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Writers and siblings Ayelet Waldman and Paul Waldman solve all the world’s problems, while blaming each other for their own.
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Friday Feb 02, 2024
Friday Feb 02, 2024
With the war in Gaza still raging, Ayelet and Paul are joined by Avner Gvaryahu, the executive director of Breaking the Silence, an Israeli organization dedicated to exposing the reality of the occupation. Through the testimony of soldiers who have served in the West Bank and Gaza, BtS forces Israelis to confront the ongoing cost of occupation not only to Palestinians but to the Israelis who administer oppressive policies and come home asking what it does to them and their society.
Friday Feb 02, 2024
Friday Feb 02, 2024
Why are we so attracted to misinformation, oversimplified narratives, and questionable ideas that reinforce our beliefs? When we venture into the online world, what are we communicating about ourselves? Ayelet and Paul discuss these questions with University of Delaware professor Dannagal Goldthwaite Young, author of Wrong: How Media, Politics, and Identity Drive Our Appetite for Misinformation.
Friday Feb 02, 2024
Friday Feb 02, 2024
Welcome to Boundary Issues! In this brief preview episode, siblings Ayelet and Paul Waldman introduce themselves and discuss their plans for the show.
About Ayelet and Paul
Boundary Issues is a podcast created and co-hosted by siblings Ayelet Waldman and Paul Waldman. They interview smart, interesting people who help them explore pressing personal and political issues that affect all our lives, with just the right amount of squabbling and score-settling along the way.
Ayelet Waldman is a novelist, essayist, TV writer, and quilter. Her books include Love and Treasure; and A Really Good Day: How Microdosing Made a Mega Difference in My Mood, My Marriage, and My Life.
Paul Waldman is a journalist and author whose work has appeared in dozens of newspapers and magazines including the Washington Post, where he was a columnist for many years. His Substack is called The Cross Section, and his most recent book is White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy (with Tom Schaller).
And yes, that picture is, shall we say, not recent. But they used it because 1) Ayelet has a spectacular '90s perm, and 2) it shows how much taller Paul is.