The Professor In The Cage: Why Men Fight and Why We Like to Watch

By Joseph Cooper,

Richard Ives

Published May 6, 2015 at 1:00 PM EDT

05/06/15 - Wednesday’s Topical Currents is a rather implausible program . . .

How about a college adjunct English prof—pushing 40 years old--who takes a plunge into the brutal venue of mixed-martial arts? Call it “participatory journalism” . . . to the max. Jonathan Gottschall has written THE PROFESSOR IN THE CAGE: Why Men Fight and Why We Like to Watch. That’s Wednesday at 1pm on Topical Currents.

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Joseph Cooper

WLRN Radio's Joseph Cooper says producing and hosting Topical Currents is the most rewarding experience of his long radio career, which began at the University of Missouri School of Journalism in the 1970s.

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Richard Ives

Richard Ives came to WLRN in September 2000 to begin a new career in radio. Born in Fort Lauderdale, his family moved to Long Island, New York, where he grew up. After graduation from college and an unsatisfying stint in a job that, as he puts it, "paid the bills but for which I had no passion" he found himself contemplating a midlife career change after being laid-off.

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