I Believe
készítő: Joel K. Douglas
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Pacifica | A Tale of Data Centers, Clean Water, and the Purpose of…
Pacifica | A Tale of Data Centers, Clean Water, and the Purpose of…
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Philosophy from the American Experiment
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- Pacifica | A Tale of Data Centers, Clean Water, and the Purpose of Government · 19 percEvery organization exists for a reason. It has some purpose, something it’s supposed to achieve. And if we can’t measure whether we’re making progress toward that purpose, how do…
- The Geld | Would You Volunteer to Pay Higher Property Taxes? · 15 percAt Christmas in 1085, William the Conqueror had a problem. He’d crossed from Normandy and taken England’s throne nearly twenty years earlier. In 1085, England faced the threat of…
- So Help Me · 17 percSome oppose a woman’s right to choose, citing God’s law. I, too, am a believer. I offer a different perspective. When we brought our firstborn home from the hospital, they…
- Private Jets and Ranch Towns · 8 percSnow covered the pines through the valley, aspens hanging on to their brown, gold, and yellow leaves. Many had already fallen. Cold air and heavy clouds clung to the mountains…
- First Dates and Fifty Years · 18 percWho should pay on the first date? People spend an enormous amount of time arguing about whether the man should pay, whether the bill should be split, or whether one person owes…
- The Pickup Didn’t Fill Itself · 14 percImagine a little girl sitting in a restaurant with her dad. They order lunch. She gets a soda. It’s enormous, like a bucket of coke. The city is worried about obesity, diabetes…
- The Party That Forgot the People · 19 percWe are a month away from the midterm elections, and the American people are poised to hold the party in power accountable. Republicans raised taxes on the American people. They…
- Poverty, Work, and Dependency · 10 percBeautiful October day. I’m walking in the park for some exercise. The leaves on some of the trees have turned yellow, with small flashes of red. There’s a maple tree that has…
- Equal Access, Equal Obligation? · 15 percI was cooking the other day when I thought about a lieutenant I haven’t seen in years. I don’t know why. That happens to me sometimes. A memory will just show up. Nothing in…
- The Forethought of Grief · 12 percEverybody seems to be scared of artificial intelligence. Or maybe the press makes it seem like everybody is scared of artificial intelligence. AI is going to take our jobs. AI is…
- Four Things This Week, From a Bucket of Hops · 21 percHey, this is Joel. I’m sitting next to a pile of flowers in the yard. I spent some time this morning taking hops vines out of our hoop house, and now I’m sitting on a bucket…
- The Flying Officer · 14 percThoughts from the week, in podcast conversation form. Joel: The watch is quiet. Dark. Day and night, you don’t know the difference. Joel: Every twelve hours, you set the clock…
- By Hand · 18 percThe shovel rings. Every year a couple or three fence posts rot along the front lane. Enough moisture gets in the wood and maybe a beetle or two, and the Earth wants to retake…
- Heifers, Water, and Grass · 16 percTaking stairs down two at a time from the giant stone building, music thrumming in her AirPods. She rounds the corner and her pace slows to a walk. The Commuter Express is still…
- The Shortcut Looks Like the Way Home · 22 percCollege girl. Blonde in a bright green shirt holding a clipboard, asking names and questions. Welcoming committee. What’s your major? Chemical engineering. Oh, you’re one of the…
- The Night Shift | The Bottom 50% Own 2.5% of the Wealth of the Country · 24 percMoths circle the streetlights in the mostly empty lot. Blacktop. White parking lines. Road noise. Pickup doors slam shut. They’re supposed to park at the back of the lot. Nobody…
- Dogwoods and Two Grand Lies · 21 percThe dogwoods are blooming along the edge of the great lawn, dark pink and brilliant white. Below the hill, Brush Creek runs slow and clear past the parkway that shares its name…
- A Yoke Built for Two | A Dead Hog, a Shovel, and a Fifteen-Year-Old · 23 percMay in Missouri. Warm, not hot like it will be in July. Humidity in the air, mist at the bottom of the hill hiding the green grass. Bright white gravel under tires. He opens the…
- Return Tomorrow | A Warehouse, a Granddaughter, and a Great Society · 28 percHer eyes open at five twenty-eight. She lifts her head and switches the alarm off before it kicks on at five thirty. She’s up and moving. Chores to do. Coffee, dishwasher…
- What Counts | A Rancher, a Charging Station, and a Twelve-Million-Dollar Letter · 26 percA family, driving north out of Denver. They left before light. Mom’s driving. Yellowstone tomorrow. Lamar Valley and the bison and wolves and trout. Tonight, the Sheridan Inn…
