Robert Wright speaks with Kaiser Kuo of the Sinica podcast about the origins of China’s “authoritarian turn.”
Glenn Loury speaks with Carol M. Swain, author of the prescient 2002 book The New White Nationalism in America.
Nikita Petrov speaks with Tony Ortega about how Scientologists are turning to L. Ron Hubbard’s 1957 lecture on radiation as a state of mind.
Robert Wright and Mickey Kaus discuss the newspaper’s controversial article about a 2018 Halloween party.
Mark Sussman and John Brenkman, author of the new book Mood and Trope: The Rhetoric and Poetics of Affect, discuss the philosophical implications of climate change.
Glenn Loury and Coleman Hughes consider the social effects of mask wearing.
Bill Scher and Matt Lewis discuss Justice Gorsuch’s opinion on LGBT workplace protections.
Tobita Chow, director of the activist group Justice Is Global, makes the case.
Aryeh Cohen-Wade speaks with criminologist Peter Moskos, who worked as a police officer in Baltimore as part of his PhD research.
Daniel Kaufman and Massimo Pigliucci discuss the Stoics’ view of human nature.