This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Deneen is a writer and academic. Based at the University of Notre Dame, he is Professor of Political Science and holds the David Potenziani Memorial College Chair of Constitutional Studies. His books include The Odyssey of Political Theory and Why Liberalism Failed , and his new one is Regime Change: Toward a Postliberal Future . For two clips of our convo — on his book using Marxist analysis in defense of ...
Jun 09, 2023•45 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Ben is the editor-in-chief and co-founder of Semafor, a global news company. He was an old-school blogger at Politico and others, the first editor-in-chief of BuzzFeed News, and the media columnist for the NYT. His new book is Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral . I wrote what he called a “savage and delightful” review of his book , but we remain friends and went at...
Jun 02, 2023•46 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Where are we in the war between the West and Russia in Ukraine? We asked Sam back to help us figure it out. He’s a tutor in the Department of Political Science at Oxford and a member of the Royal United Services Institute in London. He’s an expert on Russia’s wars in Chechnya and Syria, and he’s been to Russia and Ukraine many times in the course of getting his International Relations DPhil. His forthcoming...
May 26, 2023•47 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com John is an animal advocate and social media professional ( @JohnOberg ). He has served as the director of new media for The Humane League and the director of communications for Vegan Outreach, but now he’s an independent advocate funded by individual donations . He’s also a powerlifter — not something you usually associate with vegans. In this episode he tries to convince me to give up meat. You can listen ...
May 19, 2023•45 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Chris is a political analyst and author. He worked at Fox News for more than a decade until they fired him in the wake of the 2020 election, when he was part of the election team that accurately called Arizona for Biden. He’s now the politics editor for NewsNation and a contributing editor for The Dispatch. His new book is Broken News: Why the Media Rage Machine Divides America and How to Fight Back . He’s ...
May 12, 2023•43 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Nigel Biggar is an Anglican priest, academic and writer. Formerly the Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology at Oxford, he now directs the McDonald Centre for Theology, Ethics & Public Life and chairs the board of the UK’s Free Speech Union. The author of many books on ethics, his controversial new one is Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning . For two clips of our convo — debating what makes an empire wo...
May 05, 2023•38 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Mark is a journalist, political scientist, historian of ideas, and a longtime friend since my twenties, when we studied political thought together. He has taught at NYU and the University of Chicago, and he’s currently a professor of humanities at Columbia. His many fine books include The Once and Future Liberal , The Reckless Mind , and The Shipwrecked Mind , and his forthcoming book is Ignorance and Bliss...
Apr 28, 2023•52 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Susan is a philosopher and writer focusing on the Enlightenment, moral philosophy, metaphysics and politics. She was professor of philosophy at Yale and Tel Aviv University, and in 2000 assumed her current position as director of the Einstein Forum in Potsdam. She’s the author of nine books, including Evil in Modern Thought , Moral Clarity and Learning from the Germans . Her new book is Left Is Not Woke . W...
Apr 21, 2023•43 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Bob is a foreign affairs and travel journalist, and a scholar of the classics. For three decades he reported for The Atlantic and wrote for many other places, including the editorial pages of the NYT and WaPo — and TNR back in my day. He holds the Robert Strausz-Hupé Chair in Geopolitics at the Foreign Policy Research Institute and is a senior adviser at Eurasia Group. He’s the author of 21 books, including...
Apr 14, 2023•49 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Michael, an old friend and acquaintance, is a writer and academic. He’s taught at Harvard, Johns Hopkins and UT-Austin. He’s been an editor or staff writer for The New Yorker, Harper’s and The New Republic, where I published him often, and he now writes frequently for the NYT and Financial Times. Michael also co-founded the think tank New America. The author of many books, his most recent is The New Class W...
Apr 07, 2023•39 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Jon is the chief national correspondent for Yahoo News and the host of “The Long Game” podcast. His first book was Camelot’s End: Kennedy v Carter and the Fight that Broke the Democratic Party , and his new book is Testimony: Inside the Evangelical Movement that Failed a Generation . You can also follow Jon’s writing on his substack, Border-Stalkers , and on his website, jonwardwrites.org . For two clips of...
Mar 31, 2023•55 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Hannah is an award-winning journalist with 15 years at the BBC. She is currently the Investigations Producer at Newsnight — the BBC’s flagship program for news and current affairs — and before that she was in BBC Radio, producing and reporting documentaries. She just published her first book, Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock’s Gender Service for Children . Twenty-two publishe...
Mar 24, 2023•45 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com James is a Roman Catholic priest, theologian and writer. His life’s work has been the application of the thought of René Girard — the French theoretician of desire and violence — to the understanding of basic Christianity. He has also stood up for truthfulness about gays and lesbians in the life of the Church; and has been a good friend for many years. Among his many books are The Joy of Being Wrong , Faith...
Mar 17, 2023•53 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Cathy is a libertarian journalist and author. She’s currently a staff writer at The Bulwark, a columnist for Newsday, and a frequent contributor to Reason magazine. She has written two books: Ceasefire!: Why Women and Men Must Join Forces to Achieve True Equality , and Growing Up In Moscow: Memories of a Soviet Girlhood . We talk about how her life under totalitarianism informed her views on the war in Ukra...
Mar 10, 2023•56 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com John Gray is a political philosopher. He retired from academia in 2007 as Professor of European Thought at the London School of Economics, and is now a regular contributor and lead reviewer at the New Statesman. His forthcoming book is The New Leviathans: Thoughts After Liberalism . I regard him as one of the great minds of our time, and this is one of my favorite pods ever. For two clips of our convo — how...
Mar 03, 2023•1 hr 4 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Aurelian is a political scientist and professor at Indiana University in Bloomington. His two most recent books are A Virtue for Courageous Minds: Moderation in French Political Thought and Faces of Moderation: The Art of Balance in an Age of Extremes . His forthcoming book is Why Not Moderation?: Letters to Young Radicals . If you think you know what moderation is, Aurelian will surprise you. Not mushy; no...
Feb 24, 2023•52 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Jill is a journalist and lawyer. She has been a columnist for The Guardian, a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times, and an old-school blogger at Feministe. She’s the author of OK Boomer, Let’s Talk: How My Generation Got Left Behind and The H-Spot: The Feminist Pursuit of Happiness . Currently a columnist for CNN, Jill also runs her own substack and writing retreats around the world. For two c...
Feb 17, 2023•55 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Nicholas Wade is a journalist with a long, distinguished career at the New York Times, the magazine Nature, and the journal Science. He’s the author of many books, including A Troublesome Inheritance , The Faith Instinct , and Before the Dawn . Last year he became one of the few mainstream journalists to seriously consider the lab leak theory, so in this episode we focus on his querulous and disturbing trac...
Feb 10, 2023•53 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com After working as a hairstylist for over a decade, Ben got a creative writing degree from Columbia University and started contributing to publications such as Newsweek and The Washington Examiner. Raised in a Christian cult, he’s close to publishing a memoir, Cis White Gay , about his liberation from what he calls the Church of Social Justice. You can also read Ben on his substack . I find his story a fascin...
Feb 03, 2023•1 hr 3 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Rod is an old-school blogger and author living in Budapest. He’s a senior editor at The American Conservative and has written several bestsellers, including The Benedict Option and Live Not by Lies . He’s currently writing a book about bringing the enchantment back to Christianity in a time of growing secularism. He was enchanted himself after taking LSD in college, putting him on the path to Christianity —...
Jan 27, 2023•46 min
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com The man himself. Taibbi is an investigative reporter in the Gonzo tradition who had a long career at Rolling Stone magazine, where he won the 2008 National Magazine Award for Columns and Commentary. He’s written several bestselling books, including Griftopia and The Great Derangement , and now runs a wildly successful substack, TK News. Almost every less-talented hack hates him. For two clips of our convo —...
Jan 20, 2023•51 min
Glenn is an academic and writer. At the age of 33, he became the first African-American professor of economics at Harvard to get tenure, and he’s currently the Merton P. Stoltz Professor of Economics at Brown University, as well as a Paulson Fellow at the Manhattan Institute. His longtime podcast, The Glenn Show, is now on Substack , where he regularly appears with John McWhorter. He’s currently writing a memoir of his incredibly colorful life, The Enemy Within , which we talk about at length. Y...
Jan 13, 2023•1 hr 25 min
Back for a second pod appearance, Nick is a reporter at the Washington Post covering immigration and DHS, and before that he was a foreign correspondent based in Mexico City and Havana. This time we discuss not just the unending border crisis but the spiraling fentanyl emergency, which Nick and his colleagues just covered in a must-read seven-part investigation . I know few people as honest and transparent as Nick on what’s actually happening at the border. For two clips of our convo — on how th...
Jan 06, 2023•1 hr 24 min
Carl Trueman is a Christian theologian and ecclesiastical historian. He’s currently a professor of biblical and religious studies at Grove City College, as well as an ordained minister in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church. He’s the author of many books, but in this episode, we discuss The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self (a condensed version of which just came out: Strange New World: How Thinkers and Activists Redefined Identity and Sparked the Sexual Revolution ). It’s been a hit on the paleo...
Dec 16, 2022•1 hr 21 min
Alyssa writes about mass culture, parenting and gender for the Washington Post’s “Opinions” section. Previously she was the culture editor at ThinkProgress, the TV columnist at Women and Hollywood, a columnist for the XX Factor at Slate, and a correspondent for The Atlantic. Check out her crowd-sourced collection of 99 children’s books, which we discuss on the pod. For two clips of our convo — on whether social justice should be a centerpiece of children’s books, and how to get kids hooked on bo...
Dec 09, 2022•1 hr 19 min
Kyle Harper is an historian who focuses on how humanity has shaped nature, and vice versa. He’s a Professor of Classics and Letters at the University of Oklahoma and the author of several books, including The Fate of Rome : Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire , and his latest, Plagues Upon the Earth : Disease and the Course of Human History . His mastery of the science is only matched by the ease of his prose. If I were to nominate a book of the year, it would be this one (alongside Jamie...
Dec 02, 2022•1 hr 31 min
Robert is a writer-at-large for the New York Times Magazine and a contributing writer for National Geographic. He is the author of several books, including Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush , and his new one is Weapons of Mass Delusion: When the Republican Party Lost Its Mind . He’s a friend and a prodigiously productive reporter who truly seems intent in finding out the truth — rather than spinning some ideological tale. And he was there on January 6. For two clips of our convo — o...
Nov 18, 2022•1 hr 26 min
Damon is a political writer who recently launched his own Substack, “ Eyes on the Right .” He’s been the editor of First Things and a senior correspondent at The Week, and he’s the author of The Theocons and The Religious Test . Back when we were both at Newsweek / Daily Beast, he edited my essays, so we’ve been friends for a while. We also both belong to the camp of conflicted moderates. For two clips of our convo — on the impossibility of predicting politics, and on the question of whether DeS...
Nov 11, 2022•1 hr 37 min
Fareed is the host of the CNN show “Fareed Zakaria GPS,” which has been on the air since 2008. He’s also a columnist for the Washington Post and the author of several bestsellers, including In Defense of a Liberal Education , The Post-American World , and his latest, Ten Lessons For a Post-Pandemic World . He’s also been a friend since 1983. For two clips of our convo — on the silver linings of British colonialism, and how the war in Ukraine could end — pop over to our YouTube page . Other topic...
Nov 04, 2022•1 hr 28 min
Kathryn is a staff writer at The New Yorker, where she won a National Magazine Award and a Pulitzer Prize for “ The Really Big One ,” about a future earthquake that will wreak havoc on the Pacific Northwest. She’s also the author of Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error , and in this episode we discuss Lost & Found , a memoir about falling madly in love while her father lay dying. For two clips of our convo — on how modern society avoids suffering, and how weddings can be a metaphor for...
Oct 28, 2022•1 hr 19 min
