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Cited Podcast Cited Media
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4.8 • 91 Ratings
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In every big story, you’ll find one; you’ll find a researcher, scientist, engineer, planner, policy wonk, data nerd, bureaucrat, regulator, intellectual, or pseudo-intellectual. Their ideas are often opaque, unrecognized, and difficult to understand. Some of them like it that way. On Cited, we reveal their hidden stories.
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The (ir)Rational Voters
Early pollsters thought they had the psychological tools to quantify American mind, thereby enabling a truly democratic polity that would be governed by a rational public opinion. Today, we malign the misinformed public and dismiss the deluge of frivolous polls. How did the rational public become the phantom public?
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The Hippie High-Rise (Darts Re-Run)
This week, we're taking a little break before continuing our latest season, the Rationality Wars. This week, we're playing one of the our best documentary episodes from the large archive of our previous show, Darts and Letters. The episode called the Hippie High-Rise.
For seven years, from 1968 to 1975, one eighteen story high-rise was the heart of Canada's counterculture. Rochdale College in Toronto, ON, was jammed full with leftist organizers, hippies, draft dodgers, students, artists, and others just looking for a good time.
Although, Rochdale wasn't really a "college." It was something much bigger: a political, educational, communal, artistic, and psychedelic experiment. During its time, it was endlessly lambasted by conservatives and leftists alike--until it reached its inglorious end. Today, like much of the counterculture, it's often remembered for its problems: its ideological contradictions, drug-addled hedonism, bourgeois individualism, sexism, suicide, and more. However, is that the whole story? Were the kids in the hippie highrise onto something, ...or was it indeed just one giant waste of time? Marc Apollonio investigates. -
The (ir)Rational Priests
A group of landholding elites waged psychological warfare on the El Salvadoran people, and oppressed them for generations. When a psychologist and Jesuit priest defended the rationality of the people against their oppressors, he paid the ultimate price.
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The (ir)Rational Rainbow
The psychological establishment has long pathologized diverse forms of sexual identity and gender expression. In the mid-century, a brave movement of gays and lesbians fought back and claimed: no, actually, we’re healthy. But in the process, did they define other identities unhealthy?
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The (ir)Rational Mob
Every protest movement has been dismissed as a mere ‘mindless mob,’ caught in a psychological frenzy. Where did this idea come from, and why does it last?
This is episode one of Cited’s returning season, the Rationality Wars. This season tells stories of political and scholarly battles to define rationality and irrationality. For a full list of credits, and for the rest of the episodes, visit the series page. You can also hear a trailer of next week's episode, the (ir)Rational Rainbow, on our website. -
Introducing: The Rationality Wars (Season Trailer)
The Rationality Wars tells stories about the political and intellectual battles to define rationality and irrationality. Behind every definition of rationality, somebody benefits, and somebody is harmed. We ask: what does it mean to be rational?; what does it mean to be irrational?; and most of all, who gets to decide? Episodes run weekly starting June 24th, throughout July and into August.
Customer Reviews
Fascinating documentaries with great takes
So glad this show is back! I really missed it in my feed. Humanizing, behind-the-scenes looks about science/history/academics.
Always Amazed
Gordon and the team always surprise me with how great the content is. It is intriguing, captivating and alway always interesting. Highly recommend.
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