Podcast Episodes

Resilience

I often tell my students that if they strive to achieve full and meaningful lives they should expect failures and disappointments. We learn to walk b…

4 years, 11 months ago

America's real moral crisis

Friends,

At a time when the six Republican appointees on the Supreme Court — prodded by Texas, Mississippi, and several other red states — seem ready …

4 years, 11 months ago

The Week Ahead: Crunch time

Friends,

This week, Democrats either reach agreement on Biden’s social and climate agenda or the agenda may shrink into meaninglessness. The climate …

4 years, 11 months ago

What makes me optimistic about the future?

What’s the single most important thing that keeps me optimistic about the future? To put it simply: my students.

I’ve been teaching on and off for th…

4 years, 11 months ago

The two biggest challenges to our democracy

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4 years, 11 months ago

The Great Re-evaluation

Let me share with you in this short podcast some of the things I’ve heard from people in the last few months, which may suggest the first stirrings o…

4 years, 11 months ago

Personal History: Is it possible for Democrats and Republicans in Washington to be close friends?

This morning I phoned my old friend Alan Simpson, the former Wyoming senator.

Alan and I see eye-to-eye on nothing. He’s a conservative Republican, I’…

4 years, 11 months ago

The Week Ahead: Two high-stakes games of chicken

This week, we’re going to witness two high-stakes games of chicken.

1. The first game will be between Senate Democrats and Senate Republicans over ra…

5 years ago

Thanks for joining me

My first week of writing (and drawing) this letter has been everything I hoped it would be, largely because of you. Thank you for joining me in this …

5 years ago