Vox Conversations
Vox Conversations brings you discussions between the brightest minds and the deepest thinkers; conversations that will cause you to question old assumptions and think about the world and our role in it in a new light. Join Sean Illing, Jamil Smith, and their colleagues across the Vox newsroom for new episodes every Monday and Thursday.
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The Philosophers: America's philosophy, with Co...
55 min
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Why accidents aren't accidental
47 min
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Rethinking the "end of history"
56 min
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Anita Hill finally gets even
55 min
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Elites have captured identity politics
52 min
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The moral dangers of dirty work
54 min
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Did the sexual revolution go wrong?
53 min
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Who decides how to conserve nature?
55 min
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The Philosophers: Loneliness and totalitarianism
58 min
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The War in Ukraine, Explained — Part 4: The fut...
59 min
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Michael Lewis on why Americans distrust experts
52 min
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The War in Ukraine, Explained — Part 3: The nuc...
51 min
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The case for regret
45 min
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The War in Ukraine, Explained — Part 2: Sanctions
56 min
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The spirituality of parenting
43 min
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The War in Ukraine, Explained — Part 1: Why did...
55 min
17
The Philosophers: Resisting despair
How can Albert Camus help us understand the war in Ukraine, post-pandemic life, and the absurdity of our modern world?
51 min
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What happened to American conservatism?
55 min
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The limits of forgiveness
46 min
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The madness behind The Method
62 min
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David Cross is disappointed in you guys
44 min
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Author Kiley Reid on why we read novels
42 min
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The conversation about guns we're not having
59 min
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Why does middle school suck?
60 min
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Russia's war with Ukraine — and reality
33 min
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Robert Glasper on why Black Radio is back
The 4-time Grammy winner is creating a new genre of music
51 min
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Could we lose delicious foods forever?
60 min
28
What Don't Look Up is really about
The film's co-writer doesn't think it was smug.
56 min
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Democracy in crisis, part 2: The two-party problem
53 min
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Why we can't pay attention anymore
59 min
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Democracy in crisis, part 1: Ross Douthat isn't...
First in a two-part series on the dangers facing American democracy, hosted by Zack Beauchamp
60 min
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Pod Save the Democrats
55 min
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A Yellowjackets creator spills his guts
39 min
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A scientist's case for "woo-woo"
55 min
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Imagine a future with no police
59 min
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Novelist Lauren Groff on the other Matrix
42 min
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Are we living in a simulation?
Philosopher David Chalmers on the question: what is reality, anyway?
63 min
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Rep. Jamie Raskin on living through the unthink...
52 min
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Best of: Why fascism in America isn't going away
44 min
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Best of: Clint Smith III on confronting the leg...
56 min
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Best of: We need to talk about UFOs. Seriously.
Professor Alex Wendt tells Sean Illing why he thinks the aliens might already be here
57 min
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Chris Bosh on winning (and losing everything)
53 min
43
The cult of toughness
61 min
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Is ethical investing a scam?
52 min
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The good life is painful
49 min
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The father of environmental justice
45 min
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Jill Lepore on Elon Musk's imaginary world
57 min
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E.O. Wilson's plan to save the world
51 min
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Workers of the world, stay home!
57 min
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How progressives get back in the game
57 min
51
The highs and lows of the "creator economy"
44 min
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Why Chris Hayes thinks we're all famous now
55 min
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The stories soul food tells
45 min
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The paradox of American freedom
51 min
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Nonbinary parenthood
55 min
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John McWhorter, the anti-antiracist
61 min
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The overwhelming, invisible work of elder care
57 min
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How Big Tech benefits from the disinformation p...
52 min
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Fannie Lou Hamer and the meaning of freedom
How a former sharecropper disrupted American politics
54 min
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What the internet took from us
53 min
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Trapped inside with Susanna Clarke's Piranesi
43 min
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Bryan Stevenson on the legacy of enslavement
57 min
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What's your status?
51 min
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Is there a hack for enlightenment?
59 min
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Fighting a world on fire with fire
56 min
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Revolutionary Love
51 min
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How to make meaning out of suffering
52 min
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Ken Burns's latest on The Greatest
62 min
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The road from 9/11 to Donald Trump
62 min
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Rep. Pramila Jayapal on immigrants and America ...
45 min
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Why America's obsession with rights is wrong
52 min
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The news is by — and for — rich, white liberals
57 min
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Clint Smith III on confronting the legacy of sl...
55 min
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Was the cruelty the point?
55 min
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How seashells shaped the world — and predict ou...
52 min
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Bill Maher on free speech, comedy, and his haters
45 min
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Robert Reich wants you to take on the system
48 min
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Marty Baron on the future of news
49 min
79
The death of cool
43 min
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We need to talk about UFOs. Seriously.
Professor Alex Wendt tells Sean Illing why he thinks the aliens might already be here
57 min
81
Philadelphia's progressive prosecutor
District attorney Larry Krasner talks about his reform agenda, rising gun violence, and how to take on the system
49 min
82
Fareed Zakaria on the fate of democracy
65 min
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Jane Goodall on the power of hope
The world's foremost expert on chimps wants us to remember we're animals, too
56 min
84
Why we love drugs
Michael Pollan on humans, plants, and the coming psychedelic revolution
58 min
85
The rugged majesty of revision
Jamil Smith in conversation with author Kiese Laymon on revision, restoration, and repair
54 min
86
How to forgive
53 min
87
What makes a great conversation?
Hosts Sean Illing and Jamil Smith introduce themselves and reintroduce Vox Conversations, a podcast exploring big ideas and hard questions together with bright minds and deep thinkers.
21 min
88
Introducing: Now & Then
A new history podcast from CAFE and the Vox Media Podcast Network
57 min
89
The science of dating
52 min
90
Honoring Juneteenth with Ibram X. Kendi
Ibram X. Kendi on racism, systemic change, and whether an antiracist America is even possible
47 min
91
Digital dictatorship
54 min
92
The man who proposed reparations in the 1860s
Abe Lincoln's forgotten abolitionist ally
62 min
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What pandemic recovery should look like
54 min
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The gift of getting old
52 min
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Freedom, and what it means to have a body
50 min
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Why are we so worried about Satan?
58 min
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How to be wrong less often
48 min
98
The complicated history of wildlife conservation
What can the past tell us about the future of fighting extinction?
65 min
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How to replace everything in the industrialized...
58 min
100
Patricia Lockwood's big, beautiful internet brain
51 min