In this episode of BaerTalk, Jason Stanley, Jacob Urowsky Professor of Philosophy at Yale University, discusses his controversial book, How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them. Prof. Stanley is a prominent public intellectual who generates a fair bit… Read More ›
In this episode of BaerTalk, Svetlana Savranskaya, a Senior Analyst at the National Security Archives, talks about the war in Ukraine from the Russian perspective. She tries to get inside Putin’s head to explain what he might have been thinking… Read More ›
In this episode of BaerTalk I talk about the history of the Navajo people with Patrick Moore, Executive Director of New Mexico Historic Sites, and Manuelito Wheeler, Director of the Navajo Nation Museum in Window Rock, Arizona. The Navajo Nation… Read More ›
Stephen M. Barr joins me on the podcast to discuss the relationship between science and religion. A member of the American Physical Society, Stephen Barr is an accomplished theoretical particle physicist. He is also a practicing Christian, President of the… Read More ›
This is an unusual and special episode of BaerTalk. Originally, it was a session of a class I team-teach at Texas Lutheran University called “Democracies in Crisis.” I invited two experts, Dalibor Rohac and Eva Balogh, to speak to the… Read More ›
Predation and hunting would appear to be an essential feature of the natural world. Many animals hunt each other, and many humans hunt animals. Indeed, prehistoric man hunted to survive. Today, of course, things have changed. Hunting is not a… Read More ›
The United States is unique among countries in the developed world for its high levels of religious participation. The wave of secularization that swept through Europe in the 20th century seemed to pass our country by. In recent years, however,… Read More ›
In this episode I talk with Cyril Hovorun, an Orthodox priest from Ukraine, about how the war in his country is affecting the Ukrainian people. Fr. Hovorun also discusses the character and history of Eastern Orthodox Christianity, its relationship to… Read More ›
What drives people to cooperate with evil? I explore this question with Alex Faludy, a journalist based in Budapest, and Robert Ericksen, Kurt Mayer Chair of Holocaust Studies Emeritus at Pacific Lutheran University. We consider the cases of Nazi and… Read More ›
In this episode of BaerTalk I talk with Ethan Watters about his book Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche. Ethan Watters is an excellent journalist who writes on psychology and culture. He’s respectful of the field of… Read More ›
H. David Baer 