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About Meghan Cochran
Humans make decisions based on a broad and variable set of explicit and implicit beliefs. I study what people believe, where those ideas come from, and how people act upon their beliefs. My professional background is in product management, working primarily in consumer technology. I am a current student of theology at the San Francisco Theological Seminary. Previously, I studied literature at Bard College and NYU, and business administration at Harvard Business School.NBN Episodes hosted by Meghan:
June 15, 2025
Sandwiches of History: The Cookbook
Barry Enderwick has been making, eating, and sharing historical sandwiches for years on social media @sandwichesofhistory and recently in live shows. …
April 24, 2025
The End of the Schism
Reconciliation between Europe's Protestants and Catholics led to a new era of Christian collaboration. Why did these erstwhile foes end their schism…
April 9, 2025
The Corporation in the Twenty-First Century
John Kay's The Corporation in the 21st Century: Why (Almost) Everything We Are Told about Business Is Wrong (Yale UP, 2025) is an accessible and enter…
March 17, 2025
Decision Leadership
The word Leader often brings to mind the heroic image of a charismatic, confident, and persuasive person who seems to "know" what to do in an instinct…
February 12, 2025
The Licensing Racket
When we think about "red tape" and the cost of regulation it's hard to overstate the impact of professional licensing. According to Professor Rebecca …
December 30, 2024
Managing Priorities
The key to a life well-lived is prioritization, but people rarely explain how to do it effectively. In Managing Priorities: How to Create Better Pl…
December 29, 2024
The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective
In The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective (Yale UP, 2024), Sara Lodge tells stories of women who brought 19th century criminals to just…
December 11, 2024
The Illustrated Cairo Genizah
Starting nearly a thousand years ago at the Ben Ezra Synagogue of Old Cairo, worn-out books and scrolls were put in the genizah, a storage area for sa…
November 28, 2024
Immigration and Apocalypse
The metaphor of New Jerusalem has long been used to justify dueling narratives of America as the land of freedom with open gates and the walled city c…
October 30, 2024
Tech Agnostic
Technology has surpassed religion as the central focus of our lives, from our dependence on smartphones to the way that tech has infused almost every …
October 29, 2024
Floor Rules
Are financial markets lawless and irrational? It may seem that way from the outside, but for market insiders there are multiples sets of rules that th…
October 1, 2024
Dollars and Dominion
There was nothing inevitable or natural about the rise of US finance capitalism in the early twentieth century. In Dollars and Dominion: US Bankers …
October 1, 2024
American Heretics
A question has long hung over the the United States regarding the proper role of religion in public life. Those who long for a Christian America claim…
September 17, 2024
Religion As Make-Believe
It is an intuitive truth that religious beliefs are different from ordinary factual beliefs. We understand that a belief in God or the sacredness of s…
September 10, 2024
The Privateers
School vouchers are often framed as a way to help students and families by providing choice, but evidence shows that vouchers have a negative impact o…
September 3, 2024
Against Constitutional Originalism
The legal theory of constitutional originalism has attracted increasing attention in recent years as the US Supreme Court has tilted with the weight o…
August 6, 2024
Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand is a provocative and polarizing figure. Strongly pro-capitalist and anti-communist, Rand was a dogmatic preacher of her moral philosophy. Bas…
July 29, 2024
The Profit Paradox
It is a truth universally acknowledged that as a society we want successful, profitable companies because, as Jan Eeckhout says in The Profit Paradox:…
July 3, 2024
Growth
Daniel Susskind examines the brief and powerful history of economic growth and puts it into perspective with human prosperity in Growth: A History and…
June 27, 2024
Denmark Vesey's Bible
In Denmark Vesey's Bible: The Thwarted Revolt that Put Slavery and Scripture on Trial (Princeton UP, 2022), Dr. Jeremy Schipper tells the story of a f…
June 16, 2024
They Flew
In the early modern era, seemingly impossible stories of levitation, bilocation, and witchcraft were common and believable. The important question of …
June 7, 2024
From Dust They Came
From Dust They Came: Government Camps and the Religion of Reform in New Deal California (NYU Press, 2023) tells the story of the federal government’s …
June 1, 2024
The Lailashi Codex
From a remote mountain village in the Caucasian mountains of Georgia came the most surprising discovery since the Dead Sea Scrolls: a rare, beautiful,…
May 29, 2024
How to Make a Killing: Blood, Death and Dollars in American Medicine
Dialysis is a medical miracle, a treatment that allows people with kidney failure to live when otherwise they would die. It also provides a captive cu…