Episodes
Matt Hart: The Moral Complexity of American Capitalism
On today's episode, Matt Hart, author of Win at All Costs , discusses the unsettling details of Nike's secret running program, the Nike Oregon Project, and the ever-prevalent corporate win-at-all-costs culture. Matt Hart is a...
Po Bronson: What Do We Need to Decode the World?
On today's episode, Po Bronson, co-author of Decoding the World , discusses why we don't need to be scientifically literate to make sense of the world. Po Bronson is Managing Director of IndieBio. His science journalism has b...
Craig Wright: Why Should We Care About Genius?
On today's episode, Craig Wright, author of The Hidden Habits of Genius , discusses the relationship between hard work and genius and why this term is deeply embedded in our culture. Craig Wright is the Henry L. and Lucy G. ...
Tim Weiner: Behind the Closed Doors of Political Warfare
On today's episode, Tim Weiner, author of The Folly and the Glory , discusses why our leaders and citizens need to understand the nature of political warfare – and to change course before it’s too late. Tim Weiner has won the...
Ian Brown: Searching for the American Dream
On today's episode, Ian Brown, photographer and author of American Dreams , discusses traveling across the country over twelve years to document and explore what it means to be an American. Ian Brown is an award-winning photo...
Barry C. Lynn: The Threat of Monopolies in America
On today's episode, Barry C. Lynn, the author of Liberty From All Masters: The New American Autocracy vs. the Will of the People, discusses what is perhaps the gravest domestic threat to our liberties in a century. Barry C. L...
Martha S. Jones: The Epic History of African American Women's Politic…
On today's episode, Martha S. Jones, author of Vanguard , discusses how African American women's political power has transformed America. Martha S. Jones is the Society of Black Alumni Presidential Professor and professor of ...
Joel Bakan: Why Capitalism Can't Be Reformed From Within
On today's episode, Joel Bakan, author of The New Corporation , discusses how and why good corporations are bad for democracy. Joel Bakan is professor of law at the University of British Columbia. A Rhodes Scholar and former ...
Daniel Yergin: What to Make of Our New Climate Politics
Daniel Yergin is a highly respected authority on energy, international politics, and economics, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning and bestselling author of The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil , Money & Power , T he Quest: Energy, ...
Tom Burgis: The Nexus Between Russian Money and Trump
On today's episode, Tom Burger, author of Kleptopia: How Dirty Money Is Conquering the World , discusses the New York Times ' recent revelations about Donald Trump and his taxes . Tom Burgis is an investigations corresponden...
Catherine Belton: How KGB Capitalism Took Over Russia—and the World
On today's episode, Catherine Belton, author of Putin's People , discusses how the KGB took a punt on Trump and won. Catherine Belton worked from 2007-2013 as the Moscow correspondent for the Financial Times, and in 2016 as t...
Timothy Snyder: The Urgent Call to Rethink Health Care and Freedom
From a live session of How to Fix Democracy, presented by the Bertelsmann Foundation and Humanity in Action, Andrew Keen talks with Timothy Snyder, best selling author of On Tyranny , and Freedom House’s Michael Abramowitz ab...
David S. Reynolds: What Abraham Lincoln Can Teach Us Now
David S. Reynolds is a Distinguished Professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author of Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography , winner of the Bancroft Prize and the Ambassador Book...
Tony Schwartz: What It Was Like to Create the Fairy Tale Narrative of…
Tony Schwartz is the author of several books, including The Art of the Deal , which he co-authored with Mr. Trump. He also wrote "The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time" (with Jim Loehr) and "The Way We're Wo...
Alan Mikhail: How Sultan Selim's Ottoman Empire Shaped the Modern Wor…
A leading historian of his generation, Alan Mikhail , professor of history and chair of the Department of History at Yale University, has reforged our understandings of the past through his previous three prize-winning books ...
Cynthia Miller-Idriss: How the Far Right Has Successfully Weaponized …
On today's episode, Cynthia Miller-Idriss discusses her new book Hate in the Homeland . Cynthia Miller-Idriss is an award-winning author and scholar of extremism and youth radicalization. She is Professor of Education and Soc...
Michael Sandel: What Has Become of the Common Good?
Michael J. Sandel teaches political philosophy at Harvard University. His books What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets and Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? were international best sellers and have been transl...
John Freeman: What Does Nationalism and Globalization Mean for the En…
On today's episode, John Freeman discusses his book Tales of Two Planets , whether a Green New Deal is possible, and what a Biden presidency would mean for the environment. John Freeman is the editor of Freeman's, a literary ...
Derek W. Black: The Assault on Public Education–and Why This Threaten…
On today's episode, Derek W. Black, author of Schoolhouse Burning , discusses why public education as we know it is in trouble. Derek W. Black is a professor at the University of South Carolina Law School where he teaches con...
Clarissa Ward: The Crisis of Truth
Clarissa Ward is CNN's chief international correspondent. In her fifteen-year career spanning Fox, CBS, and ABC, Ward has reported from front lines across the world. She has won five Emmy Awards, two George Foster Peabody Awa...
Eleanor Herman: Why We Don't Care About the Sexual Behaviors of Our P…
On today's episode, Eleanor Herman,, author of the upcoming book Sex With Presidents: The Ins and Outs of Love and Lust in the White House, discusses the scandals of our recent presidents and why this historically has not aff...
Martin Sandbu: How a Better Economic System Can Work For All
Martin Sandbu has been writing about economics for the Financial Times since 2009. Having started out as the newspaper's economics leader writer, he is currently FT 's European economics commentator and writes its Free Lunch ...
Kerri Arsenault: A (Decaying, Toxic) River Runs Through It
Kerri Arsenault is the Book Review Editor at Orion magazine, and Contributing Editor at Lithub . Arsenault received her MFA in Creative Writing from The New School and studied in Malmö University's Communication for Developme...
Thom Hartmann: How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream
On today's episode, Thom Hartmann, author of The Hidden History of Monopolies, discusses the history of monopolies and why this is a "cancer on America." Thom Hartmann is the four-time winner of the Project Censored Award, Ne...