Podcast Episodes

Why Trump, Putin, Xi and other dictators make disastrous decisions

Here’s the paradox: The higher you rise in any hierarchy, your decisions are likely to have larger and larger consequences. Yet the higher you rise, …

4 years, 6 months ago

My coffee klatsch with Heather

This morning I had coffee with my colleague Heather Lofthouse, who runs Inequality Media. We talked about generational change (boomers; millennials, …

4 years, 6 months ago

PS: Could Putin pull America back together?

Okay, I’m going to go out on a limb today and suggest something that would have seemed utter nonsense as late as a month ago: I’m seeing the stirring…

4 years, 6 months ago

Office Hours: What's the Democrats' message?

Welcome to Wednesday, friends.

Biden’s advisers are saying that the crisis in Ukraine presents a chance for a reset — Biden’s best opportunity to rest…

4 years, 6 months ago

How to stop big oil from profiteering off Putin?

Hello friends, and welcome to Tuesday.

This morning I filled my car with gas costing over five dollars a gallon. My car is a Mini Cooper that I bought…

4 years, 6 months ago

Helplessness in the face of evil

It’s like watching a three-hundred-pound bully beat up a kid half his size, for no reason — bloodying the poor kid, pulverizing him. Yet you don’t da…

4 years, 6 months ago

Putin and Trump have convinced me I was wrong about the twenty-first century

I used to believe several things about the twenty-first century that Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and Donald Trump’s election in 2016 have shown me ar…

4 years, 6 months ago

The best thing for American children that nobody's talking about

Among the most heartrending casualties in Ukraine are the children. So far, a million of them have fled the nation. Many are on their own, without pa…

4 years, 6 months ago

Office Hours: War fever

I’m becoming increasingly worried that a growing segment of the American public is pushing for a war with Russia. Needless to say, that would be suic…

4 years, 6 months ago

Five ways Putin's war could (possibly) make America better

Nothing good comes from war except, on occasion, the prevention of something even worse. As pressure increases on the Biden Administration to take mo…

4 years, 6 months ago