
EP 199: Jenara Nerenberg on Resisting Groupthink in Polarized Times
In polarized times, our tolerance for different perspectives decreases. Groupthink becomes common, and we can often find ourselves either censored, or self-censoring. Our guest on the program today ha...
11 Jun 202529min

EP 198: Eric Kaufmann: Is Woke Dead?
Tonight, in London, England, a group of writers and thinkers will gather to debate a key cultural question: “Is woke dead?” And tomorrow, the inaugural conference of a new centre for social science ki...
4 Jun 202531min

EP 197: ENCORE: Larissa Phillips on Bridging Our Divides
As Tara puts the finishing touches on her next book, on declining trust in the media, we wanted to bring you a few encore interviews that have helped shaped her thinking on the media — including today...
28 Mai 202530min

EP 196: ENCORE: Musa al-Gharbi on the Cultural Contradictions of the Elites
As Tara puts the finishing touches on her next book, on declining trust in the media, we wanted to bring you a few encore interviews that have helped shaped her thinking on the media — including today...
21 Mai 202552min

EP 195: Meghan Daum on Life's Catastrophe Hours
In this turbulent era, for many of us there is a moment in every day when anxiety steals over us. We pause, and in that rare period of stillness, the fears surface — but sometimes, if we’re lucky, so ...
14 Mai 202536min

EP 194: Darrell Bricker on Our Divided Nation
Now that the dust has settled on the Canadian federal election, we can pause for a moment and assess where we are at as a country. What lessons can we take from the election results? Our guest on toda...
7 Mai 202525min

EP 193: David Zweig on Pandemic School Closures
One of the most polarizing policies of the pandemic era was the extended school closures. Critics have now been validated, with The New York Times reporting that “a growing body of research shows that...
30 Apr 202534min

EP 192: Election 2025 - Victor Febres on Political Polarization
Last week, at the English-language election debate, the leaders’ press scrums were cancelled after tensions between media outlets erupted into shouting in the press room, and other confrontations. Thi...
26 Apr 202531min





















