Good Is In The Details

To Chill or Not To Chill: When Does Perseverance Become Toxic?

We're taught that perseverance is always a virtue, but what if the very trait we celebrate is quietly costing us our sense of meaning? Michael Scarano, a healthcare vet

Honest, True, or Authentic? (They're Not the Same Thing)

Honesty might be the character trait we claim to value most, but what does it actually mean to be honest, and how is that different from simply telling the truth, or "bei

Cults, Conspiracy Theories & Critical Thinking: The History America Didn't Teach You

What if the United States was never immune to cult thinking, but was built on it? Journalist Jane Borden joins Gwendolyn and Rudy to unpack her book Cults Like Us: Why

Are You Living in an Echo Chamber? The Psychology of Misinformation & Critical Thinking | Matthew Facciani

How do echo chambers influence our beliefs? How do you know what is true on the internet? Why does misinformation spread so quickly online? What is an echo chamber, a

Rewind, Play, Repeat: Nicole Morrison on Music, Memory, Coming Out, and Memoir

  The mixtape structural metaphor ushers in a philosophical lens. Because a mixtape (as every Gen X person who ever made one knows) is a curated act of autobiography. I

How To Critically Think About Career Choices: Hope for Unhappy Lawyers

Gwendolyn Dolske and Rudy Salo welcome Casey Berman: former attorney, founder of Leave Law Behind (the leading coaching program helping attorneys transition into non-lega

How To Navigate The Homeless Crisis With Humanity and Reason

In this episode of Good Is In The Details, Gwendolyn Dolske sits down with Karen Olson — founder and CEO emeritus of Family Promise, a national nonprofit organization ded

The Good in Getting There: Thinking Critically About Your Career/Skills and The Meaning of Your Life's Work

Critical thinking, happiness, career goals, and...how we understand moving about our cities.  What assumptions do we hold onto about our purpose?  In this episode of Go

Encore: The Philosophy of Star Wars. Eastern Wisdom, Attachment, and the Search for Happiness

What can Star Wars teach us about happiness, attachment, and the search for meaning? In this episode of Good Is In The Details, we explore the philosophy behind one of

The Slow Death of Local News and Its Impact on Critical Thinking

What happens when local journalism disappears, and how does it affect democracy, critical thinking, and informed citizens? Is local journalism disappearing, and what do

The Sex Recession Is Real: A Sex Coach Explains How to Find Your Way Back to Intimacy

In 1990, 55% of American adults reported having sex weekly. By 2024 that number had fallen to just 37%, and among adults aged 18–29, the share reporting no sex at all in

Your Phone Is Watching You: Privacy, Surveillance, and the Law with Prof. Andrew Guthrie Ferguson

Every time you turn on your phone, you're building a case against yourself. You just don't know it yet. Your Ring camera. Your Google searches. Your Alexa. Your 23andMe

How To Be Mindful about our Brains: Brain Surgery, Free Will, and the Illusion of Mind?

What is it like to be a brain surgeon? How much of our personality is determined by brain structure? Do we truly have free will or is it an illusion created by neural pro

Introduction to Philosophy and Critical Thinking: Bill Tomlinson on Reasoning, Paradox, and AI as a Tool for Thinking

In this episode of Good Is In The Details, hosts Gwendolyn Dolske and Rudy Salo are joined by philosopher and author Bill Tomlinson to explore the foundations of critical

Thinking Clearly When Everything Feels Heavy: A Conversation on Media, Bias, and Context

In this special mini-episode of Good Is In The Details, hosts Gwendolyn Dolske and Rudy Salo step away from their usual expert interview format to pause and reflect on th

Revisiting The Challenger Space Shuttle Disaster

On this anniversary of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, Good Is In The Details revisits one of history's most consequential moments in engineering, ethics, and publ

Everyday Philosophy and Wisdom from the Aztecs

What did the Aztecs believe about ethics, virtue, and the good life? How does Aztec philosophy compare to Aristotle's ethics? And what can Aztec moral thought teach us ab

Socrates, Wisdom, and Thinking Critically: Philosophy for Everyday Life

Who was Socrates, and why does he still matter today? In this short episode of Good Is In The Details, Gwendolyn explore Socrates' understanding of wisdom and virtue thro

Arts Education, Community, and Creativity

Gwendolyn and Rudy welcome founder/president of Leaders of Tomorrow Youth Center, Dr. Dermell Brunson.  In this episode we focus on the importance of the arts in educatio

Why Self-Help Books Keep Failing You (A Psychologist Explains)

Gwendolyn Dolske and Rudy Salo welcome Psychology Professor Dr. Bruno De Oliveira to unpack the real problems with the modern self-help industry. Why does self-help cultu