All Episodes

27: I'm not like them, but I can pretend (Obviously, this is an essay about Kurt Cobain and Nirvana)

26: Breaking up with my type: how I learned to stop worrying and let myself loathe the men I once desired

25: Teaching Jane Austen to sex offenders

24: How I wrote a song with Bob Dylan: A 57-year collaboration about my home state of Wisconsin

23: College, climate change, and preparing our kids for the worst case scenario

22: Wings was a better band than Paul McCartney or his critics think

21: A vegetarian goes to Transylvania: The case for breaking meat rules on vacation

20: What Joan of Arc would have known about #MeToo

19: Never forget David Bowie masterminded "the biggest art hoax in history"

18: I was groped by a man called Mary

17: Screw the sisterhood! I’d rather screw your boyfriend

16: How today’s crisis in the Congo began

15: "Trust me on this: The Beatles' "Let It Be"

14: Men aren't volatile riddles for women to solve

13: Parkland survivors give us hope: youth activism can save us

12: A Constitutional Amendment For Women's Equality: Is It Finally Time?

11: My long strange winter trip with John Perry Barlow, a legend in the making

10: Criminal Justice Reform In The U.S. Has A Long History Of Repressive Outcomes

9: How technology makes us obsess over self-care

8: Aliens At The Dinner Table

7: Our Republic is in Crisis — and it’s Killing Us. Can We Really Claim We Didn’t See it Coming?

6: Trump is in Love With Dictators; Their “Enemies of the People” Are His Enemies Too

5: Silicon Valley’s A**hole Economy

4: Time for Video Game Makers to Unionize

3: Why Most Narrative History is Wrong

2: Watching Lehman Brothers Collapse from the inside: A 2008 Recruit on the Bank’s Final Days

1: How YouTube Became a Powerful Far-Right Propaganda Organ

Whatever happened to the Christian intellectual? Progressive faith in a secular age

Hacker house blues: My life with 12 programmers, 2 rooms and one 21st-century dream

I wish I could quit you, Facebook

Why not everything should be controlled by voice

Twitter, YouTube and Facebook are the new Manhattan Project

Madam C.J. Walker wasn’t the first African American millionaire

Why the Internet of Things is designed for corporations, not consumers

Ego-tourism and Mt. Everest: The hidden costs of the highest climb

“The Fountainhead” of the 21st Century: Walter Isaacson’s “Steve Jobs”

The powerful politics of Killmonger

Progressive genocide

My libertarian vacation nightmare: How Ayn Rand, Ron Paul & their groupies were all debunked

I’m done with competitive parenting

Has the internet made us cold?

Silicon Valley has a bad habit of “inventing” things that already exist

I secretly lived in my office for 500 days

Swallowed by a whale — a true tale?

School is a prison — and damaging our kids

The dark legacy of Carlos Castaneda

Why I visit prostitutes

French kids know how to play: American parents’ obsession with structured playtime is stifling our kids

“Star Wars” despots vs. “Star Trek” populists

The gay Nabokov

In the battle against disinformation, tech solutions aren’t enough

Bill Gates is building his own city — no democracy required

Stranger than fiction

Risky Business

The book of the century

A curiously very great book

Candy from strangers

A national age of consent? After Roy Moore, maybe it’s time

Massacre in suburban Denver

How a fossil–finding competition ruined two paleontologists’ lives

Mystery man

The woman who turned America against divorce

Want a gun? Take a bullet

In 2001, an Afghan-American speaks

My Inspiration: Vladimir Nabokov

The kitschification of Sept. 11

My life as a lab rat

The night of Obama's election I watched Fox News for five hours

“Sponsored” by my husband

Sympathy for the Devil

We must offend religion more

Fight for your right to fix your own iPhone

Planet autism

A heart's breath

The Satanic Temple challenges the religious right