The loneliness epidemic
As US surgeon general from 2014 to 2017, Vivek Murthy visited communities across the United States to talk about issues like addiction, obesity, and mental illness. But he found that what Americans wa...
10 Loka 20191h 18min
Ibram X. Kendi wants to redefine racism
Racism is one of the most morally charged words in the English language. It is typically understood as a form of deep inner prejudice — something that people actively feel and consciously express. My ...
7 Loka 20191h 29min
Malcolm Gladwell’s Stranger Things
Malcolm Gladwell’s work is nothing short of an intellectual adventure. Sometimes, as in his podcast Revisionist History, he takes something small and mundane — a hockey statistic, a semicolon, a verb...
3 Loka 20191h 35min
An inspiring conversation about democracy
Danielle Allen directs Harvard’s Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics. She’s a political theorist, and a philosopher, and the principal investigator of the Democratic Knowledge Project. I talk about demo...
30 Syys 20191h 29min
Samantha Power’s journey from foreign policy critic to UN ambassador
Samantha Power reported from the killing fields of Bosnia. She watched a genocide that could’ve been stopped years earlier grind on amidst international indifference. What she saw there led to A Probl...
26 Syys 20191h 31min
When meritocracy wins, everybody loses
In The Meritocracy Trap, Daniel Markovits argues that meritocracy — a system set-up to expand opportunity, reduce inequality and end aristocracy — has become exactly what it was set up to combat: a me...
23 Syys 20191h 29min
Nikole Hannah-Jones on the 1619 project, choosing schools, and Cuba
“The truth is that as much democracy as this nation has today” writes Nikole Hannah-Jones “it has been borne on the backs of black resistance.” Hannah-Jones is an investigative journalist at the New Y...
19 Syys 20191h 42min
Randall Munroe, the genius behind XKCD
I’m not usually a fanboy on this podcast, but this episode is the exception. I love the web-comic XKCD. I’ve had prints of it hanging in my house for years. It’s nerdy and humane, curious and kind. An...
16 Syys 20191h 25min
