Monday, October 31, 2022

Of Boys and Men: A Conversation with Richard V. Reeves

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Almost since the beginning of time, men have shaped society. From ancient times to Mad Men, patriarchy was the defining framework of our so...
Tuesday, October 25, 2022

Where Immigration and Education Come Together: A Conversation with Jessica Lander

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Few subjects engender more reaction and discussion in our politics and our culture than immigration and education. When the two come togethe...
Friday, October 21, 2022

National Conservatism Is Coming for Us: A Conversation with Professor William Galston

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We are finding out that politics and the law are sometimes about separate ways of looking at the world. The law is often about the past. It’...
Monday, October 10, 2022

Why YouTube is Different: A Conversation with Mark Bergen

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Social media often seems like an element tacked on to our culture. Its fads come and go. Things like Instagram, Tick Tock, Twitter, Pinteres...
Monday, October 3, 2022

How The Universe Works and Why It Matters: A Conversation with Sean Carroll

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The great screenwriter William Goldman once said of Hollywood, that “nobody knows anything.” I hope that we have learned by now that this d...
Wednesday, September 28, 2022

We Live in a Golden Age of Ignorance: A conversation with Andy Borowitz

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Look at the British press most days, and you’ll find that the government and the royals are being skewered and made fun of. The Brits have a...
Wednesday, September 14, 2022

Harvard Is Once Again The Center of Psychedelics: A Conversation with Patrick Schmidt

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If our current era is one of politics, technology, and economics, it's fair to say that the 60s were an era where social science, self-r...
Tuesday, August 30, 2022

The End of American Competitiveness: A Conversation with Michael Mazarr

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For much of our 246 years, we were a young, dynamic, striving country. Sure, we had flaws, we made mistakes, we took wrong turns, but we bel...
Tuesday, August 23, 2022

How Did The Pandemic Change Us? A Conversation with Katie Hafner

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Early on in the pandemic, in the earliest days of the lockdown, we wondered how this was going to change the world. Ironically, it was easie...
Wednesday, August 10, 2022

Why Harvey Weinstein Should Matter: A Conversation with Ken Auletta

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In spite of the supposed transparency of the internet age, more and more we live in the age of complicity. Last month we saw it with the tro...
Monday, August 1, 2022

The Trump Roster of Toadies: A conversation with Mark Leibovich

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Modern Washington has always offered up an impressive roster of toadies. Yet the Trump administration seems to have offered us a unique per...
Monday, June 27, 2022

Another Love Discouse: A Conversation with Edie Meidav

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Sometimes the world makes little sense. That’s why when the right novel comes along, it helps us to look inward at the things that really sh...
Tuesday, June 21, 2022

David Gergen on How Great Leaders are Made

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We often look at leadership today as about celebrity or attention. In a time when we have elected a reality show star as President, when cel...
Tuesday, June 7, 2022

Why Anxiety is Good for You!

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It seems we live in a society where everyone wants to be protected. We don’t want to hear views we disagree with for fear that it might upse...
Monday, May 23, 2022

Another Way Forward for Democrats

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Back in 2002 in the wake of the George W. Bush election political demographer Ruy Teixeira, along with journalist John Judas, wrote The Emer...
Sunday, May 15, 2022

How Wars End: A conversation with Gideon Rose

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez famously said that it’s much easier to start a war than it is to end it. Certainly, we’ve seen this up close and pers...
Friday, May 6, 2022

The Misinformation, Censorship and Noise That The Pandemic Gave Us: A Conversation with Joel Simon

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While everyone is busy opining on the unknown and probably minor impact of a change of ownership of Twitter, we have literally ignored the c...
Thursday, April 28, 2022

Why the Internet Is Less Safe Than Flying or Driving or Eating: A Conversation with Bruce Schneier

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The metaverse notwithstanding, the nexus between what happens on the internet, and what happens in the real, physical world, is disappearing...
Wednesday, April 27, 2022

A Whistleblower Stands Up To China: A Conversation with Ashley Yablon

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Think about how different the world is because of whistleblowers. Think about the impact of Daniel Ellsberg, Coleen Rowley, Sherron Watkins,...
Monday, April 18, 2022

The Pandemic Profiteers: A Conversation with J. David McSwane

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Even if the details were never reported in real-time, you knew instinctively during the chaos of the early days of the Pandemic, in the wint...