Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps

Peter Beinart is arguably the world’s most influential Jewish anti-Zionist.  He’s a journalist and a professor of journalism and political science. But in American and Jewish cultural life, he’s far ...

17 Aug 1h 35min

What unites Trump and Obama, Pepsi and Coca-Cola, the far right and the far left? They’re all brilliant at defining their brands. They have a clear narrative. They can tell a compelling story about th...

13 Aug 16min

What does it mean to be a dissident? If you join a protest march, are you dissenting… or conforming? How should you push back against leaders who wield fear and intimidation; against digital technolog...

10 Aug 1h 14min

Is Israel making Jews safer, or less safe? Does pro-Palestinian activism feed antisemitism, or is that a Zionist lie? And why are Greek men so hunky? Two of Josh’s favourite gals, ChayaLeah and Yael ...

6 Aug 17min

Fable this. Deepseek that. As fascinating as each new A.I. model breakthrough (or breakout) is, are we missing the forest for the trees? The Reverend Josh believes so. In this scintillating Substack L...

5 Aug 48min

Exploding pagers! Enigma codes! Sexy Israeli spies! J Edgar Hoover's boyfriend's remote-controlled window opener! And, yes, Trump's top-secret ballroom bunker. It's all told with impeccable style by ...

3 Aug 1h 32min

What’s up with boys? Or, more importantly, what’s up with the men who use “what’s up with boys?” to crush women? It’s not just a rag-tag fringe of young male influencers who are reviving sexism. Ther...

30 Jul 18min

The way culture-war ideologues have hijacked The Odyssey reveals how social media ruins everything. As go the arguments about the film, so go our conversations about fairness, gender, race and immigra...

27 Jul 32min