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Seeking the Good Life In the Islamic State: Carla Power on the Journey In and Out of Violent Extremism
In 2015, journalist Carla Power published If The Oceans Were Ink: An Unlikely Friendship and Journey Into the Heart of the Quran, which chronicled he…
4 years, 11 months ago
We Can't Know: Lisa Selin Davis On Getting Comfortable With The "Giant Mess" That Is The Current Gender Conversation
Part three of Gender Nuance, a three-part series for the week of October 4, 2021 In the third and final part of the podcast's weeklong "Gender Nuance…
4 years, 11 months ago
"We Feel Like We're In The Wild West:" Parents of Gender-Questioning Kids Ask Their Own Questions
Part two of Gender Nuance, a three-part series for the week of October 4, 2021 In part two of this week's three-part "Gender Nuance" series, Dr. Laur…
4 years, 11 months ago
What Do We Mean By "Gender Affirming Care?" A Conversation with Dr. Laura Edwards-Leeper
Part one of Gender Nuance, a three-part series for the week of October 4, 2021 Clinical psychologist Dr. Laura Edwards-Leeper has worked with transge…
4 years, 11 months ago
The Awkward Files: Father-daughter coauthors Dr. Drew and Paulina Pinsky Bridge the Generation Gap
Meghan's guests this week are father and daughter Dr. Drew Pinsky and Paulina Pinsky, who are coauthors of the new book, It Doesn't Have To Be Awkwar…
5 years ago
Free To Be You and #MeToo: Erika Schickel on Coming of Age—and Coming Undone—in the 1970s
Gen Xers and young Baby Boomers can be nostalgic about the freedoms of growing up in the 1970s. But there was a darker side to that era, too, especia…
5 years ago
The WEIRD World Is Killing Us: Evolutionary Biologists Heather Heying and Bret Weinstein On Why Modern Life Feels So Unlivable
Husband and wife evolutionary biologists Heather Heying and Bret Weinstein are the authors of the new book A Hunter Gatherer's Guide To the 21st Cent…
5 years ago
The Incel Phenomenon Is Not a Movement (Or A Terrorist Group). Naama Kates on What We Get Wrong About Society's Saddest and Most Reviled Men
Incel stands for "involuntary celibate" and refers most often to young men whose sexual and romantic rejection has led them to spend lots of time den…
5 years ago
Chelsea Handler Checks Her Privilege. (And spars a little with Meghan.)
Meghan met actor/author/comedian Chelsea Handler several years ago when they attempted to develop Meghan's 2014 book, The Unspeakable (no direct conn…
5 years, 1 month ago
How Not To Ruin The Dinner Party: A Conversation with Sam Harris
Sam Harris is a giant in the world of podcasting. His podcast, Making Sense, which began in 2013 under the name Waking Up, averages more than a milli…
5 years, 1 month ago