Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchFannie Lou Hamer and the meaning of freedom
Vox's Jamil Smith talks with Keisha Blain, associate professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh and author of Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou H…
4 years, 4 months ago
What the internet took from us
Sean Illing talks with writer and New York Times Book Review editor Pamela Paul about her book 100 Things We've Lost to the Internet and the ways, bi…
4 years, 4 months ago
Trapped inside with Susanna Clarke's Piranesi
Vox's Constance Grady talks with novelist Susanna Clarke about her latest book, Piranesi, before a virtual audience for the Vox Book Club. They discu…
4 years, 4 months ago
Bryan Stevenson on the legacy of enslavement
Vox's Jamil Smith talks with attorney, author, and activist Bryan Stevenson about the newly expanded Legacy Museum in Montgomery, Alabama. They discu…
4 years, 4 months ago
What's your status?
Sean Illing talks with writer Will Storr about his new book The Status Game, and its central idea: all human beings are constantly competing for stat…
4 years, 5 months ago
Is there a hack for enlightenment?
Vox's Sigal Samuel talks with scholars and authors Wesley Wildman and Kate Stockly about their book, Spirit Tech: The Brave New World of Consciousnes…
4 years, 5 months ago
Fighting a world on fire with fire
Sean Illing talks with climate scholar Andreas Malm about his book How to Blow Up A Pipeline. They discuss the failure of decades of protests and app…
4 years, 5 months ago
Revolutionary Love
Vox's Jamil Smith talks with author, activist, and filmmaker Valarie Kaur about her memoir See No Stranger and the Revolutionary Love Project. They d…
4 years, 5 months ago
How to make meaning out of suffering
Vox’s Sean Illing talks with David Wolpe, senior rabbi of the Sinai Temple in Los Angeles, about the role and nature of God, how religion and spiritu…
4 years, 5 months ago
Ken Burns's latest on The Greatest
Vox's Jamil Smith talks with acclaimed documentary filmmakers Ken and Sarah Burns. The father-daughter team discuss their latest documentary about Th…
4 years, 5 months ago