The Writer Behind the Medal of Honor
Malcolm chats with Meredith Rollins, the writer behind the series, to talk about what they both learned from the Medal of Honor recipients featured this season. They also share moments…
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How to Find Hope in a Cynical World
It’s hard to stay hopeful these days. Stanford professor Jamil Zaki has been studying the incredible depth of human kindness for decades, but even he gives in to cynicism when…
Against the Rules: Fans
Against the Rules is going to Vegas (by way of New Jersey!). Host Michael Lewis bets high and low to find out how Americans, and their state governments, got addicted…
Inventing a Vaccine for Bees
Dalial Freitak and Annette Kleiser are the co-founders of Dalan Animal Health, a company that has brought to market the first vaccine for insects. Their problem is this: How do…
Calculating Risks in a Creative Life, with Brian Koppelman
Maria sits down with the great Brian Koppelman (Rounders, Billions, The Bear) to learn about how he navigates risk in Hollywood and beyond. They discuss his methods of determining when…
Cynicism is Exhausting. There’s an Alternative.
Psychologist Jamil Zaki studies the science of human connection and he believes cynicism is holding us back. Cynicism isn’t just harmful for our health, he says, it’s also misguided. He…
John Chapman’s Dark Night
John Chapman is the first member of the Air Force to receive the Medal of Honor since Vietnam. John’s story takes us to a freezing, snowy mountain range in Afghanistan…
Madeleine Peyroux
Madeleine Peyroux is a jazz-inspired singer songwriter who got her start singing in street bands in Paris as a teenager. In 1996, Atlantic Records released Madeline’s debut album where she…
Filmmaker Lee Daniels (‘The Deliverance’) Finds His Light
This week, our guest is trailblazing filmmaker Lee Daniels. At the top, we discuss his fifteen-year journey to the new Netflix film The Deliverance (5:00), Daniels’ relationship to spirituality (9:16),…
Find Hope and Banish Cynicism… Coming Sept 9
It’s hard to stay hopeful sometimes. Things can look pretty bleak and divided, especially around election time. But if you’re losing hope in your fellow humans, stop and listen to…
Tim’s Tolkien Obsession & Amazon Prime’s The Rings of Power
Tim Harford’s life has been building up to this moment. In this Cautionary Conversation, he discusses the works of his favorite author J.R.R. Tolkien and the social science at play…
A Better Way to Make the Chemicals in Everything
Sean Hunt is the co-founder and CTO of Solugen, a company that sells around $100 million a year of industrial chemicals. Sean’s problem is this: How do you make the…
