How Trauma Rewires Desire (Katie Simon)
Katie Simon’s latest book, Tell Me What You Like: An Honest Discussion of Sex and Intimacy After Sexual Assault, explores how survivors chart diverse paths to healing. In this episode, she reveals how...
25 Sep 202556min
How Belonging Shapes Democracy (Yascha Mounk)
Yascha is a professor at Johns Hopkins University, the Founder of Persuasion and the host of The Good Fight podcast, known for his work on democracy, identity, and polarization. In this conversation w...
23 Sep 202558min
Old School: Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy (Dr. Kari Nixon)
Welcome to Old School, where we revisit some of our best episodes from previous years with some current reflections on why these episodes are still fascinating. In this “Old School” episode, Dr. Kari ...
19 Sep 20251h 1min
Ask Amanda Anything - TV Portrayal, Italian Fluency , Han Solo or Indiana Jones
This week on Ask Amanda Anything: How it feels to watch your own life turned into television. Why false confessions still shape the way justice fails. How a flood of letters — from Harry Potter fan fi...
18 Sep 202538min
How to Drink Your Way Sober (Katie Herzog)
Katie Herzog is a journalist, podcaster, and author of Drink Your Way Sober, a candid and science-based look at alternative paths to recovery. In this discussion with Amanda they uncover answers to so...
16 Sep 20251h 3min
Ask Amanda Anything - Betrayals, Storytellers, and Balance
This week on Ask Amanda Anything: Why do betrayals from old friends still cut so deep, even years later? How can a lie about something small spiral into a wrongful conviction? Why does our justice sys...
11 Sep 202543min
How Sugar Dating Complicates Consent, Power, and Perception (Brook Urick)
Brook Urick became the public face of Seeking Arrangement, the dating site that brought sugar babies and sugar daddies into the mainstream—and into a media firestorm. In this episode, she and Amanda u...
9 Sep 20251h 14min
Old School: A Religious Conviction in Aliens (Michael Shermer)
Welcome to Old School, where we revisit some of our best episodes from previous years with some current reflections on why these episodes are still fascinating. In this “Old School” episode, Dr. Micha...
5 Sep 20251h 3min
