Carlos Barragán, The Yahoo Boys | Howard Mansfield, Invisible Monuments
This week, we explore Nigeria’s romance scams with Carlos Barragán, author of The Yahoo Boys. Then Howard Mansfield joins us for a separate...
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20 of 45 episodesRay Nayler on Palaces of the Crow
Four young people find refuge in a Lithuanian forest, where intelligent crows help them survive World War II. I talk with Ray Nayler about P...
Against Tech Oligarchy: Clarissa Redwine, JS Tan & Noam Scheiber on Worker Power
Who gets a say in what technology builds? I talk with Clarissa Redwine and JS Tan about challenging tech oligarchy, then revisit Noam Scheib...
Tom Lin, Babylon, South Dakota + Omar El Akkad on Gaza
A nuclear missile becomes part of the landscape. An ongoing atrocity gets buried in careful language. I talk with Tom Lin about Babylon, Sou...
Malavika Kannan on Unprecedented Times and Lauren Acampora on The Animal Room
Malavika Kannan explores what it means to come of age amid climate crisis, political upheaval and changing sexual norms in Unprecedented Tim...
Breaking ICE: Sonali Kolhatkar on Community Defense, Immigration and Democracy
What can ordinary people do when immigration enforcement comes to their community? Sonali Kolhatkar talks about Breaking ICE and the network...
James Baldwin & Keith Haring: Love, Art, Race and the Courage to Tell the Truth
Looking at James Baldwin through the relationships that shaped his art: Nicholas Boggs joins me to talk about Baldwin: A Love Story. Then Br...
James Crawford on THE VANISHING EARTH + Max Page on New York and 9/11
James Crawford asks what happens when extraction becomes civilization’s operating system, and whether repair can offer another way forward....
Caring for Aging Parents: Money, Love and Hard Choices
Beth Pinsker and L. Annette Binder explore caring for aging parents, from the financial realities of elder care to Alzheimer’s, memory, love...
Joseph Kelly on The Biggest Lie and America’s Fascist Roots
Historian Joseph Kelly traces the prehistory of American fascism and the lie that white supremacy gives one group the right to dominate anot...
Victoria Hetherington + Silvia Park on Human-AI Relationships
What happens when a machine becomes our friend, therapist, lover, or sibling? Victoria Hetherington and Silvia Park explore AI companionship...
Ida Susser on the Yellow Vests, Abdul El-Sayed on Medicare for All
What can France’s Yellow Vests teach us about saving democracy? And how could Medicare for All reclaim healthcare from private profit? Ida S...
Can Sci-Fi Save Us? John Feffer on SONGLANDS and Portia Elan on HOMEBOUND
John Feffer’s SONGLANDS and Portia Elan’s HOMEBOUND imagine futures shaped by climate crisis, AI, and corporate power. We talk with both aut...
Ada Ferrer on Keeper of My Kin + T.J. English on Havana & The Mob
Historian Ada Ferrer talks about Keeper of My Kin, her memoir of a Cuban family divided by revolution, migration, and exile. Then Writer’s V...
Noam Scheiber on the Mutiny of the New Working Class
What happens when the promise of higher education no longer delivers economic security? New York Times reporter Noam Scheiber argues that mi...
How to Be a Dissident, Lessons from Resistance Then and Now
What makes an ordinary person become a dissident? Gal Beckerman explores moral courage through figures like Alexei Navalny, Osip Mandelstam...
Patriotism Redefined: The Moral Legacy of Bates and Adams
What if patriotism isn’t about claiming America is perfect, but helping it become better? This Independence Day on Writer’s Voice: John de G...
U.S. Media’s Gaza Failure with Robin Andersen | Plus: Trans Youth and Anti-Trans Laws with Nico Lang
Writer’s Voice: compelling conversations with authors who challenge, inspire, and inform. Who gets to tell the story, and who gets erased? T...
Ordinary Soil: A Journey Through Land and Legacy + Carey Gillam on Monsanto
For SEO, I’d make it shorter and keyword-rich: Alex Woodard discusses Ordinary Soil, a sweeping multigenerational novel about a Choctaw farm...
Syria’s Lost Democratic Revolution with Anand Gopal
Writer’s Voice talks with journalist Anand Gopal about his remarkable book Days of Love and Rage. It’s a deeply human story of the Syrian re...