Humankind on Public Radio

Humankind on Public Radio


Latest Episodes

Room to Read
February 13, 2025

After John Wood trekked through Nepal and saw under-educated children, he quit his job as a Microsoft executive and founded Room to Read, a nonprofit that went on to establish over 16,000 libraries ai

The Green Economy
February 06, 2025

As environmental visionaries see it, the future of energy is not in greenhouse gas-emitting fuels like oil and coalwhose supply is running outbut in sustainable, non-global warming sources like wind

Waking Up In Jail
January 30, 2025

Nearly half of criminals released from prison are arrested again within three years. Through that revolving door, they return to a correctional system that is often overcrowded and ridden with violenc

The Lost Cause, Pt2
January 23, 2025

We learn how the Reconstruction amendments to the US Constitution, which briefly protected the rights of the freed people, were undone in the following years by the spread of Jim Crow segergation, as

The Lost Cause, Pt1
January 20, 2025

Are we still living with the racial divide left over from the Civil War? Has it resurfaced today in the rise of white nationalism, election denial and the surge of anti-immigrant sentiment? To see add

Bob Massie’s Survival Story
January 16, 2025

The remarkable survival story of Bob Massie, an Episcopal minister who somehow walked through one life-threatening illness after another, and whose many challenges deepened his appreciation for lifea

Karen Armstrong
January 09, 2025

British religious historian and best-selling author Karen Armstrong explains why she thinks the West gets it wrong about Islam, and she discusses the Charter of Compassion campaign that she launched w

Reversal of Fortune
January 02, 2025

Having lost almost everything in the Madoff scam, best-selling author John Robbins tells how, in an age of less, he had to step back, reassess whats important and build a new, more fulfilling life.

Julie Goschalk
December 26, 2024

How the daughter of two holocaust survivors ventured into formal dialogues with children of Nazi-era Germans and what they learned from each other in a new era. To see additional resources and our oth

Hospitality
December 19, 2024

The stress of having a seriously ill loved one being treated in a hospital in a strange city is lessened by a compassionate army of volunteers in Boston who open their homes to provide lodging and a s