The Bible Story Every Atheist Should Read, with Megan Phelps-Roper
Megan Phelps-Roper grew up as the public face of the Westboro Baptist Church, the hate group founded by her grandfather, known for picketing veterans’ funerals with signs condemning gay people and Jew...
14 Okt 1h 13min
Inside Israel’s War Room: What Really Happened After October 7
Elliot Kaufman’s new book, In the War Room, is an inside account of how Israel actually fought the war that followed October 7, 2023. A Wall Street Journal editorial writer, Kaufman spent the last two...
5 Okt 1h 43min
The Real Reason the Black Family Fell Apart
Delano Squires spent 15 years working in D.C. government, including a stint in the city’s office of gun violence prevention, where he noticed the same story on repeat: Young black men were both victim...
28 Sep 1h 2min
Roland Fryer on the Cost of Telling the Truth
Roland Fryer is a professor of economics at Harvard University, the youngest black academic ever to receive tenure there, and a recipient of the John Bates Clark Medal for his research on racial inequ...
21 Sep 57min
The Lie at the Center of Antisemitism, with Dara Horn
Dara Horn is a novelist and essayist whose book People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present examined how contemporary culture sentimentalizes Jewish suffering while ignoring the fullness of ...
17 Sep 1h
How Do You Talk a Klansman out of the Klan? Ask Daryl Davis.
Daryl Davis is a blues musician who has spent over 40 years doing something few people would attempt: sitting down with members of the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacist groups, one on one, to a...
14 Sep 1h 24min
He Couldn’t Save His Brother on 9/11. He Spent the Next 25 Years Saving Others.
Frank Siller’s youngest brother, Stephen, was orphaned at 10, grew up to become a New York City firefighter, and was driving home from a night shift on the morning of September 11, 2001, when he heard...
11 Sep 45min
The Secret Recordings That Reveal How Presidents Really Think
Tim Naftali is a presidential historian who spent four years running the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum. He’s listened to thousands of hours of secret Oval Office recordings from Nixon,...
3 Sep 1h 24min
