons for this famous tragedy which took place more than three centuries ago.  He’s here to share his surprising findings on today’s Thinking Aloud.  
    30 min
  • Jack Sites: Nature's Free Gifts--Why Nature Conservation Isn't Just about Nature (rebroadcast)
    The fruits of the natural world are more than we realize--too many to tally. Humans derive innumerable "free gifts" from the natural world, but we frequently exploit nature beyond its ability to recharge itself, and in the process compromise or obliterate nature's capacity to provide us with the foods, tools, medicines, and protections that we need for our own survival. Dr. Jack Sites, a professor at BYU, is one of the world’s leading herpetologists. In this interview he provides a brief survey of some of these miraculous gifts.  
    30 min
  • Muhammad Musri: Muslims as Americans--A Florida Imam on Islam's Place in the US
    Though he has spent most of his life in the United States, Muhammad Musri was a child in Beirut, Lebanon while the city enjoyed a golden age of both culture and religious tolerance. He saw early on that peaceful coexistence is possible and believes that in America, Muslims can and already do play an important part in fostering civil and religious peace.  The role of Muslims as Americans is the topic of today's Thinking Aloud.
    30 min
  • Jason De Leon: The US Southwest Desert--Dangerous Death Trap for Many Migrants

    On most days, hundreds or even thousands of migrants attempt to cross the desert that stretches across northern Mexico into southern Arizona. Driven primarily by the simple desire for economic survival, they endure extremes of temperature and environment and many die enroute.  Today’s guest on Thinking Aloud is a specialist on migration and has studied intensely not only what occurs on these migrant trails, but the ways in which U.S. and Mexican governmental policy in large part set apart these areas to serve as killing machines in the first place. It’s a largely invisible yet huge societal problem that we have yet to begin to deal with.

    31 min

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