In Lieu of Fun

Saturday, December 25, 2021

Jon Rauch and David Frum on the "Russia Hoax" Hoax

Season 3, Ep. 571

Wherein we are joined by Jonathan Rauch to talk about his recent article, "The Real Hoax" in Persuasion, and we are joined by David Frum to discuss his recent article, "Russiagate Was Not a Hoax," in The Atantic.

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Thursday, August 25, 2022

Kashmir Hill on False Positives

Season 3, Ep. 672

Wherein Kashmir Hill joins to discuss her latest article on false positives in Google's automatic screening for child sexual abuse material.

Wednesday, August 24, 2022

Minna Ålander on Finland, Sweden, and NATO

Season 3, Ep. 637

Streamed live on May 20, 2022 Wherein Minna Ålander, Research Assistant at Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, joins us to discuss Sweden, Finland, and NATO!

Monday, August 22, 2022

Mike Pesca on High Conflict and Being Horrible

Season 3, Ep. 671

Wherein Mike Pesca joins us to discuss deescalating high conflict and how not to be a horrible person.

Friday, August 19, 2022

Where's the Lie, Matteo Carrabba?

Season 3, Ep. 636

Wherein Matteo Carrabba plays "Where'e the Lie?" with a story about being kidnapped in Jordan.

Thursday, August 18, 2022

Dan Byman on the Buffalo Shooting

Season 3, Ep. 635

Wherein, Dan Byman—author of "Spreading Hate: The Global Rise of White Supremacist Terrorism"—joins the show to talk about the shooting in Buffalo, New York.

Wednesday, August 17, 2022

Cheese Night

Season 3, Ep. 634

Wherein we begin the long project of catching up on uploading ILOF audio and thus bring you this episode from way back in May!

Wednesday, June 8, 2022

The Morel of the Story

Season 3, Ep. 633

Wherein we find out what happened on Kate and Scott's morel hunt, and we get an update on Ben's morel garden.

Sunday, June 5, 2022

Scott Hershovitz Is Nasty, Brutish, & Short

Season 3, Ep. 632

Wherein Scott Hershovitz returns to the show to talk about his funny and tender new book: Nasty, Brutish, & Short!

Wednesday, May 25, 2022

Kate in DC Cheese Night

Season 3, Ep. 631

Kate is in Washington.It's Cheese Night.