With Friends Like These

With Friends Like These

Latest Episodes

Are We Overstating Abuse?

November 13, 2020 - 42:00
CW: Sexual violenceAuthor Sarah Schulman joins the show to discuss her provocative and influential book, Conflict Is Not Abuse:...

IN PRAISE OF MAGICAL THINKING

November 6, 2020 - 47:13
Oxford University professor of anthropology Chris Gosden joins us to discuss his book: A History: From Alchemy to Witchcraft, from the...

Cable News Is Bad for America

October 30, 2020 - 59:04
This week, a deep dive into how political enthusiasts’ default background noise is ruining our country. First, we hear from a former...

About The Show

Is the path to hell really paved with Good Intentions? In “With Friends Like These: Good Intentions”, host Ana Marie Cox will introduce people and organizations who set out to make positive change, as well as the ones who ended up doing more harm than good. What’s the brain science behind warm fuzzy feelings? How does altruism change the way we feel about the world? And could trying too hard somehow get us killed? (Spoiler alert: yes.)From social enterprise to social media, our intention is to find the good - and figure out how it goes bad.

Hosted By

Ana Marie Cox
Ana Marie Cox

More Episodes

Are We Overstating Abuse?

November 13, 2020 - 42:00
CW: Sexual violenceAuthor Sarah Schulman joins the show to discuss her provocative and influential book, Conflict Is Not Abuse:...

IN PRAISE OF MAGICAL THINKING

November 6, 2020 - 47:13
Oxford University professor of anthropology Chris Gosden joins us to discuss his book: A History: From Alchemy to Witchcraft, from the...

Cable News Is Bad for America

October 30, 2020 - 59:04
This week, a deep dive into how political enthusiasts’ default background noise is ruining our country. First, we hear from a former...

How Not to Cover a Conspiracy Theory

October 23, 2020 - 31:43
QAnon! What a *wild* conspiracy theory! Blood-drinking! Pedophilia! JFK Jr.! Pretty fascinating stuff! I bet you want to listen to this...

Julián Castro Had Trouble Smiling

October 16, 2020 - 45:29
Why do people enter public service? How do they keep going when times get hard — or they wind up not lasting long in a presidential...

Hating on the Hiker Bro Evangelist

October 9, 2020 - 26:34
It’s easy to feel superior to John Allen Chau, the evangelical Christian who died attempting to bring the Bible to the North...