# national issues (audio feeds) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover national issues. Page: Feed: --- ## [The Moment of Decision](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/41450) _2026-07-20 · UC Berkeley (Audio)_ What is a decision, and why does decision-making matter in politics, history, war, and public life? This panel examines how decisions differ from choices, when decisions become political, and how theories of rational choice, game theory, cognitive bias, neuroscience, and emotion shape our understanding of judgment. They explore how constitutional, legal, cultural, and social frameworks influence… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/mp3/41450.mp3) ## [The Moment of Decision](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/41450) _2026-07-20 · Public Affairs (Audio)_ What is a decision, and why does decision-making matter in politics, history, war, and public life? This panel examines how decisions differ from choices, when decisions become political, and how theories of rational choice, game theory, cognitive bias, neuroscience, and emotion shape our understanding of judgment. They explore how constitutional, legal, cultural, and social frameworks influence… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/mp3/41450.mp3) ## [The Decision in History](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/41449) _2026-07-18 · UC Berkeley (Audio)_ Decision-making in history affects how societies understand power, responsibility, and change. Sir Christopher Clark, Regius Professor of History at the University of Cambridge, explains how narratives turn moments of decision into markers of sovereignty and political action. Clark examines real and ostensible decisions, deterministic political environments, and modern pressures from democracy,… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/mp3/41449.mp3) ## [The Decision in History](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/41449) _2026-07-18 · Public Affairs (Audio)_ Decision-making in history affects how societies understand power, responsibility, and change. Sir Christopher Clark, Regius Professor of History at the University of Cambridge, explains how narratives turn moments of decision into markers of sovereignty and political action. Clark examines real and ostensible decisions, deterministic political environments, and modern pressures from democracy,… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/mp3/41449.mp3) ## [What is a Decision?](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/41448) _2026-07-17 · UC Berkeley (Audio)_ Political decision-making affects governments and societies in important ways. Sir Christopher Clark, Regius Professor of History at the University of Cambridge, explains how choices become decisions within political, legal, and cultural systems. Clark examines rational choice theory, cognitive bias, and decisions about war, helping clarify how power acts under pressure. This work helps explain… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/mp3/41448.mp3) ## [What is a Decision?](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/41448) _2026-07-17 · Public Affairs (Audio)_ Political decision-making affects governments and societies in important ways. Sir Christopher Clark, Regius Professor of History at the University of Cambridge, explains how choices become decisions within political, legal, and cultural systems. Clark examines rational choice theory, cognitive bias, and decisions about war, helping clarify how power acts under pressure. This work helps explain… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/mp3/41448.mp3) ## [The 2000-Year History of Rome and Its Lessons Today](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/41602) _2026-07-01 · Public Affairs (Audio)_ Rome survived for 2,000 years. Edward Watts explores the long history of the Roman state and the lessons it offers for the modern world. From its beginnings as a small Italian city-state to its transformation into a Christian empire centered in Constantinople, Rome maintained a remarkable sense of political continuity across centuries of cultural and religious change. Watts examines how Roman… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/mp3/41602.mp3) ## [How to Not Know with Simone Stolzoff](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/41267) _2026-06-23 · Public Affairs (Audio)_ In an age obsessed with expertise, certainty, and endless self-optimization, author and journalist Simone Stolzoff invites audiences to rediscover the power of curiosity, humility, and not having all the answers. His new book, How to Not Know, challenges the cultural pressure to define ourselves by what we do or what we know—and instead celebrates the richness of uncertainty as a pathway to… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/mp3/41267.mp3) ## [The Constitutional Right to Transition: Reconstruction and the Political History of Transphobia](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/41447) _2026-05-15 · UC Berkeley (Audio)_ Award-winning historian Jules Gill-Peterson examines transgender identity and politics through the lens of American liberalism, arguing that anti-transgender politics cannot be understood by analyzing conservatism alone. She traces the emergence of transgender identity from middle-class cross-dressing cultures, the development of transgender medicine, and the class tensions surrounding transition.… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/mp3/41447.mp3) ## [Is This Your Only Life?](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/41446) _2026-04-17 · UC Berkeley (Audio)_ Embodiment affects how we understand personhood, moral status, and whether this life is our only life. Mark Johnston, Henry Putnam University Professor, Princeton University, explains how competing theories of mind and matter shape the question of whether a will could have an embodiment other than its present one. Johnston examines the failures of functionalism, reductive and non-reductive… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/mp3/41446.mp3) ## [Trade Smarter With IBKR (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/4HRbJUh8O8Am) _2026-04-17 · **Sponsored**_ Join Interactive Brokers through a referral and access low-cost global trading. ## [A Conversation with Judy Woodruff - Writer's Symposium By the Sea 2026](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/41203) _2026-03-30 · Public Affairs (Audio)_ Widely regarded as one of the most respected figures in American broadcast journalism, Judy Woodruff is known for her decades-long career covering politics and current events. She is also the author of the book, This Is Judy Woodruff at the White House. Renowned for her calm, balanced reporting and commitment to journalistic integrity, Woodruff has covered every U.S. presidential election since… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/mp3/41203.mp3) ## [Three Ages and Three Intelligences: Exploit Explore Empower with Alison Gopnik](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/41068) _2026-02-18 · UC Berkeley (Audio)_ A common model of AI suggests that there is a single measure of intelligence, often called AGI, and that AI systems are agents who can possess more or less of this intelligence. Cognitive science, in contrast, suggests that there are multiple forms of intelligence and that these intelligences trade-off against each other and have a distinctive developmental profile and evolutionary history.… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/mp3/41068.mp3) ## [It’s Not So Simple: An Examination of How the Internal Revenue Code Fails to Contemplate the Economic Realities of Individuals with Disabilities and Their Families](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/41178) _2026-02-16 · Public Affairs (Audio)_ Families with disabled students often face extra out-of-pocket costs—costs they wouldn’t have if their child weren’t disabled—to secure the same education other students receive for free, yet tax relief for those expenses is limited and unclear. Garret Hoff, J.D., argues that Internal Revenue Code Section 213 and its interpretations reflect a time when disabled people were not viewed as worth… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/mp3/41178.mp3) ## [Can a Liberal Polity Survive the Politics of Grievance?](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/41069) _2026-02-11 · UC Berkeley (Audio)_ Contemporary populism is almost everywhere; a right wing phenomena that focuses on a politics of white working class grievance. A set of grievances that are to be addressed, when in power, with policies of expulsion, exclusion, and domination. Attempts by liberal states to deal with such movements paradoxically rely on a similar politics of exclusion, such as building so-called firewalls against… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/mp3/41069.mp3) ## [Water Wealth and the Ancestral Circular Economy with Kamanamaikalani Beamer](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/41295) _2026-02-04 · Public Affairs (Audio)_ The extractive linear economy and policies focused on endless growth have produced unparalleled socioeconomic inequality and the climate crisis. Communities around the world are calling for new economic models that are regenerative towards people, place, and ecosystems. Ancestral ʻŌiwi (indigenous Hawaiian) economic systems were built around people's relationships and understandings of wai… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/mp3/41295.mp3) ## [The Squiggly Line with Katelyn Jetelina](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/41067) _2026-01-03 · UC Berkeley (Audio)_ How do you navigate a nonlinear, “squiggly line” career in science and public health? Dr. Katelyn Jetelina, an epidemiologist and scientific communicator, explores challenges of science communication within academia—from cultural resistance to misaligned incentives—and why so much vital research never reaches the public. Joined by Dr. John Schwartzberg, Professor Emeritus, School of Public Health,… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/mp3/41067.mp3) ## [The Soul – Spirit is My Altar with Marta Moreno Vega](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/40425) _2025-12-20 · UC Berkeley (Audio)_ Espiritismo traces its roots to the sacred knowledge of West and Central African peoples carried into the Americas by enslaved ancestors between the 15th and 19th centuries. Marta Moreno Vega, Ph.D., scholar and co-founder of Corredor Afro, explores how these traditions—sustained in Cuba, Haiti, Brazil, Puerto Rico, other Caribbean islands, and U.S. urban centers—function as systems of memory,… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/mp3/40425.mp3) ## [Public Health: How to Make the Invisible Visible with Katelyn Jetelina](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/41066) _2025-12-15 · UC Berkeley (Audio)_ Public health often works behind the scenes—preventing illness, protecting communities, and generating research that too often stays hidden behind paywalls. In a world of eroding trust and rising falsehoods, Dr. Katelyn Jetelina, an epidemiologist and scientific communicator, explores how we can make the value of public health visible: by telling better stories with data, making science more… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/mp3/41066.mp3) ## [Evolution and Animal Minds with Peter Godfrey-Smith](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/41065) _2025-12-06 · UC Berkeley (Audio)_ Peter Godfrey-Smith, Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Sydney, explores the evolutionary roots of consciousness by surveying animal evolution and the emergence of felt experience in several lineages. He examines two central philosophical questions: how such experience might arise gradually, existing in partial forms, and whether it represents a single unified… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/mp3/41065.mp3) ## [The Times of Possibility](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/40431) _2025-08-05 · UC Berkeley (Audio)_ Legal scholar Annabel Brett explores the idea of “moral possibility”—the boundary between what laws demand and what people can realistically or ethically be expected to do. Drawing from early modern thinkers like Aquinas, Suarez, and Hobbes, Brett shows how moral impossibility has long shaped debates about legal obligation, resistance, and political agency. Commentators Melissa Lane and David… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/mp3/40431.mp3) ## [Chovy's Blog: Agentic Coding (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/qewNvoe45Tld) _2025-08-05 · **Sponsored**_ Personal posts on agentic coding, moshcode CLI, and security findings. ## [Times of Change: Possibility Virtue and a Democratic Politics of Time](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/40430) _2025-08-02 · UC Berkeley (Audio)_ Political theorist Annabel Brett of Cambridge University explores how the concept of “moral possibility” shapes law, politics, and public obligation. She explains that laws must be realistic for people to follow—what is morally possible varies by individual, culture, time, and circumstance. Drawing on early modern Catholic legal theory, Brett discusses how extreme demands (like enduring war or… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/mp3/40430.mp3) ## [Seas the Day: A New Narrative for the Ocean](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/40427) _2025-07-15 · UC Berkeley (Audio)_ It's time for a new narrative for the ocean, one that reflects current scientific knowledge and acknowledges innovative new partnerships and solutions that center the ocean in our future. In this program, Jane Lubchenco, Professor of Marine Biology at Oregon State University and with expertise in the ocean, climate change, and interactions between the environment and human well-being, talks about… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/mp3/40427.mp3) ## [Science in the White House: Integrating Solutions to the Triple Crises of Climate Change Loss of Biodiversity and Inequality/Inequity](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/40426) _2025-07-09 · UC Berkeley (Audio)_ Three major global challenges – climate change, loss of biodiversity and its benefits, and inequality and inequity among people – are typically tackled within three separate silos. However, scientific knowledge tells us that the three are inextricably linked. If the problems are not considered together, solutions to one may undermine solutions to the others. Moreover, more holistic, integrated… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/mp3/40426.mp3) ## [Subjects and Citizens: The Possibility Condition Law and Democracy](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/40429) _2025-07-05 · UC Berkeley (Audio)_ There's a powerful idea in the history of European legal and political thought: that laws must be possible for people to follow. Annabel Brett, professor of Political Thought and History at Cambridge University, describes how from ancient times through the Renaissance, thinkers believed that demanding the impossible—whether physically or psychologically—was a hallmark of tyranny. A classic example… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/mp3/40429.mp3) ## [The Moral Economy of Resource Extraction and the Future of Industrialization](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/40428) _2025-06-10 · UC Berkeley (Audio)_ The "energy transition" is actually a shift from relying on fossil fuels (like coal, oil, and gas) to using metals to generate energy. However, extracting metals has always been a significant environmental and political issue, especially for cities. This problem has been around for centuries, even ancient Roman writers wrote about it. In this program, Helen Thompson, Professor of Political Economy… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/mp3/40428.mp3) ## [Forging a New Political System 2024 and Beyond](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/40424) _2025-04-07 · UC Berkeley (Audio)_ Historian and political commentator Heather Cox Richardson joins UC Berkeley professor of law and history Dylan Penningroth in a timely conversation about the reshaping of the United States’ two major political parties. A professor of 19th century American history at Boston College, Richardson provides an incisive perspective on current politics to the more than three million readers of her… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/mp3/40424.mp3) ## [The Arc of Energy Justice: A Pursuit to Ensure Affordable Reliable and Clean Energy for All](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/40223) _2025-02-17 · UC Berkeley (Audio)_ We are at a critical moment in our society. While we advance efforts to mitigate and adapt to the climate crisis, across the globe, millions are experiencing issues of energy affordability, reliability and equitable access to modern energy technologies. In this program, Tony Reames, Professor of Environmental Justice at the University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability, explores… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/mp3/40223.mp3) ## [Do Cash Transfers Save Lives?](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/40309) _2025-01-27 · UC Berkeley (Audio)_ Does giving cash up front improve the health and wellbeing of people in poor communities? In this program, Edward (Ted) Miguel, professor of economics and co-director of the Center for Effective Global Action at UC Berkeley, talks about his work in Kenya on the impact of cash transfers on infant mortality, leveraging a unique large-scale census of local households’ birth histories. The findings… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/mp3/40309.mp3) ## [The Search for Paradise](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/40222) _2024-12-02 · UC Berkeley (Audio)_ This program explores the decolonizing potential of Indian aesthetic-social philosophy by challenging two entrenched colonial prejudices: the supposed radical dissimilarity and inferiority of pre-modern Indian traditions compared to modern social theory. Through an analysis of the Upanishads and Vaisnava theology and poetry, Sudipta Kaviraj, professor of Indian Politics and Intellectual History at… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/mp3/40222.mp3) ## [Character and Agency](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/40221) _2024-11-23 · UC Berkeley (Audio)_ What defines a person’s character, and how does it shape who they are? In this lecture, Susan Wolf, emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of North Carolina, challenges traditional ideas about character. She argues that character is more than just a set of traits or values an individual endorses—it can include aspects of ourselves we may not even recognize or approve of. Wolf explores… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/mp3/40221.mp3) ## [Persona-led AI publishing (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/wZpw8iOMb8jD) _2024-11-23 · **Sponsored**_ Generate drafts, schedule subdomain publishing, and keep human review where needed. ## [The Deadly Trade in Oil and Gas](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/40220) _2024-11-15 · UC Berkeley (Audio)_ Oil and gas are the most traded commodities on the planet; they are also the chief causes of the most grievous harm our species has yet faced, the burgeoning climate crisis. Bill McKibben is the Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College and a founder of Third Act, which organizes people over the age of 60 to work on climate and racial justice. He examines how the export of hydrocarbons,… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/mp3/40220.mp3) ## [The Future of American Democracy: The 2024 Election and Beyond](https://www.uctv.tv/shows/40302) _2024-11-01 · UC Berkeley (Audio)_ As voters prepare to head to the polls on Election Day, join the Goldman School of Public Policy and Cal Performances for a critical look at the moment we’re in, the issues that have shaped and led us to this year’s tumultuous election, and the future of American democracy. UC Berkeley experts from former presidential administrations—Janet Napolitano, former Secretary of Homeland Security under… [Listen](https://podcast.uctv.tv/mp3/40302.mp3)