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Has Literature Canceled Itself? Sherman Alexie on reading, writing, and book banning.
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Mar 21, 2024 |
How 'The Coddling' Became A Movie: Ted Balaker and Courtney Moorehead Balaker turn a foundational book into a film
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Mar 18, 2024 |
The Linguistic Confusion Of Gender: Philosopher Alex Byrne on how we got into so much trouble
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Mar 11, 2024 |
How Tumblr Memes Became Political Ideas: Katherine Dee decodes the manosphere, Tumblr feminism, anime activism, and more
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Feb 26, 2024 |
From Foster Care to the Ivy League: Rob Henderson on luxury beliefs, broken communities, and the path forward
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Feb 19, 2024 |
Is Dating A Lost Cause? Lori Gottlieb On How to Find Love In The Age of Apps, Ghosting, and Too Much Choice
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Feb 12, 2024 |
Artificial Intelligence For Dummies (Or At Least Normies): John Vervaeke and Shawn Coyne on Mentoring The Machines.
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Feb 05, 2024 |
Never Apologize - Katherine Brodsky On How To Survive Cancellation
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Jan 29, 2024 |
Our Zip Codes, Ourselves - Seth Kaplan on the Fragile State of American Neighborhoods
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Jan 19, 2024 |
When Israel and Palestine Share A Classroom - Bernard Avishai and Ezzedine Fishere’s Two-State Approach
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Jan 09, 2024 |
Travel Notes From A War - ChayaLeah Sufrin On Her Recent Trip To Israel
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Jan 05, 2024 |
What to Do When Kids Say They’re Trans - Sasha Ayad returns to The Unspeakable
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Dec 19, 2023 |
Is Civility Better Than Kindness?
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Dec 12, 2023 |
Livestreaming Yourself To Death: Erich Schwartzel on Social Media Influencers Rachel and Dave Hollis
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Dec 07, 2023 |
NY Times Columnist Pamela Paul Knows What You’re Thinking
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Nov 27, 2023 |
Andrew Sullivan on Where Trans Activism and Gay Rights Collide
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Nov 13, 2023 |
What Is Real? Eli Lake on Disinformation, Despair and Dead Ends in the Israel-Hamas War
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Nov 06, 2023 |
Rob Long On How Hollywood Lost The Plot
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Oct 30, 2023 |
When Did Campuses Turn On Israel? Ben Appel on anti-semitism in college classrooms
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Oct 20, 2023 |
Are there any off-limits subjects between you and your therapist?
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Oct 09, 2023 |
Ethan Strauss on why Sports Media has Gone Insane
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Oct 02, 2023 |
How Foucault Led To Tumblr - Tracing the history of The Identity Trap with Yascha Mounk
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Sep 25, 2023 |
Who Were The Hottest World Leaders and Despots? Yael Bar-tur and ChayaLeah Sufrin on The Unspeakable
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Sep 18, 2023 |
"What Can A Man Do?" with Christine Emba
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Sep 11, 2023 |
Maria Bamford Wants To Join Your Cult
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Aug 31, 2023 |
When Does Life Really End? Dr. Sunita Puri On The Problem With CPR And the Denial Of Death
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Jul 26, 2023 |
The Mortifying Ordeal Of Being Known: Writer Tim Kreider Visits The Unspeakable
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Jul 17, 2023 |
The Ballad Of The Nineties “Bad Girl.” Lucinda Rosenfeld On Inappropriate Relationships, Literary Theory, And The Sublimity Of Cigarettes
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Jul 10, 2023 |
The State of Abortion One Year Post Dobbs: Frances Kissling Returns To The Unspeakable
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Jun 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
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Jun 19, 2023 |
Is Art Boring Or Is It Just Us? William Deresiewicz Returns To The Pod
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Jun 12, 2023 |
What Is A Good Death?: Sandra Martin On The Social History Of The Right To Die
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Jun 05, 2023 |
Those College Students Might Surprise You: Sarah Hepola’s Report From The Classroom
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May 24, 2023 |
Red Pilling The Pill: Holly Grigg-Spall On The Big Business Of Birth Control
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May 15, 2023 |
It Should Have Been Over By Now, But It Isn’t. Lionel Shriver On The Unending Culture Wars
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May 08, 2023 |
What Is Anorexia Really About? Hadley Freeman on Good Girls and the competition to be the “Illest.”
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May 01, 2023 |
Jean Twenge On Why Generational Differences Matter
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Apr 24, 2023 |
Does Your Kid Really Need Therapy? Stella O’Malley on Teens, Mental Health, and the Problem With Professionals
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Apr 17, 2023 |
The "Ask A Jew" Girls Are Back! ChayaLeah Sufrin and Yael Bar-tur Return to The Unspeakable
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Apr 03, 2023 |
Don’t Have Children If You Don’t Want Them! Ruby Warrington on Women Without Kids
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Mar 27, 2023 |
Congratulations, You’re a Failure! Stephen Marche on Enduring the Life of a Writer
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Mar 20, 2023 |
Cancel Culture Comes For Ballet: Choreographer Lincoln Jones’s Problematic Journey
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Mar 13, 2023 |
How To Land In A Psych Ward: A Conversation With Freddie deBoer
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Mar 06, 2023 |
How Are We Feeling About Policing These Days? Peter Moskos Files A Report
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Feb 27, 2023 |
They’re Coming To Take You Away: Rob Wipond On The Ongoing Scourge Of Involuntary Psychiatric Treatment
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Feb 20, 2023 |
Armie Hammer’s Blunt Force Trauma: Jamie Kirchick On The Story No One Will Tell
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Feb 13, 2023 |
Should We Teach Porn Literacy? Richie Hardcore Shares His Lesson Plans
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Feb 06, 2023 |
Everyone’s Crazy: Paul Gilmartin’s Mental Illness Happy Hour
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Jan 30, 2023 |
“Field” Is Now A Forbidden Word! Rhetorician Erec Smith On How To Make Everything Racist
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Jan 23, 2023 |
Leaning Out And Looking Up: Journalist Tara Henley’s Next Phase
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Jan 16, 2023 |
Why We Are The Way We Are. Bridget Phetasy and Jeren Montgomery on Our “Factory Settings”
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Jan 09, 2023 |
Sarah Polley’s Hollywood Debut: A Candid Conversation With The Canadian Star
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Dec 19, 2022 |
Why Is It So Hard To Find A Doctor? Zubin Damania Diagnoses The Disaster
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Dec 12, 2022 |
Do Only Liberals Go To Therapy? Meet Dea Bridge, the “conservative therapist” Meghan interviewed for The New York Times
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Dec 05, 2022 |
A TERF and a Tranny Walk Into A Podcast Studio: Geeking Out With the Heterodorx
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Nov 24, 2022 |
Introducing: Infamous
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Nov 18, 2022 |
Why Are You Still A Democrat? Maud Maron Isn’t Leaving The Party—Yet
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Nov 14, 2022 |
Gain Confidence By Losing Certainty. Ilana Redstone on Breaking Free from the Certainty Trap
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Nov 07, 2022 |
Not Even Mad: Mike Pesca, Virginia Heffernan and Jamie Kirchick On Their New Podcast
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Oct 31, 2022 |
Can Men Be Saved? Richard Reeves on the New Crisis of Masculinity
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Oct 24, 2022 |
What Should We Believe? Michael Shermer On Staying Rational In An Irrational World
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Oct 17, 2022 |
Why Can’t We Get Back To Normal? Public Health Expert Leslie Bienen on Learning To Coexist With Covid
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Oct 10, 2022 |
Yes, Youth Gender Surgery Is Really Happening: Colin Wright Lays Out The Details
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Oct 03, 2022 |
Is Wellness Making Us Sick? Rina Raphael Tells the Dirty Truth About “Clean Health”
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Sep 26, 2022 |
The Second Coming of ASK A JEW: ChayaLeah Sufrin and Yael Bar tur Are Back!
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Sep 19, 2022 |
Was the Sexual Revolution A Failed Experiment? Louise Perry Makes Her Case
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Sep 12, 2022 |
When Troubled People Become Our Playthings: Jon Ronson on Shame and Forgiveness
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Sep 05, 2022 |
Is Solitude Over? Is Thinking Dead? A Conversation with William Deresiewicz
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Aug 29, 2022 |
“Are You Are Becoming A Republican Or Something?” Sarah Hepola On Letting Down The Left Without Ever Leaving It
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Jul 11, 2022 |
Guns: A Civil Disagreement Part Two
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Jul 04, 2022 |
Guns: A Civil Disagreement Part One
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Jun 27, 2022 |
Safety Moose Says, “Stay Home!” Author Neal Pollack On His Dangerous New Novel, Edge of Safety
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Jun 20, 2022 |
Is A Post-Truth World All Bad? Stephanie Lepp’s “Promiscuous Pragmatic Pluralism”
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Jun 13, 2022 |
Has Wokeism Won? Sarah Haider Acknowledges Defeat But Won’t Stop Talking.
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Jun 06, 2022 |
Uniquely Stupid and Incredibly Coddled: Jonathan Haidt On How We Lost Our Collective Minds (And Whether We’ll Ever Find Them Again)
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May 30, 2022 |
An Act of Love. The Gift of Death: Author Amy Bloom On Her New Memoir
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May 22, 2022 |
The Canceled Collective Planning Committee: Jamie Kilstein Returns To The Unspeakable
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May 16, 2022 |
The Future of Abortion: Frances Kissling On Moving Forward In A Post-Roe World
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May 09, 2022 |
Is Public Health Messaging Designed For Dummies? Dr. Lucy McBride Calls For An End To COVID Catastrophizing
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May 02, 2022 |
When The Workplace Is A Woke Place: Jennifer Sey on Corporate Branding Versus Personal Beliefs
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Apr 25, 2022 |
This Is What It’s Like To Be Banned From Twitter: Meghan Murphy Forges Ahead And Falls Behind In Twitter Exile
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Apr 18, 2022 |
Ladies Lunch at the Holocaust-Themed Restaurant: Yael Bar-tur and ChayaLeah Sufrin of the Ask A Jew Podcast
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Apr 11, 2022 |
The Censors Within: Sarah Hepola on What She Was Afraid To Write About—Until Now
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Mar 28, 2022 |
What Is Gender Detransition? Changing Your Mind About Changing Your Body
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Mar 21, 2022 |
Rebel Wisdom’s David Fuller Is Trying to Talk Sense Into the Sensemakers: Is Anyone Listening?
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Mar 14, 2022 |
Can We Move Past The Culture Wars? Quillette’s Jonathan Kay On “Other Interests"
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Mar 07, 2022 |
Why Is Friendship So Fraught? Jennifer Senior on the Complexities of Adult Friendship
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Feb 28, 2022 |
Mike Pesca’s Esprit de Corps: The Gist Wipes The Slate Clean And Flies Solo
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Feb 21, 2022 |
You’re Older Than You’ve Ever Been. And Now You’re Even Older: Sari Botton On Aging At Any Age
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Feb 14, 2022 |
Love—Or Quarantines—Will Keep Us Together: Laura Kipnis on Sex and Romance (Not Necessarily With Your Partner) In Lockdown
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Feb 07, 2022 |
Neurodivergence For Everyone! Jenara Nerenberg On New Frames of Mind About The Human Brain
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Jan 31, 2022 |
When Queer Theory Meets Medical Practice: Aaron Kimberly On The Crisis In Transgender Health Care
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Jan 24, 2022 |
YouTube Heroes Flying Too Close To The Sun: Chris Kavanagh Decodes The Gurus (With An Amazing Accent)
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Jan 17, 2022 |
There’s No Such Thing As A Howard Beal Moment: Michael Wolff on Power, Access, Hubris, and Writing Great Sentences
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Jan 10, 2022 |
Why This Show Is A Failure: A Song Of Joy and Peace
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Dec 13, 2021 |
The Post-Cancellation Pivot: Stephen Elliott’s Financial Advice for Poets (and Moral Support for Pariahs)
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Dec 06, 2021 |
Are MFA Programs Multi-Level Marketing Schemes? Leigh Stein Thinks So!
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Nov 29, 2021 |
How The News Went Insane: Batya Ungar-Sargon On The Social Rise and Intellectual Fall of Legacy Media
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Nov 15, 2021 |
Is Nuance A Career Killer? Comedian Jamie Kilstein on Taking the High Road To Nowhere
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Nov 08, 2021 |
Bitter Homes and Gardens: Larry Clarke and Fielding Edlow on Staying Afloat, Staying in Love, and Staying Insured in Hollywood
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Nov 01, 2021 |
What Is a “Good Mother?” Lara Bazelon on Female Ambition, Biological Realities and Going To Trial
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Oct 25, 2021 |
Seeking the Good Life In the Islamic State: Carla Power on the Journey In and Out of Violent Extremism
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Oct 18, 2021 |
We Can’t Know: Lisa Selin Davis On Getting Comfortable With The “Giant Mess” That Is The Current Gender Conversation
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Oct 08, 2021 |
"We Feel Like We’re In The Wild West:” Parents of Gender-Questioning Kids Ask Their Own Questions
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Oct 06, 2021 |
What Do We Mean By “Gender Affirming Care?” A Conversation with Dr. Laura Edwards-Leeper
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Oct 04, 2021 |
The Awkward Files: Father-daughter coauthors Dr. Drew and Paulina Pinsky Bridge the Generation Gap
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Sep 27, 2021 |
Free To Be You and #MeToo: Erika Schickel on Coming of Age—and Coming Undone—in the 1970s
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Sep 20, 2021 |
The WEIRD World Is Killing Us: Evolutionary Biologists Heather Heying and Bret Weinstein On Why Modern Life Feels So Unlivable
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Sep 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
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Sep 06, 2021 |
Chelsea Handler Checks Her Privilege. (And spars a little with Meghan.)
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Aug 30, 2021 |
How Not To Ruin The Dinner Party: A Conversation with Sam Harris
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Aug 23, 2021 |
Don’t Let The Loudest Voices Win: Frank Bruni on the Fine Art of The Subtle Point
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Aug 16, 2021 |
“Am I The A**hole?” Dan Savage on Giving Advice, Taking Criticism and Keeping Up With The Times
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Aug 09, 2021 |
The Tyranny Of the Mid-Career Pivot: A Meghan Monologue
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Aug 02, 2021 |
We Are All Catastrophists Now. Tom Chivers On Why We’re So Bad At Measuring Harm and Evaluating Risk
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Jul 26, 2021 |
Shawn Pleasants Lived On The Street For Ten Years. Can He Help Solve the Homeless Crisis?
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Jul 16, 2021 |
Critical Race Theory Is Making Our Heads Explode: Erec Smith Sifts Through The Pieces
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Jul 11, 2021 |
Are Kids Being Talked Into Thinking They’re Trans?
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Jul 04, 2021 |
Paul Rudnick on British royals, coastal elites, and the strange freedoms of New Jersey
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Jun 27, 2021 |
When Taking Control of Your Death Takes Over Your Life: Lionel Shriver on Getting Out Just In Time
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Jun 20, 2021 |
Is It Time To Get Rid of the Sex Offender Registry? Emily Horowitz Says Yes.
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Jun 13, 2021 |
How Did A Nice Radical Feminist End Up in Center Right Journalism? Libby Emmons Tells Her Story.
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Jun 06, 2021 |
Buck Angel Bucks the Trend: An Old-School Transexual on the New Transgender Movement
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May 30, 2021 |
When The Greatest Story Ever Told Isn’t Yours To Tell. Jean Hanff Korelitz on her new novel, The Plot
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May 23, 2021 |
Can “Diversity and Inclusion” Training Actually Become Diverse and Inclusive? Chloé Valdary Has A Plan.
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May 16, 2021 |
Why Can’t Philosophers Talk About Gender? Kathleen Stock On How A Rich Topic Became The Third Rail
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May 09, 2021 |
The Racism of Antiracism: A Conversation With John McWhorter
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May 02, 2021 |
Islamic Fundamentalism Is Feminism’s Third Rail. A Conversation With Yasmine Mohammed
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Apr 18, 2021 |
It's Complicated. Writer and podcaster Jesse Singal on Fad Science, Bad Faith and Mad Media
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Apr 11, 2021 |
How To Be A Better Person (Than Everyone Else): Joel Stein On The Lost Art Of Elitism
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Apr 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
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Mar 28, 2021 |
You’re Just Now Noticing This? Bridget Phetasy on Keeping Up With the Cancelers
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Mar 21, 2021 |
Woke Us When It’s Over: New York Times Columnist Bret Stephens on How to Reason with a Toddler-like Culture
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Mar 14, 2021 |
Meet Angel Eduardo. The Harper’s Letter Was For Him
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Mar 08, 2021 |
You Too Can Go Broke In Middle Age! Annabelle Gurwitch Leads The Way
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Mar 01, 2021 |
Who Needs Therapy? Lori Gottlieb On the View from Both Sides of the Couch
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Feb 22, 2021 |
The Unspoken Trauma Of Adoption: Moses Farrow on His Work, His Famous Family and “Coming Out of the Adoption Fog”
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Feb 15, 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
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Feb 08, 2021 |
What’s The Matter With Portland? Nancy Rommelmann on the Puzzling Politics of Protest
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Feb 01, 2021 |
When Your Publisher Calls You Problematic: Bruce Wagner Goes Rogue By Going Public
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Jan 25, 2021 |
Are Lesbians Going Extinct? Katie Herzog Reports From The Field
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Jan 18, 2021 |
Feminine Chaos Is The Order of the Day: A Conversation with Kat Rosenfield and Phoebe Maltz Bovy
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Jan 04, 2021 |
I Don’t Know What To Think Anymore: A Few Words From Your Host
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Nov 16, 2020 |
All Artists Are Starving Artists Now: William Deresiewicz on The Rigged Creative Economy
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Nov 09, 2020 |
How Does Any Of Us Get Through? Sigrid Nunez on Living, Dying, Friendship and Solitude
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Nov 02, 2020 |
A Portrait of the Humorist as a Young Woman: Merrill Markoe on Drawing (Literally) from her Early Diaries
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Oct 25, 2020 |
Everyone’s a Podcaster Now! Josh Szeps on How to Talk, How To Listen, and When To Shut Up
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Oct 18, 2020 |
Can Old-School Intellectualism Make a Comeback In A New Era? A conversation with Leon Wieseltier
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Oct 12, 2020 |
Inspecting The Machinery of Identity Politics: A Conversation with Writer and Scholar Laurent Dubreuil
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Oct 04, 2020 |
Why Does Exposing Social Media Hypocrisy Feel So Damn Good? An Interview with Katie Herzog
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Sep 27, 2020 |
How To Let Your Kids Live More Dangerously: A conversation with “America’s Worst Mom,” Lenore Skenazy
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Sep 20, 2020 |
Can The Artist Survive? A Conversation with Writer and Performer Sandra Tsing Loh
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Sep 13, 2020 |
Uncomfortable Truths About Dating (At Least The Heterosexual Kind): A Conversation with Evan Marc Katz
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Sep 06, 2020 |
What Does Postmodernism Have To Do With Social Justice? Helen Pluckrose Explains It All
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Aug 30, 2020 |
Why Are So Many Kids Saying They're Trans? (And How Big A Deal Is This?)
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Aug 23, 2020 |
Can We Get Smarter About Policing? A conversation with Professor of Police Science (and former Baltimore cop) Peter Moskos
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Aug 16, 2020 |
Dr. Drew Is Worried About A Health Crisis In Critical Thinking
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Aug 09, 2020 |
Leigh Stein on the rise and fall of the #GirlBoss and her new novel, Self Care
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Aug 02, 2020 |
Gen X Girl Talk With Evolutionary Biologist Heather Heying
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Jul 23, 2020 |