Welcome to Mansplaining, a podcast about the interesting things you can discover if you just take the time to learn. Mansplaining is brought to you by Mark, Joe, and so far nobody else. Join us as we try to learn a thing or two about a thing or two.
Episode 139: Standardized Testing and the Pretense of Meritocracy
Send us Fan Mail With only 24 of 777 incoming seats in New York’s City’s premier public high school being offered to Black and Hispanic students, even though they make up 62% of the population, standardized testing has once again come under scrutiny. There’s a reason why the “A” in SAT no longer stands for “aptitude”—the test is a closer proxy for socioeconomic status than intelligence. Mark and Joe trace the history of standardized tests that were originally developed to rid the educational ...
2 Aug 2026
Episode 138: Geoengineering Our Way Out of Climate Disaster
Send us Fan Mail With the world’s progress toward reducing carbon emissions fitful at best, people are slowly waking up to the possibility of not meeting international targets and staring instead at potential worst-case scenarios. Enter geoengineering, in which we deliberately manipulate the Earth's climate system to stave off planetary ruin. Is artificially reflecting sunlight away from the planet or sucking carbon dioxide from the atmosphere our last, best hope, or is it a reckless distract...
13 Jul 2026
Episode 137: Should Billionaires Exist?
Send us Fan Mail The recent IPO for SpaceX briefly turned Elon Musk into the world’s first trillionaire. One person having a net worth involving 13 digits is staggering to comprehend, leading Joe to ask Mark a question floating around liberal and progressive circles: should our society even allow that? Mark and Joe consider five philosophers whose work, at least in theory, supports the existence of billionaires and trillionaires (though they each offer conditions and caveats), after which the...
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Apple Podcasts (US)
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