Walter H. Capps Center (Video) Podcast
1) Coming in November: Armageddon Apocalypse or Rapture?- Martin E. Marty Lecture on Religion in American Life
Bringing his expertise, experience and wisdom longtime journalist Bill Moyers looks at the November election and asks if we are in for armageddon, apocalypse, or rapture? Moyers has received 37 Emmy...Show More
2) Marcy Darnovsky: Should We Genetically Modify Our Children?
Powerful new “gene editing” techniques have put the prospect of genetically modified human beings on the foreseeable horizon. Should we use these tools to improve the human species? Are they needed to...Show More
3) Sexual Assault on College Campuses
Unlike the justice system, California’s institutions of higher learning cannot hold perpetrators of sexual violence criminally liable, but they do have the ability to discipline students through their...Show More
4) The Rise of the Military-Internet Complex
The United States military currently views cyberspace as the “fifth domain” of warfare (alongside land, air, sea, and space), and the Department of Defense, the National Security Agency, and the CIA a...Show More
5) Paul Abramson: Sex Sex and More Sex: Ensuring Sexual Rights While Preventing Sexual Harm
UCLA psychologist Paul Abramson argues that if we want a better world, we need to eliminate sexual harm - not just violent rape, but also sexual coercion, sexual harassment, and sexual abuse of childr...Show More
6) The Innovators: How a Group of Inventors Hackers Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution with Walter Isaacson
What were the talents that allowed certain inventors and entrepreneurs to turn their visionary ideas into disruptive realities? What led to their creative leaps? Why did some succeed and others fail? ...Show More
7) Peter Edelman: Ending Poverty in America
Law professor at Georgetown University’s Law Center, Peter Edelman speaks about the prevalence of poverty in America, focusing on income-level disparities. Series: "Ethics, Religion and Public Life: W...Show More
8) Heidi Boghosian: Spying on Democracy: Government Surveillance Corporate Power and Public Resistance
In “Spying on Democracy,” National Lawyers Guild Executive Director Heidi Boghosian documents the disturbing increase in surveillance of ordinary citizens and the danger it poses to our privacy, our c...Show More
9) Nuclear Power: A Mistake in Search of a Mission with Rinaldo Brutoco
With problems such as the energy crunch, climate change, and dependence on foreign oil, the question reemerges as to whether we need nuclear power — either from new plants, or from relicensing our agi...Show More
10) Saving Babies?: The Consequences of Newborn Genetic Screening
Every baby born in the United States is screened for more than fifty genetic disorders. Though the early detection of these abnormalities can potentially save lives, the test also has a high percentag...Show More