EP 237: Ryan Zickgraf on the Politicization of Charity
One of the problems with increased polarization is that everything gets politicized, including simple acts of charity. Our guest on the program this week is an American journalist who’s been tracking ...
25 Feb 24min
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 State...
20 Feb 42min
EP 235: Richard Stursberg: Who Killed CanLit?
Canadians who write books, or cover books, or read books will know that something is wrong with our literary industry. But a new book documents just how far off the rails publishing has gone. Our gues...
11 Feb 36min
EP 234: Harrison Lowman on James Bennet, The New York Times and the Era of Activist Journalism
This week on the Lean Out podcast we are taking a look at the chaotic summer of 2020, and the impact of that unrest on mainstream journalism. Our guest on the program this week has a new interview wit...
4 Feb 28min
EP 233: Steven Scherer: The Road From Foreign Correspondent to Uber Driver
We live in an age of economic precarity and journalists are not exempt from this. Our guest on the program this week has written a powerful Substack essay about his path from foreign correspondent to ...
28 Jan 35min
EP 232: Larissa Phillips on the Rift Between Men and Women
Men and women don’t seem very happy these days. They are dissatisfied with dating, polarized politically, trash talking each other online, and both marriage and fertility are on the decline. What is r...
21 Jan 31min
EP 231: 'Enough White Guys Already': Jacob Savage on a Lost Generation
The popularity of identity politics, and the subsequent fallout from this ideology, is something that we’ve tried to unpack and understand on the Lean Out podcast. Our guest on the program this week h...
14 Jan 25min
EP 230: Elizabeth Grace Matthew: We Need to Move On From Girl Bosses and Trad Wives
With the new year now upon us, we are going to continue our conversation about the state of feminism, and how we might begin to think and talk about women’s lives in ways that are more productive. Our...
7 Jan 40min
