The Unspeakable Podcast

Not Even Mad: Mike Pesca, Virginia Heffernan and Jamie Kirchick On Their New Podcast

Oct 31, 2022

This week The Unspeakable welcomes three guests. Mike Pesca, Virginia Heffernan and Jamie Kirchick are the hosts of the brand new podcast Not Even Mad. Mike, who’s the host of the long running podcast The Gist, conceived Not Even Mad as an alternative to the glut of podcasts in which the hosts and guests do nothing...

Can Men Be Saved? Richard Reeves on the New Crisis of Masculinity

Oct 24, 2022

The last several decades have seen countless initiatives to improve educational and professional opportunities for girls and women. And they worked! Women now outpace men across any number of metrics, notably educational attainment but also mental and physical health, home ownership, civic engagement and, increasingly,...

What Should We Believe? Michael Shermer On Staying Rational In An Irrational World

Oct 17, 2022

Michael Shermer is a longtime figure in the New Atheist movement that arose in the early 2000s. He is the Founding Editor of Skeptic Magazine, the host of the podcast The Michael Shermer Show, and a Presidential Fellow at Chapman University, where he teaches Skepticism 101. His new book, Conspiracy: Why The Rational...

Why Can’t We Get Back To Normal? Public Health Expert Leslie Bienen on Learning To Coexist With Covid

Oct 10, 2022

It’s a very special "Meghan has Covid” edition of The Unspeakable! With barely any voice, Meghan speaks with Leslie Bienen, a public health expert and author of dozens of op-eds calling for a saner approach to covid safety measures. Unlike most people, including (and especially?) most journalists, Leslie knows how...

Yes, Youth Gender Surgery Is Really Happening: Colin Wright Lays Out The Details

Oct 3, 2022

It’s another episode about . . . gender! Specifically what’s really happening when it comes to medical protocols for young people seeking gender reassignment surgery or medicalized transition. Last month, the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, or WPATH, convened for its annual...