When We Disagree

About When We Disagree

What's a disagreement you can’t get out of your head? When We Disagree highlights the arguments that stuck with us, one story at a time.

Publisher

Michael Lee

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

15 Mar 2024

Latest episode

27 May 2026

Latest episodes

32 of 141 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   27 May 2026

   You Are Not a Pawn: Reclaiming Attention in a Wired World

   Gloria Mark (attention expert, author of Attention Span and The Future of Attention Substack) challenges the reigning cultural narrative that tech giants have completely hijacked our brains. Debating those she calls "techno-determinists," Mark pushes back against the viral idea that users are merely helpless pawns to the addictive algorithms of TikTok and YouTube. While she freely acknowledges that big tech shares some of the blame, she brings a data-driven defense of human agency, showi...

2. 

   27 May 2026

   Season 3 Finale: Can Civility Survive Modern Politics? Meet a Lawmaker Who Said Yes

   Former Minnesota State Representative Sandra Feist, who led the state's Civility Caucus and practices as an immigration attorney, shares two contrasting stories of political conflict. She details how an out-of-context tweet by a Republican colleague was successfully defused through direct, personal communication and shared policy expertise, eventually leading to a meaningful piece of bipartisan legislation. In contrast, she examines a separate floor altercation that spiraled into tribal post...

3. 

   20 May 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Anatomy of a Digital Boycott: When the Crowd Demands Retribution

   Host Katherine Brodsky shares her experience navigating a digital boycott and the fallout from managing an online forum, offering insights into online outrage and its consequences.

Inside a recent episode

Anatomy of a Digital Boycott: When the Crowd Demands Retribution

Published 20 May 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] And so I realized, well, I don't respect those people, not because of their opinion, but how they go about enforcing it. And so that changed things for me quite a bit. And also at the time was having a lot of people reaching out who said, oh, you know, what's happening to you is really wrong. And I'm feeling really ashamed because I want to speak up, but I'm too afraid of doing that. People were really afraid of the mob. People shared their own experiences with it. And I think that's what caused me to become somebody who speaks up about these issues more. It's not something I wanted to do, but I felt sort of a personal responsibility to do so. […]

Who has been a guest on When We Disagree

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Katherine Brodsky
• Lauren Hall
• Angel Grant
• Tina Singleton
• Sarah Pessin

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

22 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

9 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 74 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

99

Social presence

91

YouTube

0

Engagement

77

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