Where We Go Next

Policing - as both an action and a concept - has been on the front page and at the front of many of our minds over the last several years, as we've reexamined our assumptions around its utility and purpose. When is law enforcement actually needed? When does it go too far? And what does good policing look like? Criminology professor and former Baltimore police officer Peter Moskos has combined his academic training with on-the-ground experience to try and answer those very questions.

Cop in the Hood: My Year Policing Baltimore's Eastern District, by Peter Moskos

Broken Windows, by George Kelling and James Wilson

Walking in a Police Officer's Shoes: A Conversation with Dr. Peter Moskos - YouTube

Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America

Neighborhoods and Police: The Maintenance of Civil Authority, by George Kelling and James Stewart

Two Shades of Blue: Black and White in the Blue Brotherhood, by Peter Moskos

In Defense of Flogging, by Peter Moskos

copinthehood.com

Peter's Twitter: @PeterMoskos

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The first episode of Where We Go Next was recorded just over a year ago. We've talked about a range of subjects since then - from nuclear power, to mRNA vaccines, from Maslow's hierarchy of needs to Montessori's method, just to name a few. But a recurring theme of the podcast - guest after guest - has been identity. How do we understand ourselves and how do we understand one another? How do we create a diversity that strives for common ground while respecting the very things that make us who we are? How do we speak truth to the power of our ego when it threatens to get in the way of progress? Bestselling author and founder of the Moral Courage Project Irshad Manji shows others how to have the courage to do exactly that.

Don't Label Me: How to Do Diversity Without Inflaming the Culture Wars, by Irshad Manji

Moral Courage Project

Moral Courage ED - Diversity Without Division

Irshad Manji on Firing Line, with Margaret Hoover - Video

Why the Writer Richard Rodriguez Refuses to Be Put Into a Box - American Magazine

irshadmanji.com

Irshad's Twitter: @IrshadManji

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Should a storyteller's identity define what stories they're allowed to tell? Does our sex, race, or sexuality set the boundaries around either the fictions we can dream up or the nonfictions we investigate and explore? Filmmaker Nadia Gill is speaking out against a worrying trend within her industry that suggests storytelling might be better off if we all simply kept to "our own."

Encompass Films

Soul Deep, by Encompass Films

Climbing Out of Disaster, by Encompass Films

Last Call For The Bayou, by Encompass Films

Who Are you to Tell That Story?, by Nadia Gill

"Decolonize" the Documentary?, by Nadia Gill

Babies - Trailer

Cartel Land - Trailer

Whores' Glory - Trailer

The Act of Killing - Trailer

Cutie and the Boxer - Trailer

Donald Trump Made Inroads in South Texas This Year. These Voters Explain Why. - Texas Tribune

Nadia's Twitter: @Egypxican

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What happens when you're suddenly thrust into the spotlight at the intersection of two of the most pressing topics of our day - the criminal justice system, and the COVID-19 vaccine? Emergency medical physician Dr. Hasan Gokal found himself in the middle of a firestorm after he spent one fateful evening trying to do the right thing.

The Vaccine Had to Be Used. He Used It. He Was Fired. - The New York Times

Cleared of Accusation He Stole Vaccine, Dr. Hasan Gokal Wonders if His Reputation Will Recover - Houston Chronicle

Dr. Hasan Gokal on The View - YouTube

How Israeli Hospitals Administered Leftover Vaccine Doses - Twitter

@gokalmd

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Being a "heterodox thinker" often involves being exceedingly content with a whole bunch of people disliking you. Sometimes it's people to the Right of you, then people to the Left, and folks who were your strongest allies two days ago may suddenly hate your guts next Thursday. This is not to say that people who are consistently in one camp aren't principled - far from it. It's more that all of that "going against the grain-ing" can be rather... draining. Author and podcast host Meghan Daum shares what drives her to keep speaking about so many unspeakable things.

The Unspeakable with Meghan Daum - Substack

The Problem with Everything: My Journey Through the New Culture Wars, by Meghan Daum

The State of American Friendship: Change, Challenges, and Loss - Survey

I Don't Know What To Think Anymore: A Few Words From Your Host - The Unspeakable Podcast

Nuance: A Love Story, by Meghan Daum

I Left New York for Greener Pastures — and a Puppy, by Meghan Daum

Self Care: A Novel, by Leigh Stein

They Shall Not Grow Old, a documentary by Peter Jackson

The Delve podcast, with guest Meghan Daum

meghandaum.com

Meghan's Twitter: @meghan_daum

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It's good to push yourself to think differently - to reexamine your priors, question your beliefs, and change your mind. But it's not enough to switch from Right to Left, or Left to Right, or from Heterodox Pepsi to Heterodox Coke. Introspection is a train without a station - something that should keep going. Writer and YouTube host Brittany Talissa King returns to discuss the sometimes difficult but rewarding task of remaining a work in progress.

2 Perspectives, Let's Talk - Live Show with Kimi Katiti - #AmericanShade

DarkHorse Podcast with Brittany Talissa King and Bret Weinstein

Free Black Thought, by Brittany Talissa King for Tablet Magazine

A Panel Discussion on Critical Race Theory - #AmericanShade

Black Like Them, by Malcolm Gladwell for The New Yorker

Brittany Talissa King on Medium

Brittany's Twitter: @KingTalissa

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While the United States is now recovering from a year of death, disease, and economic destruction, we still don't know exactly where or how Covid-19 actually began. Molecular biologist Dr. Alina Chan has spent the last year investigating the true origins of the virus, long before it was politically convenient to do so.

COVID-19 CoV Genetics - Global Lineage Surveillance

Coronavirus: Facebook Reverses Ban on Posts Claiming COVID-19 Came From Chinese Lab - South China Morning Post

More Questions Than Answers On COVID-19 Origin - The Mehdi Hasan Show

Many Scientists Still Think The Coronavirus Came From Nature - NPR

Gain of Function Research - Wikipedia

Alina's Twitter: @ayjchan

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Have you ever found yourself so gripped in the throes of a conflict - with a friend, a family member, some stranger online - that you're blinded by a kind of rage that feels like it could overtake you at any moment? Have you found yourself questioning the other person's sanity, baffled as to why they would ever believe what they believe? Then you've experienced what is known as High Conflict. Bestselling author and investigative journalist Amanda Ripley has spent the last several years figuring out why we get trapped in this kind of conflict, and how we can work together to find our way out.

High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out, by Amanda Ripley

The Least Politically Prejudiced Place in America, by Amanda Ripley

Resetting the Table

A Guide to Divorce Mediation, by Gary Friedman

National Association for Community Mediation

Find Mediators at Mediate.com

amandaripley.com

Amanda's Twitter: @amandaripley

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What does it mean to have luck? Good luck, or bad? Is luck something that only happens selectively, or is our entire existence a kind of luck that we've had zero control over? And if that's true - what does it mean for our society? What does it say about our educational system, our criminal justice system, and how we treat and empathize with each other? What does it mean for our world if all of us are exactly where we are due only to pure chance? Aaron Rabinowitz, host of the Embrace the Void podcast, grapples with the philosophical and moral implications of that hypothesis.

Moral Luck, by Thomas Nagel

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Moral Luck

Embrace the Void - 186 Starmanning with Angel Eduardo Pt. 1

Embrace the Void - 183 Moderate Conservatism with Stephen Dause

The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good? by Michael Sandel

Embrace the Void - 044 Moral Luck

Ethical Realism in a Universe Without Free Will, featuring Aaron Rabinowitz - Skeptics in the Pub

Every Rubin Report Ever - FreedomToons

36 Arguments for the Existence of God, by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein

Philosophers in Space

Embrace the Void's Twitter: @ETVPod

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