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We surprise some of the world's brightest minds with ideas they're not at all prepared to discuss. With host Jason Gots and special guests Alan Alda, Salman Rushdie, Mary-Louise Parker, Rich...
NOTE: This is a special guest episode of Jason's new podcast Clever Creature. Please subscribe on iTunes, Spotify, Stitcher, or wherever you...
[From February through March 22, 2020 (his last day hosting Think Again) Jason will be revisiting favorite past episodes. Jason's new show,...
[From February through March 22, 2020 (his last day hosting Think Again) Jason will be revisiting favorite past episodes. Jason's new show,...
[From February through March 22, 2020 (his last day hosting Think Again) Jason will be revisiting favorite past episodes. Jason's new show,...
[From February through March 22, 2020 (his last day hosting Think Again) Jason will be revisiting favorite past episodes. Jason's new show,...
[From February through March 22, 2020 (his last day hosting Think Again) Jason will be revisiting favorite past episodes. Jason's new show,...
[From February through March 22, 2020 (his last day hosting Think Again) Jason will be revisiting favorite past episodes. Jason's new show,...
[From February through March 22, 2020 (his last day hosting Think Again) Jason will be revisiting favorite past episodes. Jason's new show,...
Since 1976, Sharon Salzberg has been sharing ancient meditation and mindfulness practices in a voice the contemporary West can understand. H...
Thelma and Louise, Ponch and John, Pancho and Lefty, Quixote and Sancho Panza, Marx and Engels, Marx and Chast…history and literature are fu...
Freedom. Everyone wants it, but knowing where to look for it is another matter. And to make matters worse, the world is full of things that...
If you’d told me a couple months ago that a podcast about Dolly Parton could move me deeply and raise all kinds of questions that go straigh...
The other day on social media a friend asked what the heck is up with this Mr. Rogers revival. Why does everyone suddenly love this guy so m...
I’ve spent more of my life than most people I know immersed by choice in what my guest today would call “scripture”. I was never much of a R...
While reading Deborah Levy’s novel THE MAN WHO SAW EVERYTHING and her recent “working autobiography” THE COST OF LIVING I often found myself...
The phrase “common sense” can be misleading. The way we use it in casual conversation, it means something like “that which is obvious to any...
“Maybe the opposite of goodness is not evil. Maybe the opposite of goodness is, in fact, numbness.” There are so many questions we never ask...
Some experiences change you so completely that you’re left with a choice: either spend your life running from them or spend your life turnin...
Do you have a body? I do, but I was mostly unaware of this fact until somewhere in my mid-30s, when my life strategy of living like a bourbo...
I grew up in the almost entirely white suburbs of 1980’s Bethesda, Maryland thinking of myself and my world as 100% not racist. It’s hard to...
In 1972, the year I was born, there was apparently a famous TV ad for Geritol. My guest today describes it thus: “…a husband spoke to the ca...
I don’t even know where to begin with this one. You’ve probably heard of Cambridge Analytica. Maybe you know they’re a company that did some...
In the past half century or so feminism has had its hands plenty full dealing with the abuse and inequality women suffer at the hands of hor...
If the word ‘epicurean’ brings to mind a porcine man in a toga reclining on a velvet couch and dropping fat juicy grapes into his open mouth...
Like too many of us, I hated history classes throughout my school career, and only realized as an adult that there are few things more inter...
“A conversation is like a tunnel dug under the prison floor that you—patiently and painstakingly—scoop out with a spoon. It has one purpose:...
There’s a pattern that happens with any new thing. First it’s scary, then you settle in to a rhythm, then you hit your stride, then you get...
When I was a teenager and music was still on cassettes, a mixtape was an act of love. The selection and sequence of songs were a kind of mes...
Quick question. Answer without thinking too hard. Ready? Where is your mind? What is your mind? Ok, Raise your hand if you thought of your b...
The first computer I ever had was the first Apple Macintosh, back in the mid 80’s. I can still remember the sense of friendly reassurance fr...
When I think of my childhood home in Bethesda, Maryland, depending on what kind of mood I’m in, I think either of the mall or of the woods....
A Rabbi, a Priest, and an Imam walk into a bar. No, wait. Imams don’t drink. Most rabbis don’t drink much either, come to think of it. Pries...
In spite of all the weird ways the word has been abused since the 2016 elections, I think of myself as a liberal. As a basic value, I try to...
After four years and just over 200 conversations for this podcast, I’m feeling the need for a new kind of politics. One that would champion...
What’s the hardest thing you’ve ever done? The thing everyone said was impossible, that you knew you had to do anyway, and that you doubted...
When I was in middle school in the suburbs of Maryland, a man—let’s call him Robert—started doing some occasional gardening and housecleanin...
I’m underground as I write this, one day before taping the conversation you’re about to hear, speeding through New York City subway tunnels...
Like Mick Jagger, the Indian prince we know as The Buddha taught that we can’t get no satisfaction from this world, though we try and we try...
You’re a body in the world. From the moment you’re born, from that very first gasp of air, you’re taking in sensations, trying to get a hand...
Note: I feel I should let listeners know that this episode of Think Again is about surviving and thriving in the face of unspeakable trauma...
“Are we in the best of times? Or the end of times? One of the oddities of the current era is that extreme pessimism about the world coexists...
If I had to choose one word to capture this moment in American (and maybe world) history, “patience” wouldn’t be it. From every direction, e...
Imagine yourself a German citizen the day after the end of World War II. Much of your city is bombed to ruins. A good part of the population...
Among other things, music can be medicine. Like a vaccine, it sometimes works by giving your body a little taste of the disease. Other times...
I remember visiting New York when I was 18 and thinking about coming here for college. How badly I wanted to be “from” New York. How cool, h...
Well into her 90’s, my grandma Selma and I had this running conversation about the state of the world. She’d escaped Polish pogroms as a 5 y...
Faith in anything is its own special form of madness. It’s a challenge to entropy, and entropy takes no challenge lightly. If there’s any be...
I was thinking this morning that It’s funny how “humane” is the only word we have for that idea, since so much that’s inhumane has been crea...
When I was a kid, there used to be a TV commercial for this series of animal videos you could order that were basically nothing but killing...
They say Confucius said “Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.” I did the research. Confucius probably didn’t say that....