All Episodes

Why This Show Is A Failure: A Song Of Joy and Peace

The Post-Cancellation Pivot: Stephen Elliott's Financial Advice for Poets (and Moral Support for Pariahs)

Are MFA Programs Multi-Level Marketing Schemes? Leigh Stein Thinks So!

How The News Went Insane: Batya Ungar-Sargon On The Social Rise and Intellectual Fall of Legacy Media

Is Nuance A Career Killer? Comedian Jamie Kilstein on Taking the High Road To Nowhere

Bitter Homes and Gardens: Larry Clarke and Fielding Edlow on Staying Afloat, Staying in Love, and Staying Insured in Hollywood

What Is a "Good Mother?" Lara Bazelon on Female Ambition, Biological Realities and Going To Trial

Seeking the Good Life In the Islamic State: Carla Power on the Journey In and Out of Violent Extremism

We Can't Know: Lisa Selin Davis On Getting Comfortable With The "Giant Mess" That Is The Current Gender Conversation

"We Feel Like We're In The Wild West:" Parents of Gender-Questioning Kids Ask Their Own Questions

What Do We Mean By "Gender Affirming Care?" A Conversation with Dr. Laura Edwards-Leeper

The Awkward Files: Father-daughter coauthors Dr. Drew and Paulina Pinsky Bridge the Generation Gap

Free To Be You and #MeToo: Erika Schickel on Coming of Age—and Coming Undone—in the 1970s

The WEIRD World Is Killing Us: Evolutionary Biologists Heather Heying and Bret Weinstein On Why Modern Life Feels So Unlivable

The Incel Phenomenon Is Not a Movement (Or A Terrorist Group). Naama Kates on What We Get Wrong About Society's Saddest and Most Reviled Men

Chelsea Handler Checks Her Privilege. (And spars a little with Meghan.)

How Not To Ruin The Dinner Party: A Conversation with Sam Harris

Don't Let The Loudest Voices Win: Frank Bruni on the Fine Art of The Subtle Point

"Am I The A**hole?" Dan Savage on Giving Advice, Taking Criticism and Keeping Up With The Times

The Tyranny Of the Mid-Career Pivot: A Meghan Monologue

We Are All Catastrophists Now. Tom Chivers On Why We're So Bad At Measuring Harm and Evaluating Risk

Shawn Pleasants Lived On The Street For Ten Years. Can He Help Solve the Homeless Crisis?

Critical Race Theory Is Making Our Heads Explode: Erec Smith Sifts Through The Pieces

Are Kids Being Talked Into Thinking They're Trans?

Paul Rudnick on British royals, coastal elites, and the strange freedoms of New Jersey

When Taking Control of Your Death Takes Over Your Life: Lionel Shriver on Getting Out Just In Time

Is It Time To Get Rid of the Sex Offender Registry? Emily Horowitz Says Yes.

How Did A Nice Radical Feminist End Up in Center Right Journalism? Libby Emmons Tells Her Story.

Buck Angel Bucks the Trend: An Old-School Transexual on the New Transgender Movement

When The Greatest Story Ever Told Isn't Yours To Tell. Jean Hanff Korelitz on her new novel, The Plot

Can "Diversity and Inclusion" Training Actually Become Diverse and Inclusive? Chloé Valdary Has A Plan.

Why Can't Philosophers Talk About Gender? Kathleen Stock On How A Rich Topic Became The Third Rail

The Racism of Antiracism: A Conversation With John McWhorter

Islamic Fundamentalism Is Feminism's Third Rail. A Conversation With Yasmine Mohammed

It's Complicated. Writer and podcaster Jesse Singal on Fad Science, Bad Faith and Mad Media

How To Be A Better Person (Than Everyone Else): Joel Stein On The Lost Art Of Elitism

When the Mob Comes for the Professors the Academic Freedom Alliance Comes to the Rescue. A Conversation with Free Speech Scholar Keith Whittington

You're Just Now Noticing This? Bridget Phetasy on Keeping Up With the Cancelers

Woke Us When It's Over: New York Times Columnist Bret Stephens on How to Reason with a Toddler-like Culture

Meet Angel Eduardo. The Harper's Letter Was For Him

You Too Can Go Broke In Middle Age! Annabelle Gurwitch Leads The Way

Who Needs Therapy? Lori Gottlieb On the View from Both Sides of the Couch

The Unspoken Trauma Of Adoption: Moses Farrow on His Work, His Famous Family and "Coming Out of the Adoption Fog"

Who's Afraid Of The Lab-Leak Hypothesis? Dr. Alina Chan and Dr. Filippa Lentzos On The Possible Origins Of The SARS-CoV-2 Virus

What's The Matter With Portland? Nancy Rommelmann on the Puzzling Politics of Protest

When Your Publisher Calls You Problematic: Bruce Wagner Goes Rogue By Going Public

Are Lesbians Going Extinct? Katie Herzog Reports From The Field

Feminine Chaos Is The Order of the Day: A Conversation with Kat Rosenfield and Phoebe Maltz Bovy

I Don't Know What To Think Anymore: A Few Words From Your Host

All Artists Are Starving Artists Now: William Deresiewicz on The Rigged Creative Economy

How Does Any Of Us Get Through? Sigrid Nunez on Living, Dying, Friendship and Solitude

A Portrait of the Humorist as a Young Woman: Merrill Markoe on Drawing (Literally) from her Early Diaries

Everyone's a Podcaster Now! Josh Szeps on How to Talk, How To Listen, and When To Shut Up

Can Old-School Intellectualism Make a Comeback In A New Era? A conversation with Leon Wieseltier

Inspecting The Machinery of Identity Politics: A Conversation with Writer and Scholar Laurent Dubreuil

Why Does Exposing Social Media Hypocrisy Feel So Damn Good? An Interview with Katie Herzog

How To Let Your Kids Live More Dangerously: A conversation with "America's Worst Mom," Lenore Skenazy

Can The Artist Survive? A Conversation with Writer and Performer Sandra Tsing Loh

Uncomfortable Truths About Dating (At Least The Heterosexual Kind): A Conversation with Evan Marc Katz

What Does Postmodernism Have To Do With Social Justice? Helen Pluckrose Explains It All

Why Are So Many Kids Saying They're Trans? (And How Big A Deal Is This?)

Can We Get Smarter About Policing? A conversation with Professor of Police Science (and former Baltimore cop) Peter Moskos

Dr. Drew Is Worried About A Health Crisis In Critical Thinking

Leigh Stein on the rise and fall of the #GirlBoss and her new novel, Self Care

Gen X Girl Talk With Evolutionary Biologist Heather Heying