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Episode 2483: Peter Wehner on the ethical darkness that has fallen upon America
This is an important interview. I’ve always thought of the political essayist Peter Wehner as representing the conscience of conservative, religious …
1 year, 6 months ago
Episode 2482: Is AI really about to change the publishing industry?
That Was The Week publisher Keith Teare believes that the publishing industry is about to be dramatically swept away by AI. I’m not sure. Here, for e…
1 year, 6 months ago
Episode 2481: Jonathan Rauch on The Resistance to Trump 2.0
Has Signalgate triggered a credible resistance movement to Trump 2.0? Brookings scholar and Atlantic columnist Jonathan Rauch isn’t particularly opti…
1 year, 6 months ago
Episode 2480: Dr Andy Lazris on how Big Pharma controls the American healthcare system
This isn’t exactly the radical message one would expect from a primary physician from Columbia, Maryland. But according to Dr Andy Lazris, co-author …
1 year, 6 months ago
Episode 2479: Brian Goldstone on the 4 million invisible homeless workers in America today
Amidst all the chaos and hysteria of Trump 2.0, some things in America never change. As the Atlanta based journalist Brian Goldstone notes in There I…
1 year, 6 months ago
Episode 2478: Parag Khanna on the Countries Best Positioned to Win the 21st Century
Which countries are best positioned to thrive in the 21st century? No, it’s not Denmark. Nor China. According to Parag Khanna, the Singapore based ge…
1 year, 6 months ago
Episode 2477: How Daniel Oppenheimer Learned That the Problem in his Marriage Was Himself
The writer Daniel Oppenheimer and his wife, Jessica, have been going to marriage therapy for many years. But, as he confessed in a recent New York Ti…
1 year, 6 months ago
Episode 2476: William Deresiewicz on American Boys & Men
Few observers are more insightful than the critic William Deresiewicz at identifying the changing landscape of American culture. In my latest convers…
1 year, 6 months ago
Episode 2475: Gregory Walton on how to achieve BIG change with small acts
How to achieve BIG change with small acts? According to the Stanford psychologist Gregory Walton, this requires what, in his new book, he dubs Ordina…
1 year, 6 months ago
Episode 2474: What Thomas Mann can teach America about how to save its democracy
On Thursday, we featured a conversation with Red Scare author Clay Risen about Joe McCarthy, Donald Trump and the Paranoid Style of American History.…
1 year, 6 months ago