{"podcast":{"title":"Delving In with Stuart Kelter","slug":"delving-in-with-stuart-kelter-5848973","podcast_index_feed_id":5848973,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/delving-in/","website_url":"https://delving-in.captivate.fm","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/ad94544c-e15e-4196-9402-c13f599bfdfa/wnwGKikP8HU8St2LkavDpw7h.jpg","author":"Stuart Kelter","episode_count":192,"summary":"Knowledge-seeker and psychologist Stuart Kelter shares his joy of learning and “delving in.” Ready? Let’s delve... Join Chris Churchill on the possible reasons why the search for intelligent life in the universe is coming up empty. Let’s hear from Israeli psychiatrist Pesach Lichtenberg about a promising approach to schizophrenia—going mainstream in Israel—that uses minimal drugs and maximal support through the crisis, rejecting the presumption of life-long disability. Find out what Pulitzer Prize winning historian, David Kertzer learned from recently opened Vatican records about Pius XII, the Pope During WWII. We explore the fascinating and intriguing... What did journalist Eve Fairbanks learn about race relations in post-Apartheid South Africa? Did you realize there were dozens and dozens of early women scientists? Let’s find out about them through a sampling of poems with poet Jessy Randall. How shall we grapple with the complexities of the placebo effect in drug development and medical practice? Harvard researcher Kathryn Hall confirms just how complicated it really is! But beware: increasing one’s knowledge leads to more and more questions. If that appeals to you, join us on…","last_synced_at":"2026-06-29T04:18:26.132097+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/delving-in-with-stuart-kelter-5848973"},"episode":{"title":"#173. Scenarios for Another Civil War in the U.S.","slug":"173-scenarios-for-another-civil-war-in-the-u-s","published_at":"2025-12-07T22:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/delving-in-with-stuart-kelter-5848973/173-scenarios-for-another-civil-war-in-the-u-s","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/delving-in-with-stuart-kelter-5848973","url":"https://delving-in.captivate.fm","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/b5042bbd-0a45-4bdf-829b-c3834bb78177.mp3","summary":"Stephen Marche is a Canadian novelist, essayist, and journalist, a scholar of philosophy and literature, and a former teacher of Renaissance drama at the City University of New York, resigning in 2007 to pursue a full-time writing career ever since. He has written five novels, numerous essays for  The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic , and  The Guardian,  and four works of non-fiction:  How Shakespeare Changed Everything  published in 2011, T he Unmade Bed: The Messy Truth About Men and Women in the Twenty-First Century  published in 2017,  The Next Civil War: Dispatches from the American Future,  published in 2022, and  On Writing and Failure: Or, On the Peculiar Perseverance Required to Endure the Life of a Writer,  published in 2023. Recorded 12/3/25.","meta_description":"Stephen Marche is a Canadian novelist, essayist, and journalist, a scholar of philosophy and literature, and a former teacher of Renaissance drama at the…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3130,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/delving-in-with-stuart-kelter-5848973/episodes/173-scenarios-for-another-civil-war-in-the-u-s/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/delving-in-with-stuart-kelter-5848973/173-scenarios-for-another-civil-war-in-the-u-s.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}