22 January 2019
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The paradoxical psychology of a great movie ending
Golden-Globe-winning producer Lindsay Doran discusses an odd disjunction between how movies end and how we remember them ending.
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Save the banks, not the bankers
Ten years after the Great Recession, economists Glenn Loury and Ross Levine consider how to prevent another financial collapse.
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On being canceled
Daniel Kaufman and Oliver Traldi discuss the professional risk involved in expressing heterodox views in the field of philosophy.
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What’s a little disastrous foreign policy between friends?
Robert Wright and historian Stephen Wertheim discuss why Democrats welcomed neoconservatives into the Resistance after Trump’s election.
Culturally Determined
Was Gillette’s ad a success?
Brand consultant Bill Gullan analyzes the controversial viral ad that criticizes toxic masculinity.
The Glenn Show
“Factually it’s completely wrong”
Glenn Loury speaks with Laurence Kotlikoff, who criticizes the narrative of the causes of the Great Recession presented by the book and film The Big Short.
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The interpretation of dreams
Aryeh Cohen-Wade speaks with Alice Robb, author of the new book Why We Dream, about the meaning of events—such as one’s teeth falling out—that happen in our dreams.
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Israel’s sense of siege
Journalist Lisa Goldman, who lived in Tel Aviv during the second Intifada, describes how an atmosphere of fear and violence helped push Israelis to the right.
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A postmodern view of the Bible
