Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchNot Even Mad: Ben Wizner & Ilya Shapiro
Free speech under heat: the ACLU’s Ben Wizner and the Manhattan Institute’s Ilya Shapiro square off (and sometimes align) on the “ethos” of the First…
7 months ago
Yaakov Katz - While Israel Slept: Winning Tunnels, Losing Time
Yaakov Katz co-author with Amir Bohbot, of While Israel Slept: How Hamas Surprised the Most Powerful Military in the Middle East, traces the failures…
7 months ago
KJ Steinberg, on The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox
We talk with KJ Steinberg, showrunner of Hulu’s The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox, about concentrating on Knox’s perspective while still showing how ot…
7 months ago
Amanda Knox — “You don’t have to be a psychopath to wrongly convict somebody.”
Knox recounts confronting prosecutor Giuliano Mignini and explores how certainty, incentive structures, and “alternate realities” turned her story in…
7 months ago
Is Masculinity A Prison? - Mike on Open to Debate
Listen to the full debate on Open to Debate’s podcast channel or watch it on YouTube: https://bit.ly/MikePesca
Men are falling behind in our society,…7 months ago
Andrew J. Taylor: “Blue-Collar Voters Don’t Want Blue-Collar Politicians”
We talk with North Carolina State political scientist Andrew J. Taylor about his new book, A Tolerance for Inequality: American Public Opinion and Ec…
7 months, 1 week ago
Justin Driver: “The Fall of Affirmative Action”
Yale Law’s Justin Driver argues that SFFA v. Harvard/UNC broke with precedent and embraced a faux “colorblindness,” spotlighting the Court’s creative…
7 months, 1 week ago
Laura Spinney on the Language That Conquered the World
Laura Spinney joins to discuss her new book Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global, tracing the unlikely rise of Indo-European and why most of t…
7 months, 1 week ago
Sadie Dingfelder on Mosquito Magnets and Who Tastes Best to Bugs
President Trump mangles acetaminophen and issues a sweeping “don’t take Tylenol” decree. Are some people truly more attractive to mosquitoes than oth…
7 months, 1 week ago
Andrew Fox on “Slam Frank”: Make Something Dangerous
The writer-composer behind the viral Slam Frank (an Anne Frank musical staged as if by the most social-justice-forward regional theater) explains why…
7 months, 1 week ago