Distrust in Institutions: Past, Present, and Future – Episode 76 – The Oxford Comment

September 27, 2022The Oxford Comment2016 election, 2020 election, brian levack, conspiracy theories, covid-19, death of expertise, distrust, distrust in institutions, donald trump, january 6, our own worst enemy, robert faris, The Oxford Comment, tom nicholsoxfordacademic

Research shows that American distrust in government, scientists, and media has reached new heights, and this distrust in institutions is reflected in much of the world.

In his play, Orestes, Euripides opines, “When one with honeyed words but evil mind persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.” Might we still overcome this onslaught of misinformation and preserve our trust in the very institutions that have governed and enriched us, in some form or another, for centuries?

On today’s episode of The Oxford Comment, we spoke with Brian Levack, author of “Distrust of Institutions in Early Modern Britain and America”, Robert Faris, co-author of “Network Propaganda: Manipulation, Disinformation, and Radicalization in American Politics”, and Tom Nichols, author of “Our Own Worst Enemy: The Assault from within on Modern Democracy” and “The Death of Expertise: The Campaign against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters”, to discuss the past, present, and future of institutional distrust, with a particular focus on the contentious 2016 and 2020 US presidential elections.

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Learn more about Tom Nichols and “Our Own Worst Enemy” and “The Death of Expertise” here: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/our-own-worst-enemy-9780197518878 and here: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-death-of-expertise-9780190865979

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Research shows that American distrust in government, scientists, and media has reached new heights, and this distrust in institutions is reflected in much of the world.

The Oxford Comment Crew:
Executive Producer: Steven Filippi
Associate Producers: Meghan Schaffer, Rachel Havard, Erin Cox
Host: Meghan Schaffer

Music: Filaments by Podington Bear is licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License.

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The Need for Affordable and Clean Energy – Episode 75 – The Oxford Comment

August 30, 2022The Oxford Commentclimate change, energy policy, environmentalism, fossil fuels, geothermal energy, martin pasqualetti, nonrenewable energy, nuclear energy, oil drilling, paul meier, renewable energy, solar energy, the changing energy mix, The Oxford Comment, the thread of energy, wind energyoxfordacademic

High gas prices. Nuclear reactors closed forever. The growth of the electric car industry. Record-breaking temperatures, and Europe’s Dependence on Russian Natural Gas. There has been no shortage in energy-related news stories this summer, and we know that they are not going to go away any time soon.

On today’s episode of The Oxford Comment, we spoke with Martin J. Pasqualetti, Professor of Geography at Arizona State University and author of The Thread of Energy, and Paul F. Meier, an independent clean fuels consultant and author of The Changing Energy Mix: A Systematic Comparison of Renewable and Nonrenewable Energy, on the need for affordable and clean energy (which is one of the UN’s sustainable development goals), the history of energy in the United States, and the dire implications of not changing our energy habits.

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Learn more about Paul F. Meier and The Changing Energy Mix here: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-changing-energy-mix-9780190098391

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Equity in Health Care – Episode 74 – The Oxford Comment

July 26, 2022The Oxford Commentaccess to health care, discrimination in health care, don dizon, equity, equity in health care, health care, health equity, john rohde, medical care, oncology, The Oxford Commentoxfordacademic

There are many factors that affect our ability to be healthy and we unfortunately do not all have the same access to care. Barriers can be related to cost, discrimination, location, sexual orientation, and gender identity – to name just a few.

On today’s episode of The Oxford Comment, we complement Oxford Academic’s extensive “Health Equity” collection of journal articles, book excerpts, and online resources by speaking with two medical experts, Dr. Jon Rohde, formerly of the South Africa EQUITY project, and Dr. Don Dizon, Director of the Pelvic Malignancies Program at Lifespan Cancer Institute, Head of Community Outreach and Engagement at The Cancer Center at Brown University, and Director of Medical Oncology at Rhode Island Hospital. In addition to caring for patients, they have each dedicated their careers to addressing inequity in public health.

Learn more about Oxford Academic’s “Health Equity” collection here: https://academic.oup.com/journals/pages/health-equity
Learn more about Jon Rohde here: https://oxfordre.com/publichealth/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190632366.001.0001/acrefore-9780190632366-e-446
Learn more about Don S. Dizon and The Oncolgogist here: https://academic.oup.com/oncolo/pages/dizon-blog

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Hong Kong 2022: One Country, Two Systems? – Episode 73 – The Oxford Comment

June 28, 2022The Oxford Commentccp, hong kong, hong kong handover, hong kong protests, jeff wasserstrom, modern china, The Oxford Comment, tim ruhligoxfordacademic

The first of July 2022 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the handover of Hong Kong from Britain to China. It also marks the halfway point of a fifty-year agreement between China and Hong Kong that established the “one country, two systems,” rule – a system designed to allow Hong Kong to “enjoy a high degree of autonomy, except in foreign and defence affairs” while still remaining a Special Administrative Region of China. What have these twenty-five years signified for Hong Kongers and the wider world?

On today’s episode of The Oxford Comment, we welcome two leading experts in Chinese history and foreign policy, Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, the editor of The Oxford History of Modern China and Dr. Tim Nicholas Rühlig, author of China’s Foreign Policy Contradictions: Lessons from China’s R2P, Hong Kong, and WTO Policy, to explore the history, handover, and future of Hong Kong.

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Abolitionism – The Very Short Introductions Podcast – Episode 52

June 9, 2022The Very Short Introductions Podcastabolition, abolitionism, american civil war, american slavery, frederick douglass, juneteenth, richard s newman, the very short introductions podcastoxfordacademic

In this episode, Richard Newman introduces abolitionism, a global human rights movement during the 18th and 19th centuries aimed at ending slavery in the Atlantic world.

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Richard S. Newman is Professor of History at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He is the author of The Transformation of American Abolitionism, Freedom’s Prophet: Bishop Richard Allen, the AME Church, and the Black Founding Fathers, and Love Canal: A Toxic History from Colonial Times to the Present.

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