Start Making Sense

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Start Making Sense is The Nation’s podcast, hosted by Jon Wiener and coproduced by the Los Angeles Review of Books. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts for new episodes each Thursday.

 

Beto O’Rourke

Beto Can Win Beto Can Win

Steve Phillips on Texas, plus Dave Lindorff on atom spies.

Jan 13, 2022 / Audio / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

Ohio Covid

Omicron: A Kinder, Gentler Covid? Omicron: A Kinder, Gentler Covid?

Mike Davis on the pandemic, plus John Nichols on January 6.

Jan 6, 2022 / Audio / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

Rennie Davis and Joan Didion

Remembering Rennie Davis, Remembering Joan Didion Remembering Rennie Davis, Remembering Joan Didion

Interviews with two we lost in 2021.

Dec 30, 2021 / Audio / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

Ivanka Trump

What Were Ivanka, Jared, Don Junior, and Eric Doing on January 6? What Were Ivanka, Jared, Don Junior, and Eric Doing on January 6?

Amy Wilentz on the insurrection, plus Tom Lutz on The Kindness of Strangers.

Dec 23, 2021 / Audio / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

Trump

Why Trump Won’t Be the Candidate in 2024 Why Trump Won’t Be the Candidate in 2024

David Cay Johnston on Trump, plus Eric Foner and Henry Louis Gates on W.E.B. Du Bois.

Dec 16, 2021 / Audio / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

Biden and Xi

USA vs. China vs. Climate Change USA vs. China vs. Climate Change

Alfred McCoy on the shifting global order, plus Kristina Wong on mutual aid.

Dec 9, 2021 / Audio / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

Covid NYC

Omicron and Inequality Omicron and Inequality

Gregg Gonsalves on the new variant, plus Gary Younge on Josephine Baker.

Dec 2, 2021 / Audio / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

Kyle Rittenhouse

White Vigilantes and Black Protest White Vigilantes and Black Protest

John Nichols on Kyle Rittenhouse plus Eric Foner on housing.

Nov 24, 2021 / Audio / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

Why Republicans Want to Ban the 1619 Project

Why Republicans Want to Ban the 1619 Project Why Republicans Want to Ban the 1619 Project

Martha Jones on history, plus  Father Greg Boyle on gangs.

Nov 18, 2021 / Audio / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

Trump

Trump Will Be a Lousy Candidate in 2024, but the GOP Is Stuck With Him Trump Will Be a Lousy Candidate in 2024, but the GOP Is Stuck With Him

John Nichols on politics, plus Rebecca Solnit on George Orwell.

Nov 11, 2021 / Audio / Start Making Sense and Jon Wiener

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