What and Why with Max Roth

Media & Entertainment Podcasts

What do we do and why do we do it? To paraphrase Augustine, the questions are shallow enough for a child not to drown, but deep enough for an elephant to swim. (Augustine didn't have a podcast. He was talking about the Bible.) The idea of What and...

Episodes

Guns into Ploughshares, Shane Claiborne's radical view of what it means to be a Christian

The skills of a spy and how they apply to the rest of us

Targeting Faith: Asking clergy about violence aimed at religion

Middle Readers Special! Snared: Lair of the Beast with Adam Jay Epstein

A hero erased from history: Ernst Lohmeyer Between the Swastika and the Sickle, an interview with James Edwards

The Big Activity Book for Anxious People with Jordan Reid

Grateful: The Subversive Practice of Giving Thanks with Diana Butler Bass

Computer stolen edition! :(

Ultra Runners: A Journey to the Edge of Human Endurance with Author Adharanand Finn

Tequila the drink, the town, the symbol, the book!

American Sumo

An Economist Walks into a Brothel, a conversation with Allison Schrager

Why we justify bad choices, with Elliot Aronson

Dying of Whiteness: A doctor's deadly diagnosis of racial resentment

Holy Envy: Finding wisdom outside our faiths with Barbara Brown Taylor

Red Letter Christians with Tony Campolo

The Human Network: Where do You Fit In? with Matthew Jackson

Opinion, Power and Perception in Social Media with Shannon McGregor

The Goodness Paradox: Richard Wrangham's new theory on the evolution of human violence

Bonus Ep! The Goodness Paradox, The Full Interview with Richard Wrangham