Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: What Pop Culture Can Teach Us About Politics and the Environment

aired; November 6, 2025 The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have been entertaining audiences for decades, but their story also offers a way to look at bigger issues in American culture. On The Spark, we’ll talk with Ian Boucher, a librarian at Dickinson College and author of the new book Totally Radical, about how the heroes in a half-shell connect to conversations about environmentalism, politics and environmental justice. Boucher explores how the turtles’ origins in toxic pollution, their lives...