Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchWhy the coronavirus is so deadly for black America
Episode 326
In Michigan, African Americans represent 14 percent of the population, 33 percent of infections, and 40 percent of deaths. In Mississippi they repres…
5 years, 9 months ago
Jenny Odell on nature, art, and burnout in quarantine
Episode 325
One of my favorite episodes of this show was my conversation with Jenny Odell, just under a year ago. Odell, a visual artist, writer, and Stanford le…
5 years, 10 months ago
An unusually honest conversation about wielding political power
Episode 324
Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) is the co-chair of the 95-member House Progressive Caucus. That means, in the aftermath of Sen. Bernie Sanders’s presiden…
5 years, 10 months ago
What should the media learn from coronavirus?
Episode 323
The coronavirus is “a nightmare scenario” for media, wrote New York Times columnist Charlie Warzel. “It is stealthy, resilient and confounding to exp…
5 years, 10 months ago
Bill Gates’s vision for life beyond coronavirus
Episode 322
In 2015, I asked Bill Gates a simple question: What are you most afraid of?
He replied by telling me about the death chart of the 20th century. There…
5 years, 10 months ago
An epic conversation with Madeline Miller
Episode 321
It’s been a while since I’ve been able to introduce a conversation on this show as fun. But this one was. I needed it. Maybe you do, too.
Madeline Mil…
5 years, 10 months ago
The loneliness pandemic/Betraying “essential workers”
Episode 320
We have something a bit different today. Two episodes from our extraordinary colleagues at Today, Explained, both of them close to my heart.
The firs…
5 years, 10 months ago
Why Bernie Sanders lost and how progressives can still win
Episode 319
The Democratic presidential primary is over. Joe Biden is the presumptive nominee heading into the fall. And this week, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth …
5 years, 10 months ago
Scott Gottlieb on how, and when, to end social distancing
Episode 318
When will social distancing end? When will life return to “normal”? And what will it take to get there?
Scott Gottlieb is a physician and public heal…
5 years, 10 months ago
Toby Ord on existential risk, Donald Trump, and thinking in probabilities
Episode 317
Oxford philosopher Toby Ord spent the early part of his career spearheading the effective altruism movement, founding Giving What We Can, and focusin…
5 years, 11 months ago