This Conservative Thinks America’s Institutions ‘Earned’ Their Distrust
You can’t understand the modern Republican Party without understanding the complete collapse of trust in mainstream institutions that has taken place among its voters over the last half-century.In 196...
15 Aug 202354min
A Conservative on How His Party Has Changed Since 2016
The 2024 Republican presidential primary is officially underway, and Donald Trump is dominating the field. But this is a very different contest than it was in 2016. Back then, the Republican Party was...
8 Aug 202356min
How Martin Wolf Understands This Global Economic Moment
The world economy has experienced many shocks over the past few years: A pandemic. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Skyrocketing inflation. These are the stories that have dominated headlines — and for g...
1 Aug 20231h 29min
Biden, Psychedelics, Twitter, My New Book — and So Much More
As I head into a three-month book leave, I wanted to take some time to address a wide array of listeners’ questions. My column editor, Aaron Retica, joins me for a conversation that ranges from the co...
25 Jul 20231h 15min
Barbara Kingsolver Thinks Urban Liberals Have It All Wrong on Appalachia
When Barbara Kingsolver set out to write her latest novel, “Demon Copperhead,” she was already considered one of the most accomplished writers of our time. She had won awards including the Women’s Pri...
21 Jul 20231h 1min
What We Learned From the Deepest Look at Homelessness in Decades
California has around half of the nation’s unsheltered homeless population. The state’s homelessness crisis has become a talking point for Republicans and a warning sign for Democrats in blue cities a...
18 Jul 20231h 2min
What Tom Hanks Thinks of America
There are few actors as widely beloved as Tom Hanks. Hanks has acted in over 75 films in his 46-year career, winning the best actor Academy Award two years in a row, for “Philadelphia” and “Forrest Gu...
14 Jul 202351min
A.I. Could Solve Some of Humanity’s Hardest Problems. It Already Has.
Since the release of ChatGPT, huge amounts of attention and funding have been directed toward chatbots. These A.I. systems are trained on copious amounts of human-generated data and designed to predic...
11 Jul 20231h 28min
