Ask Amanda Anything - Betrayals, Storytellers, and Balance
This week on Ask Amanda Anything: Why do betrayals from old friends still cut so deep, even years later? How can a lie about something small spiral into a wrongful conviction? Why does our justice sys...
11 Sep 202543min
How Sugar Dating Complicates Consent, Power, and Perception (Brook Urick)
Brook Urick became the public face of Seeking Arrangement, the dating site that brought sugar babies and sugar daddies into the mainstream—and into a media firestorm. In this episode, she and Amanda u...
9 Sep 20251h 14min
Old School: A Religious Conviction in Aliens (Michael Shermer)
Welcome to Old School, where we revisit some of our best episodes from previous years with some current reflections on why these episodes are still fascinating. In this “Old School” episode, Dr. Micha...
5 Sep 20251h 3min
Ask Amanda Anything - Public Judgement, Surveillance Culture, and Empathy
This week Amanda responds to your questions and reflects on how public judgment can shape your identity, why dramatization can spark empathy, how wrongful convictions often stem from human error, and ...
4 Sep 202548min
How to Stay Sane in a Media Storm (Jake Tapper)
In this episode, CNN anchor and novelist Jake Tapper joins Amanda in a wide-ranging converasation about navigating public scrutiny, maintaining personal ethics in a polarized news cycle, and why story...
2 Sep 20251h 11min
Bonus Episode: Seven Songs Podcast
This week on Hard Knox...music! We’re sharing Amanda’s guest appearance on Life in Seven Songs, a podcast where guests tell their life stories through seven tracks that shaped them. In this episode, A...
28 Aug 202535min
How to Forgive the Unforgivable (Anthony Graves)
Anthony Graves spent 18 years in prison—12 of them on death row—for a crime he didn’t commit. In this conversation, he shares how he survived solitary confinement, why he chose forgiveness over rage, ...
26 Aug 20251h 4min
Bonus Episode: Honestly with Bari Weiss and Amanda Knox
As a bonus for our Hard Knox listeners we are sharing Amanda’s recent appearance on the podcast Honestly with Bari Weiss. Bari is a journalist, author, and founder of The Free Press, known for her fea...
22 Aug 20251h 41min
