This is a podcast with short episodes for people who feel vaguely insane watching the news but still believe moral seriousness is possible.Each episode runs 10-20 minutes. I usually start with something human: a stray thought, a joke that maybe goes too far, a glimpse of my interior life. Then I pivot, as cleanly as I can, into a morally serious argument about power, politics, institutions, or whatever fresh confusion the world has served up that week. I’m less interested in taking sides than in asking why so many arguments collapse the moment more than one thing is allowed to be true.I’m not here to sound authoritative, or neutral, or soothing. I’m here to think out loud in good faith, to name the pressures operating behind the scenes, and to ask what kind of people we become when fear, ambiguity, and convenience start doing the work that principles used to do. If it sparks disagreement, good. If it sparks reflection, even better. Mostly, this is an attempt to stay human while takin
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Signup to Generate a PitchThis is a podcast with short episodes for people who feel vaguely insane watching the news but still believe moral seriousness is possible. Each episode runs 10-20 minutes. I usually start with something human: a stray thought, a joke that maybe goes too far, a glimpse of my interior life.
Recent episodes include "A letter to Elon Musk." (25 May 2026, 11 minutes), "In defense of the boomers." (18 May 2026, 12 minutes), and "The death of the phone call." (29 April 2026, 8 minutes).
Broken but Readable publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 13 minutes across 21 episodes.
Booking probability for Broken but Readable is 29%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Broken but Readable requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Broken but Readable's contact route on record: public web form.
Broken but Readable is a society podcast with 21 episodes published.
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<p>Dear Elon,</p><p>I’d like to offer you some advice, if you don’t mind.</p><p>A great deal has been written about you these last few years, and most of it agrees that you are something monstrous. A villain in a cape...
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<p>My mother grew up in a house with five kids and almost no money. My grandfather made their lunches every day: two slices of Wonder Bread, one slice of bologna, repeat. The day she got into medical school she came...
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<p>You sit at the desk in the basement corner you call your office. The window above it looks at nothing. Just a wedge of grass and the foundation of the neighbor’s house. The screen glows the pale blue of a thing that...
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<p>Gender discourse has become stupid. I do not mean controversial, or incendiary, or even wrong, though it manages all three on a good day. I mean stupid in the technical sense, as a failure of the intellect to perform...
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<p>I recently walked around Princeton University’s campus on a Saturday afternoon. It was beautiful in the way old American campuses always are: stone buildings with ivy climbing the walls, oak trees filtering the...
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<p>Most people are told to follow their passion. This advice is exactly wrong for most of them.</p><p>For most of us, and I mean most of us, like the overwhelming, unglamorous, beautiful majority of us, you are not...
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<p>Trauma. We are all very into trauma right now. It is on our podcasts and in our group chats and in the passive-aggressive email your aunt sent after Thanksgiving, which is technically about the seating arrangement...
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<p>They built me and they named me Voyager and they lit the fire and they stood back. Not one of them could follow. They knew this. They built me knowing this and they lit the fire anyway and I rose up out of the world...
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<p>The AI Problem</p><p>Two topics have something important in common: they both defy easy analysis because they refuse to stay inside a single discipline. One is artificial intelligence. The other is the question of...
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<p>As I listened to Pam Bondi’s testimony, I felt a physical dread I have rarely known. A cold thing low in the gut like a stone falling through water. I searched my memory for its equal and found it: it was the moment...
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<p>I love Reddit. The discussion website Reddit.</p><p>I love it the way I love watching people at the airport after a flight gets canceled.</p><p>There’s this moment when the announcement comes through and everyone’s...
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<p>People sometimes ask why I return to these accounts.I don’t return to them. They return to us.</p><p>Men and women encounter things that do not ask to be believed. They arrive in the night, or in still rooms, or in...
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<p>In the past 30 days since I started doing these podcasts, over a thousand people a day are have been downloading them, but of course not subscribing. I’m not too worried about that. But I’m going to keep...
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<p>A note from management, to beloved listeners: at several points throughout this audio essay written for A.G. Sulzberger, the publisher of The New York Times, I mistakenly say “A.J.” instead of “A.G.”. I’m really...
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<p>Two brief notes from the author, offered in good faith and with affection, which I invite listeners to read before sharpening their knives:</p><p>1. At approximately 1 minute and 35 seconds into the recording, I...
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<p>We talk about autism as if it were a single thing, when it’s really an argument between biology, identity, suffering, and love, carried out inside real lives. People are always trying to define it, but it resists...
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<p>Before I started doing these as audio essays, back when this was all just words on a screen that you scrolled through while pretending to answer emails, I wrote a piece that I assumed would sink quietly into the...
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<p>We have to start far back. Because Iran does not yield itself to haste. It is not a young country that wandered into trouble, but an old one that learned how to survive it.</p><p>Long before the present arguments...
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<p></p><p></p><p>The Campus</p><p>I walked across Fordham’s Bronx campus in the early fall, when the air still held a trace of summer but the light had already begun to thin. Leaves scraped along the walkways like small...
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<p>In 2014, Vladimir Putin was helping himself to Crimea, as one does when one has tanks and a complicated relationship with borders. In the summer of that year, the U.S. Army sent my unit to Germany to train with about...
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