Caitlin Flanagan: Why I Finally Left Los Angeles
Caitlin Flanagan joins the show today, now an official columnist at The Free Press. Flanagan, one of the sharpest essayists working today, spent 35 years in Los Angeles before deciding she’d had enoug...
22 Jun 1h 4min
Coleman Hughes vs. Peter Beinart Debate: Should Israel Be a Jewish State?
Peter Beinart is a writer and author who has contributed to The New Republic, The Atlantic, and The New York Times. He grew up a committed Zionist and has spent the last decade publicly refuting that ...
15 Jun 1h 44min
Is America’s Racial Reckoning Over? With John McWhorter
John McWhorter is back. This time, Coleman and John analyze where America stands on race in 2026, whether the woke moment is genuinely behind us, and what may have replaced it. They also get into why ...
8 Jun 1h 8min
Why You Shouldn’t Be Scared of AI
Aman Verjee has had one of the more unusual careers in finance. He started on Wall Street at Lehman Brothers, joined PayPal in its earliest days and worked alongside Peter Thiel and Elon Musk, and eve...
1 Jun 57min
What People Who Choose Assisted Death Actually Say
In 2016, Canada legalized assisted dying for the terminally ill. Since then, the law—medical assistance in dying, or MAID—has expanded dramatically—to people with chronic but non-terminal conditions, ...
26 Mai 1h 2min
Michael Shellenberger on the Psychology of Left-Wing Violence
Michael Shellenberger is the author of San Fransickco and Apocalypse Never. He’s a former progressive activist, and one of the most prominent advocates for nuclear energy in the country. In this episo...
18 Mai 1h 1min
The War Before the War: What Everyone Gets Wrong About Israel-Palestine
Oren Kessler explains the origins of Palestinian nationalism, the myth that Jews started the conflict in Israel, and why peace in the region has been elusive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit m...
11 Mai 1h 9min
Walter Russell Mead on Christian Zionism, the ‘Israel Lobby’ Myth, and the Psychology of Antisemitism
Why do Americans support Israel? The standard answers—D.C. lobbying, shared democratic values, strategic benefits—all miss something. Walter Russell Mead, one of America's foremost foreign policy scho...
4 Mai 1h 2min
