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Have Women Ruined The World? Helen Andrews on The Great Feminization
Less than 24 hours after her Compact essay, "The Great Feminization," set off a thousand group texts, writer Helen Andrews joined to talk about what …
11 months ago
Does Your Personality Stink? There's Hope!
This week I interview journalist and author Olga Khazan about her new book on personality change, Me, But Better.
We talk about the Big Five traits—…
11 months ago
The Los Angeles Wildfires In Fiction
Novelist and screenwriter Bruce Wagner returns to discuss his exceptionally timely new novel Amputation—a strange, exuberant, and ultra meta work set…
11 months, 1 week ago
How To Quit Drinking Without Quitting Drinking
Katie Herzog, co-host of the Blocked and Reported podcast (BarPod), is best known as an anthropologist of, as she puts it, "internet bullshit." But s…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Street Protesters: Who Are They, Really? with Jeremy Lee Quinn
Photojournalist Jeremy Lee Quinn has spent years documenting protests, rallies, and moments of public unrest that often look very different on the gr…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Can Democrats Admit They Were Wrong On Gender? with Lisa Selin Davis
After years of institutional groupthink and policy whiplash, what have we actually learned—and what are we still not allowed to ask? Lisa Selin Davis…
1 year ago
Are Therapists Crazy? Andrew Hartz's quest for sanity in clinical psychology
Dr. Andrew Hartz is a practicing clinical psychologist and the founder of the Open Therapy Institute, an organization dedicated to overcoming sociopo…
1 year ago
All The World's A Hype House: What Leigh Stein's TikTok novel reveals about the way we live now
Novelist, essayist, and publishing coach Leigh Stein returns to the show to discuss her new gothic-inspired novel, If You're Seeing This, It's Meant …
1 year ago
How Are Those Luxury Beliefs Working Out? Rob Henderson and the coinage that keeps on giving (FULL INTERVIEW)
This week, I welcome back Rob Henderson, the social psychologist, author, and commentator who coined the concept of luxury beliefs: ideas that confer…
1 year, 1 month ago
Is The Racial Reckoning Over? John McWhorter on language, art, and defunding the grammar police
This is the full version of the Aug 4 episode, now available to all subscribers.
Author, New York Times columnist, and superstar linguist John McWh…
1 year, 1 month ago