Jordan Harper is among the best working writers of our time.  Last year, Harper joined the podcast ahead of the release of the film adaptation of his novel She Rides Shotgun. This week he returned…Read more

Grant Wahl’s untimely passing in 2022 left a gaping hole in the global soccer community, and particularly in US journalism when it comes to speaking truth about FIFA. Grant was a champion for human rights…Read more

This week, for the first time, I’m sitting down for an episode with a current student. I’ll call her “T” since, as we all know, people on the internet can be strange. T is a…Read more

This is our third special episode discussing the US war on Iran and the wider regional complications.  Here are the headlines from the episode: We are safe and well We have secured a "good for…Read more

This is our second special episode discussing the US war on Iran and the wider regional complications.  On Friday, we departed Abu Dhabi for Thailand. We'll be living out of our backpacks until it is…Read more

In preparation for the upcoming Academy Awards on March 16, this is our annual Oscars conversation. We ranked the ten Best Picture nominees and some films we wish would have been nominated. Chase is a…Read more

This is a special episode, a conversation with Hope, about the situation here in Abu Dhabi and the broader Middle East thanks to the US war on Iran. Here are the headlines from the discussion:…Read more

Tom Rademacher is a prior Minnesota State teacher of the Year, author, and parent to a really rad kid. Recently his family made the decision for the safety of their family to move to Spain. …Read more

I had the chance to sit down with Douglas Sackman, a history professor at the University of Puget Sound, for a conversation that feels especially timely. Professor Sackman joined me to talk about the Gilded…Read more