America's Dueling Enlightenments (Rebroadcast)
The Founding Fathers were all children of the Enlightenment, and they agreed on kicking King George out, but they never agreed on how to run the country. Seth Radwell, author of American Schism: How t...
30 Kesä 1h 14min
Cicero and the Founding Fathers (Rebroadcast)
Jeffrey Rosen is a legal scholar and the President of the National Constitution Center. He's the author "the Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders an...
29 Kesä 1h 8min
Zuby Grew up in a Company Town
Zuby is a British rapper who spent his childhood on a Saudi Aramco compound—a sprawling corporate community complete with schools, recreation, housing, and services. We discuss what it was like growin...
24 Kesä 51min
(Preview) Vampire Bats Thwart Henry Ford
Henry Ford revolutionized manufacturing, built the modern automobile industry, and amassed one of the greatest fortunes in American history. Then he decided to conquer the Amazon. In this installment ...
18 Kesä 8min
The Dark Side of Corporate Utopia: Pullman vs. Hershey
George Pullman built his employees a sparkling company town with clean homes, parks, libraries, luxury trains, and some of the best living conditions in the country—but demanded obedience in return. W...
17 Kesä 1h 4min
(Preview) The Socialist Who Bought a Town
Robert Owen was a factory owner, a social reformer, the father of British socialism… and possibly the nicest company-town tyrant in history. Long before Karl Marx called for revolution, Owen tried to...
11 Kesä 7min
The Emperor of Epcot: Walt Disney and Company Towns
What if your landlord was also your boss, mayor, bartender, and moral hall monitor? This week, Andrew Heaton talks with Brian Brushwood about the strange history of company towns—from industrial utopi...
10 Kesä 1h 8min
Privacy Through a Cop's Eyes
Mike is a twenty-year police officer and current sergeant supervising a squad of violent crime detectives. After Andrew's recent conversation with Naomi Brockwell about surveillance, encryption, and t...
3 Kesä 51min
