Arc: The Podcast

Episode 18: Kelsey Osgood

Mark sits down with Kelsey Osgood to talk religious conversion, eating disorders, and the songs she can't get out of her head

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  • Episode 17: Jessica Grose & Brad Wilcox

    Mark sits down with Jessica Grose and Brad Wilcox to talk natality numbers, whether the New York Times should convince people to have more babies, and which American president best models good parenting

  • Episode 16: What would the Lord say about our digital addictions?

    An Arc holiday special about how three different religious communities are managing our technological malaise

  • Episode 15: Yair Rosenberg

    Mark sits down with Yair Rosenberg to talk antisemitism on the right, antisemitism on the left, and the American Jews caught in between

  • Episode 14: Ross Douthat & Phil Zuckerman

    Mark is joined by Ross Douthat and Phil Zuckerman to debate whether we should all believe in God or all be atheists.

  • Episode 13: Oliver Burkeman

    Mark sits down with Oliver Burkeman to discuss high-brow self-help books, nostalgia for the past versus dread for the future, and the lasting value of blowing through deadlines

  • Episode 12: Leah Libresco Sargeant

    Mark sits down with Leah Libresco Sargeant to talk about her journey from atheism to Catholicism, her love for arguing about everything from God to public policy, and the moral necessity of taking our opinions seriously

  • Episode 11: Yiddish in Lithuania

    Mark sends his deputy editor, David Sugarman, to Lithuania, to find out how the legacy of a bunch of Yiddish writers from the early twentieth century is reshaping the region’s present and future.

  • Episode 10: Yehuda Kurtzer

    Mark sits down with Yehuda Kurtzer to discuss the aesthetics of yarmulkas, the crisis facing clergy-members, and how the war in Israel is changing American Jewry.