Lean Out with Tara Henley

Dec 11 2024 165 ep. 33 mins 158

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Conversations with heterodox authors and journalists from around the world, asking the questions that are not being asked.

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Nicholas Eberstadt on Men Without Work

Dec 11 2024 35 mins

This week at Lean Out, we continue our podcast series on the challenges facing modern men, from declining educational achievement to rising suicides and overdoses. We’re happy to bring you an encore presentation of an interview from 2022, with a political economist who says prime, working age men in America are facing Great Depression-era levels of joblessness. The collapse of wo

Daniel Cox on the Growing Gender Gap

Dec 04 2024 29 mins

Today at Lean Out, we continue our series on the challenges facing modern men. My guest on the program has done pioneering work on the increasing gender gap in American society and politics. He’s thought a lot about the dangers of men and women growing apart — and about how we might come together.Daniel Cox is director of the Survey Center on American Life. He is also a senior

Zaid Jilani on Why It's Not Always Easy Being a Man

Nov 27 2024 30 mins

The American election highlighted ongoing tensions between men and women — but election commentary often failed to acknowledge the crises that modern men are facing, from declining educational achievement and employment to increased suicides, overdoses, and loneliness. Today at Lean Out, we kick off a series exploring these issues, with a guest who’s recently published a powerf

Ruy Teixeira: The Progressive Moment is Over

Nov 22 2024 47 mins

With Donald Trump winning the presidency, the popular vote, the Senate, and the House, in what The New York Times has described as a “crushing electoral rebuke” of the Democrats, there is a lot of soul-searching going on in the party. My guest on the program today tried to warn the Democrats in his previous book. He says the progressive moment in American politics is now over �

Andy Mills on What the Media Missed

Nov 20 2024 77 mins

In 2016, the election of Donald Trump took the mainstream media by surprise, with many in the press struggling to understand his rise to power and the factors driving it. Now, in the wake of Donald Trump’s decisive win, here we are again. My guest on today’s program suspected we might be missing the story, and just days before the election, published a brilliant podcast episode

Larissa Phillips on Loving Your Neighbour

Nov 13 2024 30 mins

Since last week’s election win for Donald Trump, we are seeing a renewed sense of scorn for Republican voters in parts of the mainstream media. The Guardian’s Rebecca Solnit, for example, writes in her column that “our mistake was to think we lived in a better country than we do.” My guest on today’s program doesn’t see it that way. She’s a lefty Democrat who moved fr

The Big Fix in the Canadian Economy

Nov 06 2024 36 mins

If you’re living in Canada and you have a cell phone plan, or a bank account, or have taken a flight recently, or struggle to afford groceries, you already know how expensive and dysfunctional the country has gotten for consumers. My guests on the podcast today have written a book about the rise of corporate monopolies (and duopolies and oligopolies) — and, as they write, this

Gary Taubes on Why We Get Fat

Oct 30 2024 39 mins

What makes us fat? It’s a contentious debate in the world of health science. Is obesity caused by energy imbalance — consuming too many calories — as has long been conventional thought? Or is obesity caused by the effects of carbohydrates on insulin? My guest on today’s program attended an invite-only global gathering of obesity experts. The resulting paper in Nature Metabo

Harrison Scott Key on How to Stay Married

Oct 23 2024 42 mins

This past summer was the summer of the divorce memoir. Books glamorizing marital breakdown were everywhere, depicting the act of walking away from a marriage as radical self-empowerment. But I could not find a single memoir about the opposite perspective: staying and working things out and rediscovering love. My guest on today’s program has written the book I’ve been wanting to

Rachel Cohen: Why I Changed My Mind About Volunteering

Oct 16 2024 23 mins

There has been a story on the progressive left for some time now that individual actions are largely futile. That for society to change, we must instead focus on systems. My guest on the program today belongs to a generation that was raised on this message. But now she’s written a powerful piece about the costs that come with such a worldview — and how volunteering in her commu