Yascha Mounk: Is Trump’s incompetence saving us from his illiberalism?
Yascha Mounk is a Lecturer on Government at Harvard University, a Fellow in the Political Reform Program at New America, and host of the podcast, The Good Fight. He’s also the author of some of the sc...
23 Touko 20171h 34min
Bryan Stevenson on why the opposite of poverty isn’t wealth, but justice
Bryan Stevenson is the founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative. He and his staff have won reversals, relief, or release for more than 115 wrongly convicted prisoners on death ro...
16 Touko 20171h 33min
Death, Sex, and Money’s Anna Sale on bringing empathy to politics
There’s much talk of “empathy” in today’s politics, but it’s a cramped, weaponized form of empathy — an empathy designed to force us to grudgingly tolerate each other, or an empathy used to explain aw...
9 Touko 201753min
Cory Booker returns, live, to talk trust, Trump, and basic incomes
Senator Cory Booker is back! In this special live episode of The Ezra Klein Show — taped at Vox Conversations — Booker and I dig into America’s crisis of trust. Faith in both political figures and pol...
4 Touko 20171h 11min
VC Bill Gurley on transforming health care
Washington has been gripped of late by the world’s most depressing, least imaginative, debate over health care. The question, as it stands, is whether Obamacare will survive (while being mildly, but p...
2 Touko 20171h 13min
Elizabeth Warren on what Barack Obama got wrong
Elizabeth Warren is the founder of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the senior senator from Massachusetts, and the author of the new book, “This Fight Is Our Fight: The Battle to Save America...
25 Huhti 201747min
Cal Newport on doing Deep Work and escaping social media
I was asked recently to name a book that changed my life. The book I chose was Cal Newport’s “Deep Work,” and for the most literal of reasons: it’s changed how I lived my life. Particularly, it’s led ...
18 Huhti 20171h 23min
G. Willow Wilson on religion, comics, and modern myths
This is a podcast about topics we don’t always cover on this show. Religion. Spirituality. Gender roles. Traditionalist societies. Comic books.G. Willow Wilson is the author of The Butterfly Mosque, A...
11 Huhti 20171h 16min
