The February ICBW podcast is now available, and chock-full of lively content:  Part 1 covers the Canadian truckers' convoy, vaccine and mask mandates, and the fragile nature of trust (also discussed in this post from 2009).  Part 2 specifically explores public trust in scientific, medical and academic institutions, and whether its decline is inexorable or simply cyclical.  Finally, part 3 touches on the Beijing Olympics and its politics, the turmoil at CNN, and recent corporate moves against customers deemed politically undesirable.  As always, listeners are welcome to respond via comments on this post--and if a response is interesting enough, we might even discuss it next month...