Latest Episodes
How philosophy can (truly) improve your life, featuring Monica McCarthy
“The challenge is that we have to become philosophers ourselves, in a way. We have to learn to ask better questions and more questions...
Deviate Season One finale with Ari Shaffir
“The hashtag level of social media discourse can be really frustrating. It tends to bend narratives toward the hashtag slogan. But when we start...
An outsider's inside history of the Beat Generation, as told by Charles Plymell
"To me the term Beat was like, "Hey man I'm beat," after all night on Benzedrine. I never considered myself a Beat. But my...
Author Pam Houston on the joys of creating home amid a lifetime of travel
“How do we become who we are in the world? We ask the world to teach us.” – Pam Houston Pam Houston (@pam_houston) is...
Major Jackson on the poetics of time (and how best, in life, to spend it)
“The act of creating is a way of stopping time.” – Major Jackson Major Jackson (@Poet_Major) is an American poet, professor, and author of...
White Zombie guitarist J. Yuenger on music, expat life, and long-term travel
“Travel feels like a generational signifier the way rock music was when I was a kid. The whole idea of having experiences as opposed...