This Conversation With Richard Powers Is a Gift
There are certain conversations I fear trying to fit into a description. There’s just more to them than I’m going to be able to convey. This is one of them.Richard Powers is the author of 13 novels, i...
28 Sep 20211h 24min
Opinion Crossover: California Republicans, Facebook and Media Navelgazing
Today, we’re doing something a little different. Instead of a normal interview, we wanted to let you in on a special round table discussion I recently had with my fellow Opinion Audio hosts: Jane Coas...
24 Sep 202134min
We’re on the Precipice of a Post-Roe World
A few weeks ago, the Supreme Court let stand a Texas law creating a system of vigilante legal enforcement against anyone who participates in an abortion after the point of fetal cardiac activity. In e...
21 Sep 202159min
Economics Needs to Reckon With What It Doesn’t Know
“The world discovered that John Maynard Keynes was right when he declared during World War II that ‘anything we can actually do, we can afford,’” writes Adam Tooze. “Budget constraints don’t seem to e...
17 Sep 20211h 15min
How Colson Whitehead Writes About Our ‘Big Wild Country’
“If he got a thrill out of transforming these ill-gotten goods into legit merchandise, a zap-charge in his blood like he’d plugged into a socket, he was in control of it and not the other way around,”...
14 Sep 202156min
Tyler Cowen on the Great Stagnation’s End
Tyler Cowen is an economist at George Mason University, the co-founder of the blog Marginal Revolution, and host of the podcast “Conversations With Tyler.” But more than that, he’s a genuine polymath ...
10 Sep 20211h 17min
Can We Change Our Sexual Desires? Should We?
“Feminists have long dreamed of sexual freedom,” writes Amia Srinivasan. “What they refuse to accept is its simulacrum: sex that is said to be free, not because it is equal, but because it is ubiquito...
7 Sep 20211h 5min
This Isn’t Your Grandpa’s Joe Biden
President Biden’s economic policy isn’t what you would have expected from his long career. That’s true in the legislation he’s backing, which is bigger and bolder than anything we’ve seen from him bef...
3 Sep 202154min
