Mar 5, 2025
The concept of social safety nets affects every single one of us, whether we realize it or not. These programs and policies—Medicare, Medicaid, unemployment insurance, food assistance—represent more than bureaucratic systems. They embody a fundamental question about who we are as a society. I want to make my...
Mar 5, 2024
Fast forward to the 20th century, the term "Artificial Intelligence" was coined in 1956 by John McCarthy, a visionary who often gets overshadowed by more commercial names in tech history. But it was Alan Turing, a name synonymous with the breaking of the Enigma code during World War II, who laid the...
Oct 22, 2023
The history of the self in conflict with societal morality has been at the center of human consternation and community degradation for centuries. In this episode, we dig into the history of this conflict and the dramatic imaging of a futile future where we are not only set against each other, but ourselves.
Aug 23, 2023
In this Boles.tv live stream highlight, David Boles examines the want of the wicked rich against the real interests of a human society. Do we want our university students to fall in line or break beyond the context? Do we want the highest paid public official of a State to be the football coach? Must we build...
Mar 15, 2018
Even in a highrise, there is social separation. Structures divide our social strata floor-by-floor in an urban building to uncover all the ills of social memeing that still separate us straight from the center.