Nero's Fiddle: Recent Episodes
Brad Brown
Global warming - we know what's happening. We know what we can do about it. What we don’t understand is why we won’t take the measures necessary to stop it. Nero's Fiddle will trace the arrow of history that brought us to this point. I will explain how we got here, why we haven’t begun to tackle the difficult issues of climate change, and what we can do to end our current climate malaise and begin to address climate change in a meaningful way.
In this episode, we take a look at the contribution the Axial generations are poised to make to humanity's ongoing march up the ladder of history.
In this episode we sum up our journey to now and ask the question: With all of the historical forces in play right now, what comes next?
In this episode, we finally take a deep dive into what our future with climate change will look like if we fail to curb our output of greenhouse gasses.
This episode, we look at the contributions the millennials and Gen Z could make toward the fight against climate change.
Although it's not often recognized, our federal budget deficit has major ramifications for global climate change. We examine these ramifications in this episode.
This episode, we look at the similarities between early-Nazi Germany and the Trump years.
During this season, we've used various tools to help us understand our journey to now. In this episode we put these tools together to help us understand how to better understand how history works.
Humans have a very strong drive to connect with one another and have had intricate mail courier systems since ancient times. Throughout the 20th century, we've had to learn to communicate in different ways as new technologies have developed. We take a look at communication and the advent of the World Wide Web in this episode.
Could we be ready to break the final major link in the millennium-old Great Chain of Being? Perhaps. Let's take a look at that in this episode.
The U.S. is the richest country the world has ever known. Yet we have over half a million unhoused people living on our streets and in shelters. In this episode we take a deeper look into homelessness in America.
In this episode we look at where the 20th Century has brought us and look at some possible futures available to us.
In this episode, we look at Tom Brokaw's "Greatest Generation," as they do much to create the world we live in today.
Through the Civil Rights Movement and the Gay Rights Movement we watch as the outer wheel of history takes one more revolution forward.
There are certain nodes of history which present the possibility for great historical change. What opportunities were missed during the cold war?
This week we take a look at why World War Two was a major turning point in world history.
This week we look at the Enlightenment. Europe changes the way it views the world as it stands on the verge of the industrial revolution.
This episode, we go to China to examine the rise and fall of dynasties in human history.
Europe finally wakes up from its long slumber of the Middle Ages as it enters the Renaissance.
We take another break from our chronological walk through history to look at the glue that binds history together.
This week we look at how some societies have reacted when faced with potentially devastating environmental challenges.
Before the was the Roman Empire, there was the Roman Republic. The Republic lasted just under 500 years before it collapsed and was replaced by the Empire under Augustus Caesar. In this episode we look at the causes of its collapse.
Alexander The Great changes the ancient Mediterranean world in ways that still influence our world today.
In this episode we look at the Axial Age, that period from the 8th century BC until about the time of Christ. This is the period when all of the world's great religions except Islam got their start.
The ancient Hebrews have had an outsized influence on our current society and culture. This week's episode looks into how such a small ancient kingdom was able to set the wheels in motion to what we now call our Judeo-Christian tradition, or Judeo-Christian values.
The ancient Egyptians invent a rich cultural life and show the way for the Greeks and other subsequent cultures.
This episode looks at the Paleolithic era to see what it tells us about where human history began and what it can tell us about what it is to be human.