As Slate’s resident interrogator, Isaac Chotiner has tangled with Newt Gingrich and gotten personal with novelist Jonathan Franzen. Now he’s bringing his pointed and smart interview style to the new podcast “I Have to Ask.” Isaac will talk one-on-one with newsmakers, celebrities, and cultural icons to help us better understand them and our world.
The author of ‘The Red-Haired Woman’ on writing and living through Turkish history.
26 Min
Aug 17, 2017
Gleen Greenwald on why Trump is less unprecedented in American history than we’d like to believe.
49 Min
Aug 10, 2017
The author of Why Buddhism is True thinks mindfulness can be a weapon against Trumpism.
27 Min
Aug 3, 2017
New York’s Washington correspondent on how White House staffers really view Donald Trump.
The novelist and essayist on criticizing Hillary Clinton and becoming friends with writers you savage.
The HuffPost Editor-in-chief on the problems with media snark, and the challenge of covering Trump.
The director of ‘City of Ghosts’ on filming the heroes combating ISIS, and investigating drug cartels.
Maggie Haberman on covering Trump, The New York Times’ Clinton coverage, and why this White House leaks to the press.
The Obama foreign policy adviser on evaluating Obama’s eight years in office and understanding Trump’s pettiness.
The Arizona Congressman on the coming battle for the soul of the Democratic Party.
The author of ‘Lincoln in the Bardo’ on summoning the ghost of past presidents, & writing about our current one.
The best-selling humorist on writing comedy in the age of Trump, and why dating apps are ruining romance.
The Republican Congressman on life in Trump’s Washington and how Fox News has changed the Republican Party.
The Washington Post political reporter on scheduling life around President Trump’s tweetstorms.
The author of Age of Anger on why modern society is ill-equipped to handle populist rage.
The New York writer on how the Republican Party’s past explains the election of an American demagogue.
The new Times book review editor on the future of criticism and what our books say about us.
The New Yorker’s David Grann on the future of longform journalism and reporting unsolved murders
ESPN’s Ethan Sherwood Strauss on working the Warriors beat, Steph Curry, and “sticking to sports” in the age of Trump.
New York Magazine writer Andrew Sullivan on the decay of conservatism and why he expected Trump’s victory.
Isaac Chotiner speaks with author and New Yorker staff writer Elif Batuman about what inspired her new novel The Idiot
Isaac Chotiner speaks with Emmy Award–winning news anchor Chris Hayes about his new book A Colony in a Nation.
