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Best of: Alison Gopnik changed how I think about love
Best of: Alison Gopnik changed how I think about love
Happy Thanksgiving! We will be back next week with brand new episodes, but on a day when so many of us are thinking abou... Read more
26 Nov 2020
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1hr 35mins
Ranked #2
Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook’s hardest year, and what comes next
Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook’s hardest year, and what comes next
It’s been a tough year for Facebook. The social networking juggernaut found itself engulfed by controversies over fake n... Read more
2 Apr 2018
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51mins
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Jenny Odell on nature, art, and burnout in quarantine
Jenny Odell on nature, art, and burnout in quarantine
One of my favorite episodes of this show was my conversation with Jenny Odell, just under a year ago. Odell, a visual ar... Read more
7 May 2020
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1hr 8mins
Ranked #4
Best-of: Bryan Stevenson
Best-of: Bryan Stevenson
Here, at the holidays, I wanted to share some of my favorite episodes of the show with you. Bryan Stevenson tops the lis... Read more
27 Dec 2018
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1hr 34mins
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Biden's immigration architect on racism, reform, and the Obama legacy
Biden's immigration architect on racism, reform, and the Obama legacy
NPR journalist, memoirist, and host of the upcoming WBEZ podcast The Art of Power Aarti Shahani talks with Cecilia Muñoz... Read more
11 Feb 2021
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1hr 4mins
Ranked #6
Ta-Nehisi Coates: "There’s not gonna be a happy ending to this story"
Ta-Nehisi Coates: "There’s not gonna be a happy ending to this story"
Ta-Nehisi Coates is an author at the Atlantic. His book, Between the World and Me, won the National Book Award, and was ... Read more
14 Dec 2016
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1hr 46mins
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Best of: Michael Lewis reads my mind
Best of: Michael Lewis reads my mind
Michael Lewis needs little introduction. He’s the author of Liar’s Poker, Moneyball, The Big Short, The Blind Side, The ... Read more
28 Dec 2020
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1hr 46mins
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Ta-Nehisi Coates on my “cold, atheist book”
Ta-Nehisi Coates on my “cold, atheist book”
This one was a pleasure. Ta-Nehisi Coates joined me in Brooklyn for part of the “Why We’re Polarized” tour. His descript... Read more
17 Feb 2020
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1hr 15mins
Ranked #9
Malcolm Gladwell on the danger of joining consensus opinions
Malcolm Gladwell on the danger of joining consensus opinions
Malcolm Gladwell needs no introduction (though if you didn't know the famed author has launched a podcast, you should — ... Read more
23 Aug 2016
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1hr 35mins
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Where Jonathan Haidt thinks the American mind went wrong
Where Jonathan Haidt thinks the American mind went wrong
Jonathan Haidt is a psychologist at New York University and the co-founder of Heterodox University. His book The Righteo... Read more
26 Nov 2018
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1hr 53mins
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Work as identity, burnout as lifestyle
Work as identity, burnout as lifestyle
In the past few months, two essays on America’s changing relationship to work caught my eye. The first was Anne Helen Pe... Read more
22 Apr 2019
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1hr 24mins
Ranked #12
Having a bad day? Dave Eggers can help.
Having a bad day? Dave Eggers can help.
I’ve wanted to have Dave Eggers on the show for a while now. Eggers has not only written a vast range of books (a deeply... Read more
18 Nov 2019
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1hr 25mins
Ranked #13
The conservative mind of Yuval Levin
The conservative mind of Yuval Levin
Something I’ve been thinking a lot about recently is the way we often conflate two very distinct things when we assign p... Read more
9 Jan 2020
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1hr 21mins
Ranked #14
Nathan Robinson’s case for socialism
Nathan Robinson’s case for socialism
“Socialism” is simultaneously one of the most commonly used and most confusing terms in American politics. Does being a ... Read more
6 Jan 2020
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1hr 43mins
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Bill Gates on stopping climate change, building robots, and the best books he's read
Bill Gates on stopping climate change, building robots, and the best books he's read
Bill Gates is one of those people for whom "needs no introduction" is actually true. The polymathic Microsoft founder no... Read more
23 Feb 2016
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44mins
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Are humans fundamentally good? (with Rutger Bregman)
Are humans fundamentally good? (with Rutger Bregman)
Dutch historian and De Correspondent writer Rutger Bregman got famous for the lashings he gave Tucker Carlson and the as... Read more
1 Jun 2020
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1hr 39mins
Ranked #17
Taking Trump’s corruption seriously
Taking Trump’s corruption seriously
The question of whether President Trump colluded with Russia during the 2016 election has consumed Washington since the ... Read more
2 Aug 2018
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1hr 7mins
Ranked #18
Pete Buttigieg’s theory of political change
Pete Buttigieg’s theory of political change
First off. Hello! I’m back from paternity leave. And this is a helluva podcast to restart with.Pete Buttigieg is a Rhode... Read more
1 Apr 2019
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1hr 2mins
Ranked #19
David French on “The Great White Culture War"
David French on “The Great White Culture War"
David French is a senior writer for National Review and one of the conservatives I read most closely. About a month ago,... Read more
10 Sep 2018
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1hr 35mins
Ranked #20
Neoliberalism and its discontents
Neoliberalism and its discontents
“Neoliberalism” is one of the most confusing phrases in political discourse today. The term is often used to describe th... Read more
24 Oct 2019
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1hr 34mins