The Only Certainty Is Uncertainty: Stuart Firestein on Science in the Age of Tony Fauci
“Uncertainty is what tells you that science is reliable. It’s the people who are absolutely certain that you have to watch out for.” — Stuar...
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How to Say No to Fascism: Curtis White’s Anti-Manifesto of Resistance
“Misbehave, make something beautiful, and try to win.” — Curtis White’s motto for resistance How to say no to fascism? Curtis White , the li...
Who’s Afraid of the AI-Enabled Author? On “Real” Creativity & Cheating in Our Age of AI Slop
“The human part is 99 percent. The AI part is maybe 1 percent — even if 100 percent of the manuscript was dumped onto the page by AI.” — Kei...
No, Not Everybody Needs a Therapist: Amy Morin on America's Epidemic of Mental Weakness
“Not everybody needs therapy. I’m a therapist and I’ll tell you first.” — Amy Morin Is an epidemic of mental weakness sweeping America? Read...
The Robin Hood of the Book Biz: How Andy Hunter's Bookshop.org Is Standing Up to Amazon.
“Evil is reductive. But the impact of the business is evil, even if the intent isn’t.” — Andy Hunter on Amazon Network effects transformed A...
Should the American Pope Debate the American President? Jack Hanson on the Radical Reformation of the Catholic Church
Should the American Pope debate the American president about good and evil? The shameless Trump, one suspects, would relish a noisy cage mat...
Why Volodymyr Zelensky Is the World’s Only Living Statesman: Steven B. Smith on the Leadership America Lacks
“The statesman is an educator who leads through language — who gives a people the language they need to think about themselves.” — Steven B....
An American Circus of Skulls: Paul Stob on Phrenology, the P.T. Barnum of Pseudosciences
“It’s too easy to look back at sciences of the past and say they were all fools. The exact same thing is gonna happen two hundred years from...
How to Walk from Mumbai to San Francisco: Saumya Roy Navigates the Cracks in the American Dream
“There is the burden of being homeless and the burden of being judged for it.” — Saumya Roy on poverty in America How does the world look at...
Kill Bill or Kill Keith? Why Using AI to Author Books Might Not Be in the Interest of Man
“It’s a realization of my individual self, not an alienation of it.” — Keith Teare on the book he wrote with AI in a week Welcome to episode...
The Strange Death of the American Front Porch: Molly Brady on Land, Law, and the Lost Art of Neighborliness
What has made this moment feel different is not the anxiety about incivility, which has always been there, but rather the performance of it....
How a Turkey Voted for Xmas: Ricardo Semler on Why One Boss Wants the End of All Bosses.
“It’s like asking turkeys to vote for Christmas.” — Ricardo Semler on why bosses won’t let their workers vote on them Ricardo Semler might b...
Yellow Stripes and Dead Armadillos: Is Ben Barnes the Last Moderate Texan Democrat?
“I could not get under oath and swear that I know exactly how Kennedy died in Dallas.” — Ben Barnes, who helped advance JFK’s fatal Texas tr...
The American Way of Violence: Mike McIntire on Guns, Greed, and a Daily Trickle of Bloodshed
“You didn’t have to look someone in the eye while you extinguished their life, and you could do it from a distance.” — Mike McIntire on what...
The Seduction of the American Mind: Emily Eakin on Her Life in French Theory
“Theory said, it doesn’t matter what you’ve read. It’s how you read.” — Emily Eakin on the seduction of the Frenchmen When I was a graduate...
A $14 Billion Glitter Glue Gospel: Michael Blanding on the Wealthiest Christian Nationalist Family You've Never Heard Of
We’ve done plenty of abstract shows on American Christian nationalism. But this one is about a single family: the Greens of Oklahoma City, o...
Homer's Hollywood Odyssey: Joel Christensen on How Christopher Nolan Gave Us the Odysseus We Deserve
“I want someone who has regrets. I want someone who’s learned the hard way. I want someone who understands that life is made of those messy...
Who Owns Intelligence? The Smart Wealth of Nations
In 1776 — that same year America declared its independence — Adam Smith published the equally revolutionary The Wealth of Nations, his found...
Trump Points, Justice Shoots: Jonathan Rauch Looks Back (Without Anger) at the First Six Months of 2026
“We have a Justice Department which is now 100% the political pawn of the president,” warns Brookings senior fellow Jonathan Rauch . “He poi...
We All Hallucinate Reality: Turi Munthe on Why We Think What We Think
“If you can only explain the arguments of the other side because they’re mad or dangerous or dumb, the problem is with you.” — Turi Munthe O...