Podcast The Case Against Education May 11, 2026 We鈥檙e continuing our series on philosopher Harry Frankfurt鈥檚 seminal work, On Bullshit. Our discussion with Bryan Caplan is on education and bullshit, with a special focus on his book, The Case Against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money. Read More
Podcast Man Up May 11, 2026 Man Up tells the revelatory and urgent story of how an explosion of misogyny is driving a surge of mass and far-right violence throughout the West鈥攆rom an internationally recognized extremism expert and media commentator. Read More
Podcast Furious Minds May 04, 2026 Furious Minds tells the story of the thinkers of the New Right鈥攁nd their powerful assault on American freedoms, values, and ideals. Read More
Podcast Africa鈥檚 Buildings April 29, 2026 Africa鈥檚 Buildings uncovers the vast scale of cultural displacement perpetrated by the West and proposes a new role for museums in this history, one in which they champion the repatriation of Africa鈥檚 architectural heritage and restitution for African communities. Read More
Podcast The Light Between Apple Trees April 27, 2026 Priyanka Kumar takes us on a dazzling and transformative journey to rediscover apples, unearthing a rich and complex history while illuminating how we can reimagine our relationship with nature. Read More
Podcast Overinvested April 17, 2026 Parents are exhausted. When did raising children become such all-consuming, never-ending, incredibly expensive, and emotionally absorbing effort? In this eye-opening book, Nina Bandelj explains how we got to this point鈥攈ow we turned children into financial and emotional investments and child-rearing into laborious work. Read More
Podcast On Pedantry April 14, 2026 On Pedantry sheds critical light on why anti-intellectual views have gained renewed prominence today and serves as essential reading in an age of rising populism across the globe. Read More
Podcast How to Change a Memory April 09, 2026 How to Change a Memory: One Neuroscientist's Quest to Alter the Past is a disarmingly personal account of the new science of memory manipulation by one of today鈥檚 leading pioneers in the field by Steve Ramirez. Read More
Podcast Free Agents April 01, 2026 Traversing billions of years of evolution, Kevin J. Mitchell tells the remarkable story of how living beings capable of choice arose from lifeless matter. Read More
Podcast Try to Love the Questions March 24, 2026 In Try to Love the Questions: From Debate to Dialogue in Classrooms and Life, Lara Schwartz introduces the fundamental principles of free expression, academic freedom, and academic dialogue, showing how open expression is the engine of social progress, scholarship, and inclusion Read More
Podcast Vested Interests March 16, 2026 By chronicling the long history of Native land dispossession through financial paternalism, Vested Interests reveals the unequal dividends of colonialism in the United States. Read More
Podcast On Democracy and Bullshit January 14, 2026 We鈥檙e continuing our series on philosopher Harry Frankfurt鈥檚 seminal work, On Bullshit. Our discussion with H茅l猫ne Landemore is on democracy and bullshit, with a special focus on her book, Open Democracy: Reinventing Popular Rule for the Twenty-First Century. Read More
Podcast What Do You Want Out of Life? December 17, 2025 What do you want out of life? To make a lot of money鈥攐r work for justice? To run marathons鈥攐r sing in a choir? To have children鈥攐r travel the world? The things we care about in life鈥攆amily, friendship, leisure activities, work, our moral ideals鈥攐ften conflict, preventing us from doing what matters most to us. Read More
Podcast Everything Evolves December 10, 2025 Mark Vellend describes how all observable phenomena in the universe can be understood through two sciences. The first is physics. The second is the science of evolvable systems. Read More
Podcast How Progress Ends December 08, 2025 Carl Benedikt Frey challenges the conventional belief that economic and technological progress is inevitable. Read More
