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Slate Debates

A feed from the Slate podcast network featuring episodes with enlightening conversations, opposing views, and plenty of healthy disputes. You'll get a curated selection of episodes from programs like What Next, The Waves, and the Political Gabfest, with deep discussions that go beyond point-counterpoint and shed light on the issues that matter most.

The Incredible Story of the Traveling Creole

62 hours 19 mins; September 01, 2020

This Am a Minstrel Stereotype, Right?

55 mins; August 18, 2020

When Jews Adapted Spanish

47 mins; August 04, 2020

Lots of languages have no dedicated way to indicate later-ness. Somehow life goes on.

52 mins; July 21, 2020

Defund Karen

42 mins; July 07, 2020

Beyond the Five Ws

52 mins; June 23, 2020

Tweety Bird and Toddlerspeak

47 mins; June 09, 2020

Coronavirus: Isolation and Aspiration

44 mins; May 26, 2020

Our Indigenous Languages

61 hours 12 mins; May 12, 2020

I Just Can't!

46 mins; April 28, 2020

The Many Meanings of Too

42 mins; April 14, 2020

Sicko, Whacko, Weirdo

43 mins; March 31, 2020

Chinese Has No Grammar, Right? Wrong!

51 mins; March 17, 2020

From Uptalk to Vocal Fry, Women Are Prolific Language Innovators

50 mins; March 04, 2020

In What Order Did Languages Arrive in Europe?

44 mins; February 18, 2020

Digging Up the Past

41 mins; February 04, 2020

Verbs on the Move

41 mins; January 21, 2020

Does PROCESSES Rhyme with KNEES?

47 mins; January 07, 2020

A Bisl Yiddish

47 mins; December 24, 2019

Private Parts

41 mins; December 10, 2019

The Soft Power of Like

45 mins; November 26, 2019

Men, Women and Children

37 mins; November 12, 2019

Zombie English

34 mins; October 29, 2019

Let's Do Lunch

38 mins; October 16, 2019

How to Think Like a Linguist

37 mins; October 01, 2019

Has English Gotten Less Complex?

41 mins; September 17, 2019

S#!t, Hell and Darn

36 mins; September 03, 2019

This Family Speaks 1,200 Languages

46 mins; August 19, 2019

Language vs. Dialect

42 mins; August 06, 2019

The Internet Loves the Exclamation Point!!

38 mins; July 23, 2019

Why Is "Ph" Pronounced That Way?

46 mins; July 09, 2019

Does Language Affect Thought?

47 mins; June 25, 2019

A Fleeting Glance

39 mins; June 11, 2019

The Romance Languages

44 mins; May 28, 2019

Why Do Some Americans Say Warshed?

48 mins; May 14, 2019

Flores Man vs. Sulawesi

46 mins; April 29, 2019

The Lingua Francas

36 mins; April 15, 2019

Can Climate Influence Language?

45 mins; April 02, 2019

When Ain't Was Alright

38 mins; March 19, 2019

The Semitic Tongues

44 mins; March 05, 2019

Precious Little

42 mins; February 18, 2019

When Words Collide

43 mins; February 05, 2019

Truth Be Told

39 mins; January 22, 2019

A Penetrating History of F*%k

45 mins; January 08, 2019

When Did English Get Happy?

37 mins; December 25, 2018

Sponsored: Adjusting the Lens on Chronic Disease

29 mins; December 13, 2018

Why Language Can't Be Tamed

39 mins; December 11, 2018

Is Social Media Changing English?

40 mins; November 27, 2018

What Was the First Language?

46 mins; November 13, 2018

So ... Let's Talk About So

38 mins; October 30, 2018

Like-Minded

32 mins; October 16, 2018

Why Do Southerners Talk Like That?

39 mins; October 02, 2018

The Habitual Past

34 mins; September 18, 2018

A Riot of Color

40 mins; September 04, 2018

The Rise of They

42 mins; August 21, 2018

Wabbit Twacks

43 mins; August 06, 2018

Tee Time

41 mins; July 24, 2018

Happy Birthday OED!

35 mins; July 10, 2018

If Frozen, Why Not Squozen?

38 mins; June 26, 2018

The Pronouning of Profanities

34 mins; June 12, 2018

One Tongue to Rule Them All

38 mins; May 29, 2018

The Art of the Spiel

43 mins; May 15, 2018

Lend Me Your Ears: Julius Caesar

1 min; May 09, 2018

Getting to Yes

36 mins; May 01, 2018

The Story of P

39 mins; April 17, 2018

English Spelling Is a Beautiful Mess

37 mins; April 03, 2018

Did the Founding Fathers Have a British Accent?

37 mins; March 20, 2018

No-Uh!

35 mins; March 06, 2018

The Inner Workings of Out

35 mins; February 20, 2018

Words, For Her

35 mins; February 06, 2018

What's the Deal with Eleven?

45 mins; January 23, 2018

There Are Two N-Words

35 mins; January 09, 2018

The Thing Is Is

34 mins; December 26, 2017

An Accidental Sanctity

34 mins; December 12, 2017

Thanksgiving Misnomers

36 mins; November 28, 2017

Sometimes Just Because

32 mins; November 14, 2017

Against Strunk & White

33 mins; October 31, 2017

Whence Baby Mama?

38 mins; October 17, 2017

Este No Es Parqueo

36 mins; October 03, 2017

From Pidgins to Creoles

38 mins; September 19, 2017

Do Languages Simplify Over Time?

32 mins; September 05, 2017

Did Cavebabies Say Mama and Papa?

32 mins; August 22, 2017

New Life for Dying Languages

37 mins; August 08, 2017

In the Negative

32 mins; July 25, 2017

Why Do Languages Have Contractions?

36 mins; July 11, 2017

The Incredible Lightness of Being

29 mins; June 27, 2017

Is There a Jewish Way of Talking?

38 mins; June 13, 2017

Mining Graffiti for Slang

32 mins; May 30, 2017

That's Not a Word, Is It?

31 mins; May 16, 2017

The Language of Female Friendships

36 mins; May 02, 2017

The Euphemism Treadmill

27 mins; April 18, 2017

Heyo, Let's Talk About Hamilton

31 mins; April 04, 2017

Earlier American English—More Profane, Parochial and Provincial

32 mins; March 21, 2017

Like, Why Do We Use Like So Much?

35 mins; February 07, 2017

What Had Happened Was Storytelling

33 mins; January 24, 2017

Why We Stopped Teaching Children How to Read

33 mins; January 10, 2017

Away in a Penthouse, the Little Lord Jesus

28 mins; December 27, 2016

What "The Wizard of Oz" Can Tell Us About "Arrival"

30 mins; December 13, 2016

Black Like Us

36 mins; November 29, 2016

Language Lessons of Past Presidents

32 mins; November 15, 2016

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