Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchFunny You Should Mention: Ariel Elias
Kentucky-raised, New York-forged, and newly “A Jewish Star,” Ariel Elias breaks down how outsider status becomes comic superpower. We talk growing up…
4 months, 1 week ago
No Capes, Real Peace: U Thant's UN and What We Lost
Historian and grandson of third secretary-general of the United Nations U Thant, Thant Myint-U, discusses Peacemaker: U Thant and the Forgotten Quest…
4 months, 1 week ago
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Carnegie Endowment’s Alicia Wanless argues that disinformation isn’t new—it’s just our latest pollutant. In The Information Animal, she maps centurie…
4 months, 1 week ago
Michael Kirk — "RFK Jr.'s Latest Addiction: Attention"
Frontline's Michael Kirk discusses The Rise of RFK Jr., charting Kennedy's path from sex and drug addiction to what Kirk calls "an addiction to valid…
4 months, 1 week ago
Michael Townsend & Jeremy Workman: "Secret Mall Apartment"
Michael Townsend and director Jeremy Workman tell the wild true story of an eight-artist collective that built a hidden home inside Providence Place …
4 months, 1 week ago
Chris Murphy: “Congress needs to take war powers back.”
Mike revisits his 2019 conversation with Senator Chris Murphy on the AUMF — the two-decade-old law still used to justify U.S. military strikes from Y…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Lisa Graves: On The Roberts Court's Power Play
Lisa Graves joins to discuss Without Precedent: How Chief Justice Roberts and His Accomplices Rewrote the Constitution and Dismantled Our Rights—from…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Not Even Mad: Jonah Goldberg & Zee Cohen-Sanchez
Hamas hostages, Trump and autocracy, and the strangely quiet shutdown — we tackle all three. Why Trump’s blunt style played in the Middle East, wheth…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Jonathan Mahler: The Tabloids That Made The City That Made the Country
Mahler walks us through The Gods of New York: Egotists, Idealists, Opportunists, and the Birth of the Modern City, 1986–1990—how a late-'80s crucible…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Cory Doctorow: Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It
Doctorow lays out his "enshittification" playbook—how tech platforms lure users, trap businesses, then extract value from both—tying it to interopera…
4 months, 2 weeks ago