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S5 E2: To the Victor

  • September 22, 2021
Christopher Columbus landing at Hispaniola in 1492. Engraving from Herrera, 'Historia General De Los Hechos De Los Castellanos,' 1601. Edited photo highlights the ships, weapons, seamen, and the Christian cross in bright red.

How Western Europe really broke bad in its understanding of humanity’s place in the natural world, starting in the Middle Ages. Part 2 of The Repair, our series on the climate crisis. By host and…

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S5 E1: In the Beginning

  • September 15, 2021
A photo taken of Genesis 1:28 in the Christian Bible with several words glowing red. Photo: John Biewen. Edit: Mara Guevarra.

The climate emergency is here. In the first four episodes of our series, we explore the questions: How did we break so bad? How did we become the kind of society that would unleash so…

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Season 5 Trailer: The Repair

  • August 25, 2021
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This season will explore the cultural roots of our current ecological emergency, and the deep changes Western society will need to make to save the Earth and our species. Through interviews with historians and other…

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2x Peabody-nominated podcast by John Biewen @KenanEthics. Season 8: The News, exploring America's journalism and information crisis, w/ Chenjerai Kumanyika.

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sceneonradio Scene On Radio @sceneonradio ·
28 May

Thanks, Victor! And everyone needs to know that Victor plays a major role in the series in later episodes.

Victor Pickard @VWPickard

The voices and stories and analyses covered in these episodes couldn't be timelier. I urge folks to check them out!

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27 May

After 18 months of intense work, we dropped eps 1 and 2 of our new season, The News. We think this project is making some real interventions, as @catchatweetdown
likes to say(!), into the scattered and confused debates about "the media." Check it!

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22 Apr

Thrilled that our upcoming season, The News, is an Official Selection at the Tribeca Festival! Launching May 27, Season 8 brings back the great @catchatweetdown
as co-host. What's *really* wrong with the news media? Is it what we think it is?

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20 Dec

When the Trump administration took away her family’s food this summer, Rose Natabo had to choose which of her three sons to care for — who ate and who didn’t.

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3 Dec

Hey, wrote a new newsletter post. "We have to make it socially unacceptable — again? — to behave as a thuggish manchild." (link in comment 👇)

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