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Ladies Lunch at the Holocaust-Themed Restaurant: Yael Bar-tur and ChayaLeah Sufrin of the Ask A Jew Podcast
This week, Meghan talks with Yael Bar-tur and ChayaLeah Sufrin, co-hosts of the podcast Ask A Jew. ChayaLeah was born and raised in an Orthodox Hasid…
4 years, 5 months ago
The Censors Within: Sarah Hepola on What She Was Afraid To Write About—Until Now
Sarah Hepola has been publishing personal essays and articles for decades and is the author of the 2015 bestseller Blackout, a memoir about her yea…
4 years, 6 months ago
What Is Gender Detransition? Changing Your Mind About Changing Your Body
This week, Meghan devotes another episode to the complexities and under-explored corners of the gender movement and talks with a young man going by t…
4 years, 6 months ago
Rebel Wisdom's David Fuller Is Trying to Talk Sense Into the Sensemakers: Is Anyone Listening?
This week's guest on The Unspeakable is British journalist, broadcaster and filmmaker David Fuller. In 2018 David founded Rebel Wisdom, a multi-forma…
4 years, 6 months ago
Can We Move Past The Culture Wars? Quillette's Jonathan Kay On "Other Interests"
Editor, journalist and podcaster Jonathan Kay is the author of several books, has worked as an editor and columnist at the Canadian newspaper The Nat…
4 years, 6 months ago
Why Is Friendship So Fraught? Jennifer Senior on the Complexities of Adult Friendship
Journalist and author Jennifer Senior has been a columnist and book critic for The New York Times and is now a staff writer for The Atlantic, where …
4 years, 7 months ago
Mike Pesca's Esprit de Corps: The Gist Wipes The Slate Clean And Flies Solo
For seven years Mike Pesca hosted the political commentary podcast The Gist under the aegis of the Slate Media Company. The show became the longest r…
4 years, 7 months ago
You're Older Than You've Ever Been. And Now You're Even Older: Sari Botton On Aging At Any Age
Writer and editor Sari Botton has a long career in the publishing world — some would even call her a "legend." Her essays have appeared in places lik…
4 years, 7 months ago
Love—Or Quarantines—Will Keep Us Together: Laura Kipnis on Sex and Romance (Not Necessarily With Your Partner) In Lockdown
Cultural critic Laura Kipnis is revered, even beloved, for her bold, counterintuitive observations about aesthetics in art, sexual politics, moral a…
4 years, 7 months ago
Neurodivergence For Everyone! Jenara Nerenberg On New Frames of Mind About The Human Brain
Terms like neurodiversity and neuroatyptical are everywhere these days. And though they can refer to any everything from social functioning to learn…
4 years, 7 months ago