The Secret Recordings That Reveal How Presidents Really Think
Tim Naftali is a presidential historian who spent four years running the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum. He’s listened to tho...
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20 of 258 episodesNathan Cofnas on Race, IQ, and the Jason Arday Scandal That Made Him Famous
Nathan Cofnas is the academic researcher who broke the story alleging Jason Arday had fabricated his biography and plagiarized his PhD thesi...
This Is How AI Starts a Nuclear War
Robert Wright has spent decades writing about human nature, evolution, and the forces that shape history. In his latest book, The God Test,...
The Lie That Killed Comedy for a Decade, with The Babylon Bee’s Seth Dillon
Seth Dillon is the CEO of The Babylon Bee, a Christian satire site that’s been fact-checked and banned more times than most outlets twice it...
Rep. Ro Khanna on Progressive Capitalism, Gaza, and 2028
Ro Khanna represents Silicon Valley in Congress, and he’s spent the last few years building a case that the Democratic Party’s future runs t...
Democrats Need to Ditch ‘Loser Politics,’ with Matthew Yglesias
Is there a meaningful difference between a commonsense Democrat and a center-right Republican? Matthew Yglesias thinks so. But he also think...
The Real Reason Americans Are So Sick, with Jillian Michaels
Jillian Michaels is a fitness expert who has spent three decades helping people get healthy in a system that is actively working against the...
The Charlie Kirk Killing and America’s Forgotten History of Left-Wing Terror
Noah Rothman is a senior writer at National Review and author of the new book Blood & Progress, which makes the case that left-wing politica...
In Defense of Elites, with Richard Hanania
Richard Hanania is a political scientist, writer, and author of the new book Kakistocracy: Why Populism Ends in Disaster, which makes the so...
Dr. Cornel West: Is America Living Up to Its Promise?
Dr. Cornel West is one of the most distinct voices in American public life. He’s a philosopher, theologian, and moral critic who has spent d...
Douglas Murray: The Iranian Regime Means What It Says
Douglas Murray is back as a columnist at The Free Press, and Coleman wastes no time putting him to work. They get into the Iran deal and why...
Caitlin Flanagan: Why I Finally Left Los Angeles
Caitlin Flanagan joins the show today, now an official columnist at The Free Press. Flanagan, one of the sharpest essayists working today, s...
Coleman Hughes vs. Peter Beinart Debate: Should Israel Be a Jewish State?
Peter Beinart is a writer and author who has contributed to The New Republic, The Atlantic, and The New York Times. He grew up a committed Z...
Is America’s Racial Reckoning Over? With John McWhorter
John McWhorter is back. This time, Coleman and John analyze where America stands on race in 2026, whether the woke moment is genuinely behin...
Why You Shouldn’t Be Scared of AI
Aman Verjee has had one of the more unusual careers in finance. He started on Wall Street at Lehman Brothers, joined PayPal in its earliest...
What People Who Choose Assisted Death Actually Say
In 2016, Canada legalized assisted dying for the terminally ill. Since then, the law—medical assistance in dying, or MAID—has expanded drama...
Michael Shellenberger on the Psychology of Left-Wing Violence
Michael Shellenberger is the author of San Fransickco and Apocalypse Never. He’s a former progressive activist, and one of the most prominen...
The War Before the War: What Everyone Gets Wrong About Israel-Palestine
Oren Kessler explains the origins of Palestinian nationalism, the myth that Jews started the conflict in Israel, and why peace in the region...
Walter Russell Mead on Christian Zionism, the ‘Israel Lobby’ Myth, and the Psychology of Antisemitism
Why do Americans support Israel? The standard answers—D.C. lobbying, shared democratic values, strategic benefits—all miss something. Walter...
The Case for Drinking Alcohol
Most researchers who study alcohol focus on what it does to your body. Edward Slingerland is more interested in what it does to your friends...