Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThe quest for authenticity
Sean Illing talks with Skye Cleary, philosopher and author of the new book How to Be Authentic. The book is an examination of how to live an authenti…
3 years, 6 months ago
Even Better: Setting your boundaries
Every Thursday in August, you'll hear Even Better on Vox Conversations, a special series focused on helping people live better lives individually and…
3 years, 6 months ago
Your gut instinct is usually wrong
Sean Illing talks with former Google data scientist Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, author of Don't Trust Your Gut. Seth argues that the way we make decisi…
3 years, 6 months ago
Even Better: Workplace equality 2.0
Every Thursday in August, you'll hear Even Better on Vox Conversations, a special series focused on helping people live better lives individually and…
3 years, 6 months ago
Why we're still postmodern (whatever that means)
Sean Illing talks with Stuart Jeffries, journalist and author of Everything, All the Time, Everywhere, about why postmodernism is so hard to define, …
3 years, 6 months ago
Even Better: Activism when you don't know where to start
Every Thursday in August, you'll hear Even Better on Vox Conversations, a special series focused on helping people live better lives individually and…
3 years, 7 months ago
The Supreme Court's power grab
Sean Illing talks with Harvard Law professor Nikolas Bowie about the U.S. Supreme Court's recently-concluded term, which produced landmark opinions r…
3 years, 7 months ago
How middlemen took over the economy
Vox's Emily Stewart talks with Kathryn Judge, professor at Columbia Law School and author of the new book Direct: The Rise of Middleman Economy and t…
3 years, 7 months ago
The necessity — and danger — of free speech
Sean Illing talks with Washington Post media columnist Margaret Sullivan about his new book The Paradox of Democracy, which he co-authored with media…
3 years, 7 months ago
Hacking coral sex to save the reefs
Vox's Benji Jones talks with marine biologist Hanna Koch about her team's efforts to repopulate the planet's coral reefs through cutting-edge scienti…
3 years, 7 months ago