Jill Lepore on America’s two revolutions
Jill Lepore is a Harvard historian, a New Yorker contributor, and the author of These Truths, a dazzling one-volume synthesis of American history. She’s the kind of history teacher everyone wishes the...
3 Jan 20191h 33min
Best of: N.K. Jemisin
This is the most fun I’ve ever had on a podcast. Nora Jemisin — better known by her pen name, N.K. Jemisin — won the Hugo Award for best novel this year for the third year in a row. No one had ever do...
31 Dec 20181h 23min
Best-of: Bryan Stevenson
Here, at the holidays, I wanted to share some of my favorite episodes of the show with you. Bryan Stevenson tops the list. He’s the founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, the author of the remarkabl...
27 Dec 20181h 32min
Kara Swisher interviews me on the Future of Journalism (Live!)
When I decided to start an interview podcast, the first person I went to for advice was Kara Swisher — founder of Recode, host of the Code Conference and the Recode/Decode podcast, and one of the most...
24 Dec 20181h 33min
TED’s Chris Anderson on the lessons of listening
You know TED. Black stage, red accents, wireless mic, one speaker. Billions of views each year. TED is more than a conference now; it’s a meme: “Thanks for coming to my TED talk” closes Tumblr and Twi...
20 Dec 20181h 9min
Rep. Katie Porter on how capitalism is failing
Katie Porter is the Rep.-elect from California’s 45th District, which happens to be the district I grew up in. She’s part of the brigade of Democrats who turned Orange County blue for the first time s...
17 Dec 20181h 19min
How Hasan Minhaj is reinventing political comedy
In Patriot Act, Hasan Minhaj’s new Netflix show, he does three things political comedians often don’t do. First, he makes political comedy personal. Second, he makes it visual. And third, he makes it ...
13 Dec 20181h 42min
Adam Serwer on white political correctness
“What a society finds offensive is not a function of fact or truth,” writes Adam Serwer, “but of power.” Serwer is a writer at the Atlantic, and he’s been looking at the identity politics and politica...
10 Dec 201850min
