Rory Stewart may be the most interesting person you’ve never heard of. He’s an adventurer, writer, politician, and nonprofit leader. He walked across Afghanistan — alone — in the months after 9/11 and wrote a book about the experience that the New York Times called a “flat-out masterpiece”; he then served as a deputy governor in Iraq, held a chair at Harvard ... Show More
Yesterday
Do We Even Need Politicians?
“The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers,” sneers a rebel henchman in Shakespeare’s “Henry VI.” Hélène Landemore, a political scientist at Yale, has another idea: let’s fire all the politicians. She has a point, doesn’t she? Most of ’em are beholden to donors, allergic ... Show More
54m 55s
Feb 26
Inside the Most Creative Friendship in History
On the surface, Ian Leslie's book John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs is a dual biography of the greatest songwriting duo the world has ever seen. So not exactly standard Next Big Idea territory. But what’s remarkable about Ian's book, which I've been pressing on everyone I know, ... Show More
1h 1m
Feb 23
Michael Pollan on the Mystery of Consciousness
Five years ago, Michael Pollan — the acclaimed author of The Botany of Desire, The Omnivore's Dilemma, and How to Change Your Mind — went looking for an answer to one of life's great mysteries: "How does three pounds of brain matter generate subjective experience?" The result is ... Show More
1h 16m
Sep 2023
S18, Ep3 Rory Stewart on why politics is broken - and what to do about it
Rory Stewart is a bestselling writer, podcaster, former politician, adventurer and charity boss. You might know him from his chart-topping podcast, The Rest is Politics, which features Stewart and Alastair Campbell disagreeing agreeably about issues of the day. After Eton and Oxf ... Show More
53m 13s
Aug 2023
The Political Editors: Sir Peter Riddell
<p>Westminster veteran Sir Peter Riddell tells Matt about his time charting the dramatic end to the Thatcher era, underestimating John Major, Labour coming back from the wilderness, and how the job of covering politics has changed over the years.</p><br><p>The Political Editors i ... Show More
43m 32s
May 2019
Adam Gopnik Wants to Make Liberalism Great Again!
Adam Gopnik, the celebrated New Yorker writer whom Tina worked with for many years when she was editor in chief, talks with her about his new book, A Thousand Small Sanities, born of a talk he had with his teenage daughter on the night President Trump was elected. In the book, Go ... Show More
41m 19s
Oct 2021
The Life and Career of Colin Powell
<p>Colin Powell, who in four decades of public service helped shape U.S. national security, died on Monday. He was 84.</p><p>Despite a stellar career, Mr. Powell had expressed a fear that he would be remembered for a single event: his role in leading his country to war in Iraq.</ ... Show More
33m 17s
Oct 2022
301. Politics: Tradition and Vision | Newt Gingrich
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Dr. Jordan B. Peterson and Newt Gingrich discuss the state of conservative politics, why the young generation is drawn to it now more than ever, and how across demographics, big changes are in ... Show More
1h 33m
Feb 2022
Take My Advice (with Cheryl Strayed and Luis Miranda, Jr.)
Hillary has given—and gotten—a lot of advice over the years. On today’s episode, she talks with two of her favorite advice givers about their approach to this sometimes delicate and often consequential enterprise. First, we hear from author and columnist Cheryl Strayed about how ... Show More
47m 18s
<p>Ryan reads today’s daily meditation and talks to professor Brian Klaas about his new book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Corruptible-Who-Gets-Power-Changes/dp/1529338085" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us</em></a>, ... Show More
