Cited Podcast

Oct 28 2024 29 ep. 52 mins 155
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Experts shape our world. Sometimes for better, sometimes for worse. In every big story, you’ll find one; you’ll find a researcher, scientist, engineer, planner, policy wonk, data nerd, bureaucrat, regulator, intellectual, or pseudo-intellectual. Their ideas are often opaque, unrecognized, and difficult to understand. Some of them like it that way. On Cited, we reveal their hidden stories.

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Episode #2: From Rubinomics to Bidenomics

Oct 28 2024 53 mins  
Clinton's Third Way Democrats moved the party away from the unionized industrial labour that typically made up its base. Today, Clintonism is out, and Bidenomics in. Bidenomics was marketed as a political and theoretical break. Yet, beyond November 5th, Bidenomics might too be out. We look at shifting landscape of economic thinking within the Democratic Party.

Episode #1: Simon Kuznets & the Invention of the Economy

Oct 21 2024 59 mins  
We tell the story of the invention of the modern economy, or at least the idea of the economy. It starts with one measure: the GDP, or gross domestic product. Today, its a measure that dominates our politics. We have Simon Kuznets to thank for that. Yet, for Kuznets, the GDP was not what he hoped it would be.

Episode #7: The (ir)Rational Alaskans (pt. 3 of 3)

Aug 20 2024 67 mins  
In our finale, while the fisherman and fisherwoman of Prince William Sound hope for legal damages stemming from the Exxon Valdez disaster, Exxon fights back. In that fight, they marshal the most-respected psychologist of a generation.

Episode #6: The (ir)Rational Alaskans (pt. 2 of 3)

Aug 13 2024 66 mins  
A jury of ordinary Alaskans picks up the Exxon Valdez story. They muddle through the most devastating, and most complicated, environmental disaster in US history. How would they decide the case?

Episode #5: The (ir)Rational Alaskans (pt. 1 of 3)

Aug 08 2024 59 mins  
After the unprecedented Exxon Valdez oil spill, a jury of ordinary Alaskans decided that Exxon had to be punished. However, Exxon fought back against their punishment. They did so, in-part, by supporting research that suggested jurors are irrational. This first part, an Alaskan Nightmare, covers the spill and its immediate effects.

Episode #4: The (ir)Rational Voters

Jul 22 2024 69 mins  
Early pollsters thought they had the psychological tools to quantify American mind, thereby enabling a truly democratic polity that would be governed by a rational public opinion. Today, we malign the misinformed public and dismiss the deluge of frivolous polls. How did the rational public become the phantom public?

The Hippie High-Rise (Darts Re-Run)

Jul 15 2024 64 mins  
This week, we're taking a little break before continuing our latest season, the Rationality Wars. This week, we're playing one of the our best documentary episodes from the large archive of our previous show, Darts and Letters. The episode called the Hippie High-Rise. For seven years, from 1968 to 1975, one eighteen story high-rise was the heart of Canada's counterculture. Rochda

Episode #3: The (ir)Rational Priests

Jul 08 2024 47 mins  
A group of landholding elites waged psychological warfare on the El Salvadoran people, and oppressed them for generations. When a psychologist and Jesuit priest defended the rationality of the people against their oppressors, he paid the ultimate price.

Episode #2: The (ir)Rational Rainbow

Jul 02 2024 69 mins  
The psychological establishment has long pathologized diverse forms of sexual identity and gender expression. In the mid-century, a brave movement of gays and lesbians fought back and claimed: no, actually, we’re healthy. But in the process, did they define other identities unhealthy?

Episode #1: The (ir)Rational Mob

Jun 24 2024 52 mins  
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 last? This is episode one of Cited’s returning season, the Rationality Wars. This season tells stories of political and scholarly battles to define rationality and irrationality. For a full list of credits, and for the rest of t