On Being with Krista Tippett
Today: #174 in Society & Culture on our combined chart.
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| Date | Combined Rank | Apple Podcasts |
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| Oct 5 | #174 | #165 |
| Oct 4 | #186 | #177 |
About the show
Latest episodes
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Michael Pollan — The Mystery of Consciousness
May 14, 2026 · 1 hr 14 minFrom Krista: Michael Pollan’s latest book, A World Appears, is an exploration — with scientists and journalists and technologists and spiritual teachers — of what consciousness is, and is not, or might be: from the plants which have…
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“The Fierce Urgency of Now” — Michelle Alexander and Lucas Johnson
May 7, 2026 · 1 hr 17 minFrom Krista: On April 4, 1967, Martin Luther King Jr. gave a speech at Riverside Church in New York City called “A Time to Break Silence.” This is often referred to as his “Beyond Vietnam” Speech. His own allies criticized it as a risky…
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Shai Held — On Love, and Judaism
March 26, 2026 · 1 hr 17 minFrom Krista: I'm on record bemoaning across the years that “love” is the most watered-down word in the English language. I know that invoking love feels very soft for our hard realms of politics and war. Yet it is an enduring truth that…
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Jason Reynolds — On Hopelessness, the Virtue of Stamina, and Showing Grace to Ourselves
March 19, 2026 · 52 minFrom Krista: I was longing for a deep dive on the radiant and common-sense hope that Jason Reynolds embodies after I interviewed him at a Georgetown event last year. I got my chance at the 2025 Aspen Ideas Festival. Jason’s perspective is…
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Arab Aramin, Robi Damelin, Liora Eilon, Mohamed Abu Jafar — Turning Unbearable Loss Into Ground of Shared Life
March 12, 2026 · 1 hr 7 minFrom Krista: A few months ago, I was invited to sit with four people sharing a very different Israeli-Palestinian story than that which comes to us in headlines. They are members of the Parents Circle - Bereaved Families Forum, a very…
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Gül Dölen — Psychedelic Science and Radical Healing
March 5, 2026 · 1 hr 8 minFrom Krista: This episode is a journey inside what I've come to see as a parallel universe unfolding, where our species is unlocking knowledge about ourselves and capacities for radical healing of the most extreme trauma and distress…
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Joy Harjo and Tracy K. Smith – "This world is full of everything good, everything beautiful."
February 26, 2026 · 1 hr 9 minFrom Krista: These days I sometimes have to remind myself to keep breathing. I think this is true of human beings across all of our differences and divides. But in a room in New York City just before the turn of this year, I was…
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A New Season for a Tender New Year
February 19, 2026 · 1 minFive new On Being episodes will begin to roll out next week … We begin with the delightful beloved poets (and friends) Joy Harjo and Tracy K. Smith in conversation together with Krista. We move on to the neuroscientist Gül Dölen; a…