Apr 27

Designing a Life that Matters

We tell ourselves that meaning comes from impact, passion, or finding the “one right path.” But these beliefs can leave us feeling stuck — even when our lives look perfectly fine on paper. Behavioral scientist Dave Evans describes a new approach, borrowed from design thinking, to ... Show More

51m 6s

Apr 20

Do You Feel Loved?

What’s the difference between being loved and feeling loved? Psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky joins us to discuss the distinction, and how we can create a stronger feeling of closeness in our relationships. Then, in our latest installment of Your Questions Answered, psychologist Gr ... Show More

1h 33m

Apr 13

How to Change the World

Does power truly flow from the barrel of a gun? Pop culture and conventional history often teach us that violence is the most effective way to produce change. But is that common assumption actually true? Political scientist Erica Chenoweth, who has studied more than 100 years of ... Show More

1h 30m

Oct 2024

The Tipping Point Revisited: Broken Windows

In The Tipping Point, Malcolm helped popularize a controversial approach to policing called “Broken Windows Theory” that is often credited for keeping crime rates down. Now, 25 years later, he goes back and audits his chapter on crime. Did he get it right? See omnystudio.com/list ... Show More

31m 17s

May 2019

A Clean Getaway

An employee of a dry-cleaner was raped and murdered in the store, and investigators thought themselves fortunate to have two eyewitnesses. Their descriptions were similar but not identical, and the prime suspect didn't come close to resembling that person. So police turned to for ... Show More

20m 27s

Sep 2023

Tanya Maria Golash-Boza, "Before Gentrification: The Creation of DC's Racial Wealth Gap" (U California Press, 2023)

This book shows how a century of redlining, disinvestment, and the War on Drugs wreaked devastation on Black people and paved the way for gentrification in Washington, DC. In Before Gentrification: The Creation of DC's Racial Wealth Gap (U California Press, 2023), Tanya Maria Gol ... Show More

48m 21s

Aug 2024

Anne Gray Fischer, "The Streets Belong to Us: Sex, Race, and Police Power from Segregation to Gentrification" (UNC Press, 2022)

Anne Gray Fischer speaks about her path to and through research, including how sex workers informed her analysis of policing and state violence, the role of law enforcement in struggles over economic development, and the intellectual and practical factors of research design. Men, ... Show More

1h 12m

Nov 2014

Just Culture

Margaret Heffernan explores why big organisations so often make big mistakes - and asks if the cure could be the aviation industry's model of a "just culture".In the past ten years, there have been a string of organizational failures - from BP to the banks, from the Catholic Chur ... Show More

28m 14s

May 2023

Don’t Send the Police: Send Freedom House

<p>In May 2020, the murder of George Floyd inspired people to take to the streets in America and overseas, calling for <a href="https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/george-floyd-s-murder-won-t-change-policing-without-senate-n1264877" target="_blank">cop reform</a>, the defunding of poli ... Show More

37m 31s

Nov 2024

Big Bang (PODCAST EXCLUSIVE EPISODE)

<p>On a fall evening in 1996, a young detective sped through the streets of Tucson, Arizona towards an upscale country club. All he knew was that someone had reported an explosion in the area, but he didn’t know what had caused it. Minutes later, the detective pulled into the cou ... Show More

34m 18s

Jul 2024

Megan Stevenson on Why Interventions in the Criminal Justice System Don't Work

<p class="has-drop-cap">Do policies built around social and behavioral science research actually work? That's a big, and contentious, question. It's also almost an existential question for the disciplines involved. It's also a question that Megan Stevenson, a <a href= "https://ww ... Show More

21m 23s

Radical Acceptance