A Neighbor’s Choice Radio

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Hosted by writer and speaker David Gornoski, A Neighbor’s Choice Radio Show examines the role of violence and religion in society. From victims of state violence against nonviolent behaviors to public figures and contrarian voices, the conversations that unfold create an illuminating and sometimes strange journey for listeners.

Michael Lisanti on Antibiotics, Anti-Aging Drugs for COVID-19, Cancer

April 6, 2020/0 Comments/in Interviews, Show /by David Gornoski

Professor Michael Lisanti, Chair of Translational Medicine at the University of Salford joins David Gornoski and physicist Weiping Yu to discuss his work using antibiotics to destroy senescent cells-dysfunctional aging cells-as well as cancer stem cells. These generic, very inexpensive antibiotics have studies showing antiviral effects in other viruses. Dr. Lisanti proposes that clinical trials […]

THINGS HIDDEN 11: Coronavirus Scapegoating and Rainmakers

March 13, 2020/0 Comments/in Lectures, Show /by David Gornoski

David Gornoski explores the anthropological origins of the recent attempts to quarantine guilt onto the back of President Trump, China, and other entities for the coronavirus pandemic emergency. Sir James Frazer’s classic book “The Golden Bough” is explored to see how primitive societies used rainmakers, chiefs in charge of good weather to blame when bad […]

THINGS HIDDEN 10: Tom Holland Interview

February 17, 2020/0 Comments/in Interviews, Lectures, Show /by David Gornoski

How did Christianity change the world? Can we trace a path towards a less violent world due to the impact of the story of Jesus’s death on humanity’s sense-making? David Gornoski talks with acclaimed historian Tom Holland on his new book Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World and how his study of history […]

THINGS HIDDEN 9: The Impotent Sacrifice

February 10, 2020/0 Comments/in Lectures, Show /by David Gornoski

David Gornoski explores how our forms of collective violence increasingly fail to deter violence because of our lack of appetite for publicly sanctioned brutality. This phenomenon, a product of the Gospel’s influence in the West, will continue to render state coercion impotent in foreign nation building campaigns and domestic wars on nonviolent choices. Media ecology […]

THINGS HIDDEN 8: The Origins of Political Correctness

February 3, 2020/0 Comments/in Lectures, Show /by David Gornoski

Where did political correctness come from? Why is it unique to the West? What force provides the context by which this contagious complex of victim-posturing for power arose? David Gornoski explores how our gradual demystification of historical texts acts as a blame-the-messenger self-obsession with attacking Western institutions and traditions.

THINGS HIDDEN 7: Why Nations Rage

January 30, 2020/0 Comments/in Lectures, Show /by David Gornoski

David Gornoski explores why politics is failing to contain our violence and animosity increasingly in AD 2020. We examine the anthropological forces at play as division grows in politics the longer cultures steep in the story and values of the crucified one.

A Neighbor’s Choice Radio

Michael Lisanti on Antibiotics, Anti-Aging Drugs for COVID-19, Cancer

THINGS HIDDEN 11: Coronavirus Scapegoating and Rainmakers

THINGS HIDDEN 10: Tom Holland Interview

THINGS HIDDEN 9: The Impotent Sacrifice

THINGS HIDDEN 8: The Origins of Political Correctness

THINGS HIDDEN 7: Why Nations Rage

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