167 Episodes

  1. Carolyn Steel on How Food Shapes Our World

    Published: 4/9/2020

  2. Virginia Heffernan on Donald Trump and “Tiger King” in the Time of Covid-19

    Published: 4/8/2020

  3. Chris Canavan on Why an Economic Slowdown Isn’t Necessarily a Bad Thing

    Published: 4/7/2020

  4. Simon Critchley on Looking at the Contemporary World Through the Lens of Punk, Greek Tragedy, and Humor

    Published: 4/6/2020

  5. Bessel van der Kolk on Coping with Trauma Amidst Disaster

    Published: 4/3/2020

  6. Bill McKibben on Covid-19’s Impact and the Climate Crisis

    Published: 4/2/2020

  7. Introducing: The Slowdown’s At a Distance Podcast

    Published: 3/24/2020

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A podcast about the bigger picture. Host Spencer Bailey calls on leading minds, from scientists and technologists to artists and climate activists, to zoom out and look at some of the planet’s most pressing issues from a whole-earth, long-view perspective.