Andrew Boryga is a writer whose  has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, and The Atlantic. His debut novel Victim, from Doubleday Books, is out now. Victim andrewboryga.com If You Liked This Conversation, You'll Probably Like These Episodes of Where We Go Next: 44: The Unresolvable Tension of Overlapping Identities, with Tomiwa Owolade 39: Black Culture Is Not a Monolith, with Bertrand Cooper 38: Curiosity Is a Skill We Can Learn, with Mónica Guzmán 36: True Inclusivity Requires Moral Courage, with Irshad Manji 19: Finding Commonality Across the "Racial Divide," with Rahmaan ..read more

Dr. Tali Sharot is a professor of cognitive neuroscience at MIT and University College London, and the founder and director of the Affective Brain Lab, a cognitive neuroscience research laboratory dedicated to unraveling the mysteries of the human brain. She’s the author of The Optimism Bias: A Tour of the Irrationally Positive Brain, The Influential Mind: What the Brain Reveals About Our Power to Change Others. Her newest book, co-authored with Cass Sunstein is titled Look Again: The Power of Noticing What Was Always There. Look Again: The Power of Noticing What Was Always There Affective Bra ..read more

Grace Blakeley is an economist, journalist, and political commentator. She is the author of Stolen: How to Save the World from Financialization, The Corona Crash: How the Pandemic will Change Capitalism, and her newest: Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom. Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom GraceBlakeley.co.uk If You Liked This Conversation, You'll Probably Like These Episodes of Where We Go Next: 50: America Has Failed Its Working Poor, with Joanne Goldblum and Colleen Shaddox 37: A Better Way to Pol ..read more

Jonathan Vigliotti is an Emmy and Edward R. Murrow Award–winning CBS News national correspondent and the author of Before It's Gone: Stories from the Front Lines of Climate Change in Small-Town America. Before It's Gone: Stories from the Front Lines of Climate Change in Small-Town America If You Liked This Conversation, You'll Probably Like These Episodes of Where We Go Next: 13: Nuclear Energy Can Save the World, with Nick Touran 17: The Conservative Case for Solving Climate Change, with Quill Robinson 70: Making Extinction a Thing of the Past, with Ben Lamm & George Church 71: Rescuing ..read more

This is a Very Special Crossover Episode with Xavier Bonilla, host of Converging Dialogues - a podcast focused on honest conversations about philosophy, psychology, politics, and important social issues. Listen to Converging Dialogues Where We Go Next will return as a weekly show on April 2nd! ---------- Email: michael@wherewegonext.com Instagram: @wwgnpodcast ..read more

Nick Troiano is the founding executive director of Unite America, a philanthropic venture fund that invests in nonpartisan election reform to foster a more representative and functional government. Since 2019, Unite America has invested over $50 million to help win three major statewide ballot initiatives and over a dozen state legislative and municipal policy victories. In 2014, Troiano ran for the US House of Representatives in Pennsylvania’s 10th District and was both the youngest candidate of the cycle and the most competitive independent Congressional candidate nationally in over two deca ..read more

Billy Binion is an associate editor at Reason magazine, where he writes about criminal justice and government accountability. He has been published in Newsweek, the San Francisco Chronicle, HuffPost, The Saturday Evening Post, and the Washington Examiner, among other publications, and his work has been cited by The New York Times, The Atlantic, National Review, Fox News, and CNN. Billy's Writing for Reason If You Liked This Conversation, You'll Probably Like These Episodes of Where We Go Next: 90: In Defense of an Eternally Radical Idea, with Greg Lukianoff 91: Free Speech Isn't Just for Peop ..read more

Dre Smith is the founder and CEO of Relationship Restored, a podcast network that delves into all things related to establishing and maintaining healthy romantic relationships. He's also the Executive Podcast Producer & Head of Podcasting at Urban One and the Co-Founder of All About It Social Media & Branding. Relationship Restored Follow Dre on Instagram: @itsdresmith ---------- Are you a fan of Where We Go Next? Listen to the very end of this episode for details. Email: michael@wherewegonext.com Instagram: @wwgnpodcast ..read more

On Episode 92 I had the pleasure of speaking with Max Sklar. He's a software engineer, with a focus on machine learning, content discovery, and Bayesian inference - all of which we talk about during his episode. He's also the host of The Local Maximum podcast. Max's podcast appeals to me because it touches on a wide array of complex topics in nuanced, digestible ways. Like the intricacies of intellectual property or quantum computing, even the faults of and potential fixes for US Constitution. Max has a seemingly insatiable curiosity, an addiction to learning new things, and he's a generous ho ..read more

Lenore Skenazy started the Free-Range Kids movement and wrote the book, “Free-Range Kids.” Now she is co-founder and president of Let Grow, the national nonprofit promoting childhood independence. Lenore says our kids are smarter, safer, and stronger than our culture gives them credit for. ‘Old Enough’ Generates Parenting Debate, Latest Netflix Sensation (Featuring Lenore!) - YouTube  50% of Parents Won’t Let Their Kids Go to Another Aisle in Grocery: Poll - Free Range Kids Let Grow The Let Grow Project Independence Kit Let Grow Play Club Free Range Kids Raising Independent Kids - Faceb ..read more