Can a friend be our most significant other?
Journalist Rhaina Cohen believes that modern culture undervalues friendships and discusses the...
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Can a friend be our most significant other?
Journalist Rhaina Cohen believes that modern culture undervalues friendships and discusses the...
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Stephen Markley’s novel, “The Deluge,” is an ambitious and terrifyingly realistic look at our...
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It’s been 50 years since Ernest Becker’s breakthrough book The Denial of Death was first...
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A brief history of extinction panics
Silicon Valley is in the middle of an AI frenzy, and many of its leaders believe this technology...
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America solidified its dominant posture in the international order following World War II and...
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The free-market century is over
Sean Illing talks with economic historian Brad DeLong about his new book Slouching Towards...
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Musician Laraaji joins Sean to talk about improvisation as meditation, the transcendent nature of...
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The case for banning...millionaires?
Political philosopher Ingrid Robeyns believes that there should be a maximum amount of money and...
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Author Maggie Jackson always retreated from uncertainty in her life. But when she realized that...
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Americans have absorbed the “Protestant work ethic” — the idea that our value as human beings is...
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How psychedelics can reinvent learning
If you’ve felt that learning new information or developing a new skill seems harder as you get...
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Seeing ourselves through the darkness
When we find ourselves in a dark place, what if we didn't "lighten things up"? Sean Illing talks...
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Jon Kabat-Zinn helped kick off the American mindfulness movement with his bestselling book...
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Most people think anarchists want to live in a lawless society devoid of any structure or order....
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Constance Grady, a culture writer at Vox, is joined by Emily Wilson to discuss her bestselling...
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Sean Illing is joined by John Gray, political philosopher and author of the new book, The New...
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Sean Illing speaks with Robert Sapolsky, a professor of biology and neurology at Stanford...
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A Jew and a Muslim get honest about Israel and Gaza
Zack Beauchamp, a Vox senior correspondent who writes about democracy and Israel, speaks with...
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How to keep panic from attacking
Sean Illing is joined by Matt Gutman, the chief national correspondent for ABC News, to talk...
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Guest host Alissa Wilkinson speaks with Walt Hickey about his new book, You Are What You Watch:...
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Open Mic
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VOA Newscasts - March 19, 2024
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What's funny about everyday sexism?
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