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Can a Republican Zionist Butch Lesbian Get Elected to the West Hollywood City Council? Tanya Tsikanovsky
Why Cities Let Addicts Live On the Streets, with journalist Michael Powell
Evan Barker on Nothing Left, the Dark Art of Political Fundraising, and the Fracturing Left
Anne Frank Examines Her White Privilege: the Musical feat. PJ Adzima
Jenny Holland's Crusade To Save Culture, One Landmine At a Time
Making Jungian Sense of the World, with Lisa Marchiano
Judy Blume Got It Right: Mark Oppenheimer on his new biography of the legendary author
Los Angeles Mayor's Race: Is Adam Miller the Grownup That Got Away?
How Straight Women Became Uncool
Can Spencer Pratt Save Los Angeles?
When Wokeness Stops Working: Brendan O'Neill's VIBE SHIFT signals a new era
The Emaciated Elephant in the Room: Are GLP-1s causing us to lose our minds as well as weight?
The Truth About Street Homelessness
How To Develop A Curiosity Practice
Lionel Shriver's Most Problematic Novel Yet
Better Living Through Dying, with Annabelle Gurwitch
It's the Drugs: Sam Quinones on Street Homelessness
A Special Tranche In Hell, with Sarah Haider
When Podcasts Guests Attack!
Is Sex With Another Human A Thing Of The Past? with Dr. Debra Soh
A Post-Truth World Is Not Acceptable, with Michael Shermer
How Young White Men Got Screwed, with Jacob Savage
It's Bari Weiss's World! with Mike Pesca
The Secrets of Joan Didion. The Secret of Eve Babitz, with Lili Anolik
Fatherhood As Literary Art, with Thomas Beller
A Special Place In Hell Reunion, with Sarah Haider
Should We Bring Back Asylums? with Dr. Sally Satel
The Making of A Gender Heretic, with Ben Appel
How Do You Want Your Life To End? with Dr. Sunita Puri
Have Women Ruined The World? Helen Andrews on The Great Feminization
Does Your Personality Stink? There's Hope!
The Los Angeles Wildfires In Fiction
How To Quit Drinking Without Quitting Drinking
Street Protesters: Who Are They, Really? with Jeremy Lee Quinn
Can Democrats Admit They Were Wrong On Gender? with Lisa Selin Davis
Are Therapists Crazy? Andrew Hartz's quest for sanity in clinical psychology
All The World's A Hype House: What Leigh Stein's TikTok novel reveals about the way we live now
How Are Those Luxury Beliefs Working Out? Rob Henderson and the coinage that keeps on giving (FULL INTERVIEW)
Is The Racial Reckoning Over? John McWhorter on language, art, and defunding the grammar police
Is Everything Terrible? Tablet editor Alana Newhouse on the problem with burning it all down.
Extreme Religious Conversion - Kelsey Osgood on women, religious transformations, and what anorexia has to do with it. (FULL INTERVIEW)
How To Survive a Mania - Lionel Shriver hates groupthink. And so should everyone else.
Extreme Religious Conversion - Kelsey Osgood on women, religious transformations, and what anorexia has to do with it (PREVIEW)
70 Million Songs: The Catastrophe Hour Book Club Week 7
Do Women Owe Men An Apology? with Dr. Carole Hooven
The Unbearable Halfness Of Being: The Catastrophe Hour Book Club Week 6
Death On A Movie Set - Rachel Mason on Last Take, her documentary about the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of Rust
Playlist of Tears: The Catastrophe Hour Book Club Week 5
Species Of Grief: The Catastrophe Hour Book Club Week 4
Basically Dead: The Catastrophe Hour Book Club Week 3
What Illness Can Teach Us About Uncertainty - Jonathan Gluck on his new memoir about cancer and coming to terms with not knowing
The Catastrophe Hour Book Club, Week Two - Same Life, Higher Rent
Where Do Serial Killers Come From? Caroline Fraser on America's Murderland
The Catastrophe Hour Book Club, Week One - The Broken-In World
Alma Deutscher's First Dance - The celebrated young composer collaborates with the American Contemporary Ballet
Audio Essay: The End Of The Personal - Listen to an essay from The Catastrophe Hour
How To Solve Crime - Peter Moskos on New York City's policing triumph
Why Joni Mitchell Matters - Henry Alford on his book, "I Dream Of Joni: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell in 53 Snapshots"
Louise Perry's Counter-sexual Revolution
What's A Conservative To Do? Undercurrents' Emily Jashinsky on Trump, DOGE, and how worried we should be
Is The Online Right Eating Itself? The Free Press's River Page deconstructs the trolls
Special Episode Part 4 Los Angeles Fires: What Is A Catastrophe?
How Not To Go Insane: Chloé Valdary on leaving Twitter, the new Puritanism, and the virtues of reading aloud.
Special Episode Part 3 Los Angeles Fires: Housing Wars
Special Ep Part 2 Los Angeles Fires: The Immaterial World
Special Episode: Letter From the Los Angeles Fires
Topaz Adizes On How To Ask Questions (And Sell Them, Too.)
Is Your Media Consumption Making You Sick? Ruby Warrington's "content diet" for better living
Ana Kasparian Falls Out of Alignment: A political awakening brings a personal reckoning
Is Wokeness An Elite Boondoggle? Sociologist Musa al-Gharbi drops a truth bomb
Is Sports Betting More Addictive Than Porn? Alex Grodd on the latest scourge affecting young men
PREMIUM: Did The Trans Debate Get Trump Elected? Ben Ryan on TERF wars, the fallout of the Cass Review, and gender's role in the election
Can Middle Aged Women Save Theater? Playwright Sandra Tsing Loh on invisible women, wokeness in theater, and taking your own show on the road.
Is Kamala Harris Secretly Relieved? Lionel Shriver on the repudiation of wokeness, the volatility of a Trump presidency, and the newly relaxed Kamala Harris.
Premium: How To Get A Book Deal The Easy Way - Leigh Stein's secrets for book publishing success.
A Feminist In Genderland: Legendary feminist Julie Bindel on the sex trade, surrogacy, and her new podcast about gender madness
How To Win An Argument With Yourself: Stephanie Lepp's Latest Integration
PREMIUM: Is Anything Funny Anymore? Bestselling humor writer Neal Pollack is still laughing
Why Are Veterinarians So Expensive? Financial reporter Helaine Olen on The Unspeakable
The Culture Wars Are Wrecking Friendships: Kat Timpf's Anti-Ideological Crusade
PREMIUM: Planned Parenthood's Gender Transition - Journalist Jennifer Block explains how it happened.
What's Really Happening With The Housing Market? Melody Wright sees a coming crash.
Growing Up Zappa: Moon Unit Zappa on Valley Girl, and the rock-and-roll patriarchy
PREMIUM: Doctors In Denial Of Death - Dr. Sunita Puri calls for a better approach.
How To Stay Sane While Staying Informed: Tara Henley on audience capture, J.D. Vance, fertility, loneliness and the price of "progress."
Where We Go Next (Meghan interviewed!) - Podcaster Michael Callahan turns the tables on your host
Advice To My Daughter: Marry Young - Larissa Phillips on Relearning The Facts of Life
How To Cancel A Poet: Emmalea Russo's "chain of contamination"
Do Childless Women Get The Last Laugh? Journalist Vanessa Grigoriadis speaks her unspeakable truth
Morally and Medically Appalling: Jamie Reed blows the whistle on youth gender medicine
Who Was The Hollywood Con Queen? Scott Johnson on the most unbelievable true story ever told
The Inconvenient Truth About Divorce: Bridget Phetasy on staying together for the kids.
Building A Post-Woke Brand: Jennifer Sey gets back to business
Has Gay Pride Shamed Itself? FAIR director Monica Harris on how a mighty movement lost the plot.
Sarah Hepola Does Dallas
How Victimhood Can Work For You! Andrew Boryga on his novel VICTIM.
Is Working At Denny's Better Than Going To College? William Deresiewicz on the zombie apocalypse of elite education.
The Revolution Will Be Tweeted: Nellie Bowles reports from the morning after.
The Many Lives of Glenn Loury
The "Right Kind" of Black Person: Erec Smith on prescriptive racism.