A conversation with evolutionary biologist Joseph Henrich about his new book: The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous (2020).
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A conversation with philosopher Eric Winsberg about the hidden costs of the lockdown.
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A conversation with horticulturalist Alex Vinetti about Amanda Little’s The Fate of Food: What We’ll Eat in a Bigger, Hotter, Smarter World (2019).
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A conversation with sociologist Amy Kaler about how pandemic time makes us irritable, impatient, and angry.
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A conversation with writer Tracy Chabala about transcending addiction and finding joy.
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A conversation with composer Richard Feren about liberalism’s problematic relationship to the Trump movement
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A conversation with Alice Adams, a banker turned writer, about her debut novel: Invincible Summer (2016).
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A conversation with philosopher Susan Neiman about her landmark study of the problem of evil: Evil in Modern Thought: An Alternative History of Philosophy (2015).
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A conversation with Montreal’s Mayor, Valérie Plante, about her new book: Okay, Universe: Chronicles of a Woman in Politics (2020).
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A conversation with Nicholas A. Christakis about his new book: Apollo’s Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of the Coronavirus on the Way We Live (2020).
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A conversation with philosopher Daniel Weinstock about the controversy surrounding the classroom use of the n-word.
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A conversation with First Amendment lawyer Greg Lukianoff—President of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) and author of The Coddling of the American Mind (2019)—about his new blog: The Eternally Radical Idea.
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A conversation with novelist Matthew Mather about deep fakes, artificial intelligence, and his eerily prophetic novel, Darknet (2015).
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A conversation with philosopher Chris Nguyen about data-harvesting, pandemic-era privacy concerns, and a viable alternative to Zoom and Microsoft Teams: Brave Together.
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A conversation with Aaron Haspel about the ethics and aesthetics of Dirty Harry (1971).
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A conversation with movie critic and film studies professor Matthew Hays about Dirty Harry (1971).
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A conversation with historian Fred Bode about Bernard Bailyn’s The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (1967).
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A conversation with horticulturist Alex Vinetti about David Graeber’s Bullshit Jobs (2019).
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A conversation with herpetologist Ryan Wolfe about snake ecology, herp porn, and beautiful freaks of nature.
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A conversation with writer Stephen Marche about his new Audible series: How Not to F*ck Up Your Marriage Too Bad (2020).
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