Nathan Robinson, editor of Current Affairs, defends the use of terms like “white privilege” and “intersectionality.”
Josh Summers and Dr. Dan Keown, author of The Uncharted Body: A New Textbook of Medicine, discuss modern understandings of the traditional Chinese practice.
Journalist Michael Tracey argues that news from the Mueller investigation is being processed uncritically by the mainstream media and the Resistance.
Aryeh Cohen-Wade speaks with Riley Quinn, author of a recent article in Jacobin titled “Politics Is Not Harry Potter,” about the political appeal of nostalgia.
Matt Lewis explains why Tulsi Gabbard has the broadest appeal of the Democratic presidential candidates.
Historians Bill Black and John Fea, author of the book Believe Me, discuss how evangelical Christians were drawn to Trump’s campaign messaging.
Golden Globe–winning producer Lindsay Doran discusses an odd disjunction between how movies end and how we remember them ending.
Ten years after the Great Recession, economists Glenn Loury and Ross Levine consider how to prevent another financial collapse.
Daniel Kaufman and Oliver Traldi discuss the professional risk involved in expressing heterodox views in the field of philosophy.
Robert Wright and historian Stephen Wertheim discuss why Democrats welcomed neoconservatives into the Resistance after Trump’s election.