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Safety Moose Says, "Stay Home!" Author Neal Pollack On His Dangerous New Novel, Edge of Safety
Known by his nom de guerre "The Greatest American Living Writer," Neal Pollack has published eleven books, including a rock history satire, several c…
4 years, 3 months ago
Is A Post-Truth World All Bad? Stephanie Lepp's "Promiscuous Pragmatic Pluralism"
Stephanie Lepp is an artist, a film and video producer and Executive Producer at the Center for Humane Technology, where she leads the production of …
4 years, 3 months ago
Has Wokeism Won? Sarah Haider Acknowledges Defeat But Won't Stop Talking.
Sarah Haider is an activist and a writer who became a noted figure in the new atheist movement around 2013, when she co-founded the advocacy group Ex…
4 years, 3 months ago
Uniquely Stupid and Incredibly Coddled: Jonathan Haidt On How We Lost Our Collective Minds (And Whether We'll Ever Find Them Again)
If you're familiar with the so-called "heterodox" space, this week's guest on The Unspeakable scarcely needs an introduction. In 2018, the social psy…
4 years, 4 months ago
An Act of Love. The Gift of Death: Author Amy Bloom On Her New Memoir
Amy Bloom is the author of ten books, mostly works of fiction, and her short story collections have been finalists for The National Book Award and th…
4 years, 4 months ago
The Canceled Collective Planning Committee: Jamie Kilstein Returns To The Unspeakable
This week, comedian Jamie Kilstein returns to The Unspeakable for a wide-ranging, profanity-laced conversation about creativity, cancellation, relati…
4 years, 4 months ago
The Future of Abortion: Frances Kissling On Moving Forward In A Post-Roe World
Last week, a draft of a Supreme Court opinion indicating that the court was poised to overturn the landmark abortion decision Roe V. Wade was leaked …
4 years, 4 months ago
Is Public Health Messaging Designed For Dummies? Dr. Lucy McBride Calls For An End To COVID Catastrophizing
If your doomscrolling over the past few years has led you to any of the so-called "dissident doctors" who are calling for more clarity and less catas…
4 years, 4 months ago
When The Workplace Is A Woke Place: Jennifer Sey on Corporate Branding Versus Personal Beliefs
Jennifer Sey spent more than twenty years at Levis Strauss and Company, rising through the ranks to Chief Marketing Office and then Global Brand Pres…
4 years, 5 months ago
This Is What It's Like To Be Banned From Twitter: Meghan Murphy Forges Ahead And Falls Behind In Twitter Exile
Last week, Elon Musk offered to buy Twitter for over 41 billion dollars. This came on the heels of his purchase last month of nearly ten percent of …
4 years, 5 months ago