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Back to SearchBest of: The moral philosophy of The Good Place
Episode 394
After creating and running Parks and Recreation and writing for The Office, Michael Schur decided he wanted to create a sitcom about one of the most …
5 years, 2 months ago
Best of: Michael Lewis reads my mind
Episode 393
Michael Lewis needs little introduction. He’s the author of Liar’s Poker, Moneyball, The Big Short, The Blind Side, The Fifth Risk. He’s the host of …
5 years, 2 months ago
Best of: Tracy K. Smith changed how I read poetry
Episode 392
It’s the rare podcast conversation where, as it’s happening, I’m making notes to go back and listen again so I can fully absorb what I heard. But thi…
5 years, 2 months ago
What I’ve learned, and what comes next.
Episode 391
As strange as it is to write, this is my last podcast here at Vox.
In January, I'll be starting at the New York Times as a columnist on the opinion pa…
5 years, 2 months ago
Best of: An inspiring conversation about democracy with Danielle Allen
Episode 390
This conversation with Harvard political theorist Danielle Allen in fall 2019 is one of my all-time favorites.
Allen directs Harvard’s Edmond J. Saf…
5 years, 2 months ago
Michael Pollan on the psychedelic society
Episode 389
On November 3, as the country fixated on the incoming presidential election results, voters in Oregon approved a seemingly innocuous ballot measure w…
5 years, 2 months ago
Best of: Robert Sapolsky on the toxic intersection of poverty and stress
Episode 388
Robert Sapolsky is a Stanford neuroscientist and primatologist. He’s the author of a slew of important books on human biology and behavior, including…
5 years, 2 months ago
Joe Biden and "the new progressivism"
Episode 387
It’s often said that Joe Biden has an instinct for finding the political center — that of his party, and that of the country. To understand how Biden…
5 years, 3 months ago
Best of: Frances Lee on why bipartisanship is irrational
Episode 386
There are few conversations I’ve had on this show that are quite as relevant to our current political moment as this one with Princeton political sci…
5 years, 3 months ago
The most important book I've read this year
Episode 385
If I could get policymakers, and citizens, everywhere to read just one book this year, it would be Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future…
5 years, 3 months ago