Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchEP 237: Ryan Zickgraf on the Politicization of Charity
One of the problems with increased polarization is that everything gets politicized, including simple acts of charity. Our guest on the program this …
2 hours ago
EP 236: Amanda Ripley on the Media's Trump Fixation
If you follow the news in this country, you know that Canada is currently grappling with a number of crises, from housing to mental health. And yet m…
5 days, 3 hours ago
EP 235: Richard Stursberg: Who Killed CanLit?
Canadians who write books, or cover books, or read books will know that something is wrong with our literary industry. But a new book documents just …
1 week, 6 days ago
EP 234: Harrison Lowman on James Bennet, The New York Times and the Era of Activist Journalism
This week on the Lean Out podcast we are taking a look at the chaotic summer of 2020, and the impact of that unrest on mainstream journalism. Our gue…
3 weeks ago
EP 233: Steven Scherer: The Road From Foreign Correspondent to Uber Driver
We live in an age of economic precarity and journalists are not exempt from this. Our guest on the program this week has written a powerful Substack …
4 weeks ago
EP 232: Larissa Phillips on the Rift Between Men and Women
Men and women don’t seem very happy these days. They are dissatisfied with dating, polarized politically, trash talking each other online, and both m…
1 month ago
EP 231: 'Enough White Guys Already': Jacob Savage on a Lost Generation
The popularity of identity politics, and the subsequent fallout from this ideology, is something that we’ve tried to unpack and understand on the Lea…
1 month, 1 week ago
EP 230: Elizabeth Grace Matthew: We Need to Move On From Girl Bosses and Trad Wives
With the new year now upon us, we are going to continue our conversation about the state of feminism, and how we might begin to think and talk about …
1 month, 2 weeks ago
EP 229: Valerie Stivers on the Joys of Home Cooking
It’s New Year’s Day and many of us will be at home, contemplating the year ahead. For New Year’s every year, Lean Out brings you an episode that is l…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
EP 228: Merry Christmas from Lean Out: Father Gregory Boyle on Hope and Healing
It’s Christmas Day and we at Lean Out wanted to bring you a special bonus episode — to celebrate the occasion and to meditate on the meaning of the h…
2 months ago