The Honest Broker Podcast

Welcome back to The Honest Broker interview series —also available on our YouTube channel . You can also find it on Apple Podcasts and other podcasting platforms. Today, I’m pleased to share my conversation with Zena Hitz. Please support The Honest Broker by taking out a premium subscription (just $6 per month). Zena Hitz is a tutor at St. John’s College, a Great Books school. She is also the foun...

Welcome back to The Honest Broker interview series —also available on our new YouTube channel . You can also find it on Apple Podcasts and other podcasting platforms. Today, I’m pleased to share my conversation with Ted Gioia. Please support The Honest Broker by taking out a premium subscription (just $6 per month). Ted needs no introduction here— The Honest Broker is his newsletter, after all. Bu...

Welcome back to The Honest Broker interview series —also available on our new YouTube channel . You can also find it on Apple Podcasts and other podcasting platforms. Today, I’m pleased to share my conversation with Henry Oliver . Please support The Honest Broker by taking out a premium subscription (just $6 per month). Henry Oliver is the literary critic behind The Common Reader , a newsletter he...

Welcome back to The Honest Broker interview series—also available on our new YouTube channel . You can also find it on Apple Podcasts and other podcasting platforms. Today, I’m pleased to share my conversation with Naomi Kanakia . Please support The Honest Broker by taking out a premium subscription (just $6 per month). Naomi is a writer. She’s published four novels, and her next book, What’s So G...

Welcome back to The Honest Broker interview series —also available on our new YouTube channel . You can also find it on Apple Podcasts and other podcasting platforms. Today, I’m pleased to share my conversation with C. Thi Nguyen. Please support The Honest Broker by taking out a premium subscription (just $6 per month). Nguyen is a former food writer who became a philosopher. He’s now an Associate...

Welcome back to The Honest Broker interview series —also available on our new YouTube channel . You can also find it on Apple Podcasts and other podcasting platforms. Today, I’m sharing my conversation with Jennifer Frey. Please support The Honest Broker by taking out a premium subscription (just $6 per month). Jennifer is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tulsa. She is also a faculty...

Welcome to the latest installment of our interview series here at The Honest Broker— also available on our new YouTube channel . You can also find it on Apple Podcasts and other podcasting platforms. Today, I’m excited to share my conversation with Ross Barkan . Please support The Honest Broker by taking out a premium subscription (just $6 per month). Ross is a busy man. He is not only the writer...

The Honest Broker interview series continues with a very special guest, Nicholas Carr. He is the author of The Shallows , a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize, and more recently of Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart . You can watch here or on our YouTube channel . You can also find The Honest Broker Podcast on your favorite podcasting platforms. Please support The Honest Br...

Welcome to the third installment of our interview series here at The Honest Broker— also available on our new YouTube channel and Apple Podcasts . Today, I’m happy to share my conversation with Derek Thompson . Please support The Honest Broker by taking out a premium subscription (just $6 per month). When Derek came to Substack, he said he wanted to focus on three issues: * The Abundance agenda, b...

James Marriott is a columnist at The Times of London and the author of Cultural Capital here on Substack. He recently published ‘The Dawn of the Post-Literate Society’ , an article about the worldwide literacy crisis, which was a platform-wide sensation. The literacy crisis is one of my interests as well. I’ve previously been interviewed on the subject alongside James at UnHerd , and I’ve released...

This is a big day at The Honest Broker, and I have several important announcements to make. First, we’re launching a video interview series. In the coming weeks, we will share in-depth interviews with the leading thinkers and writers of our time. Our goal is simple: Smart conversations with smart people. Please support The Honest Broker by taking out a premium subscription (just $6 per month). The...