Status Games, Polyamory and the Merits of Meritocracy
Agnes Callard is an ethical philosopher who dissects, in dazzlingly precise detail, familiar human experiences that we think we understand. Whether her topic is expressing anger, fighting with others,...
14 Touko 20211h 21min
Michael Lewis Is Asking the Right Question
Michael Lewis’s new book, “The Premonition,” is about one of the most important questions of this moment: Why, despite having the most money, the brightest minds and the some of the most robust public...
11 Touko 202159min
Elizabeth Warren on What We Get Wrong About Inequality
One lesson of covering policy over the past 20 years is that whatever Elizabeth Warren is thinking about now is what Washington is going to be talking about next.So when I read Senator Warren’s new bo...
7 Touko 202155min
How to Have Better Conversations About Hard Things
Anna Sale is one of my favorite interviewers. As the host of WNYC Studios’ “Death, Sex and Money,” she has an uncanny ability to get her guests to open up about the most personal, tragic, beautiful an...
4 Touko 20211h 3min
How Chuck Schumer Plans to Win Over Trump Voters
In his 100 days address this week, Joe Biden outlined his plans for a big, bold legislative agenda to come. He previewed a two-pronged economic package: the $2.25 trillion American Jobs Plan and the $...
30 Huhti 202145min
Shame, Safety and Moving Beyond Cancel Culture
I’ve been thinking lately about how to move beyond the binary debate over cancel culture. And a good place to start is with the deeper question we’re all trying to ask: What is the kind of politics — ...
27 Huhti 20211h 1min
Noam Chomsky’s Theory of the Good Life
How do you introduce Noam Chomsky? Perhaps you start here: In 1979, The New York Times called him “arguably the most important intellectual alive today.” More than 40 years later, Chomsky, at 92, is s...
23 Huhti 20211h 12min
That Anxiety You’re Feeling? It’s a Habit You Can Unlearn.
This has been a bad year for the anxious among us — myself very much included. The pandemic was objectively terrifying. And many of us were trapped inside, with nothing we could do about it, severed f...
20 Huhti 202159min
