EP 37: Cancel Culture: It's Real and On the Rise
When Dave Chappelle’s recent show at First Avenue in Minneapolis was cancelled amid protests, it reignited the debate around cancel culture, with all of the old arguments resurfacing once again. So th...
30 Heinä 202229min
EP 36: The Case Against the Sexual Revolution
Since the sexual revolution, women’s lives have undergone dramatic changes. The dominant narrative is that liberal feminism has freed women in profound ways. So why does data show that women’s happine...
27 Heinä 202239min
EP 35: I Stopped Reading the News
For many journalists, it’s a point of pride to consume as much media as possible, as much of the time as possible. We think this makes us informed, better at our jobs. So it caused a stir last week wh...
22 Heinä 202227min
EP 34: The Constitution of Knowledge
How do we arrive at truth? Tara's guest on the podcast today argues that it is through reality-based communities — in government, media, the law, and science and academia — which collectively determin...
20 Heinä 202252min
EP 33: Who Really Benefits From the First Amendment?
Those on the political left have long seen free speech as a core tenet — so it’s been bizarre for many of us to watch the left abandon it, and, in many cases now even campaign against it. Tara's ...
15 Heinä 202219min
EP 31: Sensitivity Readers Are the New Literary Gatekeepers
If you’re a fiction reader and you’ve noticed that novels are getting more political — and more overtly aligned with the progressive political project in particular — there’s a reason for this. Big pu...
7 Heinä 202216min
EP 30: The Right
For all of the mainstream media’s coverage of Donald Trump, there’s not a very deep understanding of the Republican Party under that president, or, indeed, the forces that led up to his election. In t...
6 Heinä 202235min
