This week Jack Reid drops in to talk about how hitchhiking came of age in the United States, interactions between people on the road, and some shocking celebrities who have asked for a ride. Check out his new book, Roadside Americans: The Rise and Fall of Hitchhiking in a Changing Nation.

This week Dr. Kit Heyem visits from across the Pond to talk about their new book, Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender. This was an awesome conversation to talk nonbinary histories through time and why that is relevant today. About our guest: Dr Kit Heyam (they/them or he/him) is a Leeds-based freelance writer, heritage practitioner, trans…

What are you wearing this fall? Or rather, why are you wearing what you're wearing this fall? Those are the questiond Dr. Rachel Gross and I are pondering in this episode of Reckoning. Dr. Gross joins in to talk about her new book: Shopping All The Way to the Woods: How the Outdoor Industry Sold Nature to America. We talk about the rise of outfitte…

This week Columbia Business School behavioral economist Dr. Stephan Meier drops in to talk about why businesses will profit by switching to an employee-centric model--and how to do it. We talk about a whole range of aspects of business operations, from remote work to pay scales to Legos. Stephan is absolutely amazing and this conversation goes plac…

This week we talk with marine biologist Dr. David Shiffman about the importance of sharks in our ecosystem, threats to global shark populations, popular misconceptions about sharks, and how to become a shark researcher. About our guest: Dr. David Shiffman is an interdisciplinary marine conservation biologist who studies sharks and how to protect th…

It's safe to say I'm not getting invited to Christmas this year. But I had to say it.

This week astrophysicist Dr. Kelsey Johnson and I talk about how we know what we know, the Big Bang, black holes, and turtles all the way down, all of which can be found in her new book Into the Unknown: The Quest to Understand the Mysteries of the Cosmos. This is a mind blowing conversation with a brilliant and wonderful human. About our guest: Dr…

Historian Dr. Holly Miowak Guise talks about how Alaska Natives dealt with both American imperialism and World War II. About our guest: Holly Miowak Guise (Iñupiaq) is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of New Mexico. Her book, Alaska Native Resilience: Voices from World War II focuses on gender, Unangax̂ (Aleut) relocation and int…

It's election day. We're tired. We're scared. And it's going to be ok.Oleh Jason Herbert

News broke recently that the National Archives Museum is whitewashing its exhibits in order to pander to white Conservatives, removing references to Martin Luther King, Jr., Dolores Huerta, Native Americans, Japanese Internment, union organizers, birth control, and more. In this first episode, I question what we are doing this for.…