Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchIs Tom Steyer the solution to our dysfunctional politics?
Episode 297
Tom Steyer has worked for Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. He made his billions running a hedge fund for decades before moving into progressive acti…
6 years, 1 month ago
Why We're Polarized, with Jamelle Bouie (live!)
Episode 296
The Why We’re Polarized book tour kicked off this week with a wonderful event at Sixth and I in Washington, DC. My conversation partner for this one…
6 years, 1 month ago
Antisemitism now, antisemitism then
Episode 295
“The bad days are back” wrote Batya Ungar-Sargon in the Forward in December, “Orthodox Jews are living through a new age of pogroms. This week, as we…
6 years, 1 month ago
Book excerpt: A better theory of identity politics
Episode 294
This is a podcast episode literally years in the making. It’s an excerpt — the first anywhere — from my book Why We’re Polarized.
A core argument of t…
6 years, 1 month ago
The war on Muslims (with Mehdi Hasan)
Episode 293
With “reeducation" camps in China, religious disenfranchisement in India, ethnic cleansing in Myanmar, street violence in Sri Lanka, mass shootings i…
6 years, 1 month ago
Post-debate special!
Episode 292
Vox's Matt Yglesias and I unpack the debate that did, and didn't, happen.
Related reading:
"Joe Biden will never give up on the system" by Ezra Klein
"4…
6 years, 1 month ago
An “uncomfortable” conversation with Cory Booker
Episode 291
There is a moral radicalism to the way Cory Booker lives out his politics. He lived for years in a housing project. He leads hunger strikes. He chall…
6 years, 1 month ago
The conservative mind of Yuval Levin
Episode 290
Something I’ve been thinking a lot about recently is the way we often conflate two very distinct things when we assign political labels. The first is…
6 years, 2 months ago
How an epidemic begins and ends
Episode 289
Introducing season 3 of The Impact!
The 2020 candidates have some bold ideas to tackle some of our country's biggest problems, like climate change, th…
6 years, 2 months ago
Nathan Robinson’s case for socialism
Episode 289
“Socialism” is simultaneously one of the most commonly used and most confusing terms in American politics. Does being a socialist mean advocating for…
6 years, 2 months ago