Is Climate Change a Reason to Avoid Having Children? and Other Listener Questions Answered
It’s that time of year, when we invite listeners to send in questions, and I answer them on the air. And as usual, you delivered. I’m joined by my producer Annie Galvin, who asks me some of the most i...
14 Jun 20221h 15min
Socialism Is Supposed to Be a Working-Class Movement. Why Isn’t It?
American socialists today find themselves in a tenuous position. Over the past decade, the left has become a powerful force in American politics. Bernie Sanders seriously contested two presidential pr...
10 Jun 20221h 11min
Thomas Piketty’s Case For ‘Participatory Socialism’
The French economist Thomas Piketty is arguably the world’s greatest chronicler of economic inequality. For decades now, he has collected huge data sets documenting the share of income and wealth that...
7 Jun 20221h 1min
A Conservative's View on Democrats' Biggest Weakness
“There is definitely a contest for the future of the center right,” says Reihan Salam, the president of the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank. In his telling, one side in this contest is ...
3 Jun 20221h 16min
Sex, Abortion and Feminism, as Seen From the Right
For decades, the conservative position on abortion has been simple: Appoint justices who will overturn Roe V. Wade. That aspiration is now likely to become reality. The question of abortion rights wil...
31 Mai 20221h 25min
Best Of: Nikole Hannah-Jones and Ta-Nehisi Coates on the Fight Over U.S. History
What does it mean to reckon with the violence, the tragedy, and the numerous contradictions of America? That is the focus of this conversation – originally aired in July of 2021 – with Nikole Hannah-J...
27 Mai 20221h 17min
A Conversation With Ada Limón, in Six Poems
“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.”When the news feels sod...
24 Mai 20221h 17min
The Ethics of Abortion
When Justice Samuel Alito’s draft opinion on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization leaked a few weeks ago, it signaled that Roe v. Wade appears likely to be overturned in a matter of weeks. If ...
20 Mai 20221h 12min
