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Lean Out with Tara Henley — 257 episodes
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EP 256: Why the Media Needs Objectivity
EP 255: Terry Glavin on the Aftermath of the Year of the Graves
EP 254: Eric Merkley on Why We're Polarized in Canada
EP 253: In Memoriam: David Cayley
EP 252: Tyler Dawson: Why Alberta Separatism is Back
EP 251: Full Press on How 'Mass Graves' Became Canada's Biggest Journalism Failure
EP 250: Is Phoebe Maltz Bovy the Last Straight Woman?
EP 249: Jacob Siegel on Big Tech and the Information State
Ep 248: Tony Keller on How Canada Lost the Plot on Immigration
EP 247: Why Are Gen Z Girls Miserable? Freya India Explains
EP 246: Tom Junod: What Does It Mean to Be a Man?
EP 245: John Tomasi on the Diversity We Don't Discuss
EP 244: Ric Esther Bienstock on the Campus Culture Wars
EP 243: John Fraser on Canada's Most Misunderstood Job
EP 242: Leah Libresco Sargeant: Rethinking Feminism
EP 241: Laurie Woolever on Addiction, Recovery - and Anthony Bourdain
EP 240: Jason Mangone: Inside Trump's America
EP 239: Mark Oppenheimer on the Life and Times of Judy Blume
EP 238: Eddie Sheppard on Canada's Precarity Mindset
EP 237: Ryan Zickgraf on the Politicization of Charity
EP 236: Amanda Ripley on the Media's Trump Fixation
EP 235: Richard Stursberg: Who Killed CanLit?
EP 234: Harrison Lowman on James Bennet, The New York Times and the Era of Activist Journalism
EP 233: Steven Scherer: The Road From Foreign Correspondent to Uber Driver
EP 232: Larissa Phillips on the Rift Between Men and Women
EP 231: 'Enough White Guys Already': Jacob Savage on a Lost Generation
EP 230: Elizabeth Grace Matthew: We Need to Move On From Girl Bosses and Trad Wives
EP 229: Valerie Stivers on the Joys of Home Cooking
EP 228: Merry Christmas from Lean Out: Father Gregory Boyle on Hope and Healing
EP 227: Mike Pesca on Media Insanity
EP 226: Cory Clark on the 'Great Feminization' Theory
EP 225: Amanda Fortini on Jan Kerouac and the legacy of the Beat Generation
EP 224: Zac Seidler: We Need to Talk About Men's Mental Health
EP 223: Susan Swan on Modern Feminism
EP 222: Molly Jong-Fast on Gen X Overwhelm
EP 221: Daniel Debow: It's Time for 'Bold Adventurism'
EP 220: Darrell Bricker on Canada's Breaking Point
EP 219: Jason Guriel on Fandom
EP 218: Adam Szetela on the Publishing Industry's 'Circular Firing Squad'
EP 217: Marc Dunkelman on Why Nothing Works
EP 216: David Cayley on the CBC's Populist Era
EP 215: Brian Stewart on the 'Spinning Vortex' of News
EP 214: Justin Ling on Canada's 'Existential' Election
EP 213: Aaron Pete on the Unmarked Graves Controversy
EP 212: Andrew Coyne on Canada's Dysfunctional Democracy
EP 211: ENCORE - Tristin Hopper on What Happened to Canada
EP 210: ENCORE - Ruy Teixeira on the End of the Progressive Moment in America
EP 209: ENCORE - Nellie Bowles on America's Berserk Politics
EP 208: Thomas Chatterton Williams on 2020 and its Aftermath
EP 207: Andrew Doyle on the Decline of the Woke Left - and the Rise of the Woke Right
EP 206: Meghan Daum and Lily Isaacs on 'Heterofatalism'
EP 205: Jeni Gunn: I Am the Working Poor
EP 204: Full Press: Why is the Trans Debate the Third Rail of Canadian Journalism?
EP 203: Beth Kaplan on Getting Stuck - and Breaking Loose
EP 202: Daniel Oppenheimer on How the Left Loses People
EP 201: Joan C. Williams on How the Left Lost the Working Class
EP 200: Stephen Macedo and Frances Lee on How Our Politics Failed Us in the Pandemic
EP 199: Jenara Nerenberg on Resisting Groupthink in Polarized Times
EP 198: Eric Kaufmann: Is Woke Dead?
EP 197: ENCORE: Larissa Phillips on Bridging Our Divides
EP 196: ENCORE: Musa al-Gharbi on the Cultural Contradictions of the Elites
EP 195: Meghan Daum on Life's Catastrophe Hours
EP 194: Darrell Bricker on Our Divided Nation
EP 193: David Zweig on Pandemic School Closures
EP 192: Election 2025 - Victor Febres on Political Polarization
EP 191: Election 2025 - Ramona Coelho on Assisted Dying
EP 190: Election 2025 - Mike Moffatt Answers Every Question You've Ever Had About the Housing Crisis
EP 189: Election 2025 - Tristin Hopper on the State of the Nation
EP 188: Vicky Nguyen on Her Journey From Boat Baby to the Today Show
EP 187: Phoebe Maltz Bovy on Heteropessimism
EP 186: Election 2025 - Melanie Paradis on Women's Fertility
EP 185: Adam Gussow on Interracial Family Life in America's South
EP 184: Election 2025 - Brian Dijkema on the Collapse of Support for the NDP
EP 183: Election 2025 - Laurent Carbonneau on Canada's 'Corporate Welfare Bums'
EP 182: Ann Bauer on Booksellers' Moral Contract
EP 181: Election 2025 - Tom Korski
EP 180: Dave Snow on DEI in Federal Granting Agencies
EP 179: Andrew Potter on the End of the Trudeau Era
EP 178: On the Media with Aaron Pete
EP 177: Joanna Williams on Trump and Women's Rights
EP 176: Andrea Mrozek on Why Marriage Still Matters
EP 175: Full Press
EP 174: Scott Oake on Addiction, Loss, and Hope
EP 173: Jeff Rubin on Economic Warfare
EP 172: Catherine Tsalikis on the Life and Times of Chrystia Freeland
EP 171: Christine Van Geyn on Prorogation
EP 170: Jen Gerson on the Chaos in Canada
EP 169: Richie Hardcore on The Way Forward for Men
EP 168: Sebastian Junger: Encounters With An Afterlife
EP 167: Richard V. Reeves on Why Modern Men Are Struggling
EP 166: Nicholas Eberstadt on Men Without Work
EP 165: Daniel Cox on the Growing Gender Gap
EP 164: Zaid Jilani on Why It's Not Always Easy Being a Man
EP 163: Ruy Teixeira: The Progressive Moment is Over
EP 162: Andy Mills on What the Media Missed
EP 161: Larissa Phillips on Loving Your Neighbour
EP 160: The Big Fix in the Canadian Economy
EP 159: Gary Taubes on Why We Get Fat
EP 158: Harrison Scott Key on How to Stay Married
EP 157: Rachel Cohen: Why I Changed My Mind About Volunteering
EP 156: Musa al-Gharbi on Why We Have Never Been Woke
EP 155: Anastasia Berg on Childbearing Ambivalence
EP 154: Ross Barkan on the Leaderless Left
EP 153: Ruby Cramer on Political Extremism
EP 152: 'The Betrayal of the Canadian Dream'
EP 151: The Way Forward for Canadian Immigration
EP 150: 'The Summer of Unravelling'
EP 149: A Bright Spot in the New Media Landscape
EP 148: Oren Cass on the New Right
EP 147: 'Why the Left Gets J.D. Vance Wrong'
EP 146: Reasons for Hope
EP 145: Tensions Within the Conservative Movement
EP 144: The Glamorization of Divorce
EP 143: The Politics of the Working Class
EP 142: The Trust Spiral with Rudyard Griffiths
EP 141: Trudeau's 'Princely Capriciousness'
EP 140: Sebastian Junger's Near Death Experience
EP 139: The Year American Politics Went Berserk
EP 138: The Miseducation of Elites
EP 137: Justin Trudeau on the Ropes
EP 136: Michael Lista's Literary Battle Raps
EP 135: Massey Essay series - George Packer
EP 134: Massey Essay series - Michael Powell
EP 133: Massey Essay series - Freddie deBoer
EP 132: Massey Essay series - Peter Menzies
EP 131: Massey Essay series - Steve Krakauer
EP 130: Massey Essay series - David Greenberg
EP 129: Massey Essay series - Jen Gerson
EP 128: How Having A Family Got So Hard
EP 127: Will The Media Change Course?
EP 126: Canada's Pandemic Response - More Harm Than Good?
EP 125: A Defence of Colourblindness
EP 124: Why Marshall McLuhan (Still) Matters
EP 123: Why Dismissing the Importance of Family is the Ultimate Luxury Belief
EP 122: How To Save Local News
EP 121: The Case For Marriage
EP 120: Why You Should Never Apologize to the Mob
EP 119: The Federal Court's Rebuke
EP 118: The Collapse of the Canadian Immigration Consensus
EP 117: Where Have All the Children Gone?
EP 116: Where Have All the Democrats Gone?
EP 115: Lean Out Turns Two - A Conversation on Complicating the Dominant Narratives
EP 114: Overcoming the Illusion of Division
EP 113: How the Pandemic Broke America
EP 112: Have Progressives Stopped Supporting Interracial Marriage?
EP 111: George Packer on Activism and Bad Art
EP 110: Have the Arts Created a Culture of Fear?
EP 109: Navigating a perilous moment
Ep 108: Breaking Down The Munk Debate: Is Liberalism Failing Us?
EP 107: Did Covid-19 Erode Our Civil Liberties Forever?
EP 106: Is Cancel Culture Killing Free Speech?
EP 105: Does Canada’s Justice System Need to be Dismantled?
EP 104: Cancelled: A Canadian Professor’s War on 'Woke'
EP: 103: Meghan Daum: It's Up to Women to Stop Cancel Culture
EP 102: Has McKinsey made the world worse?
EP 101: Can we have a reasonable conversation about trans issues?
EP 100: The Identity Trap
EP 99: 'I worry that the dike is going to burst - and we're woefully unprepared'
EP 98: How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement
EP 97: 'We're against the state mandating viewpoints'
EP 96: The death of a Toronto school principal
EP 95: 'Centre the interests and needs of the public'
EP 94: Tyranny, Inc.
EP 93: A Heretic's Manifesto
EP 92: Canada's news desert
EP 91: 'Home Is Where the Revolution Is'
EP 90: 'Diversity' drop-outs
EP 89: The collapse of Canadian media, part 2
EP 88: The Collapse of Canadian Media
EP 87: A Childless World
EP 86: Free Speech and the Left
EP 85: 'The DEI Industry Needs to Check Its Privilege'
EP 84: Hell to Pay
EP 83: On Politicization and Trust
EP 82: 'An epidemic of loneliness and isolation'
EP 81: Rethinking Feminism
EP 80: Good Girls
EP 79: Generations
EP 78: 'As much pain as progress'
EP 77: Feminism Against Progress
EP 76: 'A crisis of heterosexuality'
EP 75: 'Most people don't believe the more extreme woke stuff'
EP 74: 'An existential threat to universities'
EP 73: Uncovered
EP 72: 'I thought we had more of an open forum for discussion'
EP 71: An Emergency in Ottawa
EP 70: Primal Screams
EP 69: The Year the World Went Mad
EP 68: The New Puritans
EP 67: 'If you have the wrong opinions, it will cost you'
EP 66: 'As scientists, we have strong criteria for what we accept is true'
EP 65: 'Journalists are not supposed to be liked'
EP 64: 'You feel the desperation of people who are understanding their own irrelevance'
EP 63: 'There’s a lot of people just trying to hold on to their jobs'
EP 62: Merry Christmas from Lean Out
EP 61: 'Journalists have forgotten who their readers are'
EP 60: 'Politically homeless'
EP 59: 'The whole media crawled into a very narrow hole - and is still there'
EP 58: 'They see their role as fighting for social justice'
EP 57: Shopomania
EP 56: Men Without Work
EP 55: Of Boys and Men
EP 54: Literature and the New Culture Wars
EP 53: 'The woke mob took my job but gave me my voice'
EP 52: The Stolen Year
EP 51: Portrait of a Prime Minister
EP 50: So much for #MeToo
EP 49: Secret City
EP 48: The Rise of the New Puritans
EP 47: How Woke Won
EP 46: The War on Objectivity in American Journalism
EP 45: School in the time of Covid
EP 44: Agency
EP 43: An Immigrant's Love Letter to the West
EP 42: Ghosts of War
EP 41: The New Workers' Movement
EP 40: On Critical Race Theory
EP 39: 'Court Documents Reveal Canada's Travel Ban Had No Scientific Basis'
EP 38: The End of Solitude
EP 37: Cancel Culture: It's Real and On the Rise
EP 36: The Case Against the Sexual Revolution
EP 35: I Stopped Reading the News
EP 34: The Constitution of Knowledge
EP 33: Who Really Benefits From the First Amendment?
EP 32: The Freedom of Expression Wake Up Call
EP 31: Sensitivity Readers Are the New Literary Gatekeepers
EP 30: The Right
EP 29: Overdose
EP 28: What the Right Doesn't Get About the Labor Left
EP 27: The Consequences of Vaccine Mandates
EP 26: The Cancelling of the American Mind
EP 25: The Work of Living
EP 24: What Do Men Want?
EP 23: Freedom of Thought
EP 22: The Problem With Everything
EP 21: Nothing Left to Lose
EP 20: Rethinking Sex
EP 19: Saga Boy
EP 18: Luxury Beliefs
EP 17: Love Lockdown
EP 16: Dignity
EP 15: Letters to the Sons of Society
EP 14: Canceling Comedians While the World Burns
EP 13: The Black Boom
EP 12: On Decline
EP 11: The Class
EP 10: I Never Thought of It That Way
EP 9: The Expendables
EP 8: Virtue Hoarders
EP 7: The History of Free Speech
EP 6: Light Up the Night
EP 5: Diversity of Thought
EP 4: Stolen Focus
EP 3: On the Origin of the Pandemic
EP 2: Free Speech
EP 1: Bad News