The Conversation
A collaborative conversation about the future between some of America's greatest thinkers and you. www.findtheconversation.com
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 40 minutes
- Episodes
- 68
- Years Active
- 2012 - 2016
The Conversation - 67 - Aengus Anderson
Finally, formally, this is where The Conversation ends. If you've been a contemporaneous listener, thanks for joining on this epic trip. If you're just discovering The Conversation, welcome! This mig…
00:13:34 |
Sun 15 May 2016
The Conversation - 66 - Lisa Gray-Garcia
Lisa "Tiny" Gray-Garcia is a writer, organizer, activist, poet, and self-proclaimed poverty scholar. She is the only interviewee in The Conversation who has spent a good portion of her life houseless…
00:44:33 |
Thu 12 May 2016
The Conversation - 65 - Rebecca Solnit
Rebecca Solnit is an author, activist, and geographer, among other things. Her books include A Paradise Built in Hell, A Field Guide to Getting Lost, and Men Explain Things to Me. She's also a regula…
00:32:03 |
Mon 02 May 2016
The Conversation - 64 - Peter Gleick
Peter Gleick researches water and water policy at the Pacific Institute. In addition to co-founding the Pacific Institute, Gleick is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, has won a MacArthur …
00:43:32 |
Sat 13 Feb 2016
The Conversation - 63 - Kim Stanley Robinson
Kim Stanley Robinson is one of the biggest names in current science fiction. His most famous work is, arguably, the Mars Trilogy, but he is the author of seventeen novels and several collections of s…
00:59:13 |
Thu 11 Feb 2016
The Conversation - 62 - Rebecca Costa
Rebecca Costa is a self-proclaimed sociobiologist, author of The Watchman's Rattle: A Radical New Theory of Collapse, and host of the radio program The Costa Report.
Throughout The Conversation we h…
00:44:28 |
Fri 05 Feb 2016
The Conversation - 61 - Rainey Reitman
Rainey Reitman is the Activism Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation and a co-founder of both the Freedom of the Press Foundation and Chelsea Manning Support Network. My conversation with Ra…
00:41:40 |
Tue 02 Feb 2016
The Conversation - 60 - George Lakoff
George Lakoff is one of the most influential living linguists. He has revolutionized how we think about metaphor's role in cognition, the grounding of metaphor in the human body, and the metaphorical…
00:59:53 |
Fri 29 Jan 2016
The Conversation - 59 - Charles Hugh Smith
Charles Hugh Smith is an economics writer, former builder, and general renaissance man who blogs at oftwominds.com, a site CNBC ranked as one of their top alternative economics blogs.
We talk about …
00:49:14 |
Thu 28 Jan 2016
The Conversation - 58 - Jason Kelly Johnson
Jason Kelly Johnson is one of the co-founders of Future Cities Lab, an experimental architecture and design firm in San Francisco, CA.
We spoke about cities, buildings, permeability, and nostalgia, …
00:45:21 |
Tue 26 Jan 2016
The Conversation - 57 - Joan Blades
Joan Blades is the co-founder of Living Room Conversations, a movement dedicated to fostering meaningful dialogue between Americans of different political ideologies. In addition to her work with Liv…
00:53:13 |
Wed 04 Jun 2014
The Conversation - 56 - Aengus Anderson and Micah Saul at SXSW
After more than half a year away from The Conversation, Aengus and Micah return with a panel they gave at South by Southwest Interactive. The panel, entitled "A Sheep in Wolf's Clothes: The Myth of D…
Wed 04 Jun 2014
The Conversation - 55 – Ed Finn
Ed Finn is the Director of the Center for Science and the Imagination at Arizona State University. The Center was conceived as a place where people from radically different intellectual backgrounds …
00:54:36 |
Sat 24 Aug 2013
The Conversation - 54 - Charles Bowden
If you've listened to The Conversation for a while, you know there are numerous reasons we invite guests to join the series. Sometimes we are interested in a new idea and its implications, or an old …
00:52:12 |
Sun 28 Jul 2013
The Conversation - 53 - Carlos Perez de Alejo
Carlos Perez de Alejo is a the co-founder and Executive Director of Cooperation Texas, an Austin-based nonprofit that helps organize and raise awareness of worker-owned cooperatives.
Economics has b…
00:38:04 |
Tue 16 Jul 2013
The Conversation - 52 - Walter Block
Libertarian ideas have been a major theme in The Conversation. They were introduced in our second episode by Max More and have since been elaborated upon by David Miller, Robert Zubrin, Tim Cannon, a…
00:47:30 |
Sat 06 Jul 2013
The Conversation - 51 - Phyllis Tickle
Phyllis Tickle founded Publishers Weekly's Religion Department and has written numerous books about modern American Christianity, including "The Great Emergence: How Christianity is Changing and Why.…
00:53:38 |
Tue 28 May 2013
The Conversation - 50 - The Future of The Conversation
We swoop in for our first interstitial episode in six months. Neil has the plague, but Micah and I talk about the future of The Conversation, our perpetual need to raise the project's visibility, and…
00:19:56 |
Fri 17 May 2013
The Conversation - 49 - Scott Douglas
Scott Douglas, III, is the Executive Director of Greater Birmingham Ministries, an interfaith organization in Birmingham, Alabama. GBM provides poverty relief, lobbies to reform Alabama's state cons…
00:47:31 |
Mon 06 May 2013
The Conversation - 48 - Chris Carter
Chris Carter is a self-taught electrical engineer and founder of MASS Collective, a workspace in Atlanta, Georgia that combines hands-on learning, apprenticeship, and traditional education for studen…
00:39:42 |
Thu 18 Apr 2013
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