What lessons are there to be learned by studying the history of the movement, and how can we apply those lessons to our activism today? This week, we are joined by Bill Wasik & Monica Murphy to discuss the research and writing of their book Our Kindred Creatures: How Americans Came to Feel the Way They Do About Animals.

ABOUT OUR GUESTS

Bill Wasik is the editorial director of The New York Times Magazine. Monica Murphy is a veterinarian and a writer. Their previous book, Rabid: A Cultural History of the World’s Most Diabolical Virus, was a Los Angeles Times bestseller and a finalist for the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award. They live in Brooklyn, New York.

• Our Kindred Creatures book


• Bill Wasik on Facebook


• murMonica Murphy on X (formerly Twitter)


• Bill Wasik on X (formerly Twitter)

 

 

RESOURCES

• Elephants have names — and they use them with each other


• Who Do You Trust? on Exes and Ohs Substack


• Dorf on Law: Is the Nathan’s Disqualification of Joey Chestnut Good for the Cows?

 

INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT

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