Hear Me Out: It’s Time To End The Engagement Ring
On today’s episode of Hear Me Out… popping the question. By The Knot’s estimates, we’re officially entering peak wedding season. And we know there are many, many controversial opinions we could tackl...
12 Sep 202332min
Hear Me Out: Overconfidence Is Killing The Supreme Court
On today’s episode of Hear Me Out… supreme hubris. The Supreme Court is currently unpopular to a historic degree. That popularity is, of course, contingent on political opinion – and whether the cour...
5 Sep 202339min
Hear Me Out: Harm Reduction Saves Lives
On today’s episode of Hear Me Out… preventing the preventable. At best, the rate of epidemic of drug overdose deaths in this country is slowing — but by many metrics and in many jurisdictions, the si...
29 Aug 202332min
Hear Me Out: Sit Down and Shut Up at Concerts and Theaters
On today’s episode of Hear Me Out… main character syndrome. As concerts and movie theaters have roared back to life this summer, so has a disturbing trend: bad behavior. You’ve seen the videos, prob...
22 Aug 202340min
Hear Me Out: You’re Not Too Cool To Go On A Cruise
On today’s episode of Hear Me Out… choosin’ cruisin’. There seem to be two types of people in this world: those who love going on cruise ships, and those who wouldn’t be caught dead on one. Whicheve...
15 Aug 202336min
Hear Me Out: Affirmative Action Failed Poor Black Kids
On today’s episode of Hear Me Out… almost affirmative. We don’t yet know what the Supreme Court’s ruling on affirmative action is going to do, tangibly, to college admissions — or how long those imp...
8 Aug 202335min
Hear Me Out: Less Porn, More Sex Tapes
On today’s episode of Hear Me Out… let’s get it on. Whether you watch porn or not — admit it, or not — adult entertainment shapes the way we think about sex, gender, and power. Our guest today arg...
1 Aug 202328min
Hear Me Out: Learning Gun Safety Could Save Your Kids’ Lives
On today’s episode of Hear Me Out… safety on. July sees the most accidental shootings involving children of any month on the calendar — but there’s not really a month where these tragedies don’t hap...
25 Juli 202339min
