Deep Sea Diver
There’s no playbook for successfully releasing music during a pandemic. Especially if you’re an indie artist, the stakes really couldn’t be higher. But Deep Sea Diver has managed to put…
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Sturgill Simpson
Kentucky singer/songwriter Sturgill Simpson was in his mid-30s when he found fame as a country artist in Nashville. He had already lived a full life including a stint in the…
Becoming a District Attorney
Tali Farhadian Weinstein, the host of the Pushkin podcast “Hearing” and a candidate to become the next District Attorney of Manhattan, discusses how she thinks local prosecution can be reformed…
Let Him Go Home (w/ Tikia Mosley)
Inspired by a conversation about sentencing reform with Pulitzer Prize-winner James Forman, Jr., Tali talks to Tikia Mosley, whose father served 25 years in prison for committing three small robberies.This…
Culturally Competent and Financially Sustainable Healthcare
Dr. Lutfi Lokman co-founded Hospitals Beyond Boundaries to provide culturally competent and financially sustainable healthcare. His clinic follows a model pioneered by Muhammad Yunus (founder of the Grameen Bank) which…
Lenny Kravitz
Photo: Stephen Elvis SmithIn the opening lines of his New York Times bestselling memoir “Let Love Rule” Lenny Kravitz writes that he is deeply two-sided.His young life was all about…
Episode 6: Reshaping Nature Through Gene Drives
A new technology, called gene drives, has the power to spread any genetic instructions you wish across an entire animal or plant species in the wild. It might let us…
S.G. Goodman
Photo: Michael WilsonS.G. Goodman turns traditional Southern storytelling on its head with songs that present a deeper, more complex look at life below the Mason-Dixon line. As a queer person…
A Collective Redemption (w/ Rabbi Angela Buchdahl)
Rabbi Angela Buchdahl, the Senior Rabbi of Manhattan’s Central Synagogue, joins Tali for a conversation about the points of intersection around faith, personal identity, and the fight for racial justice…
The Election and the Courts
Richard Pildes, a professor at New York University School of Law who specializes in legal issues affecting democracy, discusses the role that the courts could play in this election.Note: This…
Maya Hawke
Maya Hawke has managed to escape the long shadow of her very famous parents, Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke. She’s made a name for herself, first as an actor in…
Episode 5: What Algorithms Say About You
Artificial intelligence is letting us make predictive algorithms that translate languages and spot diseases as well or better than humans. But these systems are also being used to make decisions…