The Myth of Confrontation
What happens when confronting the person who hurt you doesn’t bring the closure you hoped for? In this episode, Amanda responds to a listener wrestling with whether to confront an abusive family memb...
28 Apr 44min
A Wee Existential Crisis
What do you do when the thing that gave your life shape is finally, imperfectly, done? In this solo episode, Amanda Knox reads an original essay about arriving at the other side of an eighteen-year fi...
14 Apr 15min
How Paying for Intimacy Changes Everything (Andrea Werhun)
Andrea Werhun is an author, filmmaker, and former sex worker whose memoir and documentary Modern Whore challenge how we think about sex, labor, and stigma. In this wide ranging and often funny convers...
7 Apr 1h 25min
Ignorance Is Not Objectivity
What's the difference between bias and expertise? When a critic dismissed Amanda Knox's commentary on the Lucy Letby case as the grievance of a biased woman, the real question got buried: can lived ex...
31 Mar 51min
Why You Believe Weird Things (Michael Shermer)
What is truth, and why does finding it actually matter? Amanda sits down with Dr. Michael Shermer, founding publisher of Skeptic Magazine, longtime Scientific American columnist, and author of Truth: ...
24 Mar 1h 22min
Kill the Buddha and Slay, Diva!
After a stranger on Twitter told Amanda “Jesus, put on some makeup,” she responded with a joke: an AI image of Jesus wearing makeup and a one-word reply, “Fine.” The tweet went viral, drawing both lau...
17 Mar 22min
Why Prison Forces Us to Ask Hard Questions (John J. Lennon)
John J. Lennon is a journalist, author of The Tragedy of True Crime, and a convicted murderer who joined Amanda for this conversation from prison, where he is currently incarcerated. In this challengi...
10 Mar 1h 32min
