David French on “The Great White Culture War"
David French is a senior writer for National Review and one of the conservatives I read most closely. About a month ago, he published an interesting column responding to some things I had said, and to...
10 Sep 20181h 33min
Your attention is being hijacked. Chris Bailey can help.
Life is the sum focus of what you pay attention to. You hear that a lot. But look at the verb there: “pay” attention to. As if attention is something we consciously spend out. As if it’s something we ...
4 Sep 20181h 5min
Anand Giridharadas on the elite charade of changing the world
“How can there be anything wrong with trying to do good?” asks Anand Giridharadas in his new book, Winners Take All. “The answer may be: when the good is an accomplice to even greater, if more invisib...
30 Aug 20181h 33min
I build a world with fantasy master N.K. Jemisin
I’m just going to say it. This may be the most fun I’ve ever had on a podcast. Nora Jemisin — better known by her pen name, N.K. Jemisin — just won the Hugo Award for best novel for the third year in ...
27 Aug 20181h 23min
Reup: Zephyr Teachout vs. Corruption
Zephyr Teachout is a law professor at Fordham University and one of the nation’s foremost experts on political corruption. She’s also, after a glowing New York Times endorsement this week, arguably th...
24 Aug 20181h 32min
Is our economy totally screwed? Andrew Yang and I debate.
"The future without jobs will come to resemble either the cultivated benevolence of Star Trek or the desperate scramble for resources of Mad Max,” writes Andrew Yang. Well then. Yang is the founder of...
20 Aug 20181h 12min
Chef Marcus Samuelsson on immigration, creativity, and Anthony Bourdain
Marcus Samuelsson is the Michelin-starred chef behind Harlem’s The Red Rooster an award-winning cookbook author,the winner of the first season of Top Chef: Masters, ;nd the host of No Passport Require...
13 Aug 20181h 12min
Why online politics gets so extreme so fast
During the 2016 campaign, Zeynep Tufekci was watching videos of Donald Trump rallies on YouTube. But then, she writes, she "noticed something peculiar. YouTube started to recommend and ‘autoplay' vide...
6 Aug 20181h 6min
