Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchHow to topple dictators and transform society (with Erica Chenoweth)
Episode 288
The 2010s witnessed a sharp uptick in nonviolent resistance movements all across the globe. Over the course of the last decade we’ve seen record numb…
6 years, 2 months ago
Ask Ezra Anything
Episode 287
It’s here. The final AMA of 2019. Among the questions you asked:
- If you believe that changing someone's mind about a topic, any topic is difficult, …
6 years, 2 months ago
Best of: Work as identity, burnout as lifestyle
Episode 286
Here, at the end of the year, I wanted to share one of my favorite episodes of 2019 with you.
Earlier this year, two essays on America’s changing rela…
6 years, 2 months ago
Republicans vs. the planet
Episode 285
Dave Roberts is an energy and climate writer at Vox and a senior fellow at the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy at the University of Pennsylvania. H…
6 years, 2 months ago
The geoengineering question
Episode 284
Most analyses of how to “solve” climate change start from a single, crucial assumption: that carbon emissions and global warming are inextricably lin…
6 years, 2 months ago
How to solve climate change and make life more awesome
Episode 283
The climate series is back! The reason for the delay is that I wanted to make sure that this episode was next up in the series. Once you start listen…
6 years, 2 months ago
Paul Krugman on climate, robots, single-payer, and so much more
Episode 282
It’s cliché to call podcasts wide-ranging. But this conversation, with Nobel-prize winning economist and NY Times columnist Paul Krugman, really is. …
6 years, 2 months ago
The moral philosophy of The Good Place (with Mike Schur and Pamela Hieronymi)
Episode 281
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 …
6 years, 3 months ago
When doing the right thing makes you a criminal
Episode 280
For most of his life, Wayne Hsiung was a typical overachiever. He attended the University of Chicago, started his PhD in Economics, became a law prof…
6 years, 3 months ago
Peter Singer on the lives you can save
Episode 279
Imagine you’re walking to work. You see a child drowning in a lake. You’re about to jump in and save her when you realize you’re wearing your best su…
6 years, 3 months ago