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In the menu at the top of our website, under “full archive,” you will find episodes categorized by season. Additionally, you will find links to some highlights from the archive that are longer available on the podcast feed, but are available on our website.
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Front Page, RSS Feed, Season 04: Green Dreams
The Green Lifeboat: Garrett Hardin’s Tragic Environmentalism
More...An ecologist in California claimed that the iron laws of nature locked humanity into destroying our environment. This meant that we must take drastic measures to rein in unfettered capitalism and the American habit of overconsumption, lest we deplete our common resources. That argument made Garrett Hardin one of the most influential and celebrated environmentalists to ever live. Yet, he had a tragic view of the world that turned his green dream into a green nightmare.
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Front Page, RSS Feed, Season 04: Green Dreams
The Green Dragon: China’s Search for Ecological Civilization
More...A former journalist and environmental campaigner named Pan Yue rose through the ranks of the Chinese Communist Party, championing the concept of “ecological civilization.” This green dream combines elements of traditional Chinese culture with eco-Marxism, suggesting a radical reorientation of humanity’s relationship to the natural world. Is the idea a serious alternative to sustainable development, as the CCP claims? Or is it just a cynical cover for eco-authoritarianism?
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Front Page, RSS Feed, Season 04: Green Dreams
Future Ecologies Feedswap: FOREST / GARDEN
More...We’re playing FOREST / GARDEN, the first episode of their fourth season. In the late 1970s, there was a radical environmental movement that rejected the idea that agriculture and biodiversity needed to be at odds. They called their movement permaculture. Permaculture dissolved the dichotomy between the natural and the artificial, or between the forest and the garden. However, its advocates didn’t always honour the roots they were pulling from.
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Front Page, RSS Feed, Season 04: Green Dreams
The (ir)Rational Alaskans, pt. 1 (Re-Run)
More...We’re beginning a mid-season break. If you’re new to Cited, this is a good time to explore our large archive. On this episode, we re-post part one of our award-winning series, the (ir)Rational Alaskans.
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Front Page, RSS Feed, Season 04: Green Dreams
The Green Monkey Wrench: Dave Foreman’s Guide to Ecological Sabotage
More...A cowboy hat-wearing Goldwater conservative named Dave Foreman got religion and then founded the most radical environmental group of recent memory, Earth First! They dreamed of a ‘deep ecology’ that recognized the inherent value of nature, and they committed to protecting that nature at almost any cost. Yet, in putting the earth first, did Dave Foreman relegate humanity to a distant second place?
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Front Page, RSS Feed, Season 04: Green Dreams
The Green Wonks: Our Common Future and the Birth of Liberal Environmentalism
More...An Albertan oil man and a socialist policy wonk from Saskatchewan banded together to think up “eco-development,” a precursor to today’s sustainable development. This unlikely duo forged a global consensus at the United Nations, effectively codifying the reigning orthodoxy of liberal environmental governance. They told us that capitalism and sustainability are indeed compatible. Might that be the most utopian of all green dreams?
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Front Page, RSS Feed, Season 04: Green Dreams
The Green Cosmos: Gerard O’Neill’s Post-Political Space Utopia
More...In the 1970s, Gerard O’Neill drew up detailed plans for large space colonies. The Princeton physicist claimed that these colonies could beam limitless energy back down to Earth, solving all our environmental problems. As climate change accelerates, O’Neill’s once-forgotten green dream has become influential again; many of today’s corporate space evangelists refer to themselves as “Jerry’s Kids.” For solutions to Earth’s problems, should we look to the stars?
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Front Page, RSS Feed, Season 04: Green Dreams
Introducing Green Dreams (Season Trailer)
More...Introducing our new season, Green Dreams. Starting September 9, 2025, with weekly episodes through October.
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RSS Feed, Season 03: The Use & Abuse of Economic Expertise
Episode #4: The Secret Life of Central Bankers
More...Trump scores big wins by taking cheap shots at experts. Now, some worry he could try to oust Fed Chairman Jerome Powell. The typical centrist position is to defend the supposedly impartial, apolitical expertise of such figures. Yet, we know that is not right. Is there a better way to imagine a better bank?
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RSS Feed, Season 03: The Use & Abuse of Economic Expertise
Episode #3: The Disappearance & Return of Inequality Studies
More...For much of the 20th century, few economists studied inequality. Today, it’s one of the most popular topics there is. Why is inequality back? Just as importantly, how could it have possibly disappeared? We survey the intellectual history of inequality studies in economics.
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RSS Feed, Season 03: The Use & Abuse of Economic Expertise
The WEF is Actually Bad, But Not Like That (Darts Re-Run)
More...We’re on break this week as everyone gears up for, and puzzles through, the results of this week’s US election. However, we have an old Darts & Letters episode that is especially relevant to our ongoing season, the Use & Use of Economic Expertise.
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RSS Feed, Season 03: The Use & Abuse of Economic Expertise
Episode #2: From Rubinomics to Bidenomics
More...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.
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RSS Feed, Season 03: The Use & Abuse of Economic Expertise
Episode #1: Simon Kuznets & the Invention of the Economy
More...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.
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RSS Feed, Season 02: The Rationality Wars, The (ir)Rational Alaskans Mini-Series
Episode #7: The (ir)Rational Alaskans (pt. 3 of 3)
More...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.