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.

Iain McGilchrist on Pandemics, The Divided Brain, Physics, Morphic Fields, and Rene Girard

April 7, 2020/0 Comments/in Interviews, Show /by David Gornoski

David Gornoski talks with renowned neuroscientist Iain McGilchrist on his groundbreaking paradigm of how the left and right hemispheres shape our world, institutions, and culture. Julian Jaynes’s bicameral mind, Rupert Sheldrake’s morphic field hypothesis, Rene Girard’s mimetic theory, and Weiping Yu’s dipolar particle theory are all explored with the premise of McGilchrist’s “The Master and […]

Jerry Bowyer and Weldon Angelos on COVID-19 and Criminal Justice Reform

April 7, 2020/0 Comments/in Interviews, Show /by David Gornoski

When politicians are playing the blame game and nations are blaming nations for the COVID-19 virus, how can we avoid the accusing spirit that seems to have arisen in this global epidemic? Forbes contributor, frequent Fox News and CNBC guest, editor of Townhall Finance, Jerry Bowyer joins physicist Weiping Yu and host David Gornoski in […]

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 […]

A Neighbor’s Choice Radio

Iain McGilchrist on Pandemics, The Divided Brain, Physics, Morphic Fields, and Rene Girard

Jerry Bowyer and Weldon Angelos on COVID-19 and Criminal Justice Reform

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

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