For millennia, Western culture (and most other cultures) declared that men and women were different sorts of humans—and, by the way, men were better. Is that claim not only wrong but straight-up backwards?
Co-hosts Celeste Headlee and John Biewen explore the current state of the nature-nurture gender debate, with help from Lisa Wade of Occidental College and Mel Konner of Emory University.
Music by Alex Weston, and by Evgueni and Sacha Galperine.
Music and production help from Joe Augustine at Narrative Music.
Bonus: Long Shadow, In Guns We Trust
S6 E5: A Way Forward
S6 E4: The Forgetting
S6 E3: A Day of Blood
S6 E2: Crying "Negro Rule"
S6 E1: What Was Lost
Season 6 Trailer: Echoes of a Coup
Update: Scene on Radio status report
"The Excess of Democracy": Rebroadcast
White Affirmative Action: Rebroadcast
Losing Ground: Rebroadcast
Bonus: Introducing Hot Take
Himpathy: Rebroadcast
Things I'm Afraid to Say: Rebroadcast
Prince and Philando and Futures Untold: Rebroadcast
S5 E11: Change Everything
S5 E10: The Power Structure, Not the Energy Source
S5 E9: Pachamama
S5 E8: Last Orders
S5 E7: Deluges and Dreams
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