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Frank Cottrell Boyce – A British Childhood

    The Book Club | 17 June 2026 | 0h 33m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify

    Interview with Frank Cottrell Boyce about his book A British Childhood. Discusses childhood’s profound, unaddressed transformation. Schools, isolated by austerity, now provide extensive welfare. Frictionless digital platforms erode rhythmic storytelling vital for development and bonding. The decline of bedtime stories removes crucial predictability and human connection. Champions reading repetition and child agency, noting digital engagement equates to unknowingly working for AI, stifling future imagination. Stresses addressing childhood poverty and housing insecurity for educational stability, advocating slower, reflective narrative engagement to cultivate agency.

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    Bryan Caplan – Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids

      Rationally Speaking | 4 October 2015 | 1h 03m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
      Interview with Bryan Caplan about his book Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids: Why Being a Great Parent Is Less Work and More Fun Than You Think. Argues that, despite our intuition that parenting choices affect children’s life outcomes, there’s strong evidence to the contrary. Discusses the evidence and explores what that means for how people should parent and how many kids they should have.

       

      Monica Corcoran Harel on Gentle Parenting

      Think from KERA | 19 March 2026 | 0h 45m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
      Interview with Monica Corcoran Harel about her article Because I Said So … Please? Discusses her own path of gentle parenting – what she got right and what she says she realizes she did wrong – and why she feels it’s difficult to set boundaries for this method of parenting, which discourages old-fashioned authoritarian rule.

      Nick Thompson – The Running Ground

        The Next Big Idea | 30 October 2025 | 1h 03m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
        Interview with Nick Thompson about his book The Running Ground: A Father, a Son, and the Simplest of Sports. Explores his lifelong obsession with running and his relationship with his brilliant but troubled father. Discusses his ability to push back against aging forces by getting faster in his 40s; his experience with a diagnosis of thyroid cancer following a personal best marathon time; and emphasizes how running provides a guide to feeling fully alive and present.

        Clare Morrell on The Tech Exit

          Thinking in Public with Albert Mohler | 4 June 2025 | 0h 56m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
          Interview with Clare Morell about her book The Tech Exit: A Practical Guide to Freeing Kids and Teens from Smartphones. Argues that the dangers of tech cannot be managed with parental controls and screen-time limits and outlines an approach for families, local communities, and society to raise children without phones.

          Family Dynamics: Unraveling the Mystery of Sibling Success

          The Next Big Idea | 17 April 2025 | 0h 52m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
          Interview with Susan Dominus about her book The Family Dynamic. Discusses her investigation of high-achieving families looking for parenting techniques and life lessons and her insight that it is really about families who believe that the sky’s the limit.

          Naval Ravikant and Aaron Stupple – How to Raise a Sovereign Child

            The Tim Ferriss Show | 16 January 2025 | 3h 11m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
            Interview with Naval Ravikant and Aaron Stupple about Stupple’s book The Sovereign Child: How a Forgotten Philosophy Can Liberate Kids and Their Parents. Contrasts conventional wisdom with the permissive parenting philosophy Taking Children Seriously.

            See also the Dwarkesh Podcast episode with Sarah Fitz-Claridge on the parenting philosophy Taking Children Seriously.

            Bill Gates on Source Code

              Next Question with Katie Couric | 6 February 2025 | 0h 43m | Listen Later | Podcasts | Spotify
              Interview with Bill Gates about his book Source Code: My Beginnings. Discusses the moments that shaped his journey in life and technology; how his parents’ decision to send him to therapy helped him grow; the unforgettable moment when Paul Allen rushed into his Harvard dorm with the spark that led to Microsoft; how his initial tech optimism has evolved with time; the unexpected consequences of technology and the ways our online lives have rewired how we think; and the disruption caused by the gutting of key agencies under Trump and Elon Musk, while stressing the importance of finding a path forward.