Out of the Wild

Jonathan Rauch is a senior fellow at The Brookings Institute and the author of eight books, including Kindly Inquisitors: the New Attacks on Free Thought and my favorite mini memoir, Denial: My 25 Years without a Soul . Jonathan is a friend, the father of the introvert liberation movement , and one of the reasons our country has expanded marriage rights to the LGBTQ community. I brought Jonathan o...

Rob Twigger is a UK-based author of 16 books, many of which are travel. He and I discuss: A book Rob admires: The Colossus of Maroussi A travel book Ken admires: Big Dead Place * Rob’s philosophical movements: Micromastery and Zenslackerism * The Refusal of Work by David Frayne * American listeners get a primer on what Guy Fawkes is. * We make 2024 US presidential election predictions. (One of us...

Sarah was the personal essays editor at Salon, she’s a staff writer at the Dallas Morning News, and she hosts, with Nancy Rommelman, the Smoke Em if You Got Em Podcast. She is the author of "Blackout: Remembing the things I drank to forget." Sarah and I talk about: - Living within a memoir - Vices (mine, videogames) (Sarah's, Lucky Strikes) - Guilty pleasures (Howard Stern, MILF Manor, Love is Bli...