The Unspeakeasy With Meghan Daum
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Is Dating A Lost Cause? Lori Gottlieb On How to Find Love In The Age of Apps, Ghosting, and Too Much Choice
55 mins; February 12, 2024
Artificial Intelligence For Dummies (Or At Least Normies): John Vervaeke and Shawn Coyne on Mentoring The Machines.
50 mins; February 05, 2024
Never Apologize - Katherine Brodsky On How To Survive Cancellation
51 mins; January 29, 2024
Our Zip Codes, Ourselves - Seth Kaplan on the Fragile State of American Neighborhoods
45 mins; January 19, 2024
When Israel and Palestine Share A Classroom - Bernard Avishai and Ezzedine Fishere's Two-State Approach
65 hours 13 mins; January 09, 2024
Travel Notes From A War - ChayaLeah Sufrin On Her Recent Trip To Israel
20 mins; January 04, 2024
What to Do When Kids Say They're Trans - Sasha Ayad returns to The Unspeakable
70 hours 25 mins; December 19, 2023
Is Civility Better Than Kindness?
17 mins; December 12, 2023
Livestreaming Yourself To Death: Erich Schwartzel on Social Media Influencers Rachel and Dave Hollis
67 hours 49 mins; December 06, 2023
NY Times Columnist Pamela Paul Knows What You're Thinking
85 hours 5 mins; November 27, 2023
Andrew Sullivan on Where Trans Activism and Gay Rights Collide
65 hours 24 mins; November 13, 2023
What Is Real? Eli Lake on Disinformation, Despair and Dead Ends in the Israel-Hamas War
65 hours 22 mins; November 06, 2023
Rob Long On How Hollywood Lost The Plot
69 hours 57 mins; October 30, 2023
When Did Campuses Turn On Israel? Ben Appel on anti-semitism in college classrooms
65 hours 41 mins; October 20, 2023
Are there any off-limits subjects between you and your therapist?
72 hours 21 mins; October 09, 2023
Ethan Strauss on why Sports Media has Gone Insane
63 hours 19 mins; October 02, 2023
How Foucault Led To Tumblr - Tracing the history of The Identity Trap with Yascha Mounk
77 hours 42 mins; September 25, 2023
Who Were The Hottest World Leaders and Despots? Yael Bar-tur and ChayaLeah Sufrin on The Unspeakable
78 hours 56 mins; September 18, 2023
"What Can A Man Do?" with Christine Emba
70 hours 6 mins; September 11, 2023
Maria Bamford Wants To Join Your Cult
75 hours 37 mins; August 31, 2023
When Does Life Really End? Dr. Sunita Puri On The Problem With CPR And the Denial Of Death
87 hours 51 mins; July 26, 2023
The Mortifying Ordeal Of Being Known: Writer Tim Kreider Visits The Unspeakable
81 hours 15 mins; July 17, 2023
The Ballad Of The Nineties "Bad Girl." Lucinda Rosenfeld On Inappropriate Relationships, Literary Theory, And The Sublimity Of Cigarettes
62 hours 51 mins; July 10, 2023
The State of Abortion One Year Post Dobbs: Frances Kissling Returns To The Unspeakable
81 hours 50 mins; June 26, 2023
Do You Have What It Takes To Be Polyamorous? Diana Fleischman on Sex, Jealousy, Emotional Discipline, and Why We Behave The Way We Do
94 hours 39 mins; June 19, 2023
Is Art Boring Or Is It Just Us? William Deresiewicz Returns To The Pod
78 hours 1 min; June 12, 2023
What Is A Good Death?: Sandra Martin On The Social History Of The Right To Die
71 hours 51 mins; June 05, 2023
Those College Students Might Surprise You: Sarah Hepola's Report From The Classroom
128 hours 16 mins; May 24, 2023
Red Pilling The Pill: Holly Grigg-Spall On The Big Business Of Birth Control
69 hours 47 mins; May 15, 2023
It Should Have Been Over By Now, But It Isn't. Lionel Shriver On The Unending Culture Wars
70 hours 20 mins; May 08, 2023
What Is Anorexia Really About? Hadley Freeman on Good Girls and the competition to be the "Illest."
74 hours 10 mins; May 01, 2023
Jean Twenge On Why Generational Differences Matter
64 hours 35 mins; April 24, 2023
Does Your Kid Really Need Therapy? Stella O'Malley on Teens, Mental Health, and the Problem With Professionals
72 hours 12 mins; April 17, 2023
The "Ask A Jew" Girls Are Back! ChayaLeah Sufrin and Yael Bar-tur Return to The Unspeakable
74 hours 31 mins; April 03, 2023
Don't Have Children If You Don't Want Them! Ruby Warrington on Women Without Kids
71 hours 44 mins; March 27, 2023
Congratulations, You're a Failure! Stephen Marche on Enduring the Life of a Writer
71 hours 35 mins; March 20, 2023
Cancel Culture Comes For Ballet: Choreographer Lincoln Jones's Problematic Journey
55 mins; March 13, 2023
How To Land In A Psych Ward: A Conversation With Freddie deBoer
67 hours 3 mins; March 06, 2023
How Are We Feeling About Policing These Days? Peter Moskos Files A Report
71 hours 30 mins; February 27, 2023
They're Coming To Take You Away: Rob Wipond On The Ongoing Scourge Of Involuntary Psychiatric Treatment
70 hours 3 mins; February 20, 2023
Armie Hammer's Blunt Force Trauma: Jamie Kirchick On The Story No One Will Tell
59 mins; February 13, 2023
Should We Teach Porn Literacy? Richie Hardcore Shares His Lesson Plans
67 hours 51 mins; February 06, 2023
Everyone's Crazy: Paul Gilmartin's Mental Illness Happy Hour
74 hours 11 mins; January 30, 2023
"Field" Is Now A Forbidden Word! Rhetorician Erec Smith On How To Make Everything Racist
63 hours 1 min; January 23, 2023
Leaning Out And Looking Up: Journalist Tara Henley's Next Phase
67 hours 24 mins; January 16, 2023
Why We Are The Way We Are. Bridget Phetasy and Jeren Montgomery on Our "Factory Settings"
83 hours 33 mins; January 09, 2023
Sarah Polley's Hollywood Debut: A Candid Conversation With The Canadian Star
84 hours 51 mins; December 19, 2022
Why Is It So Hard To Find A Doctor? Zubin Damania Diagnoses The Disaster
86 hours 4 mins; December 12, 2022
Do Only Liberals Go To Therapy? Meet Dea Bridge, the "conservative therapist" Meghan interviewed for The New York Times
71 hours 35 mins; December 05, 2022
A TERF and a Tranny Walk Into A Podcast Studio: Geeking Out With the Heterodorx
86 hours 58 mins; November 24, 2022
Introducing: Infamous
4 mins; November 18, 2022
Why Are You Still A Democrat? Maud Maron Isn't Leaving The Party—Yet
73 hours 56 mins; November 14, 2022
Gain Confidence By Losing Certainty. Ilana Redstone on Breaking Free from the Certainty Trap
59 mins; November 07, 2022
Not Even Mad: Mike Pesca, Virginia Heffernan and Jamie Kirchick On Their New Podcast
70 hours 16 mins; October 31, 2022
Can Men Be Saved? Richard Reeves on the New Crisis of Masculinity
61 hours 36 mins; October 24, 2022
What Should We Believe? Michael Shermer On Staying Rational In An Irrational World
88 hours 48 mins; October 17, 2022
Why Can't We Get Back To Normal? Public Health Expert Leslie Bienen on Learning To Coexist With Covid
68 hours 36 mins; October 10, 2022
Yes, Youth Gender Surgery Is Really Happening: Colin Wright Lays Out The Details
78 hours 48 mins; October 03, 2022
Is Wellness Making Us Sick? Rina Raphael Tells the Dirty Truth About "Clean Health"
73 hours 32 mins; September 26, 2022
The Second Coming of ASK A JEW: ChayaLeah Sufrin and Yael Bar tur Are Back!
97 hours 5 mins; September 19, 2022
Was the Sexual Revolution A Failed Experiment? Louise Perry Makes Her Case
96 hours 25 mins; September 12, 2022
When Troubled People Become Our Playthings: Jon Ronson on Shame and Forgiveness
91 hours 17 mins; September 04, 2022
Is Solitude Over? Is Thinking Dead? A Conversation with William Deresiewicz
75 hours 46 mins; August 29, 2022
"Are You Are Becoming A Republican Or Something?" Sarah Hepola On Letting Down The Left Without Ever Leaving It
96 hours 59 mins; July 10, 2022
Guns: A Civil Disagreement Part Two
62 hours 1 min; July 03, 2022
Guns: A Civil Disagreement Part One
58 mins; June 26, 2022
Safety Moose Says, "Stay Home!" Author Neal Pollack On His Dangerous New Novel, Edge of Safety
77 hours 36 mins; June 19, 2022
Is A Post-Truth World All Bad? Stephanie Lepp's "Promiscuous Pragmatic Pluralism"
82 hours 56 mins; June 12, 2022
Has Wokeism Won? Sarah Haider Acknowledges Defeat But Won't Stop Talking.
62 hours 57 mins; June 05, 2022
Uniquely Stupid and Incredibly Coddled: Jonathan Haidt On How We Lost Our Collective Minds (And Whether We'll Ever Find Them Again)
76 hours 54 mins; May 29, 2022
An Act of Love. The Gift of Death: Author Amy Bloom On Her New Memoir
57 mins; May 22, 2022
The Canceled Collective Planning Committee: Jamie Kilstein Returns To The Unspeakable
108 hours 12 mins; May 15, 2022
The Future of Abortion: Frances Kissling On Moving Forward In A Post-Roe World
62 hours 29 mins; May 08, 2022
Is Public Health Messaging Designed For Dummies? Dr. Lucy McBride Calls For An End To COVID Catastrophizing
76 hours 13 mins; May 01, 2022
When The Workplace Is A Woke Place: Jennifer Sey on Corporate Branding Versus Personal Beliefs
74 hours 10 mins; April 24, 2022
This Is What It's Like To Be Banned From Twitter: Meghan Murphy Forges Ahead And Falls Behind In Twitter Exile
63 hours 51 mins; April 17, 2022
Ladies Lunch at the Holocaust-Themed Restaurant: Yael Bar-tur and ChayaLeah Sufrin of the Ask A Jew Podcast
116 hours 15 mins; April 10, 2022
The Censors Within: Sarah Hepola on What She Was Afraid To Write About—Until Now
96 hours 39 mins; March 28, 2022
What Is Gender Detransition? Changing Your Mind About Changing Your Body
56 mins; March 20, 2022
Rebel Wisdom's David Fuller Is Trying to Talk Sense Into the Sensemakers: Is Anyone Listening?
76 hours 2 mins; March 13, 2022
Can We Move Past The Culture Wars? Quillette's Jonathan Kay On "Other Interests"
68 hours 23 mins; March 06, 2022
Why Is Friendship So Fraught? Jennifer Senior on the Complexities of Adult Friendship
68 hours 9 mins; February 28, 2022
Mike Pesca's Esprit de Corps: The Gist Wipes The Slate Clean And Flies Solo
74 hours 27 mins; February 20, 2022
You're Older Than You've Ever Been. And Now You're Even Older: Sari Botton On Aging At Any Age
81 hours 25 mins; February 13, 2022
Love—Or Quarantines—Will Keep Us Together: Laura Kipnis on Sex and Romance (Not Necessarily With Your Partner) In Lockdown
84 hours 20 mins; February 06, 2022
Neurodivergence For Everyone! Jenara Nerenberg On New Frames of Mind About The Human Brain
82 hours 42 mins; January 30, 2022
When Queer Theory Meets Medical Practice: Aaron Kimberly On The Crisis In Transgender Health Care
98 hours 16 mins; January 24, 2022
YouTube Heroes Flying Too Close To The Sun: Chris Kavanagh Decodes The Gurus (With An Amazing Accent)
104 hours 46 mins; January 16, 2022
There's No Such Thing As A Howard Beal Moment: Michael Wolff on Power, Access, Hubris, and Writing Great Sentences
78 hours 17 mins; January 09, 2022
Why This Show Is A Failure: A Song Of Joy and Peace
28 mins; December 12, 2021
The Post-Cancellation Pivot: Stephen Elliott's Financial Advice for Poets (and Moral Support for Pariahs)
68 hours 58 mins; December 05, 2021
Are MFA Programs Multi-Level Marketing Schemes? Leigh Stein Thinks So!
80 hours 55 mins; November 28, 2021
How The News Went Insane: Batya Ungar-Sargon On The Social Rise and Intellectual Fall of Legacy Media
71 hours 28 mins; November 14, 2021
Is Nuance A Career Killer? Comedian Jamie Kilstein on Taking the High Road To Nowhere
88 hours 3 mins; November 07, 2021
Bitter Homes and Gardens: Larry Clarke and Fielding Edlow on Staying Afloat, Staying in Love, and Staying Insured in Hollywood
73 hours 51 mins; October 31, 2021
What Is a "Good Mother?" Lara Bazelon on Female Ambition, Biological Realities and Going To Trial
90 hours 44 mins; October 24, 2021
Seeking the Good Life In the Islamic State: Carla Power on the Journey In and Out of Violent Extremism
86 hours 15 mins; October 17, 2021
We Can't Know: Lisa Selin Davis On Getting Comfortable With The "Giant Mess" That Is The Current Gender Conversation
73 hours 28 mins; October 08, 2021
"We Feel Like We're In The Wild West:" Parents of Gender-Questioning Kids Ask Their Own Questions
81 hours 28 mins; October 05, 2021
What Do We Mean By "Gender Affirming Care?" A Conversation with Dr. Laura Edwards-Leeper
64 hours 30 mins; October 03, 2021