Podcast version: But it’s also true that people around the world still feel a powerful drive to help others, like they always have. Altruism appears to be innate, and is also a primary value of widely varying cultures, religions, and philosophies. There are all kinds of reasons to despair of humanity these days. The most selfish, destructive, and outright cruel … [Read more...] about Luke Freeman of Giving What We Can
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Treating People as People, Not Machines: Dr. Rose Kumar on How to Heal Healthcare
We have more money, technology, and knowledge at our command than any other nation in the world ever has. And yet one way of seeing the society we’ve built is as a perpetual illness machine: It sells us stuff that makes us sick, and then sells us stuff that treats the sickness. Spencer's guest Dr. Rose Kumar believes there's a better way: Treat people as people, and look at … [Read more...] about Treating People as People, Not Machines: Dr. Rose Kumar on How to Heal Healthcare
To Go Forward, We Must Look Back: Colleen Murphy on Transitional Justice
If we keep talking about race, doesn’t that just keep racism alive? Now that we have a new president, why keep talking about the last one? Shouldn’t we move forward, and just put the past behind us? Spencer's guest this time says we can’t move forward unless we can look back as well, at truths that won’t go away until we face them. Colleen Murphy is an expert on what’s … [Read more...] about To Go Forward, We Must Look Back: Colleen Murphy on Transitional Justice
Georgina Mendoza McDowell: What We Already Know About How to Reform Policing
In the past three years, public opinion has swung strongly in support of police reform, from most Americans being against it to a strong majority now supporting it. Support for reform leapt upward in response to the horrific video of George Floyd’s murder on May 25, 2020. It’s terrible but true that it can take something like that to motivate change, as Martin Luther King … [Read more...] about Georgina Mendoza McDowell: What We Already Know About How to Reform Policing