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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Anne is a journalist and historian. She’s currently a staff writer at The Atlantic and a senior fellow at Johns Hopkins University’s Agora Institute. She’s written many books, including Red Famine, Gulag: A History, and Twilight of Democracy, and her new one i…
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Stephen Fry On Depression And Loving Life
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com The best political reporter in Britain returns to the Dishcast to discuss the election on July 4. Tim has been a chief political commentator at The Sunday Times since 2014, after serving eight years as political editor. His first two books, All Out War and Fal…
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Elizabeth Corey is an academic and writer. She’s an associate professor of political science in the Honors Program at Baylor University and the author of the 2006 book, Michael Oakeshott on Religion, Aesthetics, and Politics. She also writes for First Things a…
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com George writes a twice-weekly column on politics and foreign affairs for the Washington Post, a column he launched in 1974. He is also a regular contributor to MSNBC and NBC News. The author of 14 books, his latest is American Happiness and Discontents, but the…
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Bill needs no introduction, but he’s been the formidable host of HBO’s Real Time for 21 years now, and before that he hosted Politically Incorrect, which ran from 1993 to 2002. He has a new book out, What This Comedian Said Will Shock You — a collection of his…
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com My old and dear friend Johann just released his latest book, Magic Pill: The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight-Loss Drugs. That follows Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs (2015), Lost Connections: Uncove…
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Kara is a journalist who has covered the business of the Internet since 1994. She was the cofounder and editor-at-large of Recode, and she's worked for the NYT, the WaPo, and the WSJ. She’s now the host of the podcast “On with Kara Swisher” and the co-host of …
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Daniel Finkelstein On Hitler, Stalin, And His Mum And Dad
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Abigail is an independent journalist and author. Her first book, Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters, was a bestseller, and her new book is a bestseller even the NYT has had to recognize eventually. It’s called Bad Therapy: Why Th…
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Christian is a poet and author, and, in my view, one of the most piercing writers on faith in our time. He served as the editor of Poetry magazine from 2003 to 2013, and his work has appeared in The Atlantic, Harper’s Bazaar, The New Yorker, the NYT Book Revie…
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Jeff is the president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, where he hosts “We the People,” a weekly podcast of constitutional debate. He is also a professor of law at the George Washington University Law School, and a contributing editor at The Atlanti…
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Isikoff & Klaidman On Trump's Trial In Georgia
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Michael Isikoff is the chief investigative correspondent for Yahoo News, where he is also editor-at-large for reporting and investigations. Daniel Klaidman is the editor-in-chief for Yahoo News. The veteran reporters have new a book called Find Me the Votes: A…
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Justin Brierley On The Rebirth Of Belief In God
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Jonathan Freedland On Anti-Semitism And The Left
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Alexandra Hudson On The Struggle For Civility
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Alexandra is a journalist and public speaker. She’s the founder of Civic Renaissance, a newsletter and intellectual community dedicated to moral and cultural renewal. She’s also an adjunct professor at the Indiana University Lilly School of Philanthropy. Her f…
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Carole Hooven On Harvard's Existential Crisis
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Carole is back to discuss her travails at Harvard, teaching in the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology. She originally appeared two years ago to discuss her superb book T: The Story of Testosterone, the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us. She’s now a s…
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David Leonhardt On The Dwindling American Dream
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Cat is a researcher who focuses on the evolution of narrative and cognition. Her essays and poems have appeared in Scientific American, Mind, Science Magazine, and other publications. Her fascinating new book is Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years…
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Matthew Crawford On Antihumanism And Social Control
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com (The main Dish and VFYW contest are taking a break for the holiday; we’ll be back with full coverage on December 1st. Happy Thanksgiving!) Matthew is a writer and philosopher. He’s currently a senior fellow at UVA’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture an…
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com John Judis is an editor-at-large at Talking Points Memo, a former senior editor at The New Republic, and an old friend. Ruy Teixeira is a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a contributing columnist at the WaPo, and politics editor …
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Graeme is a foreign correspondent, and one of the most brilliant men I’ve ever met. He’s been a staff writer at The Atlantic since 2006 and a lecturer in political science at Yale since 2014. He’s also been a contributing editor to The New Republic and books e…
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David Brooks On Transcending Hate And Loneliness
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Martha is a philosopher and legal thinker. She has taught at Harvard, Brown, Oxford and is currently the Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago, appointed in the Philosophy Department and the Law School. Her…
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Leor Sapir On Transing Gender-Dysphoric Kids
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Vivek Ramaswamy On What Makes America Great
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Sohrab Ahmari On The "Tyrannical" Free Market
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Michael Moynihan On Orwell And Conspiracies
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Josh is an old friend, and a business and political journalist. He has worked for Business Insider, the NYT, and New York magazine. He currently runs his own substack called Very Serious, and he cohosts a legal podcast called Serious Trouble, also on Substack.…
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Lee is an investigative journalist. He was a long-time reporter at The Intercept, and in late 2022 he was one of the recipients of the Twitter Files. He left the MSM this year to launch his own substack at leefang.com. You can listen right away in the audio pl…
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Matt Lewis On Moneyed Elites And Corruption
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This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Jean Twenge is a writer and researcher who focuses on generational differences. She’s a psychology professor at San Diego State University and the author of seven books, most notably iGen. Her new one is Generations: The Real Differences Between Gen Z, Millenn…
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