Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAsk Ezra Anything: Degrowth, Third Parties, Reading and More
We asked for your questions, and you answered. Hundreds and hundreds of fantastic questions poured in, and our producer Annie Galvin joined me to ask…
4 years, 8 months ago
The Foreign Policy Conversation Washington Doesn’t Want to Have
Everything about the Afghanistan withdrawal is tragic. But that tragedy is the result not of the withdrawal, but the occupation, and America’s profou…
4 years, 8 months ago
This Conversation Will Change How You Think About Trauma
“Trauma is much more than a story about something that happened long ago,” writes Dr. Bessel van der Kolk. “The emotions and physical sensations that…
4 years, 8 months ago
The Argument: Should We Say "Hi" to Aliens?
We're taking this week off from publishing new episodes, so today we're bringing you an episode from "The Argument" about one of my favorite topics: …
4 years, 8 months ago
Best of: George Saunders on Kindness in a Cruel World
We’re taking a week off from releasing new episodes, so today I wanted to re-up one of my favorite episodes of the show, a conversation with fiction …
4 years, 8 months ago
How Identity Politics Took Over the Republican Party
One problem with the conversation around political polarization is that it can imply that polarization is a static, singular thing. That our division…
4 years, 9 months ago
We’re Living in the World the War on Terror Built
The Sept, 11 attacks might have taken place almost 20 years ago, but we’re still living in the America that the war on terror built. Its legacy is no…
4 years, 9 months ago
The Good and Bad News About the Delta Variant
“The war has changed.” That’s what the leaked C.D.C. document says about the way the Delta variant has upended our coronavirus policies. Delta is ast…
4 years, 9 months ago
41 Questions For The Technologies We Use, and That Use Us
We all know by now that Zoom causes fatigue, social media spreads misinformation and Google Maps is wiping out our sense of direction. We also know, …
4 years, 9 months ago
Nikole Hannah-Jones and Ta-Nehisi Coates on the Fight Over U.S. History
You’ve heard plenty by now about the fights over teaching critical race theory and the 1619 Project. But behind those skirmishes is something deeper:…
4 years, 9 months ago