Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchBest of: The age of "mega-identity" politics
Episode 278
Happy Thanksgiving! Please enjoy a re-air episode from April 2018 with Lilliana Mason.
Yes, identity politics is breaking our country. But it’s not id…
6 years, 3 months ago
Because podcast
Episode 277
Gretchen McCulloch is a self-described “internet linguist,” host of the podcast Lingthusiasm, and author of the recent book Because Internet: Underst…
6 years, 3 months ago
There’s more to life than profit
Episode 276
Yancey Strickler is the co-founder and former CEO of Kickstarter, and he’s just released a new book, This Could Be Our Future: A Manifesto for a More…
6 years, 3 months ago
Having a bad day? Dave Eggers can help.
Episode 275
I’ve wanted to have Dave Eggers on the show for a while now. Eggers has not only written a vast range of books (a deeply ironic personal memoir, a he…
6 years, 3 months ago
How Whole Foods, yoga, and NPR became the hallmarks of the elite
Episode 274
If you're anything like me, this episode will make you think about the way you shop, learn, eat, parent, and exercise in a whole new way.
My guest tod…
6 years, 3 months ago
How social media makes us antisocial
Episode 273
Andrew Marantz is a writer at the New Yorker who, for years, has been deeply immersed in the world of conservative trolls, alt-right social media per…
6 years, 4 months ago
ICYMI: Edward Norton’s theory of mind, movies, and power
Due to a technical glitch this interview with Edward Norton did not find it’s way into most people’s feeds. If you were able to download the first o…
6 years, 4 months ago
Introducing Reset
Episode 272
Thanks for listening to Reset from Recode and the Vox Media Podcast Network. Today's episodes were Can A.I. Tech You To Write Better and Quantum Supr…
6 years, 4 months ago
What a smarter Trumpism would sound like
Episode 272
Michael Lind is a visiting professor at the University of Texas at Austin, the co-founder of the New America Foundation, and an important contributor…
6 years, 4 months ago
The climate crisis is an oceans crisis
Episode 271
Welcome to episode 2 of our climate cluster. The more I prepared for this series, the more I realize there was a big blue gap in my understanding of …
6 years, 4 months ago