The Unspeakeasy With Meghan Daum
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The Awkward Files: Father-daughter coauthors Dr. Drew and Paulina Pinsky Bridge the Generation Gap
80 hours 16 mins; September 26, 2021
Free To Be You and #MeToo: Erika Schickel on Coming of Age—and Coming Undone—in the 1970s
64 hours 29 mins; September 19, 2021
The WEIRD World Is Killing Us: Evolutionary Biologists Heather Heying and Bret Weinstein On Why Modern Life Feels So Unlivable
123 hours 15 mins; September 13, 2021
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
81 hours 30 mins; September 05, 2021
Chelsea Handler Checks Her Privilege. (And spars a little with Meghan.)
79 hours 25 mins; August 29, 2021
How Not To Ruin The Dinner Party: A Conversation with Sam Harris
146 hours 51 mins; August 22, 2021
Don't Let The Loudest Voices Win: Frank Bruni on the Fine Art of The Subtle Point
94 hours 0 mins; August 15, 2021
"Am I The A**hole?" Dan Savage on Giving Advice, Taking Criticism and Keeping Up With The Times
92 hours 55 mins; August 08, 2021
The Tyranny Of the Mid-Career Pivot: A Meghan Monologue
28 mins; August 01, 2021
We Are All Catastrophists Now. Tom Chivers On Why We're So Bad At Measuring Harm and Evaluating Risk
65 hours 27 mins; July 25, 2021
Shawn Pleasants Lived On The Street For Ten Years. Can He Help Solve the Homeless Crisis?
82 hours 25 mins; July 16, 2021
Critical Race Theory Is Making Our Heads Explode: Erec Smith Sifts Through The Pieces
93 hours 0 mins; July 11, 2021
Are Kids Being Talked Into Thinking They're Trans?
96 hours 1 min; July 04, 2021
Paul Rudnick on British royals, coastal elites, and the strange freedoms of New Jersey
71 hours 22 mins; June 27, 2021
When Taking Control of Your Death Takes Over Your Life: Lionel Shriver on Getting Out Just In Time
66 hours 43 mins; June 20, 2021
Is It Time To Get Rid of the Sex Offender Registry? Emily Horowitz Says Yes.
75 hours 18 mins; June 13, 2021
How Did A Nice Radical Feminist End Up in Center Right Journalism? Libby Emmons Tells Her Story.
59 mins; June 06, 2021
Buck Angel Bucks the Trend: An Old-School Transexual on the New Transgender Movement
80 hours 34 mins; May 30, 2021
When The Greatest Story Ever Told Isn't Yours To Tell. Jean Hanff Korelitz on her new novel, The Plot
68 hours 24 mins; May 23, 2021
Can "Diversity and Inclusion" Training Actually Become Diverse and Inclusive? Chloé Valdary Has A Plan.
68 hours 44 mins; May 16, 2021
Why Can't Philosophers Talk About Gender? Kathleen Stock On How A Rich Topic Became The Third Rail
95 hours 44 mins; May 09, 2021
The Racism of Antiracism: A Conversation With John McWhorter
82 hours 14 mins; May 02, 2021
Islamic Fundamentalism Is Feminism's Third Rail. A Conversation With Yasmine Mohammed
97 hours 51 mins; April 18, 2021
It's Complicated. Writer and podcaster Jesse Singal on Fad Science, Bad Faith and Mad Media
82 hours 19 mins; April 11, 2021
How To Be A Better Person (Than Everyone Else): Joel Stein On The Lost Art Of Elitism
104 hours 57 mins; April 04, 2021
When the Mob Comes for the Professors the Academic Freedom Alliance Comes to the Rescue. A Conversation with Free Speech Scholar Keith Whittington
84 hours 1 min; March 28, 2021
You're Just Now Noticing This? Bridget Phetasy on Keeping Up With the Cancelers
61 hours 36 mins; March 21, 2021
Woke Us When It's Over: New York Times Columnist Bret Stephens on How to Reason with a Toddler-like Culture
82 hours 5 mins; March 14, 2021
Meet Angel Eduardo. The Harper's Letter Was For Him
90 hours 10 mins; March 07, 2021
You Too Can Go Broke In Middle Age! Annabelle Gurwitch Leads The Way
66 hours 51 mins; February 28, 2021
Who Needs Therapy? Lori Gottlieb On the View from Both Sides of the Couch
73 hours 47 mins; February 21, 2021
The Unspoken Trauma Of Adoption: Moses Farrow on His Work, His Famous Family and "Coming Out of the Adoption Fog"
58 mins; February 14, 2021
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
84 hours 5 mins; February 07, 2021
What's The Matter With Portland? Nancy Rommelmann on the Puzzling Politics of Protest
69 hours 30 mins; January 31, 2021
When Your Publisher Calls You Problematic: Bruce Wagner Goes Rogue By Going Public
74 hours 59 mins; January 24, 2021
Are Lesbians Going Extinct? Katie Herzog Reports From The Field
66 hours 58 mins; January 17, 2021
Feminine Chaos Is The Order of the Day: A Conversation with Kat Rosenfield and Phoebe Maltz Bovy
87 hours 15 mins; January 03, 2021
I Don't Know What To Think Anymore: A Few Words From Your Host
18 mins; November 15, 2020
All Artists Are Starving Artists Now: William Deresiewicz on The Rigged Creative Economy
85 hours 34 mins; November 08, 2020
How Does Any Of Us Get Through? Sigrid Nunez on Living, Dying, Friendship and Solitude
75 hours 19 mins; November 01, 2020
A Portrait of the Humorist as a Young Woman: Merrill Markoe on Drawing (Literally) from her Early Diaries
75 hours 52 mins; October 25, 2020
Everyone's a Podcaster Now! Josh Szeps on How to Talk, How To Listen, and When To Shut Up
84 hours 12 mins; October 18, 2020
Can Old-School Intellectualism Make a Comeback In A New Era? A conversation with Leon Wieseltier
77 hours 30 mins; October 12, 2020
Inspecting The Machinery of Identity Politics: A Conversation with Writer and Scholar Laurent Dubreuil
59 mins; October 04, 2020
Why Does Exposing Social Media Hypocrisy Feel So Damn Good? An Interview with Katie Herzog
67 hours 26 mins; September 27, 2020
How To Let Your Kids Live More Dangerously: A conversation with "America's Worst Mom," Lenore Skenazy
68 hours 19 mins; September 20, 2020
Can The Artist Survive? A Conversation with Writer and Performer Sandra Tsing Loh
54 mins; September 13, 2020
Uncomfortable Truths About Dating (At Least The Heterosexual Kind): A Conversation with Evan Marc Katz
52 mins; September 06, 2020
What Does Postmodernism Have To Do With Social Justice? Helen Pluckrose Explains It All
71 hours 36 mins; August 30, 2020
Why Are So Many Kids Saying They're Trans? (And How Big A Deal Is This?)
89 hours 20 mins; August 23, 2020
Can We Get Smarter About Policing? A conversation with Professor of Police Science (and former Baltimore cop) Peter Moskos
72 hours 30 mins; August 16, 2020
Dr. Drew Is Worried About A Health Crisis In Critical Thinking
48 mins; August 09, 2020
Leigh Stein on the rise and fall of the #GirlBoss and her new novel, Self Care
65 hours 53 mins; August 02, 2020
Gen X Girl Talk With Evolutionary Biologist Heather Heying
68 hours 3 mins; July 23, 2020