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Slate Conversations

A feed of the up close and the personal, drawn from Working and across the Slate podcast network. Let’s talk.

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Jonathan Haidt

Jonathan Haidt

Jonathan Haidt is a social psychologist whose new book is The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad... Read more

21 Sep 2018

37mins

Ranked #2

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Maggie Haberman

Maggie Haberman

Maggie Haberman is White House Correspondent for The New York Times and an analyst for CNN. She sits down with Isaac Cho... Read more

28 Jun 2017

34mins

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Ta-Nehisi Coates

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Ta-Nehisi Coates is the author of Between the World and Me, and now, We Were Eight Years In Power: An American Tragedy. ... Read more

9 Nov 2017

41mins

Ranked #4

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Chris Hayes

Chris Hayes

Isaac is joined by Emmy Award–winning news anchor Chris Hayes, host of All In with Chris Hayes on MSNBC and author of th... Read more

23 Mar 2017

45mins

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Ottessa Moshfegh

Ottessa Moshfegh

Ottessa Moshfegh is a writer whose new novel is ‘My Year of Rest and Relaxation.’ She sits down with Isaac Chotiner to d... Read more

27 Jul 2018

35mins

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Maggie Haberman

Maggie Haberman

Maggie Haberman is a White House correspondent for The New York Times and an analyst at CNN. She sits down with Isaac Ch... Read more

11 May 2018

32mins

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Anand Giridharadas

Anand Giridharadas

Anand Giridharadas is the author of the new book Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World. He sits down... Read more

24 Aug 2018

36mins

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Chuck Klosterman

Chuck Klosterman

Chuck Klosterman is a writer and essayist. In a wide-ranging conversation with Isaac Chotiner, he discusses the costs of... Read more

23 Feb 2018

52mins

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Andrew Sullivan

Andrew Sullivan

Andrew Sullivan has been writing about the menace of Donald Trump over the past year for New York Magazine, warning Amer... Read more

6 Apr 2017

52mins

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George Saunders

George Saunders

George Saunders is a short story writer and essayist who has just written his first novel, Lincoln in the Bardo. He sits... Read more

8 Jun 2017

36mins

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Adam Davidson

Adam Davidson

Adam Davidson is a staff writer at The New Yorker who has been examining the president’s tangled business dealings. He s... Read more

20 Apr 2018

34mins

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Mark Lilla

Mark Lilla

Mark Lilla is the author of The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity Politics. He sits down with Isaac Chotiner to de... Read more

24 Aug 2017

43mins

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David Remnick (Part 1)

David Remnick (Part 1)

David Remnick is the editor of The New Yorker. In the first installment of a two-part interview, he sits down with Isaac... Read more

21 Sep 2017

32mins

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Anthony Bourdain: A Previously Unaired Conversation from 2017

Anthony Bourdain: A Previously Unaired Conversation from 2017

Anthony Bourdain—the late chef and author—talks about his mistakes, the #MeToo movement, and Harvey Weinstein.Email: ask... Read more

15 Jun 2018

25mins

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Glenn Greenwald

Glenn Greenwald

Glenn Greenwald is one of the co-founding editors of The Intercept. He sits down with Isaac Chotiner to discuss whether ... Read more

10 Aug 2017

52mins

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David Frum

David Frum

David Frum is a senior editor at The Atlantic, and the author of the new book Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the America... Read more

19 Jan 2018

32mins

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David Remnick (Part 2)

David Remnick (Part 2)

David Remnick is the editor of The New Yorker. In the second installment of a two-part interview, he sits down with Isaa... Read more

28 Sep 2017

44mins

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Rebecca Traister

Rebecca Traister

Rebecca Traister is a writer-at- large for New York magazine. She sits down with Isaac Chotiner to discuss what she has ... Read more

16 Nov 2017

34mins

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Amy Chozick

Amy Chozick

Amy Chozick is the author of Chasing Hillary, a memoir about her experience covering the Clinton campaign for the New Yo... Read more

27 Apr 2018

32mins

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Washington Post reporter Ashley Parker

Washington Post reporter Ashley Parker

Ashley Parker is a political reporter at The Washington Post. She sits down with Isaac Chotiner to discuss what it’s rea... Read more

18 May 2017

31mins

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