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356 - UNLOCKED - Things Fell Apart: A Conversation with Jon Ronson

The Fifth Column

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The Importance of Empathy in American History

The Scopes Monkey Trial was a big trial about teaching evolution in schools. The amount of mockery they got just from the New York Times and so on made them withdrawn for 50 years. Alice Moore, this 80 year old lady in West Virginia, church minister's wife, is one of the instigators of the modern culture.

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