Good News Bad News
Amanda woke up to good news and bad news arriving at the exact same moment — again. In true Hard Knocks fashion, that personal experience sends Chris and Amanda down a rabbit hole exploring one of lif...
23 Juni 48min
Fifty Words for Snow
Amanda Knox is a multi-linguist and self-described word nerd. In this essay she explores the fascinating world of untranslatable words, the ones that exist in some languages but not others, and what t...
9 Juni 15min
Old School: The Canceling of the American Mind (Greg Lukianoff)
Greg Lukianoff is one of our nation's foremost defenders of free speech, co-author of "The Canceling of the American Mind," and president of FIRE, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression. ...
2 Juni 53min
Married to the Work
What happens when your creative partner is also your spouse? Amanda and Chris dive into the messy, rewarding world of creative collaboration,from co-writing a book of love poems to navigating the high...
26 Maj 1h 9min
How To Be A Woman in Public (Sophie Gilbert)
What happens when a culture decides that visibility is power and then punishes women for being visible? Amanda sits down with Sophie Gilbert, staff writer at The Atlantic, and author of Girl on Girl: ...
19 Maj 1h
Walkie Talkies
In this monthly Hard Knox essay Amanda explores the "third way of being": not alone, not truly together, but that warm middle state where you want someone near without the obligation of actually meeti...
12 Maj 15min
Old School: Monsters (Claire Dederer)
We are now routinely faced with a dilemma: News breaks hat an artist beloved has done something horrible. How does that change our experience of their art? There’s no one better to help us explore thi...
5 Maj 59min
