Dan Barber on How Seeds Will Revolutionize Our Food System
Dan Barber is on a mission to quite literally plant seeds for a better future. Around a decade ago, after learning that the nation’s largest food companies rarely breed food for flavor—and instead sel...
11 Maj 20221h 15min
John Hoke on Technology as a Co-Conspirator in Creativity
John Hoke, Nike’s chief design officer, intimately understands how to move design from an object to a feeling. At the company over the past three decades, he has refined his approach to center around ...
4 Maj 20221h 12min
Claudia Rankine on Confronting Whiteness Head-On Through Language
Claudia Rankine cuts to the chase. She does not mince her words. The poet, essayist, playwright, and educator—whose recent body of work analyzes white supremacy in America—looks closely at its subtle ...
27 Apr 20221h 22min
Kenny Schachter on Taking the Art World to Task
Kenny Schachter has an insatiable appetite for all things art. The polymathic art dealer, curator, teacher, writer, critic, collector, and self-taught artist brings a Tasmanian Devil–level energy to a...
20 Apr 20221h 30min
Reginald Dwayne Betts on How Freedom Can Begin With a Book
For Reginald Dwayne Betts—a poet, lawyer, and activist who supports and contributes to prison decarceration efforts—reading and writing have a mind-expanding power that never wanes. The author of thre...
13 Apr 20221h 22min
Rerun: 12. Maggie Doyne on Uplifting Children and, In Turn, the World
Maggie Doyne, who co-founded the BlinkNow Foundation nonprofit at age 19, discusses how, over the past 13 years, she has developed a school, children’s home, health clinic, and women’s center in Surkh...
6 Apr 202259min
Michael Murphy on Architecture as a Vessel for Healing and Hope
Michael Murphy believes in architecture that promotes connectivity, collectivity, and health, in the broadest sense of the term. As the founding principal and executive director of MASS Design Group, ...
30 Mars 20221h 14min
David Wallace-Wells on His Growing Optimism for the Planet’s Future
David Wallace-Wells, author of the best-selling book The Uninhabitable Earth and New York magazine’s editor-at-large, wields vivid language that makes people pay attention. But his writing isn’t hyper...
23 Mars 20221h 18min
