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Slow Burn Live from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Leon Nayfakh and Andrew Parsons, the men behind Slate’s Slow Burn podcast, sit down with Isaac Chotiner to explain why they decided to take a deep dive into the Clinton scandals, the mechanics of c...
ListenZeynep Tufekci from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Zeynep Tufekci is an author and an expert on social media and fake news. She sits down with Isaac Chotiner to discuss why the business model of the different social media giants is so dangerous, wh...
ListenLynsey Addario from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Lynsey Addario is a Pulitzer-Prize winning photographer whose work is collected in the new book Of Love And War. She sits down with Isaac Chotiner to discuss life in Afghanistan before 9/11, her ab...
ListenCoral Davenport from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Coral Davenport covers energy and the environment for The New York Times. She sits down with Isaac Chotiner to discuss how we should read the U.N.’s terrifying new report on global warming, what ot...
ListenNate Silver from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Nate Silver is the editor-in-chief of FiveThirtyEight.com. He sits down with Isaac Chotiner to discuss what effect the Kavanaugh controversy has had on the 2018 elections, the odds that Trump gets ...
ListenJason Zengerle from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Jason Zengerle is a political correspondent for GQ Magazine and a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine, where last month he published a piece entitled “How the Trump Administration i...
ListenJonathan Haidt from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Jonathan Haidt is a social psychologist whose new book is The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure. He sits down with Isaac Choti...
ListenShane Bauer from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Shane Bauer is a senior reporter for Mother Jones whose new book is American Prison: A Reporter’s Undercover Journey Into the Business of Punishment. He sits down with Isaac Chotiner to discuss hi...
ListenRe-Air: Maggie Haberman from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
This Interview originally aired on May 1th, 2018. Maggie Haberman is a White House correspondent for The New York Times and an analyst at CNN. She sits down with Isaac Chotiner to discuss why Trump...
ListenAnand Giridharadas from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Anand Giridharadas is the author of the new book Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World. He sits down with Isaac Chotiner to discuss how the titans of Wall Street and Silicon Val...
ListenMichelle Goldberg from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Michelle Goldberg is an op-ed columnist at the New York Times. She sits down with Isaac Chotiner to discuss whether liberals are too optimistic about the possibility of Trump being removed from off...
ListenDavid Kirkpatrick from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
David D. Kirkpatrick is an international correspondent for the New York Times and the author of the new book Into the Hands of the Soldiers. He sits down with Isaac Chotiner to discuss how Egypt’s ...
ListenMartha Nussbaum from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Martha Nussbaum is a moral philosopher and the author of The Monarchy of Fear. She sits down with Isaac Chotiner to discuss how anger took over American politics, whether we underestimate the value...
ListenOttessa Moshfegh from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Ottessa Moshfegh is a writer whose new novel is ‘My Year of Rest and Relaxation.’ She sits down with Isaac Chotiner to discuss why she doesn’t like New York City, why writing about the female body ...
ListenAnnie Lowrey from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Annie Lowrey is the author of ‘Give People Money’ and a contributing editor at The Atlantic. She sits down with Isaac Chotiner to discuss how a universal basic income could help American workers, w...
ListenChris Hayes from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Isaac is joined by Emmy Award–winning news anchor Chris Hayes, host of All In with Chris Hayes on MSNBC and author of the new book A Colony in a Nation, which argues that there are really two diffe...
ListenPorochista Khakpour from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Porochista Khakpour is a novelist and the author of Sick: A Memoir. She talks with Isaac Chotiner about how she was diagnosed with Lyme disease, why people who suffer from Lyme are often ignored or...
ListenQuinta Jurecic from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Quinta Jurecic is the managing editor of the website Lawfare. She sits down with Isaac Chotiner to discuss what Anthony Kennedy’s retirement means for abortion rights, what John Roberts’s travel ba...
ListenJames Wood from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
James Wood is The New Yorker’s chief literary critic, and the author of the new novel Upstate. He sits down with Isaac Chotiner to discuss the complicated legacies of Philip Roth and Tom Wolfe, whe...
ListenAnthony Bourdain: A Previously Unaired Conversation from 2017 from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Anthony Bourdain—the late chef and author—talks about his mistakes, the #MeToo movement, and Harvey Weinstein. Email: ask@slate.comTwitter: @IHaveToAskPod Podcast production by Max Jacobs. Learn m...
ListenJudd Apatow (Re-Air) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Judd Apatow is a comedian, writer, director, and producer. He sits down with Isaac Chotiner to discuss his new documentary on the life of Garry Shandling, which comedians are actually “normal” peop...
ListenHarry Enten from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Harry Enten is a polling expert and a political writer at CNN. He sits down with Isaac Chotiner to discuss California’s crucial importance to the 2018 election, where Trump is and isn’t politically...
ListenRe-Air: Ta-Nehisi Coates from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Ta-Nehisi Coates is the author of Between the World and Me, and now, We Were Eight Years In Power: An American Tragedy. He sits down with Isaac Chotiner to discuss the costs of writing off your fel...
ListenCecilia Muñoz from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Cecilia Muñoz was the director of the White House Policy Council Under Barack Obama, and an expert on immigration policy. She sits down with Isaac Chotiner to talk about the mechanics of the Trump ...
ListenMaggie Haberman from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Maggie Haberman is White House Correspondent for The New York Times and an analyst for CNN. She sits down with Isaac Chotiner to discuss the anxiety and stress that come with reporting nonstop news...
ListenMichelle Dean from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Michelle Dean is the author of Sharp: The Women Who Made an Art of Having an Opinion. She sits down with Isaac Chotiner to discuss how a group of 20th century intellectuals—including Susan Sontag, ...
ListenAmy Chozick from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Amy Chozick is the author of Chasing Hillary, a memoir about her experience covering the Clinton campaign for the New York Times. She sits down with Isaac Chotiner to discuss how the press and the ...
ListenAdam Davidson from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Adam Davidson is a staff writer at The New Yorker who has been examining the president’s tangled business dealings. He sits down with Isaac Chotiner to discuss why people misunderstand Trump’s busi...
ListenBarbara Ehrenreich from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Barbara Ehrenreich is the author of Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer. She sits down with Isaac Chotiner to discuss why Americans...
ListenParul Sehgal from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Parul Sehgal is a book critic at the New York Times. She sits down with Isaac Chotiner to discuss the daily life of a book reviewer, looking hard at the novels of very bad men, and the current stat...
ListenRoss Douthat from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Ross Douthat is an op-ed columnist at the New York Times, and the author of the new book To Change the Church: Pope Francis and the Future of Catholicism. He sits down with Isaac Chotiner to discus...
ListenJudd Apatow from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Judd Apatow is a comedian, writer, director, and producer. He sits down with Isaac Chotiner to discuss his new documentary on the life of Garry Shandling, which comedians are actually “normal” peop...
ListenDavid Corn and Michael Isikoff from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
David Corn and Michael Isikoff are the authors of Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin’s War on America and the Election of Donald Trump. In a wide-ranging conversation with Isaac Chotiner,...
ListenJosh Barro from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Josh Barro is a senior editor at Business Insider, as well as contributor to MSNBC, and the host of KCRW’s Left, Right, and Center podcast. In a wide-ranging conversation with Isaac Chotiner, they...
ListenBenjamin Wittes from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Benjamin Wittes is a writer and national security expert, and the editor-in-chief of Lawfare. In a wide-ranging conversation with Isaac Chotiner, he discusses how to read the tea leaves of the Muel...
ListenChuck Klosterman from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Chuck Klosterman is a writer and essayist. In a wide-ranging conversation with Isaac Chotiner, he discusses the costs of politicizing pop culture, the roots of Trump’s shamelessness, and why music ...
ListenSteven Pinker from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Steven Pinker is the author of the new book Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress. He sits down with Isaac Chotiner to discuss why he thinks life is improving desp...
ListenKatie Roiphe from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Katie Roiphe is a writer and essayist. She sits down with Isaac Chotiner to discuss her controversial Harper’s essay on #MeToo, why she thinks the movement has gone too far, and whether people who ...
ListenWesley Morris from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Wesley Morris is a critic-at-large at The New York Times. He sits down with Isaac Chotiner to discuss how social media is changing criticism, his complicated feelings about artists who behave depl...
ListenJia Tolentino from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Jia Tolentino is a staff writer at The New Yorker. She sits down with Isaac Chotiner to discuss the backlash to the #MeToo movement, generational differences between feminists, and the importance ...
ListenDavid Frum from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
David Frum is a senior editor at The Atlantic, and the author of the new book Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic. He sits down with Isaac Chotiner to discuss the state of democrac...
ListenMargaret Sullivan from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Margaret Sullivan is the Washington Post’s media critic. She sits down with Isaac Chotiner to discuss the problems with Michael Wolff’s new book on the Trump administration, the state of the Post a...
ListenMark Lilla (Re-air) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Mark Lilla is the author of The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity Politics. He sits down with Isaac Chotiner to debate why Democrats keep losing elections, whether America really used to be m...
ListenBill Kristol from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Bill Kristol is the editor-at- large of The Weekly Standard. He sits down with Isaac Chotiner to discuss how and why Republicans have rationalized Donald Trump, how he has re-examined his own past ...
ListenStephen Kotkin from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Stephen Kotkin is a historian and the author of Stalin: Waiting For Hitler, 1929-1941. He sits down with Isaac Chotiner to discuss Stalin’s differences from the autocrats of today, what Stalin and ...
ListenLawrence O'Donnell from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Lawrence O’Donnell is the host of ‘The Last Word’ on MSNBC, and the author of a new book, Playing With Fire: The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics. He sits down with Isaac C...
ListenLaura Kipnis from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Laura Kipnis is an author, essayist, and professor at Northwestern University who writes frequently about sexuality and feminism. She sits down with Isaac Chotiner to discuss the importance of trai...
ListenJelani Cobb from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Jelani Cobb is a staff writer at The New Yorker. He sits down with Isaac Chotiner to discuss how the media can prevent the normalization of white nationalism, what Obama did and didn’t get right ab...
ListenRebecca Traister from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Rebecca Traister is a writer-at- large for New York magazine. She sits down with Isaac Chotiner to discuss what she has learned reporting on sexual harassment and assault, whether Hillary Clinton s...
ListenTa-Nehisi Coates from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Ta-Nehisi Coates is the author of Between the World and Me, and now, We Were Eight Years In Power: An American Tragedy. He sits down with Isaac Chotiner to discuss the costs of writing off your fel...
ListenRon Chernow from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Ron Chernow is the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, and author of Alexander Hamilton and Grant. He sits down with Isaac Chotiner to discuss why Ulysses S. Grant was an important figure in civil ri...
ListenJennifer Egan from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Jennifer Egan is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Visit From The Goon Squad and Manhattan Beach. She sits down with Isaac Chotiner to discuss what technology might do to fiction-writing, how ...
ListenGabriel Sherman from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Gabriel Sherman is a special correspondent for Vanity Fair, and the biographer of Roger Ailes. He sits down with Isaac Chotiner to discuss how Fox News has changed since Ailes’ death, whether Trump...
ListenJodi Kantor from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Jodi Kantor is an investigative reporter at The New York Times. She sits down with Isaac Chotiner to discuss how she began reporting the Harvey Weinstein story, why so many of his accusers came for...
ListenMasha Gessen from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Masha Gessen is a journalist and activist and the author of the new book, The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia. She sits down with Isaac Chotiner to discuss how Putin exercis...
ListenDavid Remnick (Part 2) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
David Remnick is the editor of The New Yorker. In the second installment of a two-part interview, he sits down with Isaac Chotiner to discuss how Trump has changed his magazine, whether The New Yor...
ListenDavid Remnick (Part 1) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
David Remnick is the editor of The New Yorker. In the first installment of a two-part interview, he sits down with Isaac Chotiner to discuss whether Hillary hatred has gone too far, Ta-Nehisi Coate...
ListenAyobami Adebayo from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The author of Stay With Me, Ayobami Adebayo, sits down with Isaac Chotiner to discuss what she learned from Margaret Atwood, the pain of writing about Nigeria’s turbulent recent past, and using fic...
ListenAmna Nawaz from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
ABC’s Emmy-Winning anchor and host of the ‘Uncomfortable’ podcast, Amna Nawaz, sits down with Isaac Chotiner to discuss the life of an embedded reporter in Pakistan, researching the roots of white ...
ListenClaire Messud from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Author Claire Messud sits down with Isaac Chotiner to discuss her new novel, The Burning Girl, how Elena Ferrante opened up more space for writing about women, how New York City has changed since s...
ListenMark Lilla from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Mark Lilla is the author of The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity Politics. He sits down with Isaac Chotiner to debate why Democrats keep losing elections, whether America really used to be m...
ListenOrhan Pamuk from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Orhan Pamuk is an author and Nobel Prize winner. He sits down with Isaac Chotiner to discuss his new novel, The Red-Haired Woman; the cultural scene in Turkey as it undergoes political purges; and ...
ListenGlenn Greenwald from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Glenn Greenwald is one of the co-founding editors of The Intercept. He sits down with Isaac Chotiner to discuss whether America is risking a new cold war with Putin’s Russia, Julian Assange’s compl...
ListenRobert Wright from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Robert Wright is the best-selling author of books such as Nonzero and The Evolution of God. He down with Isaac Chotiner to discuss his new book, Why Buddhism Is True, what meditation can teach us a...
ListenOlivia Nuzzi from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Olivia Nuzzi is the White House correspondent for New York magazine. She joins Isaac Chotiner to discuss what it’s like to be a woman working in Trump’s White House, how West Wing aides really view...
ListenZoë Heller from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Zoë Heller is a novelist and essayist. She sits down with Isaac Chotiner to discuss Trump’s peculiar Americanness, lame defenses of Hillary Clinton, working on Fleet Street, and becoming friend’s w...
ListenLydia Polgreen from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Lydia Polgreen is the editor-in- chief of HuffPost. She sits down with Isaac Chotiner to discuss her decision to leave the New York Times, the real reason the media screwed up election coverage, an...
ListenMatthew Heineman from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Matthew Heineman is an Emmy-winning and Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker. He sits down with Isaac Chotiner to discuss his new movie, ‘City of Ghosts,’ about the journalists resisting ISIS, wha...
ListenBen Rhodes from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Obama foreign policy adviser Ben Rhodes sits down with Isaac Chotiner to discuss working in the White House, the threat Russia poses to American democracy, why Trump’s advisers can’t control him, a...
ListenRaúl Grijalva from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Raúl Grijalva is a Democratic Congressman from Arizona’s Third Congressional district. He sits down with Isaac Chotiner to discuss the unrelenting fear in immigrant communities, the divisions that ...
ListenGeorge Saunders from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
George Saunders is a short story writer and essayist who has just written his first novel, Lincoln in the Bardo. He sits down with Isaac Chotiner to discuss what he learned while researching Abraha...
ListenDelia Ephron from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Delia Ephron is a novelist, humorist, and screenwriter, whose credits include You’ve Got Mail. She sits down with Isaac Chotiner to discuss what she learned about movies from Tom Hanks, why dating ...
ListenCongressman Tom Cole from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Tom Cole is a Republican Congressman from Oklahoma’s 4th Congressional District. He speaks with Isaac Chotiner to discuss whether Trump’s “ban” is religiously motivated, whether repealing Obamacare...
ListenWashington Post reporter Ashley Parker from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Ashley Parker is a political reporter at The Washington Post. She sits down with Isaac Chotiner to discuss what it’s really like to cover this White House, how the President’s staffers manage his p...
ListenPankaj Mishra from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Pankaj Mishra sits down with Isaac Chotiner to discuss his new book on the roots of populist rage, the problem with critiques of “identity politics,” and whether Western liberal parties can ever wi...
ListenJonathan Chait from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Jonathan Chait is a writer for New York magazine, and the author of Audacity: How Barack Obama Defied His Critics and Created a Legacy That Will Prevail. He sits down with Isaac Chotiner to discuss...
ListenPamela Paul from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Pamela Paul is the editor of the New York Times book review and the woman who oversees all of the paper’s books coverage. She sat down with Isaac Chotiner to discuss what our books say about who we...
ListenDavid Grann from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
David Grann is universally recognized as one of the masters of longform journalism. Here, The New Yorker writer sits down with Isaac Chotiner to discuss his new book, Killers of the Flower Moon: Th...
ListenEthan Sherwood Strauss from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Ethan Sherwood Strauss has been covering the Golden State Warriors for several years for ESPN, during which time the team became the most popular and successful in the NBA. On the eve of the NBA Pl...
ListenAndrew Sullivan from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Andrew Sullivan has been writing about the menace of Donald Trump over the past year for New York Magazine, warning America about creeping authoritarianism and the danger Trump poses to American de...
ListenElif Batuman from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Elif Batuman, is an author and staff writer for The New Yorker. She’s the daughter of Turkish immigrants and her first book, The Possessed, was about her experiences with Russian literature and her...
ListenSenator Chuck Schumer from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In the inaugural episode of Slate’s interview podcast, I Have to Ask, host Isaac Chotiner speaks with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer. Senator Schumer finds himself in a political climate unli...
ListenComing Soon: I Have to Ask from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
As Slate’s resident interrogator, Isaac Chotiner has tangled with Newt Gingrich and gotten personal with novelist Jonathan Franzen. Now he’s bringing his pointed and smart interview style to the n...
ListenComing Soon: I Have to Ask from 2017-03-03T17:17
As Slate’s resident interrogator, Isaac Chotiner has tangled with Newt Gingrich and gotten personal with novelist Jonathan Franzen. Now he’s bringing his pointed and smart interview style to the n...
ListenComing Soon: I Have to Ask from 2017-03-03T17:17
As Slate’s resident interrogator, Isaac Chotiner has tangled with Newt Gingrich and gotten personal with novelist Jonathan Franzen. Now he’s bringing his pointed and smart interview style to the n...
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