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Kara Swisher interviews me on the Future of Journalism (Live!)
Episode 179
When I decided to start an interview podcast, the first person I went to for advice was Kara Swisher — founder of Recode, host of the Code Conference…
7 years, 2 months ago
TED’s Chris Anderson on the lessons of listening
Episode 178
You know TED. Black stage, red accents, wireless mic, one speaker. Billions of views each year. TED is more than a conference now; it’s a meme: “Than…
7 years, 2 months ago
Rep. Katie Porter on how capitalism is failing
Episode 177
Katie Porter is the Rep.-elect from California’s 45th District, which happens to be the district I grew up in. She’s part of the brigade of Democrats…
7 years, 2 months ago
How Hasan Minhaj is reinventing political comedy
Episode 176
In Patriot Act, Hasan Minhaj’s new Netflix show, he does three things political comedians often don’t do. First, he makes political comedy personal. …
7 years, 2 months ago
Adam Serwer on white political correctness
Episode 175
“What a society finds offensive is not a function of fact or truth,” writes Adam Serwer, “but of power.” Serwer is a writer at the Atlantic, and he’s…
7 years, 3 months ago
Will Storr on why you are not yourself
Episode 174
“To have a self is to feel as if we are, in the words of neuroscientist Professor Chris Frith, the ‘invisible actor at the centre of the world’.” Tha…
7 years, 3 months ago
How to be a better carnivore
Episode 173
Here are two things I believe. First, the way we treat the animals we kill for food is shameful. Second, only a tiny percentage of the population wil…
7 years, 3 months ago
Peter Beinart on anti-Semitism in America and illiberalism in Israel
Episode 172
This is a conversation I’ve been putting off, if I’m being honest. I can’t hold it from the safe space of journalistic distance. It’s about the stran…
7 years, 3 months ago
Where Jonathan Haidt thinks the American mind went wrong
Episode 171
Jonathan Haidt is a psychologist at New York University and the co-founder of Heterodox University. His book The Righteous Mind, which describes the …
7 years, 3 months ago
The Impact: Deportation without representation
Episode 170
For Thanksgiving listening, I have an episode of The Impact, from my Weeds co-host Sarah Kliff. The Impact is a show about how policy shapes our live…
7 years, 3 months ago