Episodes

Kevin Roose is an award-winning technology columnist for The New York Times. His column , "The Shift," examines the intersection of tech, business, and culture. He is the New York Times bestselling author of three books, Futu...

Bret L. Stephens joined The New York Times as an Op-Ed columnist in April 2017. His column appears Thursday and Saturday. Mr. Stephens came to The Times after a long career with The Wall Street Journal , where he was most rec...

Mehrsa Baradaran is J. Alton Hosch Associate Professor of Law at the University of Georgia School of Law and author of How the Other Half Banks .

Pavlina R. Tcherneva is Associate Professor at Bard College and Research Scholar at the Levy Economics Institute.

Kevin J. Delaney is a senior editor for The New York Times . Previously, he co-founded Quartz and served as co-CEO and editor in chief from 2012 to 2019. Prior to Quartz, Kevin was a reporter at the Wall Street Journal for a ...

David Shimer is pursuing a doctorate in international relations at the University of Oxford as a Marshall Scholar. His reporting and analysis have appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, and Foreign Affairs. He is an ...

Margaret O’Mara is the Howard & Frances Keller Endowed Professor of History at the University of Washington and a contributing opinion writer at The New York Times . She writes and teaches about the growth of the high-tech ec...

Ben Ehrenreich writes about climate change for The Nation . His work has appeared in Harper's Magazine , The New York Times Magazine , the London Review of Books , and Los Angeles magazine. In 2011, he was awarded a National ...

Elif Shafak is the acclaimed author of fifteen books, ten of which are novels, including The Bastard of Istanbul and The Forty Rules of Love. Her work has been translated into more than forty languages and she regularly contr...

teven Weber works at the intersection of technology markets, intellectual property regimes, and international politics. His research, teaching, and advisory work focus on the political economy of knowledge intensive industrie...

Ezekiel J. Emanuel is Vice Provost for Global Initiatives and chair of the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania. From January 2009 to January 2011, he served as special advisor for ...

Evy Poumpouras is a former Secret Service Special Agent and on-air national TV contributor who frequently appears on NBC, MSNBC, CNN, and HLN. She also costars on Bravo's Spy Games, an espionage-inspired reality competition. ...

David Kirkpatrick is the author of the definitive book on Facebook, The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That is Connecting the World, published by Simon & Schuster. He was for many years senior editor for int...

Matt Alt is a Tokyo-based writer, translator, and reporter. He is a contributor to The New Yorker online , CNN , Wired, Slate, The Independent, Newsweek Japan, The Japan Times, and many other publications, and is the co-autho...

Maëlle Gavet is on the board of Edenred SA. In the past she occupied the position of Chief Executive Officer at Ozon Holdings Ltd. and Chief Executive Officer of Internet Solutions LLC (a subsidiary of Ozon Holdings Ltd.), Ch...

Ian Bogost is the Ivan Allen College Distinguished Chair in media studies and a professor of interactive computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology, a founding partner at Persuasive Games, and a contributing editor at T...

Peter Wehner is a New York Times contributing Op-Ed writer covering American politics and conservative thought and a popular media commentator on politics. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and...

JENNIFER MERCIECA is associate professor in the Department of Communication at Texas A&M University. She is the author of Founding Fictions and coeditor of The Rhetoric of Heroic Expectations: Establishing the Obama Presidenc...

Scott Santens is a founding member of the Economic Security Project, an adviser to the Universal Income Project, a founding committee member of Basic Income Action, committee member of the US Basic Income Guarantee Network, a...

Robin Hauser is the director and producer of cause-based documentary films at Finish Line Features, LLC and Unleashed Productions, Inc. As a businesswoman, longtime professional photographer, and social entrepreneur, Robin br...

Geoff Dyer is the author of Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi, among other novels, and several nonfiction books, including Out of Sheer Rage . He won a National Book Critics Circle Award in 2012 for Otherwise Known as the Hum...

Maya Alexandri is a novelist, lawyer, certified EMT, medical school student, and 2nd Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. Maya's collection of short stories, The Plague Cycle, was published by Spuyten Duyvil in May 2018. She is also ...

Franklin Foer is a national correspondent for The Atlantic . He is the author of How Soccer Explains the World , which has been translated into twenty-seven languages, and is a winner of a National Jewish Book Award. For seve...

Héctor Tobar is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and a novelist. He is the author of Translation Nation, The Tattooed Soldier, and Deep Down Dark, filmed as the major motion picture The 33. The son of Guatemalan immigrants...