ETHICS IN TRUE CRIME: September 2026 podcast playlist
True crime has become a massive cultural phenomenon—but what happens when real people’s trauma, loss, and suffering become entertainment? This playlist explores the ethics of true crime from the perspectives of storytellers, journalists, victims, survivors, and listeners. We’ll consider questions about empathy, exploitation, sensationalism, privacy, and the responsibilities of both creators and consumers. As you listen, think about where you draw the line between telling an important story and turning someone else’s tragedy into entertainment.
ART CRIMES: April 2026 podcast playlist
From graffiti and forged paintings to looted antiquities, stolen comics, and NFT scams, this playlist looks at the many ways visual art can become entangled with money, status, and crime. These episodes travel through street art, galleries, museums, private collections, and digital marketplaces, revealing how value gets assigned, who gets protected, and who gets exploited when images and objects become powerful commodities.
THE 1990s: January 2026 podcast playlist
As a new year begins, it’s a good moment to look back at a decade that quietly set the rules for the one we’re living in now. The 1990s reshaped pop culture, media, economics, and personal life in ways that still feel current—often unexamined, sometimes unresolved. This playlist revisits the ’90s not for nostalgia, but to understand how its ideas, habits, and blind spots carried forward into the present.
OPIOID CRISIS: August 2024 podcast playlist
If you date the start of what we now call the “opioid epidemic” in 2000, more than a million Americans have died of opioid overdoses since then. One result is that many, if not most Americans know someone who has been lost to an overdose, either intentional or accidental. This problem is peculiarly American. While […]
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