Robert Wright interviews theologian John Haught about the early-twentieth-century Catholic mystic, whose vision of an emerging “noosphere” foreshadowed the information age.
Phoebe Maltz Bovy and Kat Rosenfield discuss the oft-repeated claim that white women who voted for Trump need correction, particularly from other white women.
Glenn Loury speaks with James Forman, author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning book Locking Up Our Own, about how black leaders dealt with the crime wave that started in the late ’60s.
Robert Wright speaks with philosopher Kate Manne, author of the book Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny.
Aryeh Cohen-Wade and Jeet Heer assess the legacy of the work created by Lee with artists Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko for Marvel Comics.
Philosopher Eddy Nahmias lays out the view that free will and determinism can be reconciled.
Bill Scher argues that after the midterm win, there’s no urgent need to replace Nancy Pelosi as a party leader.
Animal behaviorist Rebecca Lohnes explains how a flawed study of wolves led to bad ideas about how to train dogs.
Stanford anthropologist Tanya Luhrmann talks about the phenomenon of a “hyper-real God” that she encountered in American evangelical churches.
Tim Wu, author of the new book The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age, discusses ways to implement a more aggressive antitrust policy.