“That's just like the human struggle, is how is it that our interiority and the way that we're perceived externally, how do we live with that? How does it act? Like, how do those things influence each other? Like, that's maybe the human problem. And so academia puts another layer on that, disability puts another layer on that, being an artist puts another la ... Show More
Oct 9
Do We Misunderstand the Point of Monogamy? (Dan Savage)
Longtime sex-advice columnist and author Dan Savage shares how he thinks about monogamy, marriage, infidelity, and repair. We explore how sex and relationships get conflated. We get into identities, orientations, preferences, language, and how we’re raising kids today. Also, Sava ... Show More
1h 1m
Oct 2
The Intrinsic Order that Emerges from Within Chaos (Elinor Dickson, PhD)
“We have to let go of our own patriarchy,” says Elinor Dickson. “And we’re afraid to because it represents control for us.” Dickson spent more than 35 years as a Jungian therapist, and she cowrote the seminal Dancing in the Flames with her good friend Marion Woodman. She’s one of ... Show More
52m 50s
Sep 29
Using Triangulation to Better Understand Yourself (Monthly Solo)
In this month’s solo episode, I’m exploring the parts of our culture and our collective that we can own—and impact. And I’m sharing more on the power of triangulation, and how you can use certain systems and tools to better understand yourself, your roles, and what you might be t ... Show More
44m 4s
Apr 2021
Your Success Probably Didn’t Come From Merit Alone
Prepping for a conversation with Tressie McMillan Cottom is intimidating. McMillan Cottom is a sociologist at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, a 2020 MacArthur fellow, co-host of the podcast “Hear to Slay,” and the author of the essay collection “Thick,” which was a ... Show More
1h 22m
Apr 2022
Episode 483: Chloé Cooper Jones
Chloé Cooper Jones is a philosopher and journalist whose work has appeared in GQ, The Verge, The Believer and many other publications. Her new book is Easy Beauty. ”I literally didn't talk to anyone in my life about disability until I was, like, 30. Ever. Not my husband, not my f ... Show More
53m 37s
May 2022
Kate Moss : sexe, drogues et rock’n’roll
Si vous êtes nés dans les années 1980, la première fois que vous avez vu Kate Moss, c’est sur une affiche publicitaire Calvin Klein. C’était en 1996, vous entriez tout juste dans l’adolescence, et à l’époque, on se pâmait devant Cindy Crawford, Claudia Schiffer et Naomi Campbell, ... Show More
42m 41s
Apr 2021
La France au miroir de ses minorités
L'actualité a récemment été marquée par plusieurs polémiques touchant aux questions raciales: l'archive de Pépita dans le jeu télé «Pyramide», les réunions non mixtes de l'Unef, la prise de position d'Audrey Pulvar sur le sujet. Pour mettre en perspective ces événements, pour les ... Show More
20m 22s
Sep 2023
Naomi Klein on How To Stay Sane In An Increasingly Warped Online World
New episodes come out every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday for free, with 1-week early access for Wondery+ subscribers. --- Klein goes down the rabbit hole after learning she has a digital doppelgänger who has gone all in on conspiracies. Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist ... Show More
1h 3m
Aug 2023
Travis Holloway, "How to Live at the End of the World: Theory, Art, and Politics for the Anthropocene" (Stanford UP, 2022)
the near universal disappearance of shared social enterprise: the ruling class builds walls and lunar shuttles, while the rest of us contend with the atrophy of institutional integrity and the utter abdication of providing even minimal shelter from looming disaster.The irony of t ... Show More
51m 14s