Podcast Iran’s Grand Strategy September 03, 2025 Vali Nasr examines Iran’s political history in new ways to explain its actions and ambitions on the world stage, showing how, behind the veneer of theocracy and Islamic ideology, today’s Iran is pursuing a grand strategy aimed at securing the country internally and asserting its place in the region and the world. Read More
Interview David Woodman on The First King of England September 03, 2025 David Woodman blends masterful storytelling with the latest scholarship to paint a multifaceted portrait of ?thelstan (d. 939)—an immensely important but neglected figure. Read More
Podcast On Bullshit in AI September 02, 2025 Named for the famous philosophy treatise by the late Harry Frankfurt, The Truth About Bullshit podcast?seeks to illuminate our world and the pressing issues therein by calling out ‘bullshit’ – a misrepresentation?of truth – in all its forms. Today's speaker is Arvind Narayanan, co-author of AI Snake Oil. Read More
Essay “He’ll never see it”: Why am I the only one who notices the mess? September 02, 2025 When I asked Colleen, a 40-something lawyer and mother of two tweens, to recall any disagreements she’d had with her husband Ted about housework, she identified one major gripe: “He’s not great about self-starting house stuff.” Read More
Interview Bailey Brown on Kindergarten Panic August 18, 2025 Drawing on interviews with more than a hundred parents of elementary school students in New York City, Bailey A. Brown shows how inequality manifests itself as parents and students deal with the uncertainties of the school choice process. Read More
Podcast On Bullshit in Politics August 15, 2025 We’re continuing our series on philosopher Harry Frankfurt’s seminal work, On Bullshit. Our discussion with Michael Patrick Lynch is on bullshit in politics, and how we might think about ways to combat it. Read More
Podcast Long Live Queer Nightlife August 15, 2025 Amin Ghaziani explores a spectacular, if seldom-seen, vision of a queer world shimmering with self-empowerment, inventiveness, and joy. Read More
Essay PUP Life: Eleanor Smith on the work of international rights in publishing August 11, 2025 Follow a day in the life of Eleanor Smith, 快色直播 International Rights Executive. Read More
Interview Mark Vellend on Everything Evolves August 11, 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
Essay PUP Life: Behind the mic with Danielle D’Orlando July 29, 2025 Danielle D’Orlando recounts a day in the life of being the Curator of Audio at 快色直播. Read More
Video Editing Jung: The making of a critical edition July 28, 2025 Meet the team behind 快色直播’s multi-year publishing project: a 26-volume critical edition of C. G. Jung’s writings, featuring vibrant new translations. Read More
Video PUP Speaks: Laine Nooney on the history of the gaming industry July 24, 2025 The history of video games goes beyond the arcade boom of the 70s and 80s, when Pacman and Space Invaders saw gamers spending quarters in their billions. Read More
Podcast On Harry Frankfurt July 24, 2025 Named for the famous philosophy treatise by the late Harry Frankfurt, The Truth About Bullshit podcast?seeks to illuminate our world and the pressing issues therein by calling out ‘bullshit’ – a misrepresentation?of truth – in all its forms. Read More
Podcast Introducing the Critical Edition of the Works of C. G. Jung July 23, 2025 Sonu Shamdasani, an esteemed historian of psychiatry and psychology and a preeminent expert on Jung, talks with Caleb Zakarin about an exciting new translation project. Read More
Essay Taxing thoughts July 18, 2025 “Don’t tax you, don’t tax me, tax that man behind the tree,” the legendary Democratic senator from Louisiana, Senator Russell B. Long, once quipped. Taxes might be key to funding government, but most of us would rather not pay. Read More
