December 5, 2019

One week from today, U.K. voters go to the polls in the third major vote in five years. It’s set to be a particularly dramatic general election, with voters having to wrestle with Brexit, something that has completely polarized the country and its parties. Rory Stewart makes the case for why centrism needs to be re-energized and discusses prison sentencing in the U.K.

George Church’s current projects range from growing human organs to resurrecting the woolly mammoth. The Harvard genetics professor is at the cutting edge of genetic experimentation, having helped develop the first method for sequencing a genome and the gene editing tool CRISPR. Church joins Walter to discuss this transformative technology and address the ethical issues in genetic engineering.