S8 Ep. 34: Julia Elliott on Small-Town Voters and Trump’s Tariff Trap
Fiction writer Julia Elliott joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V Ganeshananthan to talk about why President Trump’s tariff policy appeals to voters in small towns in the Midwest and South, which ha...
22 Maj 202558min
S8 Ep. 33: Mirza Waheed on India, Pakistan, and the Literature of Partition
Novelist and journalist Mirza Waheed joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V Ganeshananthan to talk about brewing tensions between two nuclear powers: India and Pakistan. Waheed, who was born in Kashmi...
15 Maj 202555min
S8 Ep. 32: Hamilton Nolan on DIY Opinion Writing
Writer Hamilton Nolan joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V Ganeshananthan to talk about opinion journalism. Nolan, who writes frequently about labor and politics, discusses how and why he entered jo...
8 Maj 202543min
S8 Ep. 31: Rešoketšwe Manenzhe on Trump’s South African Connection
South African writer Rešoketšwe Manenzhe joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to talk about the influence that wealthy South African immigrants like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel are hav...
1 Maj 202548min
S8 Ep. 30: Jodie Hare on the Politics of Neurodiversity
Following Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s widely publicized and false claims about autism, writer Jodie Hare joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V Ganeshananthan to tal...
24 Apr 202534min
S8 Ep. 29: Vauhini Vara on AI, Art, and Memory
Acclaimed novelist and journalist Vauhini Vara joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V Ganeshananthan to discuss her new essay collection, Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age. Vara talks about the ri...
17 Apr 202551min
S8 Ep. 28: Sheila Sundar on International Scholars
Following ICE’s detention of Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil and the sudden revocation of hundreds of student visas across the country, professor and novelist Sheila Sundar joins c...
10 Apr 202542min
S8 Ep. 27: Meghan O’Rourke on The End of the University
Essayist, poet, and Yale Review editor Meghan O’Rourke joins co-hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to talk about her recent New York Times piece, “The End of the University as We Know It.” ...
3 Apr 202552min
