Tending Your Garden in a Burning World

Tending Your Garden in a Burning World

In a moment when the news feels relentless and outrage is often treated as a moral obligation, Amanda reflects on what meditation is really for. Is sitting quietly a form of disengagement, or a way of learning how to respond without making things worse? Drawing on Zen practice, Buddhist history, and her own experience of trauma, activism, and family life, Amanda explores the false choice between rage and withdrawal, and makes the case for tending the quality of our own minds as a prerequisite for meaningful engagement. In a world on fire, this is an argument for care, clarity, and action that doesn’t multiply harm. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Good News Bad News

Good News Bad News

Amanda woke up to good news and bad news arriving at the exact same moment — again. In true Hard Knocks fashion, that personal experience sends Chris and Amanda down a rabbit hole exploring one of lif...

23 Kesä 48min

Why Fear Makes Bad Policy (Laura Porter)

Why Fear Makes Bad Policy (Laura Porter)

The death penalty is often sold as justice. But what if it's just a very expensive decades-long process, doesn't deter crime, and gets it wrong often enough that 190 people have been exonerated from d...

16 Kesä 1h 2min

Fifty Words for Snow

Fifty Words for Snow

Amanda Knox is a multi-linguist and self-described word nerd. In this essay she explores the fascinating world of untranslatable words, the ones that exist in some languages but not others, and what t...

9 Kesä 15min

Old School: The Canceling of the American Mind (Greg Lukianoff)

Old School: The Canceling of the American Mind (Greg Lukianoff)

Greg Lukianoff is one of our nation's foremost defenders of free speech, co-author of "The Canceling of the American Mind," and president of FIRE, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression. ...

2 Kesä 53min

Married to the Work

Married to the Work

What happens when your creative partner is also your spouse? Amanda and Chris dive into the messy, rewarding world of creative collaboration,from co-writing a book of love poems to navigating the high...

26 Touko 1h 9min

How To Be A Woman in Public (Sophie Gilbert)

How To Be A Woman in Public (Sophie Gilbert)

What happens when a culture decides that visibility is power and then punishes women for being visible? Amanda sits down with Sophie Gilbert, staff writer at The Atlantic, and author of Girl on Girl: ...

19 Touko 1h

Walkie Talkies

Walkie Talkies

In this monthly Hard Knox essay Amanda explores the "third way of being": not alone, not truly together, but that warm middle state where you want someone near without the obligation of actually meeti...

12 Touko 15min

Old School: Monsters (Claire Dederer)

Old School: Monsters (Claire Dederer)

We are now routinely faced with a dilemma: News breaks hat an artist beloved has done something horrible. How does that change our experience of their art? There’s no one better to help us explore thi...

5 Touko 59min

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