Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchEP 38: The End of Solitude
In 2008, at the age of 44, Tara's guest on today’s program left Yale University, where he taught English, and became a full-time writer. In the years…
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EP 37: Cancel Culture: It's Real and On the Rise
When Dave Chappelle’s recent show at First Avenue in Minneapolis was cancelled amid protests, it reignited the debate around cancel culture, with all…
4 years, 1 month ago
EP 36: The Case Against the Sexual Revolution
Since the sexual revolution, women’s lives have undergone dramatic changes. The dominant narrative is that liberal feminism has freed women in profou…
4 years, 1 month ago
EP 35: I Stopped Reading the News
For many journalists, it’s a point of pride to consume as much media as possible, as much of the time as possible. We think this makes us informed, b…
4 years, 2 months ago
EP 34: The Constitution of Knowledge
How do we arrive at truth? Tara's guest on the podcast today argues that it is through reality-based communities — in government, media, the law, and…
4 years, 2 months ago
EP 33: Who Really Benefits From the First Amendment?
Those on the political left have long seen free speech as a core tenet — so it’s been bizarre for many of us to watch the left abandon it, and, in ma…
4 years, 2 months ago
EP 32: The Freedom of Expression Wake Up Call
How do you regulate the Internet? It’s a question that the federal government in Canada is in the process of trying to answer. But its approach is ge…
4 years, 2 months ago
EP 31: Sensitivity Readers Are the New Literary Gatekeepers
If you’re a fiction reader and you’ve noticed that novels are getting more political — and more overtly aligned with the progressive political projec…
4 years, 2 months ago
EP 30: The Right
For all of the mainstream media’s coverage of Donald Trump, there’s not a very deep understanding of the Republican Party under that president, or, i…
4 years, 2 months ago
EP 29: Overdose
As the pandemic winds down, another public health emergency rages — and it is not getting as much attention. We're speaking, of course, about the opi…
4 years, 2 months ago