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  • Conversations about books with the people who wrote them. Hosted by Marianne Barisonek

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  • Episode 8: Jerry Avorn - Rethinking Medications
    Apr 24 2025

    How safe and effective are the drugs we take? Why do Americans pay more for prescription drugs than people in other high-income countries? Jerry Avorn, a researcher at Harvard Medical School, explains why ineffective, dangerous and overpriced drugs make it through the FDA approval process in his new book Rethinking Medications.

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    30 m
  • Episode 7: Alan Weisman - Hope Dies Last
    Apr 11 2025

    In his new book Hope Dies Last Alan Weisman documents how people from all over the world are coping with our ecological predicament. The stories range from rewatering the marsh that might have been the Biblical garden of Eden to kelp farming, fusion reactors and other creative and imaginative ways to mitigate past destruction and navigate an uncertain future.

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    30 m
  • Episode 6: Russell Muirhead - Ungoverning
    Mar 31 2025

    Before the 2024 election Russell Muirhead and his co-author Nancy RosenBlum predicted the destruction of the administrative state by Trump and his regime in their book 'Ungoverning'. In this episode we talk about how we got here and where we might be headed.

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    30 m
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