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Animal Studies
August 18, 2021
Beyond Cages
Animal Law and Criminal Punishment
Justin Marceau
Hosted by
Mark Molloy
For all the diversity of views within the animal protection movement, there is a surprising consensus about the need for more severe criminal justice interventions against animal abusers. More prosecutions …
Animal Studies
May 18, 2021
The Rights of Nature
A Legal Revolution That Could Save the World
David R. Boyd
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Mark Molloy
Palila v Hawaii. New Zealand’s Te Urewera Act. Sierra Club v Disney. These legal phrases hardly sound like the makings of a revolution, but beyond the headlines portending environmental catastrophes …
Animal Studies
May 3, 2021
Metazoa
Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind
Peter Godfrey-Smith
Hosted by
Mark Molloy
Dip below the ocean’s surface and you are soon confronted by forms of life that could not seem more foreign to our own: sea sponges, soft corals, and serpulid worms …
Animal Studies
April 7, 2021
The Doggie in the Window
How One Dog Led Me from the Pet Store to the Factory Farm to Uncover the Truth of Where Puppies Really Come From
Rory Kress
Hosted by
Mark Molloy
When journalist Rory Kress met Izzie, she didn’t think twice before bringing her home. She found the twelve-week-old wheaten terrier in a pet shop and was handed paperwork showing Izzie …
Animal Studies
March 22, 2021
The Reign of Wolf 21
In the Valley of the Druid King
Rick McIntyre
Hosted by
Mark Molloy
Today I talked to Rick McIntyre about the first two books of his ongoing The Alpha Wolves of Yellowstone series. The first book we discuss, The Rise of Wolf 8 …
Animal Studies
March 19, 2021
The Sexual Politics of Meat
A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory
Carol J. Adams
Hosted by
Mark Molloy
Today I talked to Carol J. Adams about two of her classic texts that have recently been republished. The first book we discuss, first published in 1990, is The Sexual …
Animal Studies
February 5, 2021
A Plea for the Animals
The Moral, Philosophical, and Evolutionary Imperative to Treat All Beings with Compassion
Matthieu Ricard
Hosted by
Mark Molloy
Today I talked to Matthieu Ricard about two books. The first is A Plea for the Animals: The Moral, Philosophical, and Evolutionary Imperative to Treat All Beings with Compassion (Shambhala, 2016) It is a …
Animal Studies
December 8, 2020
Thirty Times a Minute
Colleen Plumb
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Mark Molloy
Captive elephants exhibit what biologists refer to as stereotypy, which includes rhythmic rocking, head bobbing, stepping back and forth, and pacing. Colleen Plumb traveled to over seventy zoos in the …
Animal Studies
December 3, 2020
Why Vegan?
Eating Ethically
Peter Singer
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Mark Molloy
Even before the publication of his seminal Animal Liberation in 1975, Peter Singer, one of the greatest moral philosophers of our time, unflinchingly challenged the ethics of eating animals. Now …
Animal Studies
November 27, 2020
Animal Traffic
Lively Capital in the Global Exotic Pet Trade
Rosemary-Claire Collard
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Mark Molloy
Parrots and snakes, wild cats and monkeys---exotic pets can now be found everywhere from skyscraper apartments and fenced suburban backyards to roadside petting zoos. In Animal Traffic: Lively Capital in …
Animal Studies
November 24, 2020
An Unnatural Order
The Roots of Our Destruction of Nature
Jim Mason
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Mark Molloy
First published by Simon & Schuster in 1993 and then by Continuum in 1998, Jim Mason’s An Unnatural Order: The Roots of Our Destruction of Nature has become a classic …
Animal Studies
November 13, 2020
The Lives and Deaths of Shelter Animals
Katja M. Guenther
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Mark Molloy
Monster is an adult pit bull, muscular and grey, who is impounded in a large animal shelter in Los Angeles. Like many other dogs at the shelter, Monster is associated …
Animal Studies
November 3, 2020
The Animals' Agenda
Freedom, Compassion, and Coexistence in the Human Age
Marc Bekoff and Jessica Pierce
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Mark Molloy
A compelling argument that the time has come to use what we know about the fascinating and diverse inner lives of other animals on their behalf. Every day we are …
Animal Studies
October 30, 2020
Animalkind
Remarkable Discoveries about Animals and Revolutionary New Ways to Show Them Compassion
Ingrid Newkirk and Gene Stone
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Mark Molloy
The founder and president of PETA, Ingrid Newkirk, and bestselling author Gene Stone explore the wonders of animal life and offer tools for living more kindly toward them. In the …
Animal Studies
October 13, 2020
A Traitor to His Species
Henry Bergh and the Birth of the Animal Rights Movement
Ernest Freeberg
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Mark Molloy
In Gilded Age America, people and animals lived cheek-by-jowl in environments that were dirty and dangerous to man and animal alike. The industrial city brought suffering, but it also inspired …
Psychology
October 1, 2020
Mama's Last Hug
Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves
Frans de Waal
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Mark Molloy
Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves (W. W. Norton & Company) is a fascinating exploration of the rich emotional lives of animals, beginning with …
Animal Studies
September 30, 2020
The Wake of Crows
Living and Dying in Shared Worlds
Thom van Dooren
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Mark Molloy
Crows can be found almost everywhere that people are, from tropical islands to deserts and arctic forests, from densely populated cities to suburbs and farms. Across these diverse landscapes, many …
Animal Studies
September 17, 2020
Becoming Wild
How Animal Cultures Raise Families, Create Beauty, and Achieve Peace
Carl Safina
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Mark Molloy
Some people insist that culture is strictly a human accomplishment. What are those people afraid of? Becoming Wild: How Animal Cultures Raise Families, Create Beauty, and Achieve Peace (Henry Holt …
Animal Studies
September 14, 2020
Run, Spot, Run
The Ethics of Keeping Pets
Jessica Pierce
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Mark Molloy
A life shared with pets brings many emotions. We feel love for our companions, certainly, and happiness at the thought that we’re providing them with a safe, healthy life. But …
Intellectual History
September 8, 2020
Behemoth
A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World
Joshua B Freeman
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Mark Molloy
In an accessible and timely work of scholarship, celebrated historian Joshua B. Freeman's Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World (W. W. Norton) tells …
Intellectual History
August 28, 2020
The World Philosophy Made
From Plato to the Digital Age
Scott Soames
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Mark Molloy
How has philosophy transformed human knowledge and the world we live in? Philosophical investigation is the root of all human knowledge. Developing new concepts, reinterpreting old truths, and reconceptualizing fundamental …
Intellectual History
August 26, 2020
The Scientific Revolution
Steven Shapin
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Mark Molloy
“There was no such thing as the Scientific Revolution, and this is a book about it.” With this provocative and apparently paradoxical claim, Steven Shapin begins The Scientific Revolution (University …
Intellectual History
August 24, 2020
Calculus Reordered
A History of the Big Ideas
David Bressoud
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Mark Molloy
Calculus Reordered: A History of the Big Ideas (Princeton UP, 2019) takes readers on a remarkable journey through hundreds of years to tell the story of how calculus evolved into …
Intellectual History
August 20, 2020
The Secular Enlightenment
Margaret Jacob
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Mark Molloy
The Secular Enlightenment (Princeton University Press, 2019) is a panoramic account of the radical ways that life began to change for ordinary people in the age of Locke, Voltaire, and …
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