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• EPISODE 08 | August 13, 2025

  Episode 8: Gabriela Nguyen

  Mark sits down with Gabriela Nguyen to discuss Gen Z’s digital addictions, whether belonging to a religious community makes it easier to get off social media, and what to look out for in the age of AI

• EPISODE 7 | July 29, 2025

  Episode 7: Thomas Chatterton Williams

  Mark sits down with Thomas Chatterton Williams to discuss wokeness and its afterlives, the Hamas/Israel war, and whether kids these days have it too easy

• EPISODE 6 | July 3, 2025

  Episode 6: David Litt

  Mark sits down with David Litt to talk surfing, surprising saviors, and America’s political divide

• EPISODE 5 | June 17, 2025

  Episode 5: Rich Cohen

  Mark sits down with Rich Cohen, contributing editor at Vanity Fair and Rolling Stone and the author of 16 books including, most recently, “Murder in the Dollhouse: The Jennifer Dulos Story”

• EPISODE 4 | June 3, 2025

  Episode 4: Ana Levy-Lyons

  Arc’s editor-in-chief sits down with Ana Levy-Lyons, author of the forthcoming book “The Secret Despair of the Secular Left,” to discuss her work as a Unitarian minister, her decision to leave the ministry and go to rabbinical school, and the problems at the core of secular life

• EPISODE 3 | May 20, 2025

  Episode 3: Molly Worthen

  Arc’s editor-in-chief sits down with Molly Worthen, author of the new book “Spellbound: How Charisma Shaped American History from the Puritans to Donald Trump,” to talk about becoming an evangelical Christian, the etiquette of evangelizing, and the not-so-quiet beauty of big box churches.

• EPISODE 2 | May 7, 2025

  Episode 2: Nicholas Carr

  Arc’s editor-in-chief, Mark Oppenheimer, sits down with Nicholas Carr, author of the new book Superbloom, to talk religion, politics, et cetera.

• EPISODE 1 | April 23, 2025

  Episode 1: Jay Michaelson

  Mark sits down with his longtime friend, Jay Michaelson, a rabbi, queer activist, Buddhist, and visiting law professor at Harvard.