Jack Russell Weinstein
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​​Why? Philosophical Discussions About Everyday Life
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A radio show and podcast That Respects Your Intelligence

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​Jack Russell Weinstein is the host of Why? Philosophical Discussions About Everyday Life, a monthly philosophy program aimed at general audience, broadcast on Prairie Public radio since 2009. Why? Radio it's simulcast online and distributed as a podcast to audiences in more than 100 countries,

Previous guests include Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen, Humanities Medal Award Winner Kwame Anthony Appiah, Macarthur Fellow Rebecca Goldstein (who also won a Humanities Medal), Pulitzer Prize Winners Tony Kushner and Taylor Branch, National Book Critic’s Circle Award winner, poet Mary Jo Bang, and the bestselling authors Peter Singer, Stephen Pinker, Gloria Steinem, Daniel Goldhagen, Deborah Tannen, Ross King, Carol Gilligan, and James Loewen. Some of the professional philosophers Jack interviewed on the show are: Martha Nussbaum, Charles Taylor, Elizabeth Anderson, Michael Ruse, Miranda Fricker, Michael Walzer, Susan Neiman, Arthur Danto, Virginia Held, George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, Claudia Card, Amelie Rorty, Robert Audi, Tommie Shelby, and Jan Willis.

Why? Radio is consistently the most popular download on Prairie Public. It has been the subject of feature articles in The Chronicle of Higher Education and Humanities Magazine, among others. Visit www.whyradioshow.org for more information and access to the show's free archive.

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Sample Episodes

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"What Does Buddhism
Offer An African-America Woman?"
with guest
​​Jan Willis
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"Are Indian Tribes
Sovereign Nations?"
with guest
​George Tinker
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"Is Free Speech Worth It?"
with guest
​Thane Rosenbaum

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"The Philosophy of Poetry"
with guest
​Mary Jo Bang

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"Why? Goes to China:
Music Without Borders"
with guest
​Noukilla
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Why? Radio is a Partnership Between Prairie Public
and The University of North Dakota's Institute for Philosophy in Public Life

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