Sean Illing

Dan Pfeiffer on the Democratic brand and how to revive it.

James Carville on why Manchin is actually good, Sinema less so, and why 2022 isn’t quite hopeless yet.

Philosopher David Chalmers on the significance of digital worlds and why we’re maybe living in a simulation.

Sam Adler-Bell on why scorched-earth radicals are winning the battle for the soul of conservatism.

David French on the cult of toughness on the Trumpist right.

The conversations that challenged me the most and got me thinking about a difficult problem or provocative idea.

Psychologist Paul Bloom on the importance of suffering, the shortcomings of hedonism, and why he would never plug into the Matrix.

Historian Jill Lepore on the strange but familiar appeal of “Muskism.”