EP 168: Sebastian Junger: Encounters With An Afterlife
New Year’s Day is often a day of quiet contemplation. A day to take stock of our lives, to review the past year and to look toward the one to come. As we settle in with our coffees, we wanted to bring...
1 Jan 202541min
EP 167: Richard V. Reeves on Why Modern Men Are Struggling
No podcast series on the challenges facing modern men is complete without hearing from my guest on today’s program. He’s a policy scholar who has been ringing the alarm on the social, economic, and he...
18 Dec 202436min
EP 166: Nicholas Eberstadt on Men Without Work
This week at Lean Out, we continue our podcast series on the challenges facing modern men, from declining educational achievement to rising suicides and overdoses. We’re happy to bring you an encore p...
11 Dec 202435min
EP 165: Daniel Cox on the Growing Gender Gap
Today at Lean Out, we continue our series on the challenges facing modern men. My guest on the program has done pioneering work on the increasing gender gap in American society and politics. He’s thou...
4 Dec 202429min
EP 164: Zaid Jilani on Why It's Not Always Easy Being a Man
The American election highlighted ongoing tensions between men and women — but election commentary often failed to acknowledge the crises that modern men are facing, from declining educational achieve...
27 Nov 202430min
EP 163: Ruy Teixeira: The Progressive Moment is Over
With Donald Trump winning the presidency, the popular vote, the Senate, and the House, in what The New York Times has described as a “crushing electoral rebuke” of the Democrats, there is a lot of sou...
22 Nov 202447min
EP 162: Andy Mills on What the Media Missed
In 2016, the election of Donald Trump took the mainstream media by surprise, with many in the press struggling to understand his rise to power and the factors driving it. Now, in the wake of Donald Tr...
20 Nov 20241h 17min
EP 161: Larissa Phillips on Loving Your Neighbour
Since last week’s election win for Donald Trump, we are seeing a renewed sense of scorn for Republican voters in parts of the mainstream media. The Guardian’s Rebecca Solnit, for example, writes in he...
13 Nov 202430min
