Can charities move beyond the feel-good model?
Zach Graumann — Yang2020 campaign manager, big coat aficionado, and founder of Samarity — returns to the podcast to talk about the most pressing challenges facing charities today. Zach and Andrew disc...
2 Okt 202341min
Avoiding the Identity Trap
Johns Hopkins professor and political scientist Yascha Mounk returns to the podcast to chronicle how postmodernism, postcolonialism, and critical race theory came together to create a well-intentioned...
25 Sep 202351min
Law Professor, Tiger Mom, Novelist
Amy Chua, bestselling author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, joins Andrew to talk about tribal dynamics, media narratives, the source of drive, and her new novel — The Golden Gate. Watch this epis...
18 Sep 202345min
The Last Election
Andrew welcomes his co-author Stephen Marche to the podcast to discuss their new groundbreaking new political thriller, The Last Election. Stephen and Andrew talk about why they wrote a novel, predict...
11 Sep 202351min
How to build a strong local economy
How do you bring back a city devastated by Hurricane Katrina? What are the mechanisms that drive local economies? Michael Hecht is the CEO of GNO, a non-profit that drives economic development in the ...
4 Sep 20231h 3min
Recoding America
Why is the US government failing in the digital age, and how we can do better? In this episode, Andrew sits down with Jennifer Pahlka, former US Deputy Chief Technology Officer and founder of Code for...
28 Aug 20231h 1min
Can we talk to each other again?
As a student at UC Berkeley, Manu Meel realized he wasn't having deep discussions with peers of different beliefs. Manu started BridgeUSA to spur a national movement among young people to talk to each...
21 Aug 202357min
Why do you want the things you want?
Desire is social, contagious, and malleable. Why do we unconsciously imitate the desires of others—and how do our "mimetic desires" shape our values and affect the way we live? Luke Burgis, author of ...
14 Aug 202341min
