Election Week with Noam Chomsky
At the end of a historic week, who better to provide perspective than Noam Chomsky? Today, he unpacks the 2020 election (5:25), the virtues of the Green New Deal (9:00), the perceived “radicalism” of ...
8 Nov 202050min
Health & Science with Dr. Jha and Justin Rosenstein
On today's show: two dispatches from inside the medical community and Silicon valley, respectively. First we're joined by Justin Rosenstein, the man who led the team behind the Facebook like button. N...
29 Okt 20201h 13min
A Case for Human Decency (by Rutger Bregman)
Dutch historian and philosopher Rutger Bregman joins us this week to unpack his latest book, “Humankind: A Hopeful History”. We discuss his radical idea that “most people are decent” (4:30), the trick...
25 Okt 20201h 13min
Antwaun Sargent: Young, Gifted and Black
With the art world in flux, writer and critic Antwaun Sargent (The New Yorker, NY Times) joins us this weeks. We discuss the turbulence inside museums across the country (3:20), the potential (creativ...
22 Okt 202053min
State of the Union with Cornel West
As election day approaches, philosopher, public intellectual, and Harvard professor Cornel West joins us for a state of the union. We discuss the challenges of 2020 (06:42), our neofascist gangster Pr...
18 Okt 202049min
Radha Blank: The Forty-Year-Old Version
Writer/director Radha Blank joins us! We talk about taking back control of her voice in her debut film, now available via Netflix, The 40-Year-Old Version (6:04), the catharsis of rapping under the mo...
15 Okt 202045min
Rep. Ilhan Omar: What Can America Look Like?
Growing up Black in this country, Angela Davis taught Rep. Ilhan Omar that you must be “internally liberated to fight for external liberation”. As the first Somali-American elected to Congress, Omar h...
11 Okt 202046min
Claudia Rankine: Just Us
The illustrious author, poet, and playwright, Claudia Rankine, joins us with the release of her latest book, Just Us: An American Conversation. We discuss the conversations (3:12) and relationships (2...
4 Okt 20201h 3min
