The problematic polymath that was J.B.S. Haldane

Published: Nov. 30, 2020, 11:40 a.m.

J.B.S. Haldane was a brilliant and eccentric British scientist, as famous in his day as Albert Einstein, whose predictions inspired Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. But his passion for science was matched by his passion for politics, and his inability to separate the two would prove his greatest moral crisis. Originally broadcast on the 7th of September, 2020.