The Ethics of Abortion
When Justice Samuel Alito’s draft opinion on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization leaked a few weeks ago, it signaled that Roe v. Wade appears likely to be overturned in a matter of weeks. If ...
20 Maj 20221h 12min
Anne Applebaum on What Liberals Misunderstand About Authoritarianism
The experience of reading Hannah Arendt’s 1951 classic “The Origins of Totalitarianism” in the year 2022 is a disorienting one. Although Arendt is writing primarily about Nazi Germany and Stalinist Ru...
17 Maj 20221h 2min
What Does the ‘Post-Liberal Right’ Actually Want?
“It begun to dawn on many conservatives that in spite of apparent electoral victories that have occurred regularly since the Reagan years, they have consistently lost, and lost overwhelmingly to progr...
13 Maj 20221h 37min
Sway: 'Fear and Panic Are Bedfellows' in Ukraine
Today we're bringing you an episode from our friends at Sway about the war in Ukraine and the challenges of conflict-zone reporting. Clarissa Ward has had, as she puts it, a “long and very complicated...
10 Maj 202242min
Donald Trump Didn’t Hijack the G.O.P. He Understood It.
Right now, Republicans of all stripes — Ron DeSantis, J.D. Vance, Mike Pence, Glenn Youngkin — are trying to figure out how to channel the populist energies of Donald Trump into a winning political me...
6 Maj 20221h 22min
The Argument: Why the G.O.P. Can't Stop Saying 'Gay'
Today we're bringing you an episode from our friends at The Argument about Florida's “Don't Say Gay” bill and the broader wave of anti-L.G.B.T.Q. legislation, spurred by the political right, that is s...
3 Maj 202239min
Elon Musk Might Break Twitter. Maybe That's a Good Thing.
If Elon Musk’s bid to purchase Twitter comes to fruition, the world’s richest person will own one of its most important communications platforms. Twitter might have a smaller user base than Facebook, ...
29 Apr 20221h 5min
Putin May Not Like How He’s Changed Europe
Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has transformed Europe within a matter of weeks. A continent once fractured by the refugee crisis is now taking in millions of refugees. Countries such as Germany ...
26 Apr 20221h 9min
