Podcast Episodes

Inside the Mossad

If you’re anything like us, you’re a sucker for a good spy show: Homeland, Tehran, Fauda, The Bureau. We’re fascinated by the life of spies—the secret meetings in Beirut cafés, the wigs and false ide…

Published on 9 hours ago

Woody Allen on Life and Death

You know the name Woody Allen. Everyone does. He’s made some of the most acclaimed films ever made: Annie Hall, Hannah and Her Sisters, Crimes and Misdemeanors—he list goes on and on and on. He’s mad…

Published on 6 days, 9 hours ago

Charlie Kirk’s Murder and the Rise of Political Violence

Yesterday, in broad daylight, in front of a crowd of 3,000 people at Utah Valley University, Charlie Kirk was shot dead. Kirk was not just a husband, not just a father, and not just one of the most p…

Published on 1 week, 4 days ago

Justice Amy Coney Barrett

When Amy Coney Barrett was appointed to the Supreme Court, she was in some ways an unlikely choice. She was living in South Bend, Indiana, not New York or D.C. She went to Notre Dame Law School, maki…

Published on 2 weeks, 1 day ago

Conversations with Coleman: Three Hostages Families Disagree on How to Get Their Loved Ones Home

Everyone wants the war in Gaza to end. The reason the war is not over is because about 50 people are still being held hostage by Hamas.

Twenty of them are alive, but on the brink of death. About 30 o…

Published on 3 weeks ago

Breaking History: The Invention That Changed Everything

Ever travel to Europe in the summer and suddenly feel very “ra ra ra” about America?

It’s not because of American culture, or food, or architecture. The thing people miss first and foremost is AC. Ye…

Published on 4 weeks ago

The Radical Right Is Coming for Our Sons

You might have heard of the new term: “woke right.” It’s the idea that the illiberalism that has swallowed the progressive left—what we often refer to as “wokeness”—has come for the right.

Here’s how…

Published on 1 month ago

Why Amanda Knox Forgave the Man Who Sent Her to Prison

On November 1, 2007, a man named Rudy Guede broke into a random home in Perugia, Italy, then raped and killed Meredith Kercher—a 21-year-old exchange student from the University of Leeds.

You might n…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

Why Unions Went for Trump

The question of who represents the working class is probably the hottest debate in American politics. Is it Republicans? Democrats? Or socialists like Zohran Mamdani?

Pundits can debate that question…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Jeffrey Epstein and Conspiracy America

Here’s one fun question to ask at a dinner party: What is your favorite conspiracy theory?

There’s the idea that the CIA killed John F. Kennedy. The moon landing was fake, and 9/11 was an inside job.…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago