Tara Henley

2 weeks ago | tarahenley.substack.com | Tara Henley

Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -29:46Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. In polarized times, our tolerance for different perspectives decreases. Groupthink becomes common, and we can often find ourselves either censored, or self-censoring. My guest on the program today has done a deep dive into this topic, and she has some thoughts on how we can begin to speak up — while still seeing our ideological opponents as human.

3 weeks ago | tarahenley.substack.com | Tara Henley

Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -31:21Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Tonight, in London, England, a group of writers and thinkers will gather to debate a key cultural question: “Is woke dead?” And tomorrow, the inaugural conference of a new centre for social science kicks off.

1 month ago | tarahenley.substack.com | Tara Henley

Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -36:29Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. In this turbulent era, for many of us there is a moment in every day when anxiety steals over us. We pause, and in that rare period of stillness, the fears surface — but sometimes, if we’re lucky, so too do the reflections and the insights. My guest on today’s program has called this interlude “the catastrophe hour,” and she’s just published a book of essays that beautifully captures it.

1 month ago | tarahenley.substack.com | Tara Henley

Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -25:05Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Now that the dust has settled on the Canadian federal election, we can pause for a moment and assess where we are at as a country. What lessons can we take from the election results? My guest on today’s program has been polling Canadians for decades — and he says that we are now a divided nation. Darrell Bricker is the CEO of Ipsos Public Affairs.

2 months ago | tarahenley.substack.com | Tara Henley

Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -42:49Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. We are in the final week of the Canadian federal election. And while Trump’s trade policy has received much coverage this election season, our housing crisis has been less of a priority for the legacy press.