Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchEP 203: Beth Kaplan on Getting Stuck - and Breaking Loose
In recent years, we’ve read a lot of memoirs from women who feel stuck in specific ways: single, childless, consumed by work, and disillusioned with hook-up culture. Our guest on today’s program is t…
Published on 4 months, 1 week ago
EP 202: Daniel Oppenheimer on How the Left Loses People
With the excesses of 2020 now being examined in mainstream outlets like The New York Times, we are witnessing a moment of introspection on the American left. To unpack this development, we're joined …
Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago
EP 201: Joan C. Williams on How the Left Lost the Working Class
It’s common knowledge these days that the left has lost the working class. But there is little curiosity about how, and why, and what that means for our politics. Our guest on this week's program has…
Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago
EP 200: Stephen Macedo and Frances Lee on How Our Politics Failed Us in the Pandemic
Three and a half years ago, during the pandemic era, we launched Lean Out to explore some basic questions about illiberalism in our response to the crisis — and in our culture, our politics, and our …
Published on 5 months ago
EP 199: Jenara Nerenberg on Resisting Groupthink in Polarized Times
In polarized times, our tolerance for different perspectives decreases. Groupthink becomes common, and we can often find ourselves either censored, or self-censoring. Our guest on the program today h…
Published on 5 months, 1 week ago
EP 198: Eric Kaufmann: Is Woke Dead?
Tonight, in London, England, a group of writers and thinkers will gather to debate a key cultural question: “Is woke dead?” And tomorrow, the inaugural conference of a new centre for social science k…
Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago
EP 197: ENCORE: Larissa Phillips on Bridging Our Divides
As Tara puts the finishing touches on her next book, on declining trust in the media, we wanted to bring you a few encore interviews that have helped shaped her thinking on the media — including toda…
Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago
EP 196: ENCORE: Musa al-Gharbi on the Cultural Contradictions of the Elites
As Tara puts the finishing touches on her next book, on declining trust in the media, we wanted to bring you a few encore interviews that have helped shaped her thinking on the media — including toda…
Published on 5 months, 4 weeks ago
EP 195: Meghan Daum on Life's Catastrophe Hours
In this turbulent era, for many of us there is a moment in every day when anxiety steals over us. We pause, and in that rare period of stillness, the fears surface — but sometimes, if we’re lucky, so…
Published on 6 months ago
EP 194: Darrell Bricker on Our Divided Nation
Now that the dust has settled on the Canadian federal election, we can pause for a moment and assess where we are at as a country. What lessons can we take from the election results? Our guest on tod…
Published on 6 months, 1 week ago