Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchBanishing the "Bootstraps" Mythology from American Life (w/ Alissa Quart)
Episode 226
Alissa Quart is the executive director of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project and the author of the new book Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves f…
2 years, 4 months ago
How Come "Everyone Is Beautiful But Nobody is Horny"? (w/ R.S. Benedict)
Episode 225
R.S. Benedict is a speculative fiction writer whose popular 2021 essay "Everyone Is Beautiful But Nobody is Horny," published in Blood Knife, argued …
2 years, 4 months ago
How the U.S. "War on Terror" Spread Islamophobia Around the World (w/ Khaled Beydoun)
Episode 224
Khaled Beydoun is a professor of law at Wayne State and the author of two books, American Islamophobia: Understanding the Roots and Rise of Fear and …
2 years, 4 months ago
Where "Effective Altruism" and "Longtermism" Go Wrong (w/ Émile Torres)
Episode 223
Émile P. Torres is an intellectual historian who has recently become a prominent public critic of the ideologies of "effective altruism" and "longter…
2 years, 4 months ago
How to Manipulate The Public Into Believing Corporate Lies (w/ Jennifer Jacquet)
Episode 222
Jennifer Jacquet is not actually an evil corporate consultant. She's a professor in NYU's Department of Environmental Studies and deputy director of …
2 years, 4 months ago
How U.S. Foreign Policy Is Making War With China More Likely (w/ Van Jackson)
Episode 221
Van Jackson is a dissident among foreign policy intellectuals, a harsh critic of the infamous "Blob." His Un-Diplomatic newsletter is essential readi…
2 years, 4 months ago
How to Spot Pseudoscience About Sex Differences (w/ Cordelia Fine)
Episode 220
Cordelia Fine is a psychologist and philosopher of science whose work brilliantly demolishes myths about the "nature" of differences between men and …
2 years, 4 months ago
How to Respond to The Right—Introducing Nathan's New Book!
Episode 219
Today on the podcast: Nathan takes a turn as the guest, to discuss his new book Responding to the Right: Brief Replies to 25 Conservative Arguments. …
2 years, 4 months ago
What Living Under Jim Crow Was Like In New Orleans (w/ Adolph Reed)
Episode 218
“What I didn’t realize at the time was that what I was living through was the death paroxysms of the Jim Crow order.” — Adolph Reed
Prof. Adolph Reed …
2 years, 4 months ago
Why Is The Internet So Broken? What Would a "People's Internet" Look Like? (w/ Ben Tarnoff)
Episode 217
Ben Tarnoff is the author of Internet For The People: The Fight For Our Digital Future. Today he joins to discuss what's wrong with the internet and …
2 years, 4 months ago