Mansplaining Podcast
1) Episode 120: Potatoes and Tomatoes: Hardy Migrants
Send us a text Overshadowed by all the anti-immigrant rhetoric afflicting our country today are wonderful stories of non-human immigration, such as the ones about how certain foods made their way from...Show More
2) Episode 119: Flag Fetish
Send us a text Based on recent proclamations from the MAGA government and the zealotry that some of its partisans have for the American flag, you’d never guess that flag worship was really not a thing...Show More
3) Episode 118: The Pros and Cons of Gerontocracy
Send us a text You may have noticed that there are a lot of very old people clinging to positions of authority, from our current president (79 years old) to our former president (82 when he left offic...Show More
4) Episode 116: What Rousseau Might Say About the USA
Send us a text In The Social Contract, the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau suggested that democracy was feasible only in smaller polities where the citizens have shared common interests. What might ...Show More
5) Episode 116: The Cemetery Industry is Not Dead Yet
Send us a text When visiting a few cemeteries recently, Joe was struck by how clean and well-maintained but desolately empty they were. That prompted him to ask Mark about the economic viability of ce...Show More
6) Episode 115: Will There Be Enough Water?
Send us a text Water seems to many of us like an unlimited resource, what with oceans covering 71% of the Earth’s surface. But less than 3% of the world’s water is fresh, and nearly a third of that is...Show More
7) Episode 114: About Those Expiration Dates…
Send us a text What do the following household items have in common: A jar of aspirin; a tube of toothpaste; a clear plastic bottle; a package of KN-95 masks? Answer: they all expire on a certain date...Show More
8) Episode 113: Green Lawn Origin Story
Send us a text For decades, American suburbia has resembled one continuous green lawn stretching across property boundaries in every direction. Indeed, lawns are part of the fabric of American life. W...Show More
9) Episode 112: We’re Dawdling on High-Speed Rail
Send us a text Bullet trains have been a major component of transit systems in places like Japan, China, and Europe for decades. Why hasn’t high-speed rail taken root in the supposedly forward-thinkin...Show More
10) Episode 111: We Best Not Nuke Nuclear
Send us a text To meet the increased demand for carbon-free electricity that might mitigate the climate crisis that is already upon us, nations the world over are reconsidering nuclear energy. Manspl...Show More