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Care & Feeding | Your City Could Be Better For Parents
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Dear Prudence | I Need My Best Friend to Give Me Some Space. Help!
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Care & Feeding | Planners and Calendars and Lists (Oh My)
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ICYMI: Sad Beige Lawsuits and an Influencer’s “Royal Wedding”
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Care & Feeding | My Toddler’s Officially Overweight
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May 31, 2025 – 50:10 -
Dear Prudence | Are My Friends Becoming Doomsday Preppers? Help!
May 30, 2025 – 42:41 -
Care & Feeding | My Parents Spend Less On My Stepson
May 29, 2025 – 48:18 -
How To! | Repair Your Stuff
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Dear Prudence | Politics Is Ruining My Family. Help!
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ICYMI: Pope Leo XIV is the Taylor Swift of Catholicism
May 21, 2025 – 38:48 -
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Death, Sex & Money | Why Chef José Andrés Googled ‘How to Be a Father’
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Care & Feeding | Teen Hangouts? Under My Roof?
May 19, 2025 – 47:02 -
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May 16, 2025 – 56:15 -
Care & Feeding | Your Thoughts On Therapy, Coaching, and Grief
May 15, 2025 – 46:18 -
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Death, Sex & Money | Your IRL Dating Stories
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Care & Feeding | My Son Hates His Clothes
May 12, 2025 – 01:00:07 -
Dear Prudence | I Look Just Like My Boyfriend’s Dead Wife. Help!
May 9, 2025 – 52:24 -
Care & Feeding | Should We Have a Fourth Baby?
May 8, 2025 – 59:14 -
ICYMI: Kate Mackz Can’t Outrun Politics
May 7, 2025 – 30:57 -
How To! | Parent With a Disability
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Death, Sex & Money | Isabel Allende on Grief, Ayahuasca, and Dating After 70
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Care & Feeding | Why Won’t My Childless Friends Plan Stuff?
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Dear Prudence | My Best Friends Hate Each Other. Help!
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Care & Feeding | The Birthday Party Show
May 1, 2025 – 44:15 -
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Apr 30, 2025 – 34:13 -
Living at Odds | 4. A Quiet Fight for LGBTQ Rights
Apr 29, 2025 – 57:15 -
Death, Sex & Money | The Patient and Cunning Work of Defending LGBTQ Rights with a Republican Supermajority
Apr 29, 2025 – 56:14 -
Care & Feeding | Should I Let My Kid Waste His Money?
Apr 28, 2025 – 43:18 -
ICYMI: J.D. Vance, the Pope, and Internet Inside Jokes
Apr 26, 2025 – 27:56 -
Dear Prudence | We All Hate My Sister’s Husband. Help!
Apr 25, 2025 – 58:45 -
Care & Feeding | My Son’s Girlfriend’s Mom Is Toxic
Apr 24, 2025 – 54:28 -
ICYMI: The $50M Revolve Lawsuit and Sponcon Literacy
Apr 23, 2025 – 29:54 -
Living at Odds | 3. Making Amends for Ancestors
Apr 22, 2025 – 44:50 -
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Apr 22, 2025 – 54:32 -
Care & Feeding | Therapy Shopping Is Exhausting
Apr 21, 2025 – 43:00 -
Dear Prudence | My Wife’s Kids Sleep In Our Bed. I Hate It. Help!
Apr 18, 2025 – 55:20 -
Care & Feeding | My Kid’s a Pushover
Apr 17, 2025 – 47:05 -
Living at Odds | 2. An Education in Opposition
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Recent Reviews
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HaxonekFactually inaccurateI’m ok with taking political sides, but spending 45 minutes calling all republicans authoritarian seems to be a bit much for me.
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KTSavageIssac Chotiner pods Adam Davidson - don’t missAdam Davidson, New Yorker magazine. Read what he writes, listen when he speaks. Because you will learn. 5🌟
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molldy33PerplexingI have to ask if I Have to Ask is aware of the existence of a pool of potential guests who AREN’T successful white men. Dry as dust and just as appetizing - I tasted, considered, washed it down with a bit of good wine and left the rest on my plate, unfinished and bound for the podcast dustbin.
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jqnymusicExcellent!I love this .
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JackieIncognitoMyopicThis perspective, though often in depth, is thoroughly a white cis male perspective. If you’re looking for reasons we maintain the status quo, it’s a good show. If you’re looking for interesting insights that are inspired by PoC, women, non binary folks... not here. It feels like the white male intellectual discussion of our society. Very cerebral and contemplative, but never by those oppressed.
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rwilli11Start warming up a replacement hostChotiner is a cringe-inducing interviewer. He confuses intelligent dialogue with pointless querulousness in nearly every episode—see his recent boorish conversations with Laura Kipnis, David Frum, and Katie Roiphe. He thinks and talks with the clueless liberal arrogance that makes other-constituted liberals like me despair for the future of the left. Great guests, hopelessly immature host.
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CadubclNeeds less isaac chotinerYour mileage with this podcast will depend on how much you can stand Isaac Chotiner. Since he constantly interrupts his interviewees and is very opinionated (the hardheaded type), I’ve really liked some interviews and hated others. It’s something to have as a backup interview with a certain person if no recent or decent one is available, but very far from my favorite interview shows.
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Brutus1072ExcellentIsaac is a great interviewer.
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SingItBackExcellent.This podcast has quickly become a favorite of mine. I find Mr. Chotiner’s interview style very appealing- he’s personable while asking thoughtful, deep diving questions. I’ve gained a great deal of insight from listening to the variety of guests interviewed here and would recommend the podcast to anyone who enjoys a long form interview format.
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tidd42Enjoyable and educationalI look forward to the release of this podcast every week. I enjoy Isaac’s interview style. He has a clear direction but he’s willing to “dance” with the subject when necessary. And the caliber of guests has been impressive. Keep up the good work! It’s appreciated.
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Jqd81DisappointingListened to the Mark Lilla interview. Interviewer couldn’t corral his college dorm room debate style long enough to conduct a thoughtful interview. He was constantly challenging Lila’s thesis in ways the betrayed extreme unwillingness to see the Dem. problem at a higher level of discussion. His near laser-like focus on Trump’s attitude and capabilities (lack thereof), as well as the extremely negative adjectives used in nearly ever sentence with DT’s name was distracting and betrays a lack of dispassion unbecoming of a serious interviewer. I’m not a trump fan, but give me a break. hammering home the obvious doesn’t add value to any discussion of the larger issues. Doubt I will listen to another. “sad” ;-)
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WetdogsmomReally well doneKeep up the great work! I re-listened to the George Saunders episode today after learning that he was awarded the Man Booker Prize and loved it all over again. Thoughtful questions, interesting people and some great insight. Thanks! Just what I needed on my commute!
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AjaxeanToo Much Ego and Lack of Interviewing Skills from ChotinerI appreciate Chotiner being willing to push back against his guests' claims, but he comes off as too self-absorbed and petulant. Instead of seeking clarity, he wants to dominate the conversation. In his talk with Lilla, he makes a lot of excellent challenges which add nuance to the conversation but his manner is so un-self-aware that he starts sounding hysterical and like an ostrich with his head in the sand. He's so unwilling to listen to or fully understand Lilla's claims, that he seems exactly like the mentality that Lilla is criticizing: being closed off and not even being willing to think about the American experience across groups. It's pretty off-putting. I think he can improve, but right now Chotiner seems much more like a rabbling pundit than an intellectual, and it's infuriating listening to his inability to disagree without being disagreeable.
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itunes-jan-rateThis newish podcast is wonderfulHat's off to you. Wonderful new (ish) podcast. Great great interviewer.
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Michael F RobinsonLilla InterviewI disagree with Musicology man. I thought this was excellent, one of Chotiner's best. After hearing Lilla being interviewed by NPR and the New Yorker, I was predisposed to see his side of the argument: Democrats have caved into identity politics and, because of this, have lost their way. Yet Chotiner continued to press Lilla on the data for this -- where are the Dems caving in? Not Obama, not Schumer or Pelosi, all of whom use inclusive rhetoric. Meanwhile Chotiner made the point that, on the right, identity politics has become boilerplate rhetoric at the state and national level. While Lilla used anecdotes from college campuses to make his point about an out of touch liberal elite, Chotiner stuck to the data. There is better evidence that the shift has been an embrace of ethnic nationalism on the right rather than identity politics on the left. I was stunned when Lilla refused to acknowledge white racial anxiety as a primary component of the shift from Blue states to Red. Even 50 years ago Lyndon Johnson -- a master of legislatative assessment-- predicted the turning of the south after Civil Rights legislation. As a history prof myself, I think that Chotiner got the better of Lilla on this issue. He was incisive, insistant, and exceptionally polite. Well done. Michael Robinson, U Hartford.
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Dicki RenMaybeMaybe allow your guest to speak and give clear answers instead of interrupting with new questions. If I wanted to hear someone speak over someone else I'd watch a press conference with Trump.
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musicologymanAwful. Just awful.I just listened to Chotiner's interview with Mark Lilla. While Your Host closed the interview by thanking his guest for debating him, it wa hardly a debate. Rather, Chotiner consistently missed Lilla's larger argument as well as a number of subsidiary points his guest was attempting to make, especially regarding identity politics. If you want to hear how such a discussion can be fruitful, listen Yascha Mounk's interview with Frances Fukuyama on the podcast The Good Fight. Like Chotiner, Mounk's outlook was shapes in contexts in which concerns with identiry and identity politics were of paramount importance. Unlike Chotiner, however, Mounk is open to new ways of thinking about the.roles identity should play in our politics.
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ddd155Entertaining & InformativeI truly enjoy Chotiner's interviewing style. The conversations are insightful and entertaining. I thought the Ben Rhodes & Lydia Polgreen episodes were especially strong.
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DermncGreat interviewEnjoyed the Chait episode and his great insights on how populism manifests differently between the parties
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Collind1123Isaac understands how to elicit the best from his guestsHis conversation with Andrew Sullivan was just sublime.
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Corky1969Very smart podcastOff to a good start and I loved the interview with Chris Hayes
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MissesmissouriFantasticLearned the difference between oppression and exploitation in our times. Excellent episode with Chris Hayes!
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StanP55Superb!Great job Isaac -- and congrats to Julia and others at Slate for giving you a larger platform.
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lieber2kReally love isaac's interviewsI'm a huge fan of Isaac's Slate interviews and really looking forward to this podcast. He's funny and sharp and asks thoughtful and probing questions when most in the media are looking to either fawn or score points. Schumer interview was great and I look forward to the next episode.
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PenobscotBoy!First episode - two thumbs upHoping he will stick to the shorter format interview. That's for my selfish reasons of my time constraints.
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DShouse51st episode was great!Enjoyed the first episode. Looking forward to more!
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Beta612Great startGreat start with the interview of Chuck Schumer. Glad to have this podcast in my regular rotation.
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Bmay44Great new podcastFor anyone who has followed Chotiner's interviews, no surprises that this is a fantastic podcast.
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ggosyExcellentEnjoy today's podcast thank you and please keep up the good work!
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MarkAnythingGood first episode!Really impressed with the Schumer interview in the first episode. I like that it's shorter than the Marc Maron type interview shows (which I still like) and punchier than some of the friendly chat shows.
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