Uncertain Things

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Everything is broken. Adaam James Levin-Areddy and Vanessa M. Quirk, two jaded journos, interview people far wiser than themselves and ask: "now what?"

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Episode Date
Anti-Zionism, Explained (w/ Adam Louis-Klein)
Nov 12, 2025
ICE, Klein, Coates (w/ Nancy Rommelmann)
Oct 15, 2025
When Speech Is Violence, Etc. (w/ Matt Welch)
Sep 15, 2025
The Lost Pleasures of Discomfort (w/ Christine Rosen)
Sep 05, 2025
One Minute to Paradise (w/ Jonah Goldberg)
Aug 23, 2025
Thou Shalt Not Be a Socialist (Ruth Wisse)
Aug 12, 2025
Lower Expectations of Humanity (Yuval Levin)
Jul 21, 2025
War Is Hell (Dan Senor)
Jul 14, 2025
The Law Is How We Deal With Our Mistakes (Alan Dershowitz)
Jul 01, 2025
The Mood Music of Anti-Racism (Coleman Hughes)
Jun 25, 2025
The Hope for Gaza (w/ Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib)
Jun 15, 2025
The Enemies of Free Speech (w/ Greg Lukianoff & Nadine Strossen)
May 29, 2025
Vibes of Nihilism (w/ Mike Pesca)
Mar 28, 2025
When My Team Became an Online Mob (w/ Brianna Wu)
Mar 10, 2025
How the Modern World Self-Destructs (w/ Tomer Persico)
Jan 29, 2025
Significant Sans Sex (w/ Rhaina Cohen)
Jan 17, 2025
From Jesus Christ to the New York Times (w/ Andy Mills)
Nov 04, 2024
The Decapitation of Hezbollah and the Fall of Rome (w/ Eli Lake)
Sep 29, 2024
It's Over (w/ Caitlin Flanagan)
Aug 20, 2024
The Agony of Abundance (w/ Nick Gillespie)
Aug 02, 2024
Our Friend Attended a Trump Rally — And Witnessed History
Jul 14, 2024
Progressives Are Silly (w/ Nellie Bowles)
Jun 02, 2024
The Indoctrination of Elite Education (w/ Bill Deresiewicz)
May 22, 2024
Down the Saddam Rabbit Hole (w/ Steve Coll)
Apr 19, 2024
Three Drunk Jews Refuting Jonathan Glazer (w/ Batya Ungar-Sargon & Eli Lake)
Mar 17, 2024
What the Left Gets Wrong About Black History (w/ Charles Love & Wilfred Reilly)
Feb 19, 2024
Zionism and the Refugee Machine (w/ Dr. Einat Wilf)
Dec 19, 2023
What Iran Wants (w/ Arash Azizi)
Dec 02, 2023
Diaspora Palestinian to Hamas Apologists: Debate Me, Bro (w/ John Aziz)
Nov 12, 2023
Disgusting 'Journalists' (w/ Batya Ungar-Sargon)
Oct 30, 2023
How the World Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Butchery of Jews (w/ Eli Lake)
Oct 12, 2023
Liberals Against Identity, Round 2 (w/ Yascha Mounk)
Oct 02, 2023
The Identity Infection, Round 1 (w/ Yascha Mounk)
Sep 18, 2023
Big Tech VS Democracy (w/ Rob Reich, Mehran Sahami, & Jeremy Weinstein)
Sep 12, 2023
The Pros and Cons of 'Queer' (w/ Jamie Kirchick)
Aug 11, 2023
A Huge Outpouring of Human Misery (w/ Peter Turchin)
Jul 08, 2023
The Long Shadow of Complexity (w/ David Krakauer)
Jun 06, 2023
Welcome to the Content Age (w/ William Deresiewicz)
May 08, 2023
San Francisco Burning (w/ Nellie Bowles)
Apr 11, 2023
Doom of the Public (LIVE w/ Niall Ferguson & Martin Gurri)
Mar 17, 2023
Be My Guru (w/ Helen Lewis)
Feb 10, 2023
The City and the Citadel (w/ Michael Kimmelman)
Jan 20, 2023
Fragments of Meaning
Dec 30, 2022
What We Secretly Want (w/ Robin Hanson)
Dec 12, 2022
The Art of Being Offended (w/ Eli Lake)
Nov 18, 2022
Partisan Poison (w/ Andrew Heaton)
Nov 02, 2022
The Coming Collapse (w/ Peter Turchin)
Oct 17, 2022
How Progressives Ruin Cities (w/ Vishaan Chakrabarti)
Sep 27, 2022
Don't Blame Israel on the Jews (w/ Walter Russell Mead)
Sep 07, 2022
Panic Porn and Trauma Creep (w/ Christine Rosen)
Aug 22, 2022
The Right’s Identity Crisis (w/ Matt Continetti)
Aug 08, 2022
The Veneer of Legitimacy
Jul 26, 2022
America, The Lonely (w/ David French)
Jul 05, 2022
Between Comedy and Pissing People Off (w/ Andrew Heaton)
Jun 17, 2022
You Are Not Your Ideas (w/ Angel Eduardo)
May 09, 2022
Diversity Isn’t Destiny (w/ Yascha Mounk)
Apr 25, 2022
NOT CANCELED (w/ Meghan Daum)
Apr 12, 2022
What History Reveals — and Hides (w/ Jody Avirgan, Kellie Carter Jackson, and Nicole Hemmer)
Mar 29, 2022
The Free Speech Recession (w/ Jacob Mchangama)
Mar 09, 2022
Surrender to the Illusion (w/ Daniel Roy)
Feb 16, 2022
How Much Morality Is Too Much? (w/ Mark Lilla)
Jan 27, 2022
America's Sadness Problem (w/ Helen Russell)
Jan 13, 2022
Hooked on Dead Jews (w/ Dara Horn)
Dec 26, 2021
The Media's Psychotic Break (w/ Matt Taibbi)
Dec 09, 2021
Chillin' With the Philosophers (w/ Anthony Gottlieb)
Nov 30, 2021
Escaping the Content Machine (w/ Lindsay Ellis)
Nov 19, 2021
We're Addicted to Destruction (w/ Nancy Rommelmann)
Oct 30, 2021
Genes, Germs, & Justice (w/ Nicholas Christakis)
Oct 11, 2021
Escaping the Gospel of Guilt (w/ Jacob Siegel)
Oct 01, 2021
F*ck Zeus (w/ Tomer Persico)
Sep 14, 2021
EXTRA: The Journey to Jaded (w/ Adaam and Vanessa)
Aug 30, 2021
Why Hollywood Sucks (w/ Rob Long)
Aug 15, 2021
The Reality Rift (w/ Rep. Peter Meijer)
Aug 01, 2021
Can the Supreme Court Survive the Culture War? (w/ Sarah Isgur)
Jul 18, 2021
Speak No Evil, See No Cancel Culture (Freestyle Theodicy)
Jun 27, 2021
Big Tech Panic (w/ Shoshana Weissmann)
Jun 10, 2021
The Apocalypse We Deserve (w/ Niall Ferguson)
May 26, 2021
Saving Capitalism From Itself (w/ Rebecca Henderson)
May 18, 2021
Our Temples of Tragedy (w/ Justin Davidson)
May 07, 2021
Blackness and the Other Side of Trauma (w/ Misha Thomas)
Apr 24, 2021
Welcome to Cold War II (w/ Eyck Freymann)
Apr 13, 2021
Marxism vs. The Media (w/ Batya Ungar-Sargon)
Mar 31, 2021
What We Lose When We Break Free (w/ Yuval Levin)
Mar 22, 2021
Sex, Feminism, and the Madding Crowd (w/ Caitlin Flanagan)
Mar 15, 2021
A Thousand Narratives: America Rewrites Its History (w/ Moshe Sluhovsky)
Mar 07, 2021
Finding The Angels of Capitalism (w/ Dr. Dawn Carpenter)
Feb 24, 2021
The CIA Analyst Who Saw It Coming (w/ Martin Gurri)
Feb 15, 2021
The Post-Trump Tipping Point (w/ Nadav Eyal)
Feb 02, 2021
Perestroika Begins at Home (w/ Matt Welch)
Jan 25, 2021
America, Inc. (w/ Adam Winkler)
Jan 19, 2021
On Honor and Justice (w/ Tamler Sommers)
Jan 12, 2021
How to Steal Wealth From Workers — With the Best of Intentions (w/ Zohar Goshen)
Jan 04, 2021
Post-Colonial Absurdities, Post-Caste Delusions (w/ Yashica Dutt)
Dec 20, 2020
Why Anti-Racism Trainings Fail (w/ Chloé Valdary)
Dec 14, 2020
Why Empathy's Bad — And Suffering Hurts So Good (w/ Paul Bloom)
Dec 07, 2020
Art: WTF Happened? (w/ Ken Goshen)
Nov 29, 2020
Chomsky, Katy Perry, and the Algorithm God (w/ Adam Neely)
Nov 18, 2020
Time to Talk About Secession? (w/ David French)
Nov 05, 2020
Biased Journos, Young Radicals, and Pre-Election Spooks (w/ Robby Soave)
Oct 31, 2020
The Liberal Who Voted for Trump (w/ Misha Thomas)
Oct 26, 2020
You Can Be a Dictator, Too (w/ Bruce Bueno de Mesquita & Alastair Smith)
Oct 19, 2020
The Revolt Is Justified (w/ Nadav Eyal)
Oct 10, 2020
Why Everything Is a Culture War Thing (w/ Katie Herzog)
Oct 06, 2020
Wake Up, Change the Channel (w/ Michael Smerconish)
Sep 24, 2020
'I'm a Liberal Who Lost His Faith' (w/ Tom Holland)
Sep 19, 2020
P.S. Getting Drunk for Jesus (Persico Revisited)
Sep 11, 2020
How The Image of God Made Us All Atheists (w/ Tomer Persico)
Sep 01, 2020