***This concludes our run of playing Darts and Letters on Cited. You will see the occasional episode cross-posted, but not each and every week. So now, if you’ve been listening to Darts and Letters here, it ends! You’ve got to subscribe to the new feed, otherwise you will miss out.*** What’s the matter with Catholics? … Continue reading Darts and Letters: Katichisms →

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Darts and Letters: Katichisms

***We’re continuing to play the first few episodes of our new show, Darts and Letters. We’ll run this to the holidays. If you like Cited, you’ll like this. So subscribe today.*** I can point you to mountains of research about prisons. I can also recommend at least a dozen Netflix documentaries, and highlight a handful of … Continue reading Darts and Letters: Prison Notebooks →

Darts and Letters: Prison Notebooks

***We’re continuing to play the first few episodes of our new show, Darts and Letters. We’ll run this to the holidays. If you like Cited, you’ll like this. So subscribe today.*** You know McKinsey and Co. They worked for a company that was fixing the price of bread in Canada.  They helped on Trump’s immigration policies, … Continue reading Darts and Letters: The Conquest of Bread →

Darts and Letters: The Conquest of Bread

***We’re continuing to play the first few episodes of our new show, Darts and Letters. If you like Cited, you’ll like this. So subscribe today.*** You’ve seen hilarious videos of the evangelicals for Trump. You might be inclined to ignore them, mock their excesses, or dismiss their threat. But the evangelical right is a force to … Continue reading Darts and Letters: Pew Research Center →

Darts and Letters: Pew Research Center

***We’re continuing to play the first few episodes of our new show, Darts and Letters. If you like Cited, you’ll like this. So subscribe today. We’re now up on all the plaecs.*** We can breathe a sigh of relief with Biden’s victory, but it ain’t time to check out and go to brunch. Because Trumpism is … Continue reading Darts and Letters: Trump, interrupted →

Darts and Letters: Trump, interrupted

Introducing Darts and Letters, a show about intellectuals and the work that they do. But it’s not just for the Ivy crowd, it’s for everyone. Even people who hack darts, and people who wouldn’t be caught dead with a New Yorker tote bag. If you like Cited, you’ll like this. We’ll play the first few on the Cited feed. … Continue reading Introducing: Darts and Letters →

Introducing: Darts and Letters

Hanford is the most-polluted place in America. On our last episode, you heard about the nuclear plant’s largely-forgotten history–how it poisoned the people living downwind. On our season finale: a nuclear safety auditor tries to get it shut down, the downwinders struggle for justice, and we take you into the plant itself. The story of … Continue reading #9: America’s Chernobyl (2 of 2) →

#9: America’s Chernobyl (2 of 2)

Richland, Washington is a company town that sprang up almost overnight in the desert of South Eastern Washington. Its employer is the federal government, and its product is plutonium. The Hanford nuclear site was one of the Manhattan Project sites, and it made the plutonium for the bomb that devastated Nagasaki. Here, the official history … Continue reading #8: America’s Chernobyl →

#8: America’s Chernobyl

The phrase “return to normalcy” has been thrown around a lot lately. It’s actually a phrase that was popularized in 1920, in the wake of the WW1 and the Spanish Flu. But, as with the Spanish Flu, “returning to normalcy” means forgetting the conditions that brought us COVID-19, and perhaps even forgetting COVID-19 itself. On … Continue reading Secondary Symptoms #8: “Return to Normalcy” →

Secondary Symptoms #8: “Return to Normalcy”

At Crosstown Clinic, doctors are turning addiction treatment on its head: they’re prescribing heroin-users the very drug they’re addicted to. This is the story of one clinic’s quest to remove the harms of addiction, without removing the addiction itself. This is one of the best episodes in our archive. It was broadcast March 9th, 2017, … Continue reading The Heroin Clinic (Rebroadcast) →

The Heroin Clinic (Rebroadcast)

Our whirlwind tour of the pharmaceutical industry ends this week. We’ve shown you the dysfunction, now we look for a better way. For some reason, the political vision is so curtailed here. Where is the manifesto for a new system? Even on the Bernie wing of the left, much of the focus is on negotiating … Continue reading Secondary Symptoms #7: Medical Imaginaries →

Secondary Symptoms #7: Medical Imaginaries

On a daily basis, we are exposed to thousands of toxic chemicals. This is no accident; it is by design. They are everywhere – coating our consumer products, in our food packaging, being dumped into our lakes and sewers, and in countless other places. However, for the most part, regulators say that we need not … Continue reading #7: The Poison Paradigm →

#7: The Poison Paradigm

There’s another coronavirus. This one, causing horrific swelling in cats, even killing them. Gilead Pharmacueticals might have a drug that can cure this feline coronavirus.  Yet, they’re not sharing that drug, possibly because they’re scared it might harm their chances with another drug: Remdesivir. You may have heard of it; it’s the supposed ‘gold standard’ … Continue reading Secondary Symptoms #6: Pandemic Fat Cats →

Secondary Symptoms #6: Pandemic Fat Cats

Medical experts are rushing to see which drugs might help treat COVID-19. There are dozens of candidates: Remdesivir, Hydroxycloroquin, Actemra, Kevzara, Favipiravir, the list goes on. They better pick the right one; because billions of dollars of public money is at stake, not to mention 100s of thousands — if not millions — of lives.  … Continue reading #6: The Tamiflu Trials →

#6: The Tamiflu Trials

In the wake of George Flloyd’s murder in Minneappolis, millions of protesters around the world have marched against racism and police violence. In Canada, we know that Indigenous and Black bodies are incarcerated at far higher rates than their white counterparts, despite making up a minority of the country’s population. But when it comes to … Continue reading What are Canadian Police (Still) Trying to Hide? (Rebroadcast with Update) →

What are Canadian Police (Still) Trying to Hide? (Rebroadcast with Update)

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