Episodes

Is Coercive Diplomacy as efficacious today as it once was ? Or have targets - like Russia - learned to hedge the risks from US economic, military and diplomatic sanctions.

The annual TCM film festival took place in Los Angeles April 24 - 27. A celebration of classic films and their fans.

Canada 🇨🇦 holds national elections on Monday April 28. Dominating the campaign and top of mind for every voter are the impact of tariffs on the Canadian economy. Resilience is central to the debate as well as President Trump featuring prominently in the discourse. The Liberals led by Mark Carney who were all but dead politically in January are now favorites to win in this existential - for Canada - choice for the future.

The Postwar consensus, based on Karl Popper’s Open Society and Hayek’s Road to Serfdom is based on secularity, individualism and internationalism, has served to keep the Peace for 80 years since 1945. But it’s coming to an end. What will replace it ?

How four young French women who were in the Resistance made a huge impact on the all female concentration camp in Germany.

The Telepathy Tapes have been a worldwide podcasting phenomenon. Today’s episode brings a British point of view.

Jim teams up with Huckleberry Finn to raft down the Mississippi to freedom: the runaway slave and irreverent scamp are an unlikely duo. But 140 years after the publication of Twain’s greatest novel, Jim continues to be misunderstood.

The Ferry Building of San Francisco, like many of its citizens, has faced hard times, lost its purpose but reinvented itself for the 21st Century.

Homelessness in San Francisco has a human face. And from time to time, there are success stories when someone is rehabilitated, often with the intense help of family. The Lost and The Found relates two such cases.

Canada 🇨🇦 faces an uncertain future as it looks forward to a General Election April 28, 2025. New Prime Minister Mark Carney stares down a shaky economy and new US tariffs. He has said that the key relationship with America 🇺🇸 is over, causing Canadians even more angst.

A tsunami has dethroned the elites from being in charge of information flow to the public. Politicians, Government, Universities are no longer the gatekeepers of what is important for the public to know.

Karl Popper, the great philosopher and LSE Professor once said: “ Be intolerant of intolerance”. For all who would curtail our Freedom of Speech.

With 4500 reports of child abuse in San Francisco annually, we need to maintain excellent programs like Safe and Sound to treat the problem.

The Zodiac killings took place in the San Francisco Bay Area in the late 1960s and 70s. But they were never solved. In this episode we discuss two films about this True Crime Story.

Paranormal phenomena and the psychology behind them. Anomalistic Psychology.

Gladstone Intitutes is a leading biomedical research facility doing cutting edge medical research, employing 600 scientists. They bring together stem cell, Gene editing and Artificial Intelligence technologies to craft cures for disease.

Men’s healthcare has advanced significantly in the last 30 years in part because of cultural shifts in society and the evolution of masculinity.

Technology company founders more often than not have created extreme wealth for themselves through their companies. And significant social problems have followed.

The US Russia peace talks get underway in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Tuesday February 18th.

What began as a commemorative to First President George Washington has evolved into a celebration of all 45 US presidents.

Violeta Parra was a Chilean folksinger with a broad following in Chile and abroad.

Search Engines like Google are a major source where Americans get their news. But Google News has a 63% left bias versus 6% right bias. Other search engines have similar biases.

Is there a Telepathy Autism Link ? Science says no but parents and believers in paranormal phenomena say yes.

A bookstore worker encounters the 19th Century Romantic Poets in the basement of Beyond Baroque, a Venice, California iconic bookseller and embarks on a journey of self discovery when Shelly, Percy, Keats and Lord Byron come alive.