In this week’s podcast newsletter we look at criminalizing science, how pretending to be a rogue cop affects perceptions of justice, what the arrival of peak oil might mean for societies and the reasons behind the iPhone’s ascent.
A new initiative by the National Park Service seeks to designate sites for their historic significance in the Reconstruction era. It's a bold and vital move for an agency that has only recently begun to seriously address the racial complexities of the Civil War.