The Barriers to Reform
Paul Butler, a law professor at Georgetown, a former federal prosecutor and the author of the book “Chokehold: Policing Black Men,” on policing, George Floyd, and the Black Lives Matter…
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The Unfair Coach
Back when coaching didn’t do very much, it didn’t matter who got it and who didn’t. But coaching is clearly getting better and better, and spreading into more areas of…
RZA Talks Wu-Tang and Creativity In Quarantine
Rick Rubin checks in with RZA on Zoom and finds out he’s been peaking creatively while in quarantine. Their wide-ranging conversation covers RZA’s first experiences with hip-hop, ODB’s parkour-like skills…
How to Kick Bad Habits (and Start Good Ones)
We all have bad habits — things we eat, drink, do or say that cause us unhappiness. We repeat these behaviors over and over again — almost as if we…
Introducing Revisionist History Season 5
Andy Warhol. War. Smaug the Dragon. And, as always, digressions of great importance.
Unheard
In 1945, Ralph Ellison went to a barn in Vermont and began to write Invisible Man. He wrote it in the voice of a black man from the south, a…
Why Debt Isn’t Always a Bad Thing
Jason Furman, a professor of the Practice of Economic Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, explains why we don’t need to be too concerned about the mounting federal debt caused…
The Data Coach
We explore the quantitative, scientific, and data-driven new frontier of coaching.Major League baseball is undergoing a coaching revolution from old-school to new tech. We talk to players whose careers were…
A Top Obama Official on Police Brutality
Vanita Gupta, the former head of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, discusses the protests across the country, and the reforms she would make to how policing works…
The Science of Attention and Distraction
Your smartphone might be making you miserable and you might not even realize it. These machines are technological marvels, but our addiction to them is causing us to miss out…
How Accurate Are Antibody Tests?
Dr. Alex Marson, the Director of the Gladstone-UCSF Institute for Genomic Immunology, explains what antibodies tests can and cannot tell us.
The Invisible Lady
In 1804, an Invisible Lady arrived in New York City.She went on to become the most popular attraction in the country. But why? And who was she? In this episode,…