Episodes

Faraway, So Close (New York after Rona part ii)

Faraway, So Close (New York after Rona part ii) March 2020, writer Craig Taylor believed he was finally done with his 11 year oral history project featuring the voices...

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That Was Real(New York after Rona part i)

That Was Real (New York after Rona part i) We kick off our new ToE miniseries with a radical rethink on surveillance and the post pandemic city with theorist...

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Performance Peace

Performance Peace George Bush celebrates the 20th anniversary of 911 with some new ‘dark’ paintings. Your host marks the occasion with some high stakes performance art. Plus art lessons from...

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Charlie Brown’s America

Charlie Brown’s America Cartoonist Charles Schulz  wrote and drew Peanuts every day for half a century. In his new book Charlie Brown’s America, Historian Blake Scott Ball uses the...

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Louis Menand and the Cold War

Louis Menand and the Cold War Your host talks with Louis Menand about his new book “The Free World, Art and Thought in the Cold War” Also donate to...

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The Return

The Return Your host escapes the island and makes a return to New York. Plus, writer Tim Kreider on strange vaccine side effects.  Also donate to 2021 Radiotopia Fundraiser:

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Broken Windows revisited

Broken Windows revisited Modern Policing owes a lot to the idea of Broken Windows theory, in this ToE we examine the roots of where this idea came from and...

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Utopia (the callaway cut)

UTOPIA: the Callaway Cut Permaculture! Anarchy! Pagan sex dungeons! ToE’s Andrew Callaway revisits his 2017 tour of intentional communities for our Utopia Series. We are calling this one UTOPIA:...

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Withdrawal

Withdrawal After one year of island confinement, your host joins AlamoFort – a clubhouse alternative, and discovers a new community in the #covid1984 room. Plus the true meaning of...

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Convolution

Convolution This year your host wrote an original crime thriller for Audible Originals. Listen to the first chapter here, then go to Audible.com/Convolution and you can listen to the...

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Émigration Intérieure

Émigration Intérieure As the Trump years finally come to an end, your host contemplates collective guilt and shame. In 1945 Thomas Mann ignited a controversy when he wrote “there...

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The Longest Shortest Flight of Rudolf Hess (2020reprise)

The longest Shortest Flight of Rudolf Hess (2020reprise) On May 10th 1941 Rudolf Hess flew from Germany to Scotland. He hoped to bring the Nazis and the British together....

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Exile on Pain Street

Exile on Pain Street Six months later and still in France your host tries to make sense of his situation: Refugee? Exile? Retiree? Plus a conversation about the writing...

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More Broken Windows

More Broken Windows Broken Windows policing is one of the reasons so many people are out protesting in the streets right now. We revisit CRIME FILES a Police Foundation...

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Going Karura (r)

Going Karura (r) My good friend Sean Cole guest hosted TAL this week and we spoke about my trip to Kenya and going karura so I am going to...

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Man Without a Country (2020 remix)

Man Without A Country (2020 remix) Curse the USA and America will strike you up. That’s what happened to the Man Without a Country. They stuffed him in a...

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New Statues

New Statues As statues of slaveholders and Confederate War losers come down, we imagine what could go up in their stead, revisiting a conversation with artist and rememorialization expert...

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Herd Immmunity (Social Distance Learning part v of v)

Herd Immunity (Social Distance Learning part v of v) As the island (and the world) reopens, your host tries his best to join the celebrations, Dr. Lauren Powell explains...

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Making the best of it (social distance learning iv)

Making The Best Of It (Social Distance Learning part iv) As the weeks turn into months, one man decides to learn how to cook for himself even though he...

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Lurking (a conversation with Joanne McNeil)

Lurking (a conversation with Joanne McNeil) Just before the Coronavirus upended our lives I recorded a conversation with writer Joanne Mcneil about her new book Lurking, a book about...

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Countryside (Social Distance Learning part iii)

Countryside (Social Distance Learning part iii) Urbanites are fleeing cities for beach communities and small country towns! Tensions are spreading faster than the Coronavirus. Your host turns to the...

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14 days later (Social Distance Learning part ii)

14 days later (Social Distance Learning part ii) Your host keeps a diary for his first 14 days of Coronavirus confinement. Special appearances from the family, Andrew Callaway, and...

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Escape From New York (Social Distance Learning part i)

Escape From New York (Social Distance Learning part i) Coronavirus Evacuation! Your host decamps New York for a quiet isle in France and ToE’s Andrew Callaway flies home to...

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The Longest Shortest Flight of Rudolf Hess

The longest shortest flight of Rudolf Hess On May 10th 1941 Rudolf Hess flew from Germany to Scotland. He hoped to bring the Nazis and the British together. He...

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