Podcast Episodes

Why Populist Revolutions Always Fail

Season 1 Episode 21

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Today we're talking with Benjamin Teitelbaum, author of "War for Etern…

Published on 4 months ago

'I Was MAGA. I Got Out.'

Season 1 Episode 20

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Today we’re talking with Rich Logis, a former Trump and MAGA supporter and pundit, who is now the founder of Leaving MAGA, an organization helping others break fr…

Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago

America's First Truly Radical Experiment

Season 1 Episode 19

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We are Virginia Heffernan and Stephen Metcalf, and today we’re talking with the great writer and reporter John Jeremiah Sullivan. We discuss:

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Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago

Empathy as Strategy: The Meidas Method

Season 1 Episode 18

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We are Virginia Heffernan and Stephen Metcalf, and today we’re talking with the great Ben Meiselas, co-host (and -founder) of the chart-busting MeidasTouch, and U…

Published on 5 months ago

EXCLUSIVE: U.S. watchlisted as 'repressive regime'

Season 1 Episode 17

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We are Virginia Heffernan and Stephen Metcalf, and today we’re talking with Mandeep Tiwana of CIVICUS, a global alliance of civil society organizations and activi…

Published on 5 months, 2 weeks ago

How to Build an Opposition

Season 1 Episode 16

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We are Virginia Heffernan and Stephen Metcalf, and today we’re talking with Michael Tomasky, author, journalist and editor of The New Republic.

In this episode, w…

Published on 5 months, 4 weeks ago

Literature as Political Resistance

Season 1 Episode 15

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We are Virginia Heffernan and Stephen Metcalf, and today we’re talking with Nicholas Dames, a Columbia professor and editor-in-chief of Public Books. In this epis…

Published on 6 months ago

MAGA Eugenics

Season 1 Episode 14

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We are Virginia Heffernan and Stephen Metcalf, and today we’re talking with Eric Reinhart, a physician-anthropologist of law, psychiatry, and public health and a …

Published on 6 months, 1 week ago

Musk's Damaged Masculinity

Season 1 Episode 13

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We are Virginia Heffernan and Stephen Metcalf, and today we’re talking with Ben Tarnoff, whose latest book is Internet for the People: The Fight for Our Digital F…

Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago

Pirates, Feminism, and the Future of Care

Season 1 Episode 12

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We are Virginia Heffernan and Stephen Metcalf, and today we’re talking with Nika Dubrovsky, artist, author and founder of the Museum of Care with her late husband…

Published on 6 months, 3 weeks ago