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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
Anand Giridharadas on the elite charade of changing the world
Episode 149
“How can there be anything wrong with trying to do good?” asks Anand Giridharadas in his new book, Winners Take All. “The answer may be: when the goo…
7 years, 6 months ago
I build a world with fantasy master N.K. Jemisin
Episode 148
I’m just going to say it. This may be the most fun I’ve ever had on a podcast. Nora Jemisin — better known by her pen name, N.K. Jemisin — just won t…
7 years, 6 months ago
Reup: Zephyr Teachout vs. Corruption
Episode 147
Zephyr Teachout is a law professor at Fordham University and one of the nation’s foremost experts on political corruption. She’s also, after a glowin…
7 years, 6 months ago
Is our economy totally screwed? Andrew Yang and I debate.
Episode 146
"The future without jobs will come to resemble either the cultivated benevolence of Star Trek or the desperate scramble for resources of Mad Max,” wr…
7 years, 6 months ago
Chef Marcus Samuelsson on immigration, creativity, and Anthony Bourdain
Episode 145
Marcus Samuelsson is the Michelin-starred chef behind Harlem’s The Red Rooster an award-winning cookbook author,the winner of the first season of Top…
7 years, 7 months ago
Why online politics gets so extreme so fast
Episode 144
During the 2016 campaign, Zeynep Tufekci was watching videos of Donald Trump rallies on YouTube. But then, she writes, she "noticed something peculia…
7 years, 7 months ago
Taking Trump’s corruption seriously
Episode 143
The question of whether President Trump colluded with Russia during the 2016 election has consumed Washington since the Justice Department appointed …
7 years, 7 months ago
The surprising story of how American politics polarized
Episode 142
We talk a lot on this podcast about the epic levels of political polarization and how much of our ongoing breakdown they explain. But what was Americ…
7 years, 7 months ago
The most important idea for understanding American politics in 2018
Episode 141
America is changing. A majority of infants are, for the first time in US history, nonwhite — and the rest of the population is expected to follow sui…
7 years, 7 months ago