The Hope Axis by Anna Gát
Episodes
Dylan O'Sullivan - The Classics Are Never Getting Old
29 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week on The Hope Axis, Dylan O’Sullivan joins to talk about the classics and their second life online.We get into reading in the age of TikTok ...
Say it Plainly
15 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week on The Hope Axis, I’m very happy to welcome Alastair Benn, deputy editor of Engelsberg Ideas. In this conversation, we talk about Scottish...
Why Everything Is Broken and How to Fix It
08 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week on The Hope Axis, I’m very happy to welcome Alana Newhouse. Alana is a journalist, editor, and founder of Tablet Magazine, and the author ...
Societal Collapse, Complexity, and the Path to Abundance
18 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week on The Hope Axis, I’m happy to welcome back Eli Dourado. Eli has joined us before in Interintellect salons, and now he’s on the podcast ...
The End of Year Collective Episode
06 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week on The Hope Axis, I’m joined by Natasha Joukovsky, Noah Smith, Musa al-Gharbi, Erica Robles Anderson, Santiago Ramos, Jacob Falkovich, and...
Explaining AI to the Humanities
03 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week on The Hope Axis, I’m joined by Emmett Shear to talk about AI, hope, and how we should actually think about the future. Emmett is the co-f...
Jasmine Sun - Bridging the Divide Between Writers and Technologists
21 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week on The Hope Axis, I’m joined by Jasmine Sun for a conversation about AI, writing, creativity, and how writers are actually navigating all ...
Shadi Hamid - The Case for American Power
07 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Shadi Hamid joins me on The Hope Axis. Shadi is a political scientist and writer known for his sharp thinking on democracy, religion, and A...
Cate Hall: Crossing The Imaginary Boundaries
30 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Writer and thinker Cate Hall joins me to talk about the tightrope between radical optimism and deep pessimism — and what it actually takes to stay h...
Gena Gorlin - Therapy for the True Outliers
29 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Psychologist and founder coach Dr. Gena Gorlin joins me to discuss The Founder’s Mindset — how to stay hopeful, resilient, and creative while buil...
Danielle Strachman: Existential Hope and the Future
02 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The beloved Danielle Strachman, co-founder of the Thiel Fellowship and founder of 1517 Fund, joins The Hope Axis to discuss why hope is taboo in moder...
Roy Bahat: Hope for the Future of Talent
17 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
My friend Roy Bahat joins The Hope Axis for a fun and sharp conversation about hope for the future of talent, timeless ideas vs hypes, resilience and ...
Tyler Cowen: The Hope of a Polymath
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The dearest Tyler Cowen joins The Hope Axis for a fun and wide ranging conversation. We talk about hope for insiders and outsiders, the competitive an...
James Marriott: The Hope in Great Books
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Times columnist James Marriott joins me to discuss the decline of reading comprehension, the risk-averse publishing industry, the addictive nature...
Alice Gribbin: The Hopes of An Aesthete
28 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The lovely Alice Gribbin joins me for a conversation about the mystery of inspiration, why intellectualizing art is a bad idea, the visceral encounter...
Kat Rosenfield: Hope for Millennial Women
21 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The brilliant Kat Rosenfield joins me for a conversation about millennial women, victimhood narratives, the enduring appeal of rich husbands, why we&#...
Sari Azout: The Awe of the Sublime
28 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The inimitable Sari Azout, founder of the new digital gardening platform Sublime, joins me for a wide-ranging discussion about ideas, digital minimali...
Erik Hoel: Free Will, Consciousness, and Hopeful Futures
14 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The very great Erik Hoel joins me for a conversation on AI, free will, emergence, creativity, neuroscience, consciousness and much more. Hope you enjo...
Santiago Ramos: A Hope for End Times
20 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Santiago Ramos of Wisdom of Crowds joins me to talk about hope in apocalyptic times. AI, public philosophy, journalism, the aesthetics of urgent hones...
Agnes Callard: Socratic Inquiries for a Hopeful Age
30 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The very great Agnes Callard joins me to talk about her excellent new book Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life.Just two Hungarian girls d...
Rohit Krishnan: Hope for India, Hope for the AGI Era
17 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Author, builder and friend — Rohit Krishan joins me in a wide ranging conversation about Indian and American culture. We discuss the Get Shit Done m...
Replit Co-founder Haya Odeh: Hope for the Bravest Founders
17 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The brilliant and always candid Haya Odeh - co-founder and design lead of Replit - and I talked about her company (and her husband and co-founder Amja...
Max Meyer: Hope for America
31 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Max Meyer, founder and editor of Arena Magazine, and I sat down to talk about the Army and DOGE, Alex Karp and farming, Love Letters to America and To...
Richard Hanania: A Golden Age of Satire
22 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
#satire #newsletters #DOGE #elonmusk #politics #liberalism #trolls #feminismThis was our 21st episode, and I celebrated its coming of drinking age by ...
Kyla Scanlon: Hope for GenZ
18 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The great Kyla Scanlon, economics creator and author of the book 'In This Economy?' (and host of some great Interintellect salons and series) ...
Henry Oliver: How to Build a Literary Canon?
04 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Writer, literary critic, and the man behind the great The Common Reader (https://www.commonreader.co.uk) blog, Henry Oliver joined me to gossip about ...
Jim O'Shaughnessy: Life on Wall Street and Beyond
22 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Investor and writer Jim O'Shaughnessy came on The Hope Axis and shared his Theory of Life. We talked about…probably everything? The 80s on Wall ...
Zena Hitz: The Purpose of an Intellectual Life
14 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The one and only Zena Hitz — Tutor at St. John's College and author of one of my favourite books 'Lost in Thought — joined me to talk abou...
Irina Dumitrescu: Can We Understand the People of the Past?
06 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Medieval scholar Irina Dumitrescu and I talk about the medieval mindset, faith, doubt, sex, and suicide. And also Margery Kempe and fame, heretics and...
Sarah Haider: Neo-Religion, New Atheists, Ex-Muslims, and Spiritual Quests
04 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Writer, podcaster, and activist Sarah Haider joined me to discuss New Atheism, neo-religion, spiritual journeys, Cultural Islam. We reminisced about t...
Paul Millerd: Self-Liberation, Self-Publishing, Self-Knowledge
04 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Writer and community builder Paul Millerd joined me to discuss his two excellent self-published books The Pathless Path and Good Work, as well as: Sce...
Reggie James: Spiritual Technology
20 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Co-founder and CEO of the GenZ media company Eternal, Reggie James joined me to talk about how technology could better serve people's spiritual - even...
Cartoons Hate Her: Marriage, Women, the Gender Wars - Fantasy vs Reality
15 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The brilliant anonymous blogger Cartoons Hate Her joined me to explore dating and attraction, marriage and work, raising children and being in the med...
A. Natasha Joukovsky: Status and Mythology
26 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Novelist and essayist A. Natasha Joukovksy joined me to talk about status and attraction, mimesis and uniformity, Girard and Austen, Batuman and Kierk...
Dwarkesh Patel: The Art of Getting Started and Noticed
12 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Podcaster star Dwarkesh Patel on how his eponymous podcast started, how his niche interests empower him, what he learned about scene-building and gett...
Emma Acker: Death Doulas, The Art of Dying, The Logistics of the End
08 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Professional end-of-life doula Emma Acker joined me to discuss the mystery of dying -- and the forgotten art of being there with the dying. Her job is...
Musa al-Gharbi: Elites, Social Justice, Cancel Culture
19 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Musa al-Gharbi, sociologist, journalism professor, author of the new book 'We Have Never Been Woke: The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite'...
Michael Roth: Academia, Activism, Catharsis
09 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Wesleyan University president Michael S. Roth joined me to talk about virtue and the arts, the campus and the political student of the future, and why...
Claire Lehmann: Free Thought, Inquiry, Intellectuals
27 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Quillette founding editor Claire Lehmann joined me for this exceptional episode where we dive into all the conditions, ideals, and effort that ensure ...
Jacob Falkovich: Dating, Fertility, Polyamory
19 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Author, rationalist, finance expert Jacob Falkovich visited The Hope Axis. We talked about data and dating, rationality in love, fertility and polyamo...
Erica Robles-Anderson: Media, Innovation, Community, Care
08 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
NYU professor Erica Robles-Anderson joins to discuss her theory of media generations, human suffering, ways of togetherness, what we can learn from me...
Phil Klay: Laughing at Evil - Comedy, Violence, Meaning
06 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
National Book Award winning Phil Klay, author of Redeployment and Missionaries, joined me for a conversation about humour and the absurd, humanity and...
Katherine Dee: Internet, Free Speech, Happiness
25 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The great Katherine Dee (Default Friend) joined me for this lively discussion (debate?): we talked about happiness, free speech, online creativity, su...
Noah Smith: Culture, War, The Future
18 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Noah Smith and I kick off my new podcast series The Hope Axis. We talk about the future, the economy, India, China, and of course America. We look at ...