Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchA Philosopher Explains Why It's Rational To Be Angry (w/ Myisha Cherry)
Episode 287
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Myisha Cherry is a philosopher at UC-Riverside whose book The Case for Rage: Why Anger Is Essen…
1 year, 10 months ago
How is Capitalism Like a Bad Relationship? (w/ Malaika Jabali)
Episode 286
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Malaika Jabali is Senior News and Politics Editor at Essence magazine. She is also the only pre…
1 year, 11 months ago
How to Spot Corporate Bullshit (w/ Nick Hanauer)
Episode 285
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Today we take a dive into the world of "corporate bullshit" with Nick Hanauer, who has become a…
1 year, 11 months ago
Your Money or Your Life: A Physician on the Miseries of Medical Debt
Episode 284
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Dr. Luke Messac is an emergency physician and historian whose new book is Your Money or Your Li…
1 year, 11 months ago
How Four Billionaires Are Creating A Horrible Future For All of Us (w/ Jonathan Taplin)
Episode 283
Jonathan Taplin has had a fascinating career, from being a tour manager for Bob Dylan and the Band to a film producer for Martin Scorsese to running …
1 year, 11 months ago
The Rise and Fall of Crypto Lunacy (w/ Zeke Faux)
Episode 282
Zeke Faux of Bloomberg News is the author of a fascinating and hilarious new book about the crypto world and the collapse of the Sam Bankman-Fried em…
1 year, 11 months ago
How The Occupation Shapes Everything (w/ Nathan Thrall)
Episode 281
Nathan Thrall, the former Director of the Arab-Israeli Project at the International Crisis Group, is the author of two books on Israel and Palestine:…
1 year, 11 months ago
The Current Israel-Palestine Crisis Was Entirely Avoidable (w/ Jerome Slater)
Episode 280
Political scientist Jerome Slater is the author of one of the best one-volume summaries of the background of the Israel-Palestine conflict, Mythologi…
1 year, 11 months ago
Why Wars Happen (w/ Michael Mann)
Episode 279
Michael Mann is a sociologist who has spent his life trying to understand how power works. His latest book, On Wars, surveys the entire history of wa…
1 year, 11 months ago
A McKinsey Whistleblower on Life Inside The Secretive Consulting Firm
Episode 278
Several years ago, Garrison Lovely wrote an insider account of McKinsey & Co. for Current Affairs. At the time he published using a pseudonym, but he…
1 year, 11 months ago