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The Revolution Will Be Tweeted: Nellie Bowles reports from the morning after.
Paid subscribers get full access to my interview with Nellie Bowles.
The first half of this episode is available to all listeners. To hear the entire…
2 years, 4 months ago
The Many Lives of Glenn Loury
This week's guest is economist and public intellectual Glenn Loury. Glenn is almost certainly no stranger to Unspeakable listeners, many of whom know…
2 years, 4 months ago
The "Right Kind" of Black Person: Erec Smith on prescriptive racism.
This episode is with one of our guest speakers at The Unspeakeasy retreat in Chicago. If you're interested in going, learn more here.
This week Megha…
2 years, 4 months ago
Gender, Data & What the Cass Review *Doesn't* Say: Journalist Ben Ryan examines the evidence — or lack thereof — for youth gender transition.
This interview with Benjamin Ryan is a BONUS episode for paying subscribers only.
The first few minutes of this episode is available to all listeners…
2 years, 4 months ago
Defending Pornography, Hate Speech and the ACLU: Nadine Strossen on The Unspeakable
This week, Meghan talks with legal scholar, former law professor, and legendary free speech advocate Nadine Strossen.
Nadine was president of the Ame…
2 years, 4 months ago
From Betty Friedan to Ballerina Farms: Lisa Selin Davis on the conceptual housewife
This week, author and journalist Lisa Selin Davis returns for her third visit to The Unspeakable. Lisa is best known to listeners for her thorough an…
2 years, 5 months ago
Grief Is The Thing With Feathers: Sloane Crosley on friendship, loss, mourning, and Flaco the owl.
This week, I'm talking with author Sloane Crosley. Best known for her humorous and existentially probing essays, Sloane's latest book is a departure …
2 years, 5 months ago
How Did Comedy Lose Its Humor? Arielle Isaac Norman on taking back the jokes.
This week, Meghan welcomes Arielle Isaac Norman, an Austin-based comedian who has opened for Louie C.K., Bobcat Goldthwait, Tim Dillon, Joe DeRosa, E…
2 years, 5 months ago
Is Therapy Making Us Crazy? Abigail Shrier on what's really driving the "mental health crisis" among young people.
This week's guest is journalist Abigail Shrier. In her new book, Bad Therapy: Why The Kids Aren't Growing Up, she delves into why so many children, t…
2 years, 5 months ago
Has Literature Canceled Itself? Sherman Alexie on reading, writing, and book banning.
If you were in middle school or high school in the last couple of decades, there's a good chance you were assigned Sherman's classic young adult nove…
2 years, 6 months ago