Lean Out with Tara Henley

Today, broadcaster Jamil Jivani announced his move to Substack . The Canadian lawyer and media personality — and author of Why Young Men: Rage, Race and the Crisis of Identity — has revealed that he was fired last month from his role as host of The Jamil Jivani Show. Jamil is an important voice in this country, and someone I admire and respect. His firing raises a number of questions, and Lean Out...

I first met Johann Hari in a coffee shop in London. Chasing the Scream , his deep dive into the war on drugs, radically shifted the thinking around addiction. When I sat down with him, we were discussing his next game changer, Lost Connections , which transformed the public conversation around mental health . This week Hari has published a new “big think” book, and he’s now poised to have a simila...

The lab leak theory has been in the news again, following Republicans on the House Committee on Oversight and Reform releasing a letter with more details on a February 1, 2020 call between Anthony Fauci, Francis Collins and expert scientists, discussing the pandemic’s possible origin. It’s a story that Toronto’s Elaine Dewar has been following for some time. The investigative journalist wrote a bo...

Free speech is not particularly fashionable these days. Indeed, this summer NPR’s On the Media dedicated an entire episode to the topic without interviewing a single defender of free speech . With free speech skepticism on the rise, the new book Free Speech And Why It Matters could not be more timely, or more important. British comic Andrew Doyle initially found fame with his hilarious social just...

When I pressed the publish button on my first Substack post on Monday morning, I had no idea what to expect. I certainly could not have anticipated what came next. I received a tidal wave of emails, calls, texts, DMs, Substack comments and tweets from people all across the country and, increasingly, around the world. The people who wrote to me are of different political persuasions and hold differ...