How Right-Wing Media Ate the Republican Party
In recent weeks, America got a preview of how the new Republican House majority would wield its power. In attempting to perform a basic function of government — electing a speaker — a coalition of 20 ...
20 Jan 20231h 23min
A Revelatory Tour of Martin Luther King Jr.’s Forgotten Teachings
It’s hard to think of a more celebrated figure of the 20th century than Martin Luther King Jr.He has a national memorial in Washington, D.C. His birthday is one of just 11 federal holidays. And his wo...
16 Jan 20231h 33min
A Guide to the ‘Legal Fictions’ That Create Wealth, Inequality and Economic Crises
“Capitalism, it turns out, is more than just the exchange of goods in a market economy,” Katharina Pistor writes. “It is a market economy in which some assets are placed on legal steroids.”Pistor is a...
13 Jan 20231h 34min
Dan Savage on Polyamory, Chosen Family and Better Sex
Even if you don’t recognize the advice columnist Dan Savage by name, it’s possible that his ideas have influenced how you think about sex and relationships. For decades now, Savage has been arguing th...
10 Jan 20231h 24min
A Skeptical Take on the A.I. Revolution
The year 2022 was jam-packed with advances in artificial intelligence, from the release of image generators like DALL-E 2 and text generators like Cicero to a flurry of developments in the self-drivin...
6 Jan 20231h 11min
Sabbath and the Art of Rest
Do we know how to truly rest? Who would we be if we did?I’ve been wrestling with these questions since I read Abraham Joshua Heschel’s stunning book “The Sabbath” in college. The ancient Jewish ritual...
3 Jan 20231h
Best Of: How America's Poet Laureate Sees Our World
“One of the biggest things about poetry is that it holds all of humanity,” the poet Ada Limón tells me. “It holds the huge and enormous and tumbling sphere of human emotions.”At the end of a turbule...
30 Des 20221h 17min
Best Of: Want to Save Democracy? Run For Office.
This week, we’re revisiting some of our favorite episodes from the year. For those who make New Year’s resolutions, today’s conversation might plant the seed for a bold one: Running for office.Amanda ...
27 Des 20221h 5min
