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Back to SearchWhat would a Sanders or Biden presidency look like?
Episode 306
Super Tuesday winnowed the 2020 Democratic primary race down to two candidates: Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders. So how would their presidencies actuall…
6 years ago
Rebecca Solnit on Harvey Weinstein, feminism, and social change
Episode 305
Rebecca Solnit is one of the great activist-essayists of our age. Her books and writing cover a vast amount of human existence, but a common thread i…
6 years ago
Weeds 2020: The Bernie electability debate
Episode 305
Welcome to Weeds 2020! Every other Saturday Ezra and Matt will be exploring a wide range of topics related to the 2020 race.
Since the Nevada caucuse…
6 years ago
Tracy K. Smith changed how I read poetry
Episode 304
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…
6 years ago
Barbara Ehrenreich on UBI, class conflict, and collective joy
Episode 303
In the late 90s Barbara Ehrenreich went undercover as a waitress to discover how people with minimum wage full-time jobs were making ends meet. It tu…
6 years ago
What Donald Trump got right about white America
Episode 302
Hello! I’m Jane Coaston, filling in for Ezra. My guest today is Tim Carney, a commentary editor at the Washington Examiner and a visiting fellow at t…
6 years ago
Ta-Nehisi Coates on my “cold, atheist book”
Episode 301
This one was a pleasure. Ta-Nehisi Coates joined me in Brooklyn for part of the “Why We’re Polarized” tour. His description of the book may be my fav…
6 years ago
If God is dead, then … socialism?
Episode 300
Hello! I’m Sean Illing, Vox’s interviews writer filling in for Ezra while he’s on book tour. My guest today is Martin Hägglund, a philosopher at Yale…
6 years ago
Tim Urban on humanity’s wild future
Episode 299
I’ve been a fan of Tim Urban and his site Wait But Why for a long time. Urban uses whimsical illustrations, infographics, and friendly, nontechnical…
6 years, 1 month ago
Jill Lepore on what I get wrong
Episode 298
Jill Lepore is a Harvard historian, a New Yorker contributor, the author of These Truths, and one of my favorite past guests on this show. But in thi…
6 years, 1 month ago