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The Deadliest of Plagues? Gary Slutkin on Violence as Our Most Contagious Disease
Episode 2889
“Violence has been misdiagnosed. And there’s a misdiagnosis that has caused us to not be able to control it as we could.” — Dr. Gary Slutkin
Human vi…
5 months, 1 week ago
How Iraq Turned Some American Soldiers into Monsters: Helen Benedict on the Unintended Consequences of War
Episode 2888
America is once again at war. Helen Benedict is one of our most distinguished writers on the moral consequences of war. Her new novel, The Soldier’s …
5 months, 1 week ago
The Too Many Führers Problem: Steven J. Ross on the History of American Neo-Nazism
Episode 2887
“All these groups from 1945 on said: we can resist any hate group in America, even the Ku Klux Klan, as long as we take them on one at a time. But ou…
5 months, 1 week ago
The Truth Is Paywalled and the Lies Are Free: Brewster Kahle on the Internet of Forgetting
Episode 2886
“The truth is paywalled, and the lies are free.” — Current Affairs editor, quoted by Brewster Kahle
The internet, we were promised, would remember ev…
5 months, 1 week ago
Are White Men Really Smarter Than Everybody Else? Steve Phillips on Who Actually Runs America
Episode 2885
“White men are 29 percent of the population but hold 90 percent of Fortune 500 CEO positions, 90 percent of venture capital, and 98 percent of all mo…
5 months, 1 week ago
Adulting: The Week That AI Finally Grew Up
Episode 2884
“Sam Altman’s best case scenario is that abundance lifts everyone up to a much higher standard, but it also exacerbates inequality. That was his favo…
5 months, 1 week ago
A Terrible, Terrible Intimacy: Melvin Patrick Ely on Interracial Life in the Slaveholding South
Episode 2883
“The burdens of slavery did crush some people. They elicited outright armed rebellion from others. And between those two extremes, there’s all manner…
5 months, 1 week ago
Something Has Gone Terribly Wrong: Peter Wehner on Trump's Unholy War
Episode 2882
“They weren’t interested in being on the side of God so much as they are insistent that God is on their side.” — Peter Wehner on Hegseth and Trump
Ac…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
The Revolutionary Center: Adrian Wooldridge on the Lost Genius of Liberalism
Episode 2881
“Liberalism was founded in the middle of the eighteenth century as a revolutionary philosophy — a philosophy that tried to subvert the old world. Tha…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
How to Be a Dissident: Gal Beckerman on Why Pessimism Is the Most Important Human Quality
Episode 2880
“Pessimism is not fatalism. Fatalism is the belief that things will always necessarily be worse. Pessimism is the belief that things will probably ge…
5 months, 2 weeks ago