All Episodes

Why We Turn Our Worst Moments Into Punchlines (Jamie Kilstein)

Old School: Zen and the Art of Emergency (Kat Moore)

Creative Aftermath

Why Unreasonable Women Go to Prison (Justine van der Leun)

Old School: The Modern Trauma Toolkit (Christine Gibson)

How to Hack Your Brain's Moral Code (Joshua Greene)

Humor as Catharsis

Old School: The Outlaw (Seth Ferranti)

Good News Bad News

Why Fear Makes Bad Policy (Laura Porter)

Fifty Words for Snow

Old School: The Canceling of the American Mind (Greg Lukianoff)

Married to the Work

How To Be A Woman in Public (Sophie Gilbert)

Walkie Talkies

Old School: Monsters (Claire Dederer)

The Myth of Confrontation

Why Men Need a Tribe (Elliott Ackerman)

A Wee Existential Crisis

How Paying for Intimacy Changes Everything (Andrea Werhun)

Ignorance Is Not Objectivity

Why You Believe Weird Things (Michael Shermer)

Kill the Buddha and Slay, Diva!

Why Prison Forces Us to Ask Hard Questions (John J. Lennon)

Crisis Chemistry or Trauma Bonds?

Why the Arc of History Still Bends Toward Justice (Timothy Egan)

How Cringe Becomes Art (Lauren Weedman)

How Television Shapes Public Truth (Warren Littlefield)

Ask Amanda Anything: Pivots, Joy, Dance Floors

Why Adaptation Is a Human Superpower (Maya Shankar)

Tending Your Garden in a Burning World

Why Being Right Won't Set You Free (Michael Semanchik and Scott McMahon)

New Beginnings

Why Hope Is Learnable (Scott Barry Kaufman)

Who's Right? - The True Meaning of Christmas

How Journalism Can Be an Act of Hope (Nicholas Kristof)

Ask Amanda Anything - Life Advice, Dark Humor, Bad Dates

Why Win-Win Thinking Is So Hard (Liv Boeree)

Old School: Protect Your Heart (Jason Baldwin)

Who's Right? - Excuses

Why Shame Makes the Best Punchlines (Youngmi Mayer)

How Fear Distorts Our View of Climate Solutions (Isabelle Boemeke)

Old School: Love and Justice (Anna Vasquez)

Who's Right? - Gratitude

How the Genius Myth Misleads Us (Helen Lewis)

Who's Right? - Can You Fake It Till You Make It?

How to Discover What You Really Want (Aella)

Old School: The Why of the Why (Dylan Marron)

Who's Right? - Saying "No"

How Soldiers Make Sense of an Unwinnable War (Phil Klay)

Who's Right? - Arranged Marriages

How We Evolved to Be Good (Nicholas Christakis)

Old School: The Aha Moment (AJ Jacobs)

Who’s Right? - Accept Death or Defy It

The Satanic Panic – How Pop Culture Got Possessed (Sarah Marshall)

Ask Amanda Anything - Young Love, Oversharing, Presence

How Hyperpersuasion Hijacks Free Will (Rebecca Lemov)

Old School: Excellent Advice for Living (Kevin Kelly)

Ask Amanda Anything - Star Trek Uniforms, Gaslighting, Disengagement

Why Fear Is the Worst Parenting Strategy (Emily Oster)

Ask Amanda Anything - Punchlines, Pain, Permission

Why Comedy Is the Last Refuge of the Honest (Michael Moynihan)

Old School: Lost in Faith (Megan Phelps-Roper)

Ask Amanda Anything – Stand-Up, Trust, and Dating After Notoriety

How Hate Becomes a Path to Compassion (R.G. Shore)

How Trauma Rewires Desire (Katie Simon)

How Belonging Shapes Democracy (Yascha Mounk)

Old School: Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy (Dr. Kari Nixon)

Ask Amanda Anything - TV Portrayal, Italian Fluency , Han Solo or Indiana Jones

How to Drink Your Way Sober (Katie Herzog)

Ask Amanda Anything - Betrayals, Storytellers, and Balance

How Sugar Dating Complicates Consent, Power, and Perception (Brook Urick)

Old School: A Religious Conviction in Aliens (Michael Shermer)

Ask Amanda Anything - Public Judgement, Surveillance Culture, and Empathy

How to Stay Sane in a Media Storm (Jake Tapper)

Bonus Episode: Seven Songs Podcast

How to Forgive the Unforgivable (Anthony Graves)

Bonus Episode: Honestly with Bari Weiss and Amanda Knox

Why Trusting Your Gut Is Harder Than It Sounds (Zosia Mamet)

How to Turn Scandal Into Strength (Monica Lewinsky)

Ask Amanda Anything - Advice for Jurors, Judging One's Soul, Favorite Meal

How to Be Good Without Being Boring (Dessa)

Old School: Acknowledging the No (Chris Ballew)

Ask Amanda Anything - Navigating Conflict, Responding with Intention, Power Dynamics

Why Getting Lost Might Be the Point (Rick Steves)

How to Turn a Slur Into a Symbol (Simon Tam)

How Strength Becomes a Cage (Melissa Arnot)

Old School: The Point of No Return (Roz Savage)

Ask Amanda Anything - Living Without a List, How to Find Common Ground, Parenting for Independence

How Iranian Women Are Leading a Revolution (Zahra Amanpour)

Ask Amanda Anything - Forgiving Guede, How to Become Fluent, How to Tell Your Own Story

Why Monogamy Isn’t Morality (Dan Savage)

Old School: It's OK to Be OK (Samantha Geimer)

Ask Amanda Anything - Punching Down, Change Your Past?, Does It Get Better?

Why The Truth Matters More Than Winning (Marcia Clark)

Introducing: Hard Knox

#126 - Out of the Labyrinth

Best Of: Everyone's Biased, But Me (Itiel Dror)

Who's Right? - Saying Goodbye

#125 - The Cost of Disbelief (Dr. Aleksandra Treglown)

Best Of: Modeling Cruelty, Modeling Courage (Emily Wilson)

Who's Right? - Work/Life Balance

#124 - Circling the Rabbit Hole (Stephanie Kemmerer)

Best Of: Defending a Monster (Shannon Smith & Molly Blythe)

Who's Right? - Video Games

#123 - Warrior Pose (Ashley Spence)

Best Of: Revelations of an Opened Marriage (Minda Lane)

Who's Right? - First Impressions

Free: My Search for Meaning. A Live Book Discussion.

Best Of: The Pleasure of Pain (Mistress Cyan)

Who's Right? - Friendship

Bonus Episode: A Slight Change of Plans | Is Amanda Knox Finally Free?

#121 - Off the Record (Ashleigh Banfield)

Who's Right? - Social Media Detox

Best Of: Blood Money - Part 1: One Bloody Thing After Another

#120 - Smoke and Mirrors (Mike Rothschild)

Best Of: The Fungus Effect Part 1: Down the Rabbit Hole (Michael Pollan)

Who's Right? - Is Blood Thicker than Water?

#119 - Print the Legend (John Ramsey)

Best Of: The Summit Can't Be the Goal (Alison Levine)

Who's Right? - Let It Go

#118 - The Media Machine (Mandy Matney)

Best Of: Acknowledging the No (Chris Ballew)

Who's Right? - Lying

#117 - Undercover in a Pear-Shaped Box (Keith Bulfin)

Best Of: No Escape, Even in Death (Yasmine Mohammed)

Who's Right? - Dreams

#116 - Picking Cotton (Jennifer Thompson)

Best Of: Three Jewels in the Crown (LeVar Burton)

Who's Right? - Get a Dog

#115 - Facilitated Communication (Kevin Plantan)

Best Of: The Half-life of Prejudice (Malcolm Gladwell)

#114 - Slander Verdict

#113 - Don't Ask, Don't Tell (Josh Seefried)

Best Of: A Humorous Journalist Out of His Depth (Jon Ronson)

Who's Right? - New Year's

#112 - Nurturing, Healing, and Love (Scarlett Lewis)

Best Of: It's OK to Not Be Fine (Dave Navarro)

Who's Right? - Christmas

#111 - False Confessions Part 6: Scars and Solutions

#110 - False Confessions Part 5: What If I Did It?

#109 - False Confessions Part 4: Whatever You Say

#108 - False Confessions Part 3: The Reid Technique

#107 - False Confessions Part 2: How To Break the Mind

#106 - False Confessions Part 1: The Third Degree

Best Of: One Bite of the Elephant at a Time

Who's Right? - Household Robots

#105 - Out and Awake (Sarah Edmondson)

Best Of: What's Our Problem? (Tim Urban)

Who's Right? - Halloween

#104 - Business Casual (Stephanie Land)

Best Of: Money Is Winning; Humans Are Losing (Andrew Yang)

Who's Right? - Gender Roles

#103 - The Velvet Prison (Tia Levings)

Best Of: You Might Go to Prison, Even Though You're Innocent (Justin Brooks)

Who's Right? - Grief Rituals

#102 - Rabbit Heart (Kristine Ervin)

Who's Right? - Free Speech

#101 - The American Mind

Who's Right? - Curveballs

#100 - On The Lam (Seth Ferranti)

Who's Right? - Drug Legalization

#99 - Injustice in Florence (Pt. 3)

#98 - The Mind at Large (Ethan Russo)

Who's Right? - Independence

#97 - Liquid Horizon (Erden Eruç)

Who's Right? - Eating

#96 - Feeding Addiction (Andrea Wachter)

Who's Right? - Snitching

#95 - Dr. Doppelgänger (Benjamin Gilmer)

Who's Right? - Becoming Your Parents

#94 - Small Town Stalker (Janie Avey)

#93.5 - Injustice in Florence (Pt. 2)

#93 - Injustice in Florence (Pt. 1)

Who's Right? -Judging a Book

#92 - Flashback Girl (Lise Deguire)

Who's Right - The Virtue of Silence

#91 - Doing Not Doing

Who's Right? - Multitasking

#90 - A Daughter's Defense (Bethany George)

Who's Right? - Cyberstalking

#89 - Sperm Daddy (Aaron Long & Jessica Share)

Who's Right? - Monsters

#88 - Monsters (Claire Dederer)

Who's Right? - Suicide

#87 - How Do You Want to Die? (Susan Pitiger)

#86 - Zen and the Art of Emergency Medicine (Kat Moore)

#85 - First, Do No Harm (Richard Pallardy)

Who's Right? - Valentine's Day and All Things Love

#84 - The Modern Trauma Toolkit (Dr. Christy Gibson)

#83 - A Father, a Son, a Brawl, and a Gun (Nicole Ivie)

#82 - Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy (Dr. Kari Nixon)

#81 - Reflections on 2023

#80 - A Religious Conviction in Aliens (Michael Shermer)

#79 - Still on Trial in Italy...

#78 - Revelations of an Opened Marriage (Minda Lane)

#77 - Live at THING Festival (Chris Ballew)

#76 - Excellent Advice for Living (Kevin Kelly)

#75 - Bean Dad Redemption Arc (John Roderick)

#74 - What's Our Problem? (Tim Urban)

#73 - Joyride (Kristen & Ville Jokinen)

#72 - Debunking Innocence (Andrew Hammel)

#71 - Not Rainn Wilson (Joel McHale)

#70 - Lost in Faith (Megan Phelps-Roper)

#69 - You Might Go to Prison, Even Though You're Innocent (Justin Brooks)

#68 - Blood Money - Part 5: True Crime With A Conscience

#67 - Blood Money - Part 4: Murdertopia

#66 - Blood Money - Part 3: The Content Machine

#65 - Blood Money - Part 2: The Fishbowl

#64 - Blood Money - Part 1: One Bloody Thing After Another

BONUS - Ask Us Anything

#63 - Documenting Innocence (Joe Berlinger)

#62 - Protect Your Heart (Jason Baldwin)

#61 - Love and Justice (Anna Vasquez)

#60 - The Why of the Why (Dylan Marron)

#59 - It Only Takes One Person to Change (Jennifer Lovely)

#58 - Dark Side of the Moon (Christian)

#57 - There's Other Ways to Do the Things (Lee Turnbull)

#56 - Before Evil (Brandon Gauthier)

#55 - If This Doesn't Fix You, Nothing Will (Molly Bloom)

#54 - Acknowledging the No (Chris Ballew)

#53 - Pet Theft (Bobby Kumparak)

#52 - The Point of No Return (Roz Savage)

#51 - Live at the VCA

#50 - Everyone's Biased But Me (Itiel Dror)

#49 - On the Edge (Andrew Gold)

#48 - The Post-Partum Shadow (Amy Kuber)

#47 - The Summit Can't Be the Goal (Alison Levine)

#46 - The Aha Moment (AJ Jacobs)

#45 - The Ultimate Putz (Jens Soering)

#44 - Modeling Cruelty, Modeling Courage (Emily Wilson)

#43 - A Slight Change of Plans (Maya Shankar)

#42 - The Fungus Effect Part 7: Through the Looking Glass

#41 - The Fungus Effect Part 6: The Mycocosm (Paul Stamets)

#40 - The Fungus Effect Part 5: The Way Is Not Difficult (Sam Harris)

#39 - The Fungus Effect Part 4: Sacred Plants (Bia Labate)

#38 - The Fungus Effect Part 3: Mental Health, Politics, & Mushrooms (Eckert & Chapman)

#37 - The Fungus Effect Part 2: Shaking the Snow Globe (Robin Carhart-Harris)

#36 - The Fungus Effect Part 1: Down the Rabbit Hole (Michael Pollan)

BONUS - WHO'S RIGHT? - Can you remake yourself?

#35 - 280 Days Part 3: 3rd Trimester (Emily Oster)

#34 - 280 Days Part 2: 2nd Trimester (Emily Oster)

#33 - 280 Days Part 1: 1st Trimester (Emily Oster)

#32 - Fan Fiction (Brent Spiner)

#31 - Killer Looks (Zara Stone)

#30 - The Pleasure of Pain (Mistress Cyan)

#29 - Infertility Part 5: A Global Crisis (Dr. Shanna Swan)

#28 - Infertility Part 4: The End of the Road

#27 - Infertility Part 3: Science to the Rescue?

#26 - Infertility Part 2: Miscarriage

#25 - Infertility Part 1: No heartbeat

#24 - Goodbye Pandemic, Hello World

#23 - Sex, Violence, & Pestilence (Mark Olshaker)

#22 - Exonerated Nation (Obie Anthony)

#21 - You Can't Wait for Happiness (Cheryl Hines)

#20 - The Ship of Theseus (Jack Ballard)

#19 - Hot Shit (Jason Flom)

#18 - The Last Fun Thing

#17 - Radical Acceptance, A Valentine's Special

#16 - Tales from the G-Man (Special Agent Steve Moore)

#15 - Who's the Real Criminal?

#14 - Defending a Monster (Shannon Smith & Molly Blythe)

BONUS - Happy New Year?

#13 - Three Jewels in the Crown (LeVar Burton)

#12 - A Whole Suitcase of Diapers

#11 - It's OK to Not Be Fine (Dave Navarro)

#10 - One Bite of the Elephant at a Time

#09 - The Forgotten Killer

#08 - A Humorous Journalist Out of His Depth (Jon Ronson)

#07 - No Escape, Even in Death (Yasmine Mohammed)

#06 - Plato the Primate Pooped (Tim Urban)

#05 - It's OK to Be OK (Samantha Geimer)

#04 - The Half-life of Prejudice (Malcolm Gladwell)

#03 - Living in the Gray (Tarra Simmons)

#02 - Money Is Winning; Humans Are Losing (Andrew Yang)

#01 - Lost at Sea