A Safe Haven (Bill Scher & Matt K. Lewis)
Monticello, Hamilton, and Archie Bunker … Matt questions how the Harper's open letter could make...
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The Unraveling (Glenn Loury & John McWhorter)
John: White Fragility is "one of the worst books ever written" … Debating how we should remember...
50:05
Down the Ghislaine Maxwell Rabbithole (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
Mickey to Trump: Drop out … How can the number of cases be rising while deaths stay steady? … How...
01:49:15
Politics, Power, and Fireworks (Nikita Petrov & John Horgan)
Conspiracy theories about fireworks … John has flashbacks to the late 1960s … Movements without...
01:07:18
Faustian Bargain Edition (Bill Scher & Matt K. Lewis)
The GOP's bad bargain on Trump and judicial appointments … Why do social conservatives keep...
59:16
Self Care: A Novel (Kat Rosenfield, Phoebe Maltz Bovy, and Leigh Stein)
Leigh's new satirical novel, Self Care … Leigh's viral essay on the fall of the girlboss … The...
54:43
Why Evangelicals Love Trump (Robert Wright & Sarah Posner)
How did evangelicals view Trump's infamous walk to the church? … Sarah's new book, Unholy: Why...
01:09:15
A Life in History (Glenn Loury & David Kaiser)
David's memoir, A Life in History … David: Political history is being ignored in the academy …...
01:07:51
A Nice Sheen (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
Theories about why infection numbers are going back up … What they don't tell you about masks …...
01:43:08
The Absence of Structure (Bill Scher & Matt K. Lewis)
On New York's primary night, did the left strike back? … Mail-in voting and fears of corruption...
53:40
China's Perspective (Robert Wright & Kaiser Kuo)
How Kaiser became one of China's first rockstars … How the American bombing of the Chinese...
01:31:03
Black Faces, Black Interests (Glenn Loury & Carol M. Swain)
How Glenn and Carol first met … Carol's 1993 book, Black Faces, Black Interests … Would Stacey...
01:04:44
My Moose Is Bigger than Your Moose (Robert Wright & Mickey Kaus)
Threats of disorder and promises of reform after George Floyd … Mickey: “The Supreme Court is...
01:41:27
Dropping the Mask (Glenn Loury & Coleman Hughes)
Coleman's post-collegiate life (with a cameo from Glenn's wife) … Reopening and the invisible...
53:24
What Is the Point of it All? (Bill Scher & Matt K. Lewis)
Gorsuch's landmark opinion affirming LGBT workplace protections … The failure of the...
55:06
Justice Is Global (Robert Wright & Tobita Chow)
Toby's organization, Justice Is Global … Slow economic growth and rightwing nationalism … Toby:...
01:19:14
What Are Cops Thinking? (Aryeh Cohen-Wade & Peter Moskos)
Looking for the truth between "Blue Lives Matter" and "ACAB" … The rarely noted decline in police...
01:06:27
Everyone's Sorry (Kat Rosenfield & Phoebe Maltz Bovy)
"Lean In" feminism and the Karen meme … What does it mean to call the cops? … The politics of...
55:37
Tepid Birders (Kat Rosenfield & Phoebe Maltz Bovy)
A close look at the Central Park birder incident … Isn't asking someone to leash their dog a...
49:01
The Decline and Fall of the Alison Roman Empire (Kat Rosenfield & Phoebe Maltz Bovy)
"Cool girl" food writer Alison Roman sparks racial hullabaloo … Crass, classist,...
01:01:08
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