As The Sea issue comes to a close, we turn the podcast’s attention toward the scientists and experts who can give us the score on the health of our oceans today. In part two, Captain Charles Moore, Nancy Rabalais, Callum Roberts, Jeremy Jackson, Donovan Hohn, Alan Sielen, and Curtis Ebbesmeyer take us to all the dead zones, garbage patches, and other pollution-choked corners of the seas.
How did Pakistan’s free elections in 1970 lead to a genocidal military crackdown against East Pakistan in 1971? More
The life and thought of Niccolò Machiavelli has been badly misunderstood. Far from his usual depiction as a politically amoral henchman, Machiavelli was in fact a prescient critic of princely power and religious zealotry. More
The Morgan Library exhibit Edgar Allan Poe: Terror of the Soul reveals a complex, nuanced biography of the American author. More
