Time Sensitive

Dec 17 2024 129 ep. 70 mins 316
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Candid, revealing long-form conversations with leading minds about their life and work through the lens of time. Host Spencer Bailey interviews each guest about how they think about time broadly and how specific moments in time have shaped who they are today. Explore more at timesensitive.fm

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Malcolm Gladwell on Finding Freedom in Abandoning Expectations

Dec 17 2024 72 mins  
Malcolm Gladwell, the author of the best-selling books “The Tipping Point,” “Blink,” and “Outliers” and the host of the Revisionist History podcast, talks about his latest title, “Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering”; the disappearance of what he calls “the critical enterprise in America”; and how A.I. is

Richard Christiansen on Bridging Horticulture and Popular Culture

Dec 10 2024 61 mins  
Richard Christiansen, founder of the garden-pleasure apothecary Flamingo Estate, talks about his lifelong connection with beekeeping and honeywhy more brands should embrace “radical inconsistency” in their products; and how reading a book by Jane Goodall, and later befriending the anthropologist and conservationist, changed the course of his life. He also shares his circuitous

Marcia Bjornerud on the Profound Wisdom of Rocks

Nov 19 2024 58 mins  
The geologist Marcia Bjornerud, author of the new book “Turning to Stone: Discovering the Subtle Wisdom of Rocks,” discusses the power of looking at the world through a Deep Time lens, why we’re currently in what she considers a “golden age” of geoscience, and what a “time literate” society would mean for humanity and the planet.

Nachson Mimran on Leveraging Privilege for Good and in Service of Others

Nov 12 2024 54 mins  
Nachson Mimran, the co-founder of The Alpina Gstaad hotel in the Swiss Alps as well as the co-founder of the decarbonization, refugee empowerment, and “human optimization” organization to.org, discusses his big-picture view of the word hospitality; how a family tragedy led him and his brother to create to.org; and his bold vision for building transformative spaces for culture,

Jonathan Lethem on Novel Writing as a Memory Art

Oct 29 2024 72 mins  
The novelist, essayist, and cultural critic Jonathan Lethem, author of the new book “Cellophane Bricks: A Life in Visual Culture” (ZE Books), discusses his passion for book dedications; the time he spent with James Brown and Bob Dylan, respectively, when profiling them for Rolling Stone in the mid-aughts; how his writing is, in part, a way of dealing with and healing from his m

Lindsey Adelman on the Transformative Nature of Light

Oct 22 2024 60 mins  
The lighting designer Lindsey Adelman discusses her recent decision to shift her company away from a large-scale production operation and toward a smaller, more intimate “studio” model; the great surprise of having one of her designs installed in Vice President Kamala Harris’s Washington, D.C., home; her love of hosting; and the various writers and artists who have helped sha

Paul Goldberger on Architecture as an Act of Optimism

Oct 08 2024 72 mins  
The Pulitzer Prize–winning architecture critic Paul Goldberger discusses the staying power of Philip Johnson’s Glass House as it turns 75, the evolution of architecture over the past century, what he’s learned from writing architects’ obituaries, and the Oreo cookie from a design perspective.

Francesco Clemente on Painting as Poetry and Performance

Sep 24 2024 59 mins  
The artist Francesco Clemente discusses collaborating with the chef Daniel Humm on the soon-to-open Clemente Bar at Eleven Madison Park, frescoes as the most luminous artistic medium, the lifelong influence of the artists Cy Twombly and Joseph Beuys on his work, his deep affinity with India, and the certain timeworn quality to his art.

Sarah Lewis on “Aesthetic Force” as a Path Toward Justice

Sep 17 2024 63 mins  
Historian and author Sarah Lewis, the founder of the Vision & Justice initiative and an associate professor of the humanities and African and African-American studies at Harvard, discusses the tension between pedagogy and propaganda; the deep influence of Frederick Douglass’s 1861 “Pictures and Progress” lecture on her work; how a near-death car crash altered the course of he

Rita Sodi on Food as a Reflection of Home

Sep 03 2024 58 mins  
Rita Sodi, the chef-owner of I Sodi and co-owner (with her life and work partner, Jody Williams) of Via Carota, The Commerce Inn, and Bar Pisellino, discusses learning to cook from her mother, her atypical journey from fashion to food, and some of the stringent rules she follows in the kitchen and in life.