2025-05-08 18:00:00
Recently, Donald Trump mused that “maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls, you know?” We talk with a doll manufacturer and a policy analyst about tariffs and Americans’ relationship with choice.
Elenor Mak, founder of Jilly Bing (https://jillybing.com/) , talks about her dream of giving Asian American kids the choice of having a doll that looks like them, and how the new tariffs might kill it. And Martha Gimbel (https://budgetlab.yale.edu/person/martha-gimbel) , executive director of the Budget Lab at Yale, discusses the problem with this particular variety of two-doll nostalgia.
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2025-05-07 12:00:44
In this episode of The David Frum Show, The Atlantic’s David Frum reflects on the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe, examining how postwar reconciliation—not battlefield triumph—became America’s true finest hour. He contrasts that legacy with Donald Trump’s recent bombastic Victory Day statement, urging a rededication to the values that built a more peaceful world.
David is then joined by The Atlantic’s Anne Applebaum to discuss the astonishing and brazen corruption of the Trump presidency, how authoritarian regimes seek to break institutions, and the hardship of losing friendships to politics.
Finally, David answers listener questions on fostering open-minded political dialogue among polarized high-school students, why America hasn’t developed a strong worker-based political movement like its European counterparts, and how to think about class in modern U.S. politics. He also weighs in on the risk of data suppression under the Trump administration and reflects on whether his long-held conservative values still belong to the political right.
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2025-05-06 23:21:07
In the highly polarized media landscape of the Weimar Republic, Adolf Hitler could expect little accommodation from the press. Across Germany and around the world, Hitler’s attempts to assume power initially made him a laughingstock.
“We have come to view Hitler’s path to the chancellorship, and ultimately to dictatorship, as inexorable, and Hitler himself as a demonic force of human nature who defied every law of political gravity,” Timothy W. Ryback writes. And yet, when the journalist Dorothy Thompson encountered Hitler in 1931, she described him as a man of “startling insignificance.”
How could Thompson and so many other experienced journalists and political observers have underestimated Hitler—and the historical moment—to such a degree?
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2025-05-06 18:00:00
The ’90s are sometimes described as the beginning of the postfeminist era. But if feminism died 30 years ago, who killed it? The Atlantic staff writer Sophie Gilbert seeks to answer this question in her new book, Girl on Girl, and finds a likely suspect in the contemporaneous rise of internet pornography.
Further reading:
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Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/738003/girl-on-girl-by-sophie-gilbert/) , by Sophie Gilbert
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“Don’t Call Them Trash (https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/09/romance-novels-women-elinor-glyn-books/670609/) ,” by Sophie Gilbert
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“Would You Give PornHub Your ID? (https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/archive/2025/04/can-we-stop-kids-from-watching-porn/682455/) ,” by Jerusalem Demsas
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“Romantic Love Is an Under-Rated Driver of Gender Equality (https://www.ggd.world/p/romantic-love-is-an-under-rated-driver) ,” by Alice Evans
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2025-05-05 17:00:00
In 2021 Dr. Kiran Rabheru, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Ottawa and a geriatric psychiatrist, found himself at the center of a medical debate. The World Health Organization wanted to officially designate “old age” as a disease, but with more than 40 years of work with aging populations, Rabheru saw this as another example of ageism that needed to be challenged. Dr. Rabheru talks with Yasmin Tayag about how he fought the WHO and about the impact such designations can have on research and our understanding of growing old.
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2025-05-02 09:58:56
Francis Collins, the former director of the National Institutes of Health, joins us in conversation with Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic’s editor in chief, to explore how recent health-policy shifts will influence the future of drug discovery and development, disease response, and America’s position as a global leader in scientific and technological innovation.
Speakers include:
- Francis Collins, former director, National Institutes of Health
- Jeffrey Goldberg, editor in chief, The Atlantic
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