Vox Conversations

Vox Conversations

Vox Conversations brings you discussions between the brightest minds and the deepest thinkers; conversations that will cause you to question old assumptions and think about the world and our role in it in a new light. Join Sean Illing, Jamil Smith, and their colleagues across the Vox newsroom for new episodes every Monday and Thursday.

Episodes

Title Duration Published Consumed
Why we can't pay attention anymore 01:04:55 2022-02-07 14:29
Democracy in crisis, part 1: Ross Douthat isn't too worried 01:06:07 2022-02-03 14:04
Pod Save the Democrats 01:00:41 2022-01-31 11:30
A Yellowjackets creator spills his guts 00:44:44 2022-01-27 14:36
A scientist's case for "woo-woo" 01:00:34 2022-01-24 11:30
Imagine a future with no police 01:05:28 2022-01-20 13:54
Novelist Lauren Groff on the other Matrix 00:47:46 2022-01-13 14:32
Are we living in a simulation? 01:08:32 2022-01-10 14:13
Rep. Jamie Raskin on living through the unthinkable, twice 00:57:50 2022-01-06 13:58
Best of: Why fascism in America isn't going away 00:49:33 2022-01-03 11:30
Best of: Clint Smith III on confronting the legacy of slavery 01:01:42 2021-12-30 11:30
Best of: We need to talk about UFOs. Seriously. 01:03:29 2021-12-27 11:30
Chris Bosh on winning (and losing everything) 00:58:51 2021-12-23 11:30
The cult of toughness 01:06:59 2021-12-20 14:11
Is ethical investing a scam? 00:57:38 2021-12-16 14:33
The good life is painful 00:55:20 2021-12-13 11:30
The father of environmental justice 00:50:51 2021-12-09 14:31
Jill Lepore on Elon Musk's imaginary world 01:03:25 2021-12-06 14:31
E.O. Wilson's plan to save the world 00:56:56 2021-12-02 13:59
Workers of the world, stay home! 01:02:52 2021-11-29 11:30
How progressives get back in the game 01:03:08 2021-11-22 11:34
The highs and lows of the "creator economy" 00:49:31 2021-11-18 11:30
Why Chris Hayes thinks we're all famous now 01:00:30 2021-11-15 11:30
The stories soul food tells 00:51:19 2021-11-11 11:30
The paradox of American freedom 00:57:23 2021-11-08 11:30
Nonbinary parenthood 01:00:51 2021-11-04 10:30
John McWhorter, the anti-antiracist 01:06:32 2021-11-01 10:30
The overwhelming, invisible work of elder care 01:03:21 2021-10-28 11:30
How Big Tech benefits from the disinformation panic 00:58:23 2021-10-25 11:30
Fannie Lou Hamer and the meaning of freedom 00:59:34 2021-10-21 14:08
What the internet took from us 00:58:39 2021-10-18 11:30
Trapped inside with Susanna Clarke's Piranesi 00:49:16 2021-10-14 13:32
Bryan Stevenson on the legacy of enslavement 01:03:00 2021-10-07 14:34
What's your status? 00:57:23 2021-10-04 11:30
Is there a hack for enlightenment? 01:05:29 2021-09-30 11:30
Fighting a world on fire with fire 01:02:14 2021-09-27 18:04
Revolutionary Love 00:57:17 2021-09-23 21:49
How to make meaning out of suffering 00:56:03 2021-09-20 11:30
Ken Burns's latest on The Greatest 01:07:32 2021-09-16 19:31
The road from 9/11 to Donald Trump 01:08:02 2021-09-13 11:30
Rep. Pramila Jayapal on immigrants and America after 9/11 00:51:24 2021-09-09 14:33
Why America's obsession with rights is wrong 00:58:26 2021-09-02 20:27
The news is by — and for — rich, white liberals 01:02:38 2021-08-30 23:32
Clint Smith III on confronting the legacy of slavery 01:01:16 2021-08-26 12:56
Was the cruelty the point? 01:01:07 2021-08-23 14:35
How seashells shaped the world — and predict our future 00:58:00 2021-08-19 13:14
Bill Maher on free speech, comedy, and his haters 00:50:45 2021-08-16 11:30
Robert Reich wants you to take on the system 00:53:37 2021-08-12 16:34
Marty Baron on the future of news 00:54:55 2021-08-09 13:54
The death of cool 00:48:55 2021-08-05 11:30
We need to talk about UFOs. Seriously. 01:02:57 2021-08-02 16:56
Philadelphia's progressive prosecutor 00:55:10 2021-07-29 16:21
Fareed Zakaria on the fate of democracy 01:11:02 2021-07-26 13:16
Jane Goodall on the power of hope 01:02:25 2021-07-22 11:30
Why we love drugs 01:03:35 2021-07-19 21:31
The rugged majesty of revision 01:00:26 2021-07-15 15:09
How to forgive 00:59:14 2021-07-12 14:57
What makes a great conversation? 00:22:45 2021-07-08 15:08
Introducing: Now & Then 00:58:51 2021-07-01 11:30
The science of dating 00:54:37 2021-06-24 12:59
Honoring Juneteenth with Ibram X. Kendi 00:53:19 2021-06-17 12:11
Digital dictatorship 00:59:30 2021-06-10 12:16
The man who proposed reparations in the 1860s 01:07:34 2021-06-03 11:30
What pandemic recovery should look like 00:56:19 2021-05-27 11:30
The gift of getting old 00:58:23 2021-05-20 11:30
Freedom, and what it means to have a body 00:56:26 2021-05-13 11:01
Why are we so worried about Satan? 01:04:28 2021-05-06 11:38
How to be wrong less often 00:54:02 2021-04-29 11:01
The complicated history of wildlife conservation 01:07:06 2021-04-22 11:00
How to replace everything in the industrialized world 01:03:38 2021-04-15 13:37
Patricia Lockwood's big, beautiful internet brain 00:57:14 2021-04-08 11:00
Who is the real George Soros? 00:58:41 2021-04-01 11:00
Introducing Unexplainable 00:28:11 2021-03-27 10:00
The border, explained by someone who knows it intimately 00:57:00 2021-03-25 10:01
"Wintering," wisdom, and weathering life's darkest times 01:08:07 2021-03-18 10:00
Reframing America's race problem 00:54:48 2021-03-11 11:00
Who owns the Western? 00:51:15 2021-03-04 11:01
A Watchmen writer on race, TV, and tech giants 00:54:28 2021-02-25 11:00
Uncovering the history of psychedelics in Christianity 00:53:41 2021-02-18 11:00
Biden's immigration architect on racism, reform, and the Obama legacy 01:04:16 2021-02-11 11:00
The Capitol Siege and American Revolution 00:46:59 2021-02-04 11:00
Why fascism in Post-Trump America isn't going away 00:45:35 2021-01-28 11:00
The Joe Biden experience 01:07:06 2021-01-25 11:00
What it means to be a "good" rich person 00:50:14 2021-01-21 11:00
Peter Kafka and Kevin Roose on big tech's power and responsibility 00:30:09 2021-01-18 11:00
Sam Sanders and Olivia Nuzzi on President Trump’s last days 00:46:32 2021-01-14 11:00
Best of: We don’t just feel emotions. We make them. 01:35:57 2021-01-07 06:00
Best of: Ending the age of animal cruelty, with Bruce Friedrich 01:21:25 2021-01-04 06:00
Best of: The moral philosophy of The Good Place 01:44:19 2020-12-31 06:00
Best of: Michael Lewis reads my mind 01:46:56 2020-12-28 06:00
Best of: Tracy K. Smith changed how I read poetry 01:30:30 2020-12-24 06:00
What I’ve learned, and what comes next. 00:41:37 2020-12-21 06:00
Best of: An inspiring conversation about democracy with Danielle Allen 01:12:59 2020-12-17 06:00
Michael Pollan on the psychedelic society 01:16:25 2020-12-14 06:00
Best of: Robert Sapolsky on the toxic intersection of poverty and stress 01:20:38 2020-12-10 06:00
Joe Biden and "the new progressivism" 01:03:30 2020-12-07 06:00
Best of: Frances Lee on why bipartisanship is irrational 00:59:21 2020-12-03 06:00
The most important book I've read this year 01:36:53 2020-11-30 06:00
Best of: Alison Gopnik changed how I think about love 01:35:43 2020-11-26 06:00
Best of: Vivek Murthy on America’s loneliness epidemic 01:21:44 2020-11-23 06:00
What Democrats got wrong about Hispanic voters 01:06:13 2020-11-19 06:00
Antitrust, censorship, misinformation, and the 2020 election 01:01:15 2020-11-16 06:00
The crisis isn’t Trump. It’s the Republican Party. 01:06:20 2020-11-12 06:00
The Joe Biden experience 01:08:47 2020-11-07 18:18
Chris Hayes and I process this wild election 01:05:05 2020-11-05 01:50
Stacey Abrams on minority rule, voting rights, and the future of democracy 01:10:59 2020-11-02 06:00
Nate Silver on why 2020 isn't 2016 01:11:27 2020-10-29 05:00
Sarah Kliff grades Biden and Trump's health care plans 01:18:30 2020-10-26 05:00
Trumpism never existed. It was always just Trump. 01:00:45 2020-10-22 06:00
What should Democrats do about the Supreme Court? 01:26:57 2020-10-19 06:00
Marilynne Robinson on writing, metaphysics, and the Donald Trump dilemma 01:15:38 2020-10-15 06:00
The case for Trump’s foreign policy 01:14:19 2020-10-12 06:00
Fareed Zakaria on how Biden and Trump see the world 01:21:43 2020-10-08 06:00
How a climate bill becomes a reality 01:27:39 2020-10-05 06:00
The meat we eat affects us all 00:35:04 2020-10-02 06:00
A dark, dangerous debate 01:14:25 2020-09-30 18:59
A radical — or obvious? — plan to save American democracy 01:11:53 2020-09-28 06:00
RBG, minority rule, and our looming legitimacy crisis 01:11:55 2020-09-24 06:00
David French and I debate polarization, secession, and the filibuster 01:33:08 2020-09-21 06:00
The Matt Yglesias Show 01:33:46 2020-09-17 06:00
Race, policing, and the universal yearning for safety 00:53:46 2020-09-14 06:00
How to think about coronavirus risk in your life 01:09:45 2020-09-10 06:00
Black Republicans, Donald Trump, and America's "George Floyd moment" 01:28:34 2020-09-07 06:00
Andrew Yang on UBI, coronavirus, and his next job in politics 01:29:13 2020-09-03 06:00
Why the hell did America invade Iraq? 01:21:02 2020-08-31 06:00
How to decarbonize America — and create 25 million jobs 01:10:57 2020-08-27 06:00
Isabel Wilkerson wants to change how we understand race in America 01:38:42 2020-08-24 06:00
What it would take to end child poverty in America 00:53:59 2020-08-20 06:00
Hannah Gadsby on comedy, free speech, and living with autism 01:33:30 2020-08-17 06:00
What would Keynes do? 01:44:18 2020-08-13 06:00
A devastating indictment of the Republican Party 01:01:31 2020-08-10 06:00
How inequality and white identity politics feed each other 01:18:43 2020-08-06 06:00
Best of: Jia Tolentino on what happens when life is an endless performance 01:45:58 2020-08-03 06:00
Dadding out with Mike Birbiglia 01:19:24 2020-07-30 06:00
A rabbi explains how to make sense of suffering 00:57:37 2020-07-27 06:00
The crisis in the news 00:52:02 2020-07-23 06:00
Bryan Stevenson on how America can heal 01:21:18 2020-07-20 06:00
What a post-Trump Republican Party might look like 01:21:50 2020-07-16 06:00
Free speech, safety, and ‘the letter’ 01:31:03 2020-07-13 06:00
The frightening fragility of America's political institutions 01:09:28 2020-07-09 06:00
Can artificial intelligence be emotionally intelligent? 01:18:04 2020-07-06 06:00
Danielle Allen on the radicalism of the American revolution — and its lessons for today 01:12:39 2020-07-02 06:00
Land of the Giants: The Netflix Effect 00:17:57 2020-07-01 06:00
Nicholas Carr on deep reading and digital thinking 01:12:00 2020-06-29 06:00
Your questions, answered 01:23:53 2020-06-25 06:00
Which country has the world's best healthcare system? 01:10:27 2020-06-22 06:00
The transformative power of restorative justice 01:14:25 2020-06-18 06:00
Ross Douthat and I debate American decadence 01:35:24 2020-06-15 06:00
A serious conversation about UFOs 01:29:54 2020-06-11 06:00
A former prosecutor's case for prison abolition 01:06:32 2020-06-08 06:00
Why Ta-Nehisi Coates is hopeful 01:32:23 2020-06-04 06:00
Are humans fundamentally good? (with Rutger Bregman) 01:39:50 2020-06-01 06:00
From politician to priest 02:04:09 2020-05-28 06:00
Robert Frank's radical idea 01:14:41 2020-05-25 06:00
Why “essential” workers are treated as disposable 01:12:03 2020-05-21 06:00
"The world’s scariest economist” on coronavirus, innovation, and purpose 01:24:41 2020-05-18 06:00
A mind-bending conversation about quantum mechanics and parallel worlds 01:22:20 2020-05-14 06:00
Why the coronavirus is so deadly for black America 01:22:29 2020-05-11 06:00
Jenny Odell on nature, art, and burnout in quarantine 01:08:52 2020-05-07 06:00
An unusually honest conversation about wielding political power 01:26:52 2020-05-04 06:00
What should the media learn from coronavirus? 01:36:39 2020-04-30 06:00
Bill Gates’s vision for life beyond coronavirus 00:54:14 2020-04-27 06:00
An epic conversation with Madeline Miller 01:22:51 2020-04-23 06:00
The loneliness pandemic/Betraying “essential workers” 00:49:57 2020-04-20 06:00
Why Bernie Sanders lost and how progressives can still win 01:41:38 2020-04-16 06:00
Scott Gottlieb on how, and when, to end social distancing 00:50:34 2020-04-13 06:00
Toby Ord on existential risk, Donald Trump, and thinking in probabilities 01:26:44 2020-04-09 06:00
Elizabeth Warren has a plan for this, too 00:53:03 2020-04-06 06:00
What social solidarity demands of us in a pandemic 01:07:55 2020-04-02 06:00
Coronavirus has pushed US-China relations to their worst point since Mao 01:01:51 2020-03-30 06:00
Is the cure worse than the disease? 01:07:33 2020-03-26 05:00
An economic crisis like we’ve never seen 01:25:05 2020-03-23 05:00
"The virus is more patient than people are" 01:20:42 2020-03-19 05:00
A master class in organizing 02:02:03 2020-03-16 05:00
Weeds 2020: The coronavirus election 00:54:42 2020-03-14 05:00
Dan Pfeiffer on Joe Biden, beating Trump, and saving democracy 01:38:28 2020-03-12 05:00
Are you a "political hobbyist?" If so, you're the problem. 01:25:37 2020-03-09 05:00
What would a Sanders or Biden presidency look like? 01:15:09 2020-03-05 06:00
Rebecca Solnit on Harvey Weinstein, feminism, and social change 01:47:35 2020-03-02 06:00
Weeds 2020: The Bernie electability debate 00:58:39 2020-02-29 06:00
Tracy K. Smith changed how I read poetry 01:29:54 2020-02-27 06:00
Barbara Ehrenreich on UBI, class conflict, and collective joy 01:08:29 2020-02-24 06:00
What Donald Trump got right about white America 01:14:31 2020-02-20 06:00
Ta-Nehisi Coates on my “cold, atheist book” 01:15:38 2020-02-17 06:00
If God is dead, then … socialism? 01:05:02 2020-02-13 09:00
Tim Urban on humanity’s wild future 01:30:21 2020-02-10 09:00
Jill Lepore on what I get wrong 01:25:23 2020-02-06 09:00
Is Tom Steyer the solution to our dysfunctional politics? 01:06:15 2020-02-03 09:00
Why We're Polarized, with Jamelle Bouie (live!) 01:16:23 2020-01-30 09:00
Antisemitism now, antisemitism then 01:31:51 2020-01-27 09:00
Book excerpt: A better theory of identity politics 01:04:28 2020-01-23 09:00
The war on Muslims (with Mehdi Hasan) 01:30:37 2020-01-20 09:00
Post-debate special! 01:00:19 2020-01-16 09:00
An “uncomfortable” conversation with Cory Booker 01:33:46 2020-01-13 10:00
The conservative mind of Yuval Levin 01:21:29 2020-01-09 10:00
How an epidemic begins and ends 00:37:13 2020-01-08 10:00
Nathan Robinson’s case for socialism 01:43:14 2020-01-06 10:00
How to topple dictators and transform society (with Erica Chenoweth) 00:47:48 2020-01-02 10:00
Ask Ezra Anything 01:34:08 2019-12-30 10:00
Best of: Work as identity, burnout as lifestyle 01:17:40 2019-12-26 10:00
Republicans vs. the planet 01:43:00 2019-12-23 10:00
The geoengineering question 01:16:44 2019-12-19 10:00
How to solve climate change and make life more awesome 01:36:34 2019-12-16 10:00
Paul Krugman on climate, robots, single-payer, and so much more 01:30:00 2019-12-12 10:00
The moral philosophy of The Good Place (with Mike Schur and Pamela Hieronymi) 01:44:49 2019-12-09 10:00
When doing the right thing makes you a criminal 01:45:28 2019-12-05 10:00
Peter Singer on the lives you can save 01:19:28 2019-12-02 10:00
Best of: The age of "mega-identity" politics 01:16:43 2019-11-28 10:00
Because podcast 01:22:35 2019-11-25 10:00
There’s more to life than profit 01:34:40 2019-11-21 10:00
Having a bad day? Dave Eggers can help. 01:25:42 2019-11-18 10:00
How Whole Foods, yoga, and NPR became the hallmarks of the elite 01:13:57 2019-11-14 10:00
How social media makes us antisocial 01:35:03 2019-11-11 10:00
ICYMI: Edward Norton’s theory of mind, movies, and power 01:53:04 2019-11-08 22:31
Introducing Reset 00:42:56 2019-11-08 10:00
What a smarter Trumpism would sound like 01:27:35 2019-11-07 10:00
The climate crisis is an oceans crisis 01:14:31 2019-11-04 10:00
Edward Norton’s theory of mind, movies, and power 01:52:29 2019-10-31 09:00
We live in The Good Place. And we’re screwing it up. 01:27:03 2019-10-28 09:00
Neoliberalism and its discontents 01:34:32 2019-10-24 10:00
The four words that will decide impeachment 00:55:58 2019-10-21 10:00
We don’t just feel emotions. We make them. 01:35:57 2019-10-17 10:00
How politics became a war against reality 01:29:52 2019-10-14 10:00
The loneliness epidemic 01:21:39 2019-10-10 10:00
Ibram X. Kendi wants to redefine racism 01:31:18 2019-10-07 10:00
Malcolm Gladwell’s Stranger Things 01:37:22 2019-10-03 10:00
An inspiring conversation about democracy 01:32:49 2019-09-30 10:00
Samantha Power’s journey from foreign policy critic to UN ambassador 01:33:25 2019-09-26 10:00
When meritocracy wins, everybody loses 01:31:00 2019-09-23 10:00
Nikole Hannah-Jones on the 1619 project, choosing schools, and Cuba 01:44:21 2019-09-19 10:00
Randall Munroe, the genius behind XKCD 01:27:49 2019-09-16 06:40
Julián Castro's quiet moral radicalism 01:07:23 2019-09-12 10:00
Political animals (with Leah Garcés) 01:32:31 2019-09-09 10:00
John McWhorter thinks we're getting racism wrong 01:09:28 2019-09-05 10:00
The rocky marriage between libertarians and conservatives 01:28:37 2019-09-02 10:00
A mind-bending, reality-warping conversation with John Higgs 01:31:18 2019-08-29 10:00
Jia Tolentino on what happens when life is an endless performance 01:44:49 2019-08-26 10:00
The original meaning of “identity politics” (with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor) 01:24:48 2019-08-22 10:00
Are bosses dictators? (with Elizabeth Anderson) 01:30:52 2019-08-19 10:00
The Constitution is a progressive document 01:02:13 2019-08-15 10:00
Matt Bruenig’s case for single-payer health care 02:04:55 2019-08-12 10:00
Can Raj Chetty save the American dream? 01:22:42 2019-08-08 10:00
Astra Taylor will change how you think about democracy 01:21:47 2019-08-05 10:00
Introducing Land of the Giants 00:27:19 2019-08-02 10:00
Is big tech addictive? Nir Eyal and I debate. 01:19:13 2019-08-01 10:00
Generation Climate Change 01:37:28 2019-07-29 10:00
Is the media amplifying Trump’s racism? (with Whitney Phillips) 01:27:39 2019-07-25 10:00
Rutger Bregman’s utopias, and mine 01:32:19 2019-07-22 10:00
How white identity politics won the Republican civil war 01:28:40 2019-07-18 10:00
George Will makes the conservative case against democracy 01:16:28 2019-07-15 10:00
What deliberative democracy can, and can’t, do (with Jane Mansbridge) 00:56:30 2019-07-11 10:00
Rod Dreher on America’s post-Christian culture war [CORRECTED] 01:55:38 2019-07-08 16:05
White threat in a browning America (Jennifer Richeson re-air) 01:18:33 2019-07-04 10:00
Behind the panic in white, Christian America 01:36:56 2019-07-01 10:00
An enlightening, frustrating conversation on liberalism (with Adam Gopnik) 01:51:00 2019-06-27 10:00
The cognitive cost of poverty (with Sendhil Mullainathan) 01:39:12 2019-06-24 10:00
Failing towards Utopia 00:20:11 2019-06-21 17:49
Why liberals and conservatives create such different media (with Danna Young) 01:36:25 2019-06-20 10:00
Stacey Abrams and Lauren Groh-Wargo (Live!) 01:04:55 2019-06-17 10:00
This changed how I think about love (with Alison Gopnik) 01:34:57 2019-06-13 10:00
The plan behind Elizabeth Warren’s plans 00:54:36 2019-06-10 10:00
Michael Lewis reads my mind 01:43:27 2019-06-06 04:15
How Mitch McConnell convinced Michael Bennet to run for president 01:18:51 2019-06-03 10:00
How the brains of master meditators change 01:10:40 2019-05-30 10:00
Why good people are easily corrupted (with Lawrence Lessig) 01:24:51 2019-05-27 10:00
The art of attention (with Jenny Odell) 01:26:50 2019-05-23 10:00
Matt Yglesias and Jenny Schuetz solve the housing crisis 01:05:25 2019-05-20 10:00
What kind of news is cable news? (With Brian Stelter) 01:27:51 2019-05-16 10:00
Contrapoints on taking the trolls seriously 01:21:25 2019-05-13 10:00
The purpose of political violence 01:21:08 2019-05-09 10:00
Ask Ezra Anything 3: Endgame 01:36:25 2019-05-06 11:00
The disillusionment of David Brooks 01:38:55 2019-05-02 11:00
Emily Oster schools me on parenthood 00:57:06 2019-04-29 11:00
Lessons from Vox’s first 5 years 01:35:58 2019-04-25 11:00
Work as identity, burnout as lifestyle 01:24:45 2019-04-22 11:00
How social democrats won Europe — then lost it 01:09:35 2019-04-18 11:00
In defense of white-backlash politics 01:41:50 2019-04-15 11:00
Identity, nationalism, and fatherhood 01:48:48 2019-04-11 11:00
An ex-libertarian’s quest to rebuild the center right 01:26:54 2019-04-08 11:00
How whiteness distorts our democracy, with Eddie Glaude Jr. 01:31:42 2019-04-04 11:00
Pete Buttigieg’s theory of political change 01:02:29 2019-04-01 14:56
Meet the policy architect behind the Green New Deal 01:25:20 2019-03-28 10:00
The somewhat fractured state of American conservatism 01:03:38 2019-03-25 10:00
American politics after Christianity, with Ross Douthat 01:19:35 2019-03-21 10:00
Why Gov. Jay Inslee is running for president on climate change 01:08:05 2019-03-18 10:00
ICYMI: Julia Galef 01:34:27 2019-03-14 10:00
The roots of extremism, with Deeyah Khan 01:25:29 2019-03-11 10:00
ICYMI: Paul Krugman 01:39:51 2019-03-07 11:00
Pop music can make you smarter 00:21:44 2019-03-06 11:00
Life after climate change, with David Wallace-Wells 01:14:34 2019-03-04 11:00
Pramila Jayapal thinks we can get to Medicare-for-All fast 01:00:08 2019-02-28 11:00
Noah Rothman on the "unjustice" of social justice politics 01:12:51 2019-02-25 11:00
Why should we care about deficits? 01:08:27 2019-02-21 11:00
Anniversary special: Rachel Maddow 01:43:48 2019-02-18 11:00
Andrew Sullivan and I work out our differences 02:07:02 2019-02-14 11:00
The core contradiction of American politics 01:09:09 2019-02-11 11:00
Leftists vs. liberals, with Elizabeth Bruenig 01:21:58 2019-02-07 11:00
The world according to Ralph Nader 01:26:02 2019-02-04 11:00
This conversation will change how you understand misogyny 02:16:39 2019-01-31 11:00
Ending the age of animal cruelty, with Bruce Friedrich 01:21:25 2019-01-28 11:00
Robert Sapolsky on the toxic intersection of poverty and stress 01:21:09 2019-01-24 11:00
Frances Lee on why bipartisanship is irrational 01:03:13 2019-01-21 11:00
Sean Decatur doesn’t see a free speech crisis on campus 01:20:44 2019-01-17 11:00
Cal Newport has an answer for digital burnout 01:11:43 2019-01-14 11:00
Eric Holder’s plan to save democracy 01:06:21 2019-01-10 11:00
Anil Dash on the biases of tech 01:22:56 2019-01-07 11:00
Jill Lepore on America’s two revolutions 01:35:52 2019-01-03 11:00
Best of: N.K. Jemisin 01:25:36 2018-12-31 11:00
Best-of: Bryan Stevenson 01:34:44 2018-12-27 11:00
Kara Swisher interviews me on the Future of Journalism (Live!) 01:35:36 2018-12-24 11:00
TED’s Chris Anderson on the lessons of listening 01:11:56 2018-12-20 11:00
Rep. Katie Porter on how capitalism is failing 01:21:57 2018-12-17 11:00
How Hasan Minhaj is reinventing political comedy 01:44:12 2018-12-13 11:00
Adam Serwer on white political correctness 00:52:52 2018-12-10 11:00
Will Storr on why you are not yourself 01:28:26 2018-12-06 11:00
How to be a better carnivore 00:32:07 2018-12-03 11:00
Peter Beinart on anti-Semitism in America and illiberalism in Israel 01:28:35 2018-11-29 11:00
Where Jonathan Haidt thinks the American mind went wrong 01:53:36 2018-11-26 11:00
The Impact: Deportation without representation 00:33:48 2018-11-22 11:00
Molly Ball on Nancy Pelosi’s future and Paul Ryan’s failure 01:05:25 2018-11-19 11:00
Whitney Phillips explains how Trump controls the media 01:52:16 2018-11-15 11:00
Ask Ezra Anything 01:38:04 2018-11-12 11:00
Presidents in crisis with Slow Burn’s Leon Neyfakh 01:26:00 2018-11-08 11:00
Sandy Darity has a plan to close the wealth gap 00:52:31 2018-11-05 11:00
How identity politics elected Donald Trump 01:39:42 2018-11-01 10:00
Rep. Mark Sanford on losing the Republican Party to Donald Trump 01:06:20 2018-10-29 10:00
Doris Kearns Goodwin (live!) on how great presidents are made 01:24:33 2018-10-25 11:00
What Nate Silver's learned about forecasting elections 01:21:27 2018-10-22 11:00
Jay Rosen is pessimistic about the media. So am I. 01:24:17 2018-10-18 11:00
Why Bill Gates is worried 01:01:43 2018-10-15 11:00
Reihan Salam makes the case against open borders 01:32:07 2018-10-11 11:00
Jose Antonio Vargas on living undocumented in Trump’s America 01:29:37 2018-10-08 11:00
Rebecca Traister: Women's rage is transforming America 01:12:54 2018-10-04 11:00
Patrick Deneen says liberalism has failed. Is he right? 01:02:10 2018-10-01 11:00
Francis Fukuyama’s case against identity politics 01:34:21 2018-09-27 11:00
Carol Anderson on the myth of American democracy 00:57:42 2018-09-24 11:00
Martha C. Nussbaum on how fear deforms our politics 00:57:40 2018-09-17 11:00
David French on “The Great White Culture War" 01:35:21 2018-09-10 11:00
Your attention is being hijacked. Chris Bailey can help. 01:07:36 2018-09-04 11:00
Anand Giridharadas on the elite charade of changing the world 01:35:48 2018-08-30 11:00
I build a world with fantasy master N.K. Jemisin 01:25:07 2018-08-27 11:00
Reup: Zephyr Teachout vs. Corruption 01:34:39 2018-08-24 11:00
Is our economy totally screwed? Andrew Yang and I debate. 01:14:16 2018-08-20 12:00
Chef Marcus Samuelsson on immigration, creativity, and Anthony Bourdain 01:14:55 2018-08-13 12:00
Why online politics gets so extreme so fast 01:08:12 2018-08-06 11:00
Taking Trump’s corruption seriously 01:07:41 2018-08-02 11:00
The surprising story of how American politics polarized 01:07:37 2018-07-30 11:00
The most important idea for understanding American politics in 2018 01:19:03 2018-07-23 11:00
What economists and politicians get wrong about trade 01:00:26 2018-07-19 11:00
How to disagree better 01:40:04 2018-07-16 11:00
Jaron Lanier’s case for deleting social media right now 01:22:30 2018-07-09 11:00
The most clarifying conversation I’ve had about Trump and Russia (part 2) 01:11:25 2018-07-05 11:00
The Supreme Court vs. Democracy 01:09:46 2018-07-02 11:00
Eric Garcetti on the lessons of Los Angeles 01:06:29 2018-06-25 11:00
What Ellen Pao saw coming 00:57:19 2018-06-18 11:00
The Green Pill 01:03:25 2018-06-11 11:00
How Jane Mayer exposed Eric Schneiderman, Bush’s torture program, and the Kochs 01:16:51 2018-06-04 11:00
Political power and the racial wealth gap 01:22:52 2018-05-28 11:00
Tyler Cowen on the painful end of American complacency 01:29:42 2018-05-21 11:00
A mind-expanding conversation with Michael Pollan 01:25:01 2018-05-14 11:00
Optimism about America 01:23:44 2018-05-07 11:00
The New York Times’s lead Clinton reporter reflects on her coverage 01:00:38 2018-05-03 12:00
The age of "mega-identity" politics 01:19:57 2018-04-30 12:00
Is American democracy really in decline? A debate. 01:55:37 2018-04-23 12:00
Special episode: The Syrian conflict, explained by a UN diplomat who saw it start 00:57:39 2018-04-20 12:00
Is modern society making us depressed? 01:33:21 2018-04-16 12:00
Carol Anderson on White Rage and Donald Trump 01:36:55 2018-04-12 12:00
The Sam Harris Debate 02:14:07 2018-04-09 12:00
Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook’s hardest year, and what comes next 00:51:31 2018-04-02 12:00
Is Mitch Landrieu the "White, Southern Anti-Trump"? 01:25:32 2018-03-26 11:00
Melinda Gates (live!) on stopping climate change, ending malaria, and the problems money can’t solve 00:55:33 2018-03-19 10:00
A better conversation on guns 00:54:54 2018-03-12 10:00
This isn’t Joe Kennedy’s grandfather’s Democratic Party, and he knows it 01:07:19 2018-03-05 12:00
Amy Chua on how tribalism is tearing America apart 01:04:44 2018-02-26 12:00
How technology brings out the worst in us, with Tristan Harris 01:14:43 2018-02-19 12:00
Steven Pinker: enlightenment values made this the best moment in human history 01:11:17 2018-02-12 12:00
Why my politics are bad with Bhaskar Sunkara 01:16:50 2018-02-05 14:29
How Democracies Die 01:17:41 2018-01-29 12:00
How to oppose Trump without becoming more like him 01:15:13 2018-01-22 12:00
You will love this conversation with Jaron Lanier, but I can’t describe it 01:41:06 2018-01-15 12:00
The most clarifying conversation I’ve had on Trump and Russia 01:18:38 2018-01-08 12:00
Pod Save America’s Jon Favreau on Trump’s first year, the GOP’s “rot,” and the left’s failures 01:04:23 2018-01-02 12:00
The inside story of Doug Jones’s win in Alabama 01:05:25 2017-12-25 12:00
What life is like in North Korea 00:52:20 2017-12-18 12:00
"An orgy of serious policy discussion" with Paul Krugman 01:38:35 2017-12-11 12:00
The case for impeachment 01:12:13 2017-12-04 12:00
What Buddhism got right about the human brain 01:20:42 2017-11-27 11:00
Rebecca Traister on #MeToo, female rage, and Anita Hill’s legacy 01:31:54 2017-11-20 11:00
Ai-jen Poo: the future of work isn’t robots. It’s caring humans. 01:07:10 2017-11-13 11:00
Evan Osnos on the North Korea crisis, Trump’s mental health, and China's rise 01:27:57 2017-11-06 11:00
Why politics needs more conflict, not less 01:18:14 2017-10-30 11:00
Why the Weinstein scandal gives Tig Notaro hope about Hollywood 00:46:57 2017-10-23 12:00
What happens when human beings take control of their own evolution? 01:07:02 2017-10-16 12:00
Ta-Nehisi Coates is not here to comfort you 01:13:15 2017-10-09 12:00
How the Republican Party created Donald Trump 01:51:05 2017-10-02 12:00
Reihan Salam wants to remake the Republican Party -- again 01:21:31 2017-09-25 12:05
David Remnick on journalism in the Trump era and why he hires obsessives 01:28:00 2017-09-19 12:05
What Hillary Clinton really thinks 01:00:23 2017-09-12 21:58
Dan Rather thought he'd seen it all. But then came President Trump. 01:11:17 2017-09-05 12:05
From 4Chan to Charlottesville: where the alt-right came from, and where it's going 01:29:24 2017-08-29 12:05
Why prosecutors, not cops, are the keys to criminal justice reform 01:19:22 2017-08-22 12:05
Chris Hayes on whether Trump should be removed from office 01:09:41 2017-08-15 12:05
Sen. Michael Bennet on why this is a dismal, sociopathic era in Congress 01:21:20 2017-08-08 18:05
What’s scary isn’t Trump’s illiberalism but America's acceptance of it 01:07:43 2017-08-01 18:05
Julia Galef on how to argue better and change your mind more 01:34:15 2017-07-25 18:05
Dr. Nneka Jones Tapia, the first psychologist to run a jail 01:11:02 2017-07-18 14:30
Eddie Izzard on World War I, cake or death, and marathoning 01:11:10 2017-07-11 17:46
Avik Roy and Ezra debate the Senate GOP's health bill 01:29:02 2017-07-03 21:43
danah boyd on why fake news is so easy to believe 01:30:14 2017-06-27 15:39
Al Franken on learning to be a politician 00:58:12 2017-06-20 17:23
Zephyr Teachout on suing Trump, fighting corruption, and breaking monopolies 01:34:56 2017-06-13 17:05
Masha Gessen offers a plausible Trump-Russia theory 01:08:53 2017-06-06 12:00
Kwame Anthony Appiah on cosmopolitanism 01:09:02 2017-05-30 23:30
Yascha Mounk: Is Trump’s incompetence saving us from his illiberalism? 01:36:51 2017-05-23 19:07
Bryan Stevenson on why the opposite of poverty isn’t wealth, but justice 01:35:28 2017-05-16 17:29
Death, Sex, and Money’s Anna Sale on bringing empathy to politics 00:55:50 2017-05-09 14:00
Cory Booker returns, live, to talk trust, Trump, and basic incomes 01:13:15 2017-05-04 18:06
VC Bill Gurley on transforming health care 01:15:26 2017-05-02 21:35
Elizabeth Warren on what Barack Obama got wrong 00:49:03 2017-04-25 16:10
Cal Newport on doing Deep Work and escaping social media 01:25:48 2017-04-18 15:06
G. Willow Wilson on religion, comics, and modern myths 01:18:06 2017-04-11 16:15
Chris Hayes on the crisis of elites and the politics of order 01:45:05 2017-04-04 21:06
Tyler Cowen explains it all 01:36:46 2017-03-28 17:02
Molly Ball on whether facts matter in politics 01:19:14 2017-03-21 12:00
Denis McDonough on how to run the White House 01:24:28 2017-03-14 12:00
Cecile Richards on Planned Parenthood, labor organizing, and the Supreme Court 01:17:51 2017-03-07 13:00
Tim Ferriss on suffering, psychedelics, and spirituality 01:54:04 2017-03-02 20:36
Yuval Harari, author of “Sapiens,” on AI, religion, and 60-day meditation retreats 01:12:34 2017-02-28 13:00
Elizabeth Drew covered Watergate. Here's what she thinks of Trump. 01:14:17 2017-02-21 13:00
Avik Roy on why conservatives need to embrace diversity 01:34:02 2017-02-14 13:00
Kara Swisher gives a master class on reporting and interviewing 01:40:54 2017-02-07 13:00
David Miliband explains the global refugee crisis 00:52:09 2017-02-02 18:03
Jennifer Lawless on why you — yes, you — should run for office 01:06:39 2017-01-31 16:26
JD Vance: the reluctant interpreter of Trumpism 01:45:49 2017-01-24 17:13
Keith Ellison: The Democratic National Committee has become the Democratic Presidential Committee, and that needs to end 01:06:21 2017-01-17 17:22
Elizabeth Kolbert: We have locked in centuries of climate change 01:24:02 2017-01-10 20:02
Sarah Kliff and Ezra Interview Obama About Obamacare 01:18:25 2017-01-07 00:43
You Ask, Ezra Answers 01:38:49 2017-01-03 13:00
Evelyn Farkas explains the crisis in Syria and the threat of Russia 01:23:14 2016-12-27 18:50
Tim Wu's interesting, unusual, fascinating life 01:34:31 2016-12-20 16:48
Ta-Nehisi Coates: "There’s not gonna be a happy ending to this story" 01:46:25 2016-12-14 13:00
Stripe CEO Patrick Collison on management, rationalism, and the enlightenment 01:32:35 2016-12-06 13:00
Award-winning chef José Andrés on cooking, creativity, and learning from the best 01:32:12 2016-11-29 13:00
Heather McGhee returns to talk Trump, race, and empathy 01:05:06 2016-11-22 17:07
Ron Brownstein: Clinton didn’t lose because of the white working class 01:09:22 2016-11-15 16:23
David Frum on the 2016 election, and the long decline of the GOP 01:37:35 2016-11-06 13:00
Deborah Tannen on gendered speech, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, and you 01:35:27 2016-11-01 15:50
Joseph Stiglitz on broken markets, bad trade deals, and basic incomes 01:11:47 2016-10-25 13:00
Let's talk about Hillary Clinton's policy ideas, with Jonathan Cohn 01:15:32 2016-10-18 13:00
Francis Fukuyama on whether America's democracy is decaying 01:13:00 2016-10-11 13:00
Tyler Cowen interviews Ezra Klein about politics, media, and more 01:18:48 2016-10-06 09:00
The best conversation I’ve had about the election, with Molly Ball 01:14:21 2016-10-04 15:57
HHS Secretary Sylvia Matthews Burwell on running Obamacare, Medicare, and Medicaid 00:47:26 2016-09-27 14:52
Dr. Leana Wen on why the opposite of poverty is health 01:42:04 2016-09-20 13:00
Arlie Hochschild on how America feels to Trump supporters 01:01:14 2016-09-13 13:00
Stewart Butterfield on creating Slack, learning from games, and finding your online identity 01:36:40 2016-09-06 06:00
W. Kamau Bell on the lessons of parenthood, Twitter, and fame 01:33:33 2016-08-30 06:00
Malcolm Gladwell on the danger of joining consensus opinions 01:35:58 2016-08-23 16:36
Grant Gordon on studying the world's worst conflicts 01:31:36 2016-08-16 16:28
Melissa Bell on starting Vox, managing media, and connecting newsrooms 01:25:03 2016-08-09 16:32
Atul Gawande on surgery, writing, Obamacare, and indie music 01:39:46 2016-08-02 12:11
Trevor Noah, host of The Daily Show 01:18:36 2016-07-26 16:09
Conservative intellectual Yuval Levin on how the Republican Party lost its way 01:19:59 2016-07-19 13:00
Hillary Clinton. Yes, that Hillary Clinton. 00:48:05 2016-07-12 13:00
Patrick Brown on plant-meat that bleeds and the science of flavor 00:46:22 2016-07-05 14:54
Heather McGhee on what Democrats get wrong about racism 01:19:35 2016-06-28 15:09
Jesse Eisenberg on Jewish humor, writing lessons, and interrogating strangers 01:03:44 2016-06-21 16:21
Jessica Valenti on honesty, internet trolls, and modern feminism 01:13:43 2016-06-14 13:00
Moby on how cheap rent leads to great art 01:00:35 2016-06-07 13:00
Secretary of Labor (and maybe VP?) Tom Perez 01:09:14 2016-05-31 17:58
Andrew Sullivan on quitting blogging, fearing political correctness, and Donald Trump 01:56:49 2016-05-24 16:28
Alice Rivlin, queen of Washington's budget wonks 01:00:09 2016-05-17 13:00
Arianna Huffington on sleep, death, and social media 01:26:49 2016-05-10 15:52
Robert Reich on supporting Bernie Sanders, dating Hillary Clinton, and fighting inequality 01:44:17 2016-05-03 17:17
Bruce Friedrich on how technology will reduce animal suffering 01:19:38 2016-04-26 13:00
Ben Thompson on how to make it in media in 2016 01:37:21 2016-04-19 17:28
Ben Thompson on how the media business is changing 01:37:21 2016-04-19 13:00
Grover Norquist explains what it takes to change American politics 01:30:29 2016-04-12 13:31
Neera Tanden on what it's like to work for Hillary Clinton 01:11:31 2016-04-05 21:12
David Chang, head of the Momofuku empire 01:28:10 2016-03-29 13:00
Cory Booker on the spiritual dimension of politics 01:50:32 2016-03-22 12:00
Michael Needham on the Republican Party's crack-up 01:13:54 2016-03-15 13:00
Jim Yong Kim on revolutionizing how we treat the world's poor 01:17:49 2016-03-08 13:00
Theda Skocpol on how political scientists think differently about politics 01:03:12 2016-03-01 13:00
Bill Gates on stopping climate change, building robots, and the best books he's read 00:44:04 2016-02-23 13:00
How lobbying works, with super-lobbyist Tony Podesta 00:59:26 2016-02-16 13:00
Rachel Maddow on skinhead rallies, AIDS activism, and why she doesn't read op-eds 01:46:09 2016-02-09 17:00
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