We examine free speech and censorship on college campuses in this edition of Lit Nerves Radio. Our guest, Susan Kruth of FIRE, takes us through the legality of campus speech codes—more strict in recent years—and...

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Episode 8: Censorship on Campus

This week we delve into how invention becomes innovation, innovation’s causes, consequences, and characteristics. James Bessen,  a fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society and a lecturer at Boston University’s School of...

Episode 7: Implementing Innovation

We speak with Dr. Steven Hyman, former director of the National Institute of Mental Health and former provost of Harvard University, who now directs the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at the Broad Institute...

Episode 6: Mental Health

Civil liberties are at the center of any liberal democracy and this week’s show. We talk with Samuel Walker, Emeritus Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, who has served...

Episode 5: Civil Liberties

Gen. Anthony Zinni, USMC (Ret.) joins host Will Madaus to discuss the military of tomorrow, informed by lessons learned from the recent past. It’s not technology or tactics which hamper the latter day force, Zinni says, but...

Episode 4: The Military of Tomorrow

Fracking has brought an oil boom to America, setting her to overtake Saudi Arabia in the not too distant future. Oil prices have crashed, to the joy of drivers and consternation of certain regimes....

Episode 3: Oil

We’ll be taking planes, trains, and automobiles, on our way to the heart of transportation with our guide, Robert Puentes, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Find how people and goods move across...

Episode 2: Infrastructure

This episode, the first of Lit Nerves Radio, covers nuclear weapons: their risks, benefits, and future. Host Will Madaus talks with Allie Van Dine of the Nuclear Threat Initiative and Harry Halem who writes for Arms...

Episode 1: Nukes

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