James Keys and Tunde Ogunlana discuss the expulsion of George Santos from the U.S. House of Representatives and consider the extent to which people tolerate, or even...
OpenAI Turmoil Exposes the Conflict Between Its Mission and Its Practice; Also, Is Eye Contact Rare?
James Keys and Tunde Ogunlana discuss the turmoil that took place recently with OpenAI and its leadership, including key things that seemed to set the stage for it and...
Tuberville’s Military Block Shows Contempt for U.S. Values; Also, Is Walking Like Viagra for Men?
James Keys and Tunde Ogunlana discuss ongoing blockade of the confirmation of military promotions by Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama and how his “my way or...
Seeing an Economy That Looks Good but Doesn’t Feel Good; Vikings Sailing the Ocean Blue Before 1492
James Keys and Tunde Ogunlana discuss the apparent disconnect between what the numbers are telling us about the economy, which is that it is doing pretty well, and the...
Sarah Colt’s “The Gilded Age” takes a look at the rapid industrialization and growth, as well as the exploding wealth gap between the capital class and the working class...
End of Emergency Child Care Funding Creates Direct & Downstream Issues; & the Threat to Masculinity
James Keys and Tunde Ogunlana discuss the tens of billions in federal child care funds that recently expired and what the role of government should be for something like...
Side Taking in the Israel-Hamas Pushing People to Extremes; And, Is Free Will an Imagined Construct?
James Keys and Tunde Ogunlana discuss the way many have seemed to want to take sides in an all or nothing way when viewing and discussing the Israel and Hamas war, and...
The GOP Controls the House, Who Controls the GOP? Also, US Latinos’ Staggering Economic Output
James Keys and Tunde Ogunlana discuss the dysfunction in the US House of Representatives following the ouster of Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House that some...
Viewing the Israeli-Hamas Conflict with a “What’s Past is Prologue” Lens; Also, the Americas in 1491
James Keys and Tunde Ogunlana take a look at the historical context of the current conflict between Israel and Hamas and consider whether after 75+ years of conflict...
James Keys and Tunde Ogunlana consider how anger affects one’s ability to think, the types of actors in a society that have an interest in using anger to manipulate...