The Crisis of Despair w/ P.E. Moskowitz

Is our food getting shittier, literally? Join Julia and Nick as they conduct an investigation into the complicated and deeply gross history of food safety. From murderous milk and The Jungle to RFK Jr. and diarrhea lettuce, they unpack the creation of our modern food system, Amer ...  Show more

In the aftermath of the Lindsay Clancy trial, Julia and Eliza lock in for an investigation of the postpartum period, exploring the seismic changes that happen to your brain and body after giving birth. The girlies trace the shocking history of postpartum care, the highly misunder ...  Show more

In “A Molecule Away From Madness,” the neurologist Sara Manning Peskin writes about the errant molecular activity that underlies many serious men ...

A. Natasha Joukovsky comes on the pod to discuss her debut novel The Portrait of a Mirror, Rene Girard, Wilde, the Novitate Conference, contemporary moralism, narcissism, life working a full time job while writing novels, and more.

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What if depression isn’t an illness to cure but a collective mood that reveals the soul of a broken world? In this episode, Mark Fisher meets James Hillman in a conversation that bridges depth psychology and cultural theory, asking how melancholy and mania shape life under lat ...

Nicky speaks to author and neuroscientist Anil Seth about consciousness, free will and how our memory works - are we remembering, remembering?WARNING: This episode includes a conversation about recreational hallucinogenic drugsProduced by Audio Always Producer: Ailsa Rochester Ed ...  Show more