Best of: A Life-Changing Philosophy of Games
Today, we’re re-airing one of my favorite episodes of all time. It was originally recorded in February of 2022, but I've been unable to stop thinking about it ever since.When we play Monopoly or baske...
19 Elo 20221h 12min
The Office is Dying. It’s Time to Rethink How We Work.
Over the past year, many places have returned to something approximating a prepandemic normal. Restaurants are filling up again. Airports and hotels are packed. Even movie theaters have made a comebac...
16 Elo 20221h 32min
How Do We Face Loss With Dignity?
In his latest work, “The Last White Man,” the award-winning writer Mohsin Hamid imagines a world that is very like our own, with one major exception: On various days, white people wake up to discover ...
12 Elo 20221h 16min
Three Sentences That Could Change the World — and Your Life
Today’s show is built around three simple sentences: “Future people count. There could be a lot of them. And we can make their lives better.” Those sentences form the foundation of an ethical framewor...
9 Elo 20221h 8min
Gender Is Complicated for All of Us. Let’s Talk About It.
It’s hard to think of anything changing more quickly in our society right now than our understanding of gender. There’s an explosion of young people identifying as gender nonconforming in some way or ...
5 Elo 20221h 15min
The Argument: Who Can Write About What?
Today we're bringing you an episode from our friends at The Argument, about cultural appropriation in creative work. In recent years, book written by white authors like “American Dirt” and “The Help" ...
2 Elo 202227min
Best Of: Ruth Ozeki’s Enchanted Relationship to Minds and Possessions
Today we're taking a short break and re-releasing one of our favorite episodes from 2022, a conversation with the novelist and Buddhist priest Ruth Ozeki. We'll be back with new episodes next week!The...
29 Heinä 202258min
The Mid-Century Media Theorists Who Saw What Was Coming
“At the very heart of democracy is a contradiction that cannot be resolved, one that has affected free societies from ancient Greece to contemporary America,” write Zac Gershberg and Sean Illing in th...
26 Heinä 20221h 2min
