Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchEnding the age of animal cruelty, with Bruce Friedrich
Episode 189
You often hear that eating animals is natural. And it is. But not the way we do it.
The industrial animal agriculture system is a technological marvel…
7 years, 1 month ago
Robert Sapolsky on the toxic intersection of poverty and stress
Episode 188
Robert Sapolsky is a Stanford neuroscientist and primatologist. He’s the author of a slew of important books on human biology and behavior. But it’s …
7 years, 1 month ago
Frances Lee on why bipartisanship is irrational
Episode 187
There aren’t too many people with an idea that will actually change how you think about American politics. But Frances Lee is one of them. In her new…
7 years, 1 month ago
Sean Decatur doesn’t see a free speech crisis on campus
Episode 186
Sean Decatur is the president of Kenyon College and the first African-American to hold that job. He’s also one of the most thoughtful voices in the d…
7 years, 1 month ago
Cal Newport has an answer for digital burnout
Episode 185
Cal Newport suspects you’re a digital maximalist — someone who believes that any potential for benefit is reason enough to start using a new technolo…
7 years, 1 month ago
Eric Holder’s plan to save democracy
Episode 184
Eric Holder was attorney general during the first six years of Barack Obama’s presidency, and there are days when it feels like he’s the attorney gen…
7 years, 2 months ago
Anil Dash on the biases of tech
Episode 183
“Marc Andreessen famously said that ‘software is eating the world,’ but it’s far more accurate to say that the neoliberal values of software tycoons …
7 years, 2 months ago
Jill Lepore on America’s two revolutions
Episode 182
Jill Lepore is a Harvard historian, a New Yorker contributor, and the author of These Truths, a dazzling one-volume synthesis of American history. Sh…
7 years, 2 months ago
Best of: N.K. Jemisin
Episode 181
This is the most fun I’ve ever had on a podcast. Nora Jemisin — better known by her pen name, N.K. Jemisin — won the Hugo Award for best novel this y…
7 years, 2 months ago
Best-of: Bryan Stevenson
Episode 180
Here, at the holidays, I wanted to share some of my favorite episodes of the show with you. Bryan Stevenson tops the list. He’s the founder of the Eq…
7 years, 2 months ago