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Why Bill Gates is worried
Episode 159
“To put it bluntly,” wrote Bill and Melinda Gates in their foundation’s annual Goalkeepers Report, “decades of stunning progress in the fight against…
7 years, 4 months ago
Reihan Salam makes the case against open borders
Episode 158
In his new book, Melting Pot or Civil War: A Son of Immigrants Makes the Case Against Open Borders, Reihan Salam tries to do something difficult: bui…
7 years, 5 months ago
Jose Antonio Vargas on living undocumented in Trump’s America
Episode 157
Jose Antonio Vargas was born in the Philippines in 1981. When he was 12, his mother sent him to America, to live with family. When he was 16, he went…
7 years, 5 months ago
Rebecca Traister: Women's rage is transforming America
Episode 156
Why did Christine Blasey Ford have to smile and politely ask for breaks while Brett Kavanaugh could rage at the cameras and dismiss the hearings as a…
7 years, 5 months ago
Patrick Deneen says liberalism has failed. Is he right?
Episode 155
Liberalism, write Patrick Deneen, "has been for modern Americans like water for a fish, an encompassing political ecosystem in which we have swum, un…
7 years, 5 months ago
Francis Fukuyama’s case against identity politics
Episode 154
Is all politics identity politics? And if so, then what does it mean to condemn identity politics in the first place? That’s the subject of my discus…
7 years, 5 months ago
Carol Anderson on the myth of American democracy
Episode 153
The president of the United States was the runner-up in the popular vote. The majority in the US Senate got fewer votes than the minority. And even i…
7 years, 5 months ago
Martha C. Nussbaum on how fear deforms our politics
Episode 152
In her new book Monarchy of Fear, famed philosopher Martha C. Nussbaum identifies fear as the oldest and deepest of our emotions. Fear takes hold in …
7 years, 5 months ago
David French on “The Great White Culture War"
Episode 151
David French is a senior writer for National Review and one of the conservatives I read most closely. About a month ago, he published an interesting …
7 years, 6 months ago
Your attention is being hijacked. Chris Bailey can help.
Episode 150
Life is the sum focus of what you pay attention to. You hear that a lot. But look at the verb there: “pay” attention to. As if attention is something…
7 years, 6 months ago