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Greg Grandin explains how the Monroe Doctrine has historically been a tool for the United States to assert dominance in Latin America, particularly during moments of global weakness, and how Trump's current approach to Venezuela represents a modern, transactional interpretation of this long-standing foreign policy principle.
Rebecca F. Kuang joins Hannah MacInnes to discuss her new novel Catabasis, a wildly original journey into hell that explores themes of academia, love, mortality, and the complexities of human experience through a surrealist lens.
A deep dive into the science of happiness, exploring how our relationship with time, expectations, and social connections can profoundly impact our well-being and contentment.
Joseph Loconte explores how World War I and World War II deeply shaped J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis's perspectives, infusing their literary masterpieces with moral weight, spiritual depth, and timeless themes of resistance, friendship, and redemption.
Susan Dominus explores how siblings, family dynamics, and nurturing environments shape human development, challenging traditional beliefs about parenting and revealing the complex ways brothers and sisters influence each other's life trajectories.
A deep dive into modern dating culture explores how influencers, media, and social dynamics are reshaping relationship perceptions, revealing complex evolutionary psychological motivations behind women's attitudes towards boyfriends and mating strategies.
Dr. Marc Brackett discusses emotional intelligence, regulation, and the importance of understanding and processing emotions, offering insights into how recognizing and managing feelings can lead to better relationships, performance, and overall life satisfaction.
Dr. Marc Brackett, a Yale psychologist, discusses the critical importance of emotional intelligence, sharing insights on how to recognize, understand, and regulate emotions to create more fulfilling relationships, achieve personal goals, and break cycles of childhood trauma.
Dr. Laurie Santos reveals the science behind happiness, debunking common myths and sharing evidence-based strategies to rewire our minds, overcome mental traps, and find genuine joy through practices like gratitude, savoring, self-compassion, and focusing on connection and purpose.
Dr. Ellen Langer shares groundbreaking research on how mindset and thoughts can directly influence physical health, demonstrating the powerful connection between mind and body through compelling scientific studies.
A Harvard psychologist reveals how mindfulness and changing your thoughts can positively impact physical health, healing, stress, and aging through groundbreaking research on mind-body unity.
Dr. Alia Crum discusses how mindsets - our core beliefs about things like stress, health, and performance - can significantly impact our physiological and psychological responses. Through several groundbreaking studies, she demonstrates that our beliefs about experiences like stress, exercise, and eating can actually alter our body's physical reactions, highlighting the powerful connection between mind and body.
A federal appeals court struck down Trump's tariffs, ruling that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act does not give the president the power to impose tariffs. The episode also discusses the closure of the de minimis loophole, which will likely impact low-income consumers by increasing the cost of imported goods.