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
Tyler Cowen on the Great Stagnation’s End
Tyler Cowen is an economist at George Mason University, the co-founder of the blog Marginal Revolution, and host of the podcast “Conversations With Tyler.” But more than that, he’s a genuine polymath ...
10 Sep 20211h 17min
Can We Change Our Sexual Desires? Should We?
“Feminists have long dreamed of sexual freedom,” writes Amia Srinivasan. “What they refuse to accept is its simulacrum: sex that is said to be free, not because it is equal, but because it is ubiquito...
7 Sep 20211h 5min
This Isn’t Your Grandpa’s Joe Biden
President Biden’s economic policy isn’t what you would have expected from his long career. That’s true in the legislation he’s backing, which is bigger and bolder than anything we’ve seen from him bef...
3 Sep 202154min
Ask Ezra Anything: Degrowth, Third Parties, Reading and More
We asked for your questions, and you answered. Hundreds and hundreds of fantastic questions poured in, and our producer Annie Galvin joined me to ask some of the best of them. Does the infrastructure ...
31 Aug 20211h 11min
The Foreign Policy Conversation Washington Doesn’t Want to Have
Everything about the Afghanistan withdrawal is tragic. But that tragedy is the result not of the withdrawal, but the occupation, and America’s profound misjudgment of its own power and limits.This is ...
27 Aug 202159min
This Conversation Will Change How You Think About Trauma
“Trauma is much more than a story about something that happened long ago,” writes Dr. Bessel van der Kolk. “The emotions and physical sensations that were imprinted during the trauma are experienced n...
24 Aug 20211h 17min
The Argument: Should We Say "Hi" to Aliens?
We're taking this week off from publishing new episodes, so today we're bringing you an episode from "The Argument" about one of my favorite topics: aliens. We'll be back with new episodes of "The Ezr...
20 Aug 202136min
