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What economists and politicians get wrong about trade
Episode 140
For decades, Harvard’s Dani Rodrik has been a lonely voice in the economics profession warning that the academics were getting this one wrong. Trade …
7 years, 7 months ago
How to disagree better
Episode 139
Arthur Brooks is the president of the American Enterprise Institute, one of Washington’s most respected and powerful conservative think tanks. He’s a…
7 years, 7 months ago
Jaron Lanier’s case for deleting social media right now
Episode 138
During my book leave, I took a social media sabbatical. No reading Facebook. No reading Twitter. And you know what? It was great. I felt able to thin…
7 years, 8 months ago
The most clarifying conversation I’ve had about Trump and Russia (part 2)
Episode 137
What have we actually learned about Donald Trump’s ties to Russia, and his administration’s efforts to cover those ties up? What role did Russia real…
7 years, 8 months ago
The Supreme Court vs. Democracy
Episode 136
If 75,000 votes in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania had tipped the other way, President Hillary Clinton would’ve named both Antonin Scalia and A…
7 years, 8 months ago
Eric Garcetti on the lessons of Los Angeles
Episode 135
There’s been a lot of talk about the coming of majority-minority America — the point, projected for roughly 2045, when there will no longer be any ra…
7 years, 8 months ago
What Ellen Pao saw coming
Episode 134
Ellen Pao had a rough 2015. She lost her high-profile gender discrimination lawsuit against Kleiner Perkins, one of Silicon Valley’s biggest and most…
7 years, 8 months ago
The Green Pill
Episode 133
What accounts for the way most of us eat? What’s the ideology, the theory, behind our diets? And what happens when you stop believing in it? Over the…
7 years, 9 months ago
How Jane Mayer exposed Eric Schneiderman, Bush’s torture program, and the Kochs
Episode 132
On May 7, Jane Mayer and Ronan Farrow published a story in the New Yorker detailing New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s alleged history of …
7 years, 9 months ago
Political power and the racial wealth gap
Episode 131
The racial wealth gap is where past injustice compounds into present inequality. When I asked Ta-Nehisi Coates, on this show, what would prove to him…
7 years, 9 months ago