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About Gordon Katic
Gordon Katic is an award-winning radio producer and journalist with a background in health, science, and climate reporting. He is director of Cited Media Productions, which produced Cited Podcast and CRACKDOWN. Now, Gordon hosts Darts and Letters. When he’s not making podcasts, he’s working on a PhD at the University of Toronto focussed on theorizing a critical theory of science communication. Previously, he earned a Masters in Journalism from the University of British Columbia.
Gordon Katic is an award-winning radio producer and journalist with a background in health, science, and climate reporting. He is director of Cited Media Productions, which produced Cited Podcast and CRACKDOWN. Now, Gordon hosts Darts and Letters. When he’s not making podcasts, he’s working on a PhD at the University of Toronto focussed on theorizing a critical theory of science communication. Previously, he earned a Masters in Journalism from the University of British Columbia.
NBN Episodes hosted by Gordon:
November 13, 2024
The Disappearance and Return of Inequality Studies in Economics
This is episode three Cited Podcast’s new season, the Use & Abuse of Economic Expertise. This season tells stories of the political and scholarly batt…
November 1, 2024
From Rubinomics to Bidenomics
This is episode two Cited Podcast’s new season, the Use & Abuse of Economic Expertise. This season tells stories of the political and scholarly battle…
October 27, 2024
Simon Kuznets and the Invention of the Economy
Economics sometimes feels like a physics–so sturdy, so objective, and so immutable. Yet, behind every clean number or eye-popping graph, there is usua…
August 25, 2024
Damaging Rationality: Exxon-Funded Legal Research and the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
This is part #3 of a the (ir)Rational Alaskans, a Cited Podcast mini-series that re-examines the legacy of the Exxon Valdez oil spill. In the last e…
August 16, 2024
12 Angry Alaskans: Re-Examining the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Case
This is part #2 of a the (ir)Rational Alaskans, a Cited Podcast series that re-examines the legacy of the Exxon Valdez oil spill. Last episode, the s…
August 9, 2024
Daniel Kahneman’s Forgotten Legacy: Investigating Exxon-Funded Psychological Research
After the unprecedented Exxon Valdez oil spill, a jury of ordinary Alaskans decided that Exxon had to be punished. However, Exxon fought back against …
July 24, 2024
Quantifying the American Mind: George Gallup, and the Promise of Political Polling
Early pollsters thought they had the psychological tools to quantify American mind, thereby enabling a truly democratic polity that would be governed …
July 11, 2024
The (ir)Rational Priests: On Ignacio Martín-Baró and Liberation Psychology
A group of landholding elites waged psychological warfare on the El Salvadoran people, and oppressed them for generations. When a psychologist and Jes…
July 6, 2024
The (ir)Rational Rainbow (the DSM & the Fight to Depathologize Homosexuality)
The psychological establishment has long pathologized diverse forms of sexual identity and gender expression. In the mid-century, a brave movement of …
June 29, 2024
The (ir)Rational Mob: On the Life and Legacy of Gustave Le Bon
Every protest movement has been dismissed as a mere ‘mindless mob,’ caught in a psychological frenzy. Where did this idea come from, and why does it l…
October 22, 2023
The Radical Imagination in Reactionary Times
Professors Alex Khasnabish and Max Haiven are authors of a book called The Radical Imagination: Social Movement Research in the Age of Austerity (Bloo…
October 11, 2023
Mutual Aid and the Anarchist Radical Imagination
This episode of Darts and Letters examines the theory and practice of anti-statist organizing. There’s a story you can tell about the post-Occupy lef…
September 1, 2023
The Past and Present of Psychedelic Medicine
Psychedelics have gone from the counterculture, to the mainstream. However, can you turn take such an ineffable thing — a tool for personal revelation…
July 28, 2023
The WEF is Actually Bad, But Not Like That
The World Economic Forum has become the bugbear of the right-wing in Canada, and beyond. Conspiracies swirl about how this shadowy, globalist cabal wa…
May 17, 2023
Misinformed
The COVID-19 lab leak theory went from being dismissed as mere misinformation, to now a credible matter of debate amongst media, scientific, and intel…
May 14, 2023
The Politics of "Misinformation"
Gordon Katic is in conversation with Nicole M. Krause. She is a PhD candidate focussing on science communication, looks at conceptual problems in the …
April 12, 2023
Hearts of Men
Online masculinity is getting weirder and weirder. We’re way past mere misogyny and sexual predation (though, that’s still certainly there). Now, we’v…
February 1, 2023
Discordia Revisited
20 years ago at Concordia University in Montreal pro-Palestinian protestors clashed with police over whether Benjamin Netanyahu should be allowed to s…
December 26, 2022
"Medical Assistance in Dying" (MAID)
Is medical assistance in dying, or MAID letting the government off the hook from providing what they should be providing? Should we respect people's c…
November 30, 2022
Mathematical Morality
How can billionaires justify the endless accumulation of wealth? Effective altruism. An almost religious philosophical belief. Sam Bankman-Fried, the …
November 16, 2022
Science Against the People
It’s difficult to criticise science from the left. Right-wingers attack science and liberals defend it. Science for the People is a radical movement…
October 31, 2022
Darts Transit Commission
Paris Marx is one of the sharpest modern writers on Silicon Valley and transit. We have been talking a lot lately about the idea of techno-utopian thi…
October 19, 2022
Technocracy Now! Part 3
The first two episodes of this series told stories of technocrats who tied themselves to a muscular state. They believed the state could remake societ…
October 10, 2022
Technocracy Now! Part 2
On part #2 of Technocracy Now, we tell stories of cybernetic technocracies. First, we hear the story of Charles A. McClelland, a liberal political sc…