Let's Talk About the Anxiety Freedom Can Cause
Maggie Nelson is a poet, critic and cultural theorist whose work includes the award-winning 2016 book “The Argonauts.” Her newest work, “On Freedom,” pierces right into the heart of America’s founding...
8 Okt 20211h 5min
How to Do the Most Good
Do we actually know how much good our charitable donations do?This is the question that jump-started Holden Karnofsky’s current career. He was working at a hedge fund and wanted to figure out how to g...
5 Okt 20211h 28min
Eric Adams Has a Message for the Democratic Party
In July, Eric Adams narrowly won the Democratic nomination for mayor of New York, making him the odds-on favorite to win in November. And he won the nomination by running directly against the verities...
1 Okt 202148min
This Conversation With Richard Powers Is a Gift
There are certain conversations I fear trying to fit into a description. There’s just more to them than I’m going to be able to convey. This is one of them.Richard Powers is the author of 13 novels, i...
28 Sep 20211h 24min
Opinion Crossover: California Republicans, Facebook and Media Navelgazing
Today, we’re doing something a little different. Instead of a normal interview, we wanted to let you in on a special round table discussion I recently had with my fellow Opinion Audio hosts: Jane Coas...
24 Sep 202134min
We’re on the Precipice of a Post-Roe World
A few weeks ago, the Supreme Court let stand a Texas law creating a system of vigilante legal enforcement against anyone who participates in an abortion after the point of fetal cardiac activity. In e...
21 Sep 202159min
Economics Needs to Reckon With What It Doesn’t Know
“The world discovered that John Maynard Keynes was right when he declared during World War II that ‘anything we can actually do, we can afford,’” writes Adam Tooze. “Budget constraints don’t seem to e...
17 Sep 20211h 15min
How Colson Whitehead Writes About Our ‘Big Wild Country’
“If he got a thrill out of transforming these ill-gotten goods into legit merchandise, a zap-charge in his blood like he’d plugged into a socket, he was in control of it and not the other way around,”...
14 Sep 202156min
