Shayla Love, a senior staff writer at Vice, joins us to talk about the psychology of why we’re all a little disoriented since our 9-to-5 routine disappeared.
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The Comforts Of Pop Culture
Roy Wood Jr., Nate Sloan, Charlie Harding, and Linda Holmes, join us to talk about how pop culture can at least provide a respite in a world of bad news.
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The Adolescence of Animals
Dr. Barbara Natterson-Horowitz, visiting professor in the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard and president of the International Society for Evolution, Medicine and Public Health, joins us to talk about how all animals — humans included — transition into adulthood.
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Director Barry Sonnenfeld On How To Build A Blockbuster
Barry Sonnenfeld joins us to talk about his winding road to success that eventually led to making the “Men in Black” franchise and other blockbusters.
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The Influence Of Instagram
Bloomberg News technology reporter Sarah Frier joins us to talk about the fierce Silicon Valley competition to create a dominant social media platform and the ways Instagram has changed our lives in an unexpected way.
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Art Makes Money, While Artists Don’t
Music historian Ted Gioia joins us to talk about how we value art.
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In a Crisis, Listen to Your Elders
Dr. Karl Pillemer, professor of gerontology in medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine, joins us to look at our current crisis through the eyes of people who can say from experience that “this, too, shall pass.”
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The Benefits of Not Fitting In
Olga Khazan, staff writer at The Atlantic, joins us to talk about how her outsider status growing up shaped her – and about what research says about the advantages of being different.
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Leadership Lessons From Women of Color
Cecilia Muñoz joins us to talk about how to gain confidence, leadership and the respect of the room when you’re in the minority.
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Is America Out Of Ideas?
Ross Douthat joins us to talk about what he reads in the nation’s tea leaves for the trajectory of future innovation.
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Who’s Still Listening To America?
Graham Allison joins us to talk about how this tricky balance of power is maintained – and about what happens when one superpower steps into another’s turf.
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To Work Better, Work Less
Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, a visiting scholar at Stanford and Oxford, joins us to talk about redesigning the workday.
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