Learning to Listen to the Voices Only You Hear
The world has gotten louder, even when we’re alone. A day spent in isolation can still mean a day buffeted by the voices on social media and the news, on podcasts, in emails and text messages. Objects...
25 Jan 202259min
The View From the White House
It’s been a year since Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th president of the United States. And what a roller coaster of a year it’s been.The Biden administration blew past its Covid vaccination goal of...
21 Jan 202245min
The Pandemic Lessons We Clearly Haven’t Learned
I remember thinking, as Covid ravaged the country in December 2020, that at least the holidays the next year would be better. There would be more vaccines, more treatments, more immunity. Instead, we ...
18 Jan 20221h 15min
Chris Hayes on How Biden Can Have a Better 2022
Nothing like a newborn and paternity leave to leave you feeling a bit out of the loop. So for my first podcast back since October, I wanted to wander through the thickets of where we are politically a...
11 Jan 20221h 3min
Best Of: This Conversation Will Change How You Think About Thinking
For decades, our society’s dominant metaphor for the mind has been a computer. A machine that operates the exact same way whether it’s in a dark room or next to a sunny window, whether it’s been worki...
4 Jan 20221h 8min
Best Of: Why Sci-Fi Legend Ted Chiang Fears Capitalism, Not A.I.
For years, I’ve kept a list of dream guests for this show. And as long as that list has existed, Ted Chiang has been atop it.Chiang is a science fiction writer. But that undersells him. He has release...
28 Dec 202150min
Best Of: Noam Chomsky's Theory of the Good Life
How do you introduce Noam Chomsky? Perhaps you start here: In 1979, The New York Times called him “arguably the most important intellectual alive today.” More than 40 years later, Chomsky, at 92, is s...
21 Dec 20211h 12min
Timeless Wisdom for Leading a Life of Love, Friendship and Learning
“Today, we are supercompetent when it comes to efficiency, utility, speed, convenience, and getting ahead in the world; but we are at a loss concerning what it’s all for,” Leon Kass writes in his 2017...
14 Dec 20211h 5min
