EP 234: Harrison Lowman on James Bennet, The New York Times and the Era of Activist Journalism
This week on the Lean Out podcast we are taking a look at the chaotic summer of 2020, and the impact of that unrest on mainstream journalism. Our guest on the program this week has a new interview wit...
4 Feb 28min
EP 233: Steven Scherer: The Road From Foreign Correspondent to Uber Driver
We live in an age of economic precarity and journalists are not exempt from this. Our guest on the program this week has written a powerful Substack essay about his path from foreign correspondent to ...
28 Jan 35min
EP 232: Larissa Phillips on the Rift Between Men and Women
Men and women don’t seem very happy these days. They are dissatisfied with dating, polarized politically, trash talking each other online, and both marriage and fertility are on the decline. What is r...
21 Jan 31min
EP 231: 'Enough White Guys Already': Jacob Savage on a Lost Generation
The popularity of identity politics, and the subsequent fallout from this ideology, is something that we’ve tried to unpack and understand on the Lean Out podcast. Our guest on the program this week h...
14 Jan 25min
EP 230: Elizabeth Grace Matthew: We Need to Move On From Girl Bosses and Trad Wives
With the new year now upon us, we are going to continue our conversation about the state of feminism, and how we might begin to think and talk about women’s lives in ways that are more productive. Our...
7 Jan 40min
EP 229: Valerie Stivers on the Joys of Home Cooking
It’s New Year’s Day and many of us will be at home, contemplating the year ahead. For New Year’s every year, Lean Out brings you an episode that is lighter and more hopeful. This year, we set our sigh...
1 Jan 25min
EP 228: Merry Christmas from Lean Out: Father Gregory Boyle on Hope and Healing
It’s Christmas Day and we at Lean Out wanted to bring you a special bonus episode — to celebrate the occasion and to meditate on the meaning of the holiday. Our guest on the program today is the found...
25 Dec 202524min
EP 227: Mike Pesca on Media Insanity
On the Lean Out podcast, one of the topics that we often return to is the media, and the insanity of the media. For the last show of 2025, our guest is a veteran journalist and a savvy media critic, a...
17 Dec 202540min
