Dan Savage on Polyamory, Chosen Family and Better Sex
Even if you don’t recognize the advice columnist Dan Savage by name, it’s possible that his ideas have influenced how you think about sex and relationships. For decades now, Savage has been arguing th...
10 Jan 20231h 24min
A Skeptical Take on the A.I. Revolution
The year 2022 was jam-packed with advances in artificial intelligence, from the release of image generators like DALL-E 2 and text generators like Cicero to a flurry of developments in the self-drivin...
6 Jan 20231h 11min
Sabbath and the Art of Rest
Do we know how to truly rest? Who would we be if we did?I’ve been wrestling with these questions since I read Abraham Joshua Heschel’s stunning book “The Sabbath” in college. The ancient Jewish ritual...
3 Jan 20231h
Best Of: How America's Poet Laureate Sees Our World
“One of the biggest things about poetry is that it holds all of humanity,” the poet Ada Limón tells me. “It holds the huge and enormous and tumbling sphere of human emotions.”At the end of a turbule...
30 Dec 20221h 17min
Best Of: Want to Save Democracy? Run For Office.
This week, we’re revisiting some of our favorite episodes from the year. For those who make New Year’s resolutions, today’s conversation might plant the seed for a bold one: Running for office.Amanda ...
27 Dec 20221h 5min
Best Of: Who Wins — and Who Loses — in the A.I. Revolution?
This past year, we’ve witnessed considerable progress in the development of artificial intelligence, from the release of the image generators like DALL-E 2 to chat bots like ChatGPT and Cicero to a fl...
23 Dec 20221h 12min
Best Of: Is A.I. the Problem? Or Are We?
This past year, we’ve witnessed considerable progress in the development of artificial intelligence, from the release of the image generators like DALL-E 2 to chat bots like ChatGPT and Cicero to a fl...
20 Dec 20221h 17min
What I'm Thinking About at the End of 2022
As 2022 comes to a close, we decided to invite listeners to send in questions for an ask-me-anything episode. And boy, did you all deliver. We received hundreds of fantastic questions, and my column e...
16 Dec 20221h 14min
