EP 236: Amanda Ripley on the Media's Trump Fixation

EP 236: Amanda Ripley on the Media's Trump Fixation

If you follow the news in this country, you know that Canada is currently grappling with a number of crises, from housing to mental health. And yet much of our attention is focused on the United States and on Donald Trump. Our guest on the podcast this week has just published an essay about this. She argues that, much like in a dysfunctional family, the media’s fixation on Trump is a distraction from looking at deeper issues. Amanda Ripley is an American journalist and a New York Times bestse...

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EP 251: Full Press on How 'Mass Graves' Became Canada's Biggest Journalism Failure

EP 251: Full Press on How 'Mass Graves' Became Canada's Biggest Journalism Failure

The big news in Canada this week has been The Globe and Mail editorial board’s admission that the industry and the paper bungled the unmarked graves story from 2021 — that this in fact constituted a j...

3 Jun 38min

EP 250: Is Phoebe Maltz Bovy the Last Straight Woman?

EP 250: Is Phoebe Maltz Bovy the Last Straight Woman?

You wouldn’t think that a woman declaring that she is into men would a subversive act — but at some point during recent years, this became the case in certain circles. Particularly online feminist cir...

27 Mai 51min

EP 249: Jacob Siegel on Big Tech and the Information State

EP 249: Jacob Siegel on Big Tech and the Information State

Most of us are aware that the digital age we are living through is a time of incredible transformation. But we may not have contemplated what we’d like to see preserved — things like free speech. Some...

20 Mai 1h 3min

Ep 248: Tony Keller on How Canada Lost the Plot on Immigration

Ep 248: Tony Keller on How Canada Lost the Plot on Immigration

Canada’s immigration system was once the envy of the world. And for decades, the country enjoyed a bipartisan pro-immigration consensus. But during the Trudeau years, that consensus fell apart. Our gu...

13 Mai 47min

EP 247: Why Are Gen Z Girls Miserable? Freya India Explains

EP 247: Why Are Gen Z Girls Miserable? Freya India Explains

We know that young women are increasingly unhappy — with high rates of depression and anxiety — and our guest on the program this week says there’s good reason for that. In her new book, she argues th...

6 Mai 33min

EP 246: Tom Junod: What Does It Mean to Be a Man?

EP 246: Tom Junod: What Does It Mean to Be a Man?

What does it mean to be a man? Our guest on the program this week has published a book that examines that very question. It is part memoir, part meditation on masculinity, and part detective story — a...

29 Apr 34min

EP 245: John Tomasi on the Diversity We Don't Discuss

EP 245: John Tomasi on the Diversity We Don't Discuss

In recent years, viewpoint diversity has become a loaded term. But our guest on the program this week says it is vital that we renew our commitment to dialogue, especially across lines of difference. ...

22 Apr 37min

EP 244: Ric Esther Bienstock on the Campus Culture Wars

EP 244: Ric Esther Bienstock on the Campus Culture Wars

There can be no doubt that we are living through politically charged times — and this is especially true at North American universities. My guest on the program this week has spent the past decade mak...

16 Apr 44min

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