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Back to SearchThe purpose of political violence
Episode 219
“Between 1830 and 1860, there were more than seventy violent incidents between congressmen in the House and Senate chambers or on nearby streets and …
6 years, 10 months ago
Ask Ezra Anything 3: Endgame
Episode 218
Time for another AMA! You all hit the big stuff in this one. What’s the purpose of this show? How do I prep for it? What did I think of the Whiteshif…
6 years, 10 months ago
The disillusionment of David Brooks
Episode 217
2013 was David Brooks’s worst year. “The realities that used to define my life fell away,” he says. His marriage ended. His children moved out. The c…
6 years, 10 months ago
Emily Oster schools me on parenthood
Episode 216
I’ve read a lot of Emily Oster over the past year. Her first book, Expecting Better, has become the data-minded parent’s bible on pregnancy. Her new …
6 years, 10 months ago
Lessons from Vox’s first 5 years
Episode 215
This is a special episode for me. Vox turns 5 this week! So I sat down with my co-founders, Melissa Bell and Matt Yglesias, to discuss what went righ…
6 years, 10 months ago
Work as identity, burnout as lifestyle
Episode 214
In the past few months, two essays on America’s changing relationship to work caught my eye. The first was Anne Helen Petersen’s viral BuzzFeed piece…
6 years, 10 months ago
How social democrats won Europe — then lost it
Episode 213
Democratic socialism is on the rise in the United States, but it’s been a dominant force for far longer in Europe. Ask Bernie Sanders to define his i…
6 years, 10 months ago
In defense of white-backlash politics
Episode 212
“The big question of our time is less, ‘What does it mean to be American?’ than, ‘What does it mean to be white American in an age of ethnic change?’…
6 years, 10 months ago
Identity, nationalism, and fatherhood
Episode 211
Michael Brendan Dougherty is a senior writer at National Review and the author of My Father Left Me Ireland, a moving, lyrical memoir about fatherhoo…
6 years, 11 months ago
An ex-libertarian’s quest to rebuild the center right
Episode 210
Nothing would do more to repair American politics than for the center right to regain power in the Republican coalition. But before that can happen, …
6 years, 11 months ago