Read Beat (...and repeat) Podcast
1) "Marutas of Unit 731" by Jenny Chan
Writing in the Sept. 20, 2025 issue of the Korea Times, Park Jin-hai noted that âJenny Chan grew up in America caught between clashing versions of history â her school textbooks skipped over the cruel...Show More
2) "Rewiring Democracy" by Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders
AI will change democracy. The only question is how, say the authors of a new book described as "surprisingly optimistic" when it comes to regarding how artificial intelligence will impact the world. B...Show More
3) "American Oasis" by Kyle Paoletta
Kyle Paolettaâs American Oasis comes with a subtitle: Finding the Future in the Cities of the Southwest. Born in Santa Fe, Paoletta grew up in Albuquerque. The native Southwesterner said he had to lea...Show More
4) "Crossings--How Road Ecology is Shaping the Future of Our Planet" by Ben Goldfarb
Ben Goldfarbâs new book, CrossingsâHow Road Ecology is Shaping the Future of Our Planet, is a reminder that we need to consider the impact of a highway network--not just on the drivers--but on the ani...Show More
5) "The Accord" by Mark Peres
âAI is technology that lets computers do things that normally require human intelligenceâlike understanding language, recognizing pictures, solving problems, or making decisions. Itâs like teaching a ...Show More
6) In the Japanese Ballpark by Robert Fitts
You donât have to worry that U.S. baseball fans could be overlooking Japanese baseball. Not after the Los Angeles Dodgers won the World Series for the second year in a row, led by Japanese stars Shohe...Show More
7) "That October" by Keith Roysdon
Keith Roysdon is a media marvel. He spent 40 years as a newspaperman in Muncie, Ind., not just writing about what went on in Muncie but absorbing the movies, TV shows, and critical articles on the art...Show More
8) "Small Farms Are Real Farms" by John Ikerd
John Ikerd, professor emeritus of agricultural economics at the University of Missouri, has a message regarding the present state of agriculture in this country: it's not sustainable. Ikerd doesn't se...Show More
9) "When Can We Go Back to America?" by Susan Kamei
The attack on Pearl Harbor did more than plunge the United States into a two-front war, it turned over 120,000 Japanese-Americans into prisoners of war--in their own country. Almost as soon as the bom...Show More
10) "Hollywood's Spies" by Laura Rosenzweig
The debate lingers: why didnât Hollywoodâs studios produce anti-Nazi pictures before war was all but imminent in the 1930s? Plenty has been written about the lack of films that might have alerted the ...Show More