Emily St. John Mandel on Time Travel, Parenting and the Apocalypse
“Station Eleven” by Emily St. John Mandel was published in 2014. That book imagined the world after a pandemic had wiped out, well, almost everyone. It’s a gorgeous novel with a particular emotional p...
22 Apr 202259min
Can Democrats Turn Their 2022 Around?
With the midterms just over six months away, the electoral prospects for Democrats are looking bleak. President Biden’s approval rating is at 42 percent, around where Donald Trump’s was at this point ...
19 Apr 20221h 7min
Best Of: This Conversation Will Change How You Think About Trauma
“Trauma is much more than a story about something that happened long ago,” writes Dr. Bessel van der Kolk. “The emotions and physical sensations that were imprinted during the trauma are experienced n...
15 Apr 20221h 17min
A Ukrainian Philosopher on What Putin Never Understood About Ukraine
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is only getting more brutal: We’ve seen the bodies of civilians strewn in the streets in Bucha, the city of Mariupol almost leveled and, just a few days ago, a Russian mis...
12 Apr 202247min
Fiona Hill on Whether Ukraine Can Win — and What Happens if Russia Loses
The Russia-Ukraine war has changed considerably in recent weeks. Vladimir Putin is no longer talking explicitly about regime change in Ukraine. The Russian military has shifted its focus away from tak...
8 Apr 202247min
The Most Thorough Case Against Crypto I've Heard
The hype around cryptocurrencies has reached a fever pitch. There are Super Bowl ads for crypto companies featuring celebrities like Matt Damon and Larry David. The Staples Center in Los Angeles is no...
5 Apr 20221h 21min
Sanctioning Russia Is a Form of War. We Need to Treat It Like One.
The Russian political scientist Ilya Matveev recently described the impact of the West’s sanctions on his country as “30 years of economic development thrown into the bin.” He’s not exaggerating. Econ...
1 Apr 20221h 20min
I Keep Hoping Larry Summers Is Wrong. What if He’s Not?
“There is a chance that macroeconomic stimulus on a scale closer to World War II levels than normal recession levels will set off inflationary pressures of a kind we have not seen in a generation,” wr...
29 Mars 20221h 17min
