Buffy Sainte-Marie
Buffy Sainte-Marie tells Rick Rubin there’s a reason she isn’t a household name in the U.S. A pioneering artist in the Greenwich Village folk scene, she could’ve been Bob Dylan,…
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Happiness Lessons of The Ancients: Plato
Plato likened us all to charioteers trying to control two wayward horses. The steeds represent the competing wants and desires that constantly pull us off course and away from a…
It’s Always Sunny in the Dialectic
Look on the bright side! In a country obsessed with positivity, Hari traces the path of exiled German intellectual Theodor Adorno to sunny California, where he gets stuck in traffic…
Why a Leading Election Scholar Can’t Sleep
Nathaniel Persily, a Stanford Law professor who specializes in election law, discusses his biggest concerns about the upcoming election.
BONUS: Storks, Smoking and the Power of Doubt
It’s easy to mock statistics or cast doubt on them, but we do so at our peril. Undermining our trust in facts and figures can cause great harm, and even…
COVID-19 Transmission is Solvable
Michael Mina is an epidemiologist and immunologist at the Harvard School of Public Health and a physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He believes the transmission of COVID-19 is a…
Don Was
Photo: Mathieu BittonRick Rubin talks to Don Was about his early days in Detroit, his time in Was Not Was and his wide ranging career producing defining albums for the…
Happiness Lessons of The Ancients: Aristotle
He gave us biology, physics and drama… but Greek philosopher Aristotle also thought deeply about how humans can flourish and live happy lives of virtue.Yale professor Tamar Gendler tells Dr…
The Guru of Ojai
In the 1920s, a messianic visitor to Hari’s family home unveils the connection between Indian Independence movement and the astral plane. Nearly a century later, Hari travels to the orange…
The Allure of QAnon
Adrian Hon, the CEO of the gaming company Six to Start, says the conspiracy theory QAnon is compelling to believers because it operates a bit like a virtual quest.Learn more…
Cancel Culture is Solvable
John McWhorter is a linguistics professor at Columbia University, contributing writer at The Atlantic and hosts the podcast Lexicon Valley. He believes that “cancel culture” is solvable.
Flying Lotus
Photo: Eric ColemanFlying Lotus is one of those producers who creates an entire aesthetic world with the music he makes. Over the past 13 years he’s released four solo albums,…
