Point of Inquiry

Daniel Loxton: Bigfoot, Nessie and Other Kinds of “Abominable Science”

This week Point of Inquiry welcomes Daniel Loxton, longtime Editor ...

This week Point of Inquiry welcomes Daniel Loxton, longtime Editor of Junior Skeptic, the 10-page kids' science section bound within Skeptic magazine, author and illustrator of the national award-winning kids' science book Evolution: How We...

Gabriel Sherman - The Loudest Voice in the Room : How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News--and Divided a Country

This week Point of Inquiry welcomes Gabriel Sherman, writer and ...

This week Point of Inquiry welcomes Gabriel Sherman, writer and contributing editor for New York Magazine and author of the new book The Loudest Voice in the Room: How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News - and...

Amy Tuteur, MD

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Stanton Peele, PhD - Addiction and Recovery

This week, Point of Inquiry welcomes Stanton Peele, PhD., J.D.. ...

This week, Point of Inquiry welcomes Stanton Peele, PhD., J.D.. Dr. Peele, an addiction expert and author of 12 books on the subject, discusses his views on the current ‘disease model’ view of addiction and the recent tragedy involving...

Greg Dworkin, MD - Founding Editor of Flu Wiki

This week, Point of Inquiry welcomes Greg Dworkin, MD. Dr. ...

This week, Point of Inquiry welcomes Greg Dworkin, MD. Dr. Dworkin is a founding editor of Flu Wiki (http://fluwiki.info.) an international, wiki-format clearinghouse of Influenza information designed to help local communities prepare for and perhaps...

J.R. Havlan - Writer for The Daily Show

This week Point of Inquiry discusses satire in politics and ...

This week Point of Inquiry discusses satire in politics and American life with J.R. Havlan, eight-time Emmy Award winning writer on The Daily Show. J.R. was previously a stand-up comic, including a stint doing crowd warm-up...

Jason Stanley - Is the United States a ‘Racial Democracy?

This week, Point of Inquiry welcomes Jason Stanley, professor of ...

This week, Point of Inquiry welcomes Jason Stanley, professor of philosophy at Yale and co-author of a provocative essay in last week’s New York Times entitled Is the United States a ‘Racial Democracy?  Dr. Stanley and his...

Arthur Caplan, PhD - Ethics of Brain Death, end of life, the State and the Right

This week Point of Inquiry is discussing Death. Specifically, Brain ...

This week Point of Inquiry is discussing Death. Specifically, Brain death and the efforts of some areas of the religious right and their attempts to eliminate whole brain Brain Death as the legal standard for death in America.  To aid in...

Chris Emden - Hip Hop Archivist and Professor at Teachers College, Columbia University

This week on Point of Inquiry we welcome Chris Emden, ...

This week on Point of Inquiry we welcome Chris Emden, a Columbia Professor who's helped design New York City's public school policy, a leading science education researcher, and Harvard Hip Hop Archive Fellow. Chris Emden is a favored guest of Josh...

The War on Christmas

As the War on Christmas wages on, our host, Josh ...

As the War on Christmas wages on, our host, Josh Zepps, interviews Rob Boston, Senior Policy Analyst for American's United for the Separation of Church and State, Editor of Church & State magazine and author of Close Encounters with...