Larissa MacFarquhar
7 Podcast Episodes
Episode QS54: Katie Engelhart + Larissa MacFarquhar (June 17, 2021)
Episode QS54: Katie Engelhart + Larissa MacFarquhar (June 17, 2021)
Content warning: This episode discusses suicide and death. Reporter Katie Engelhart discusses her compassionate and thou... Read more
17 Jun 2021
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57mins
Larissa MacFarquhar on a Potentially Deadly Experiment, and Jelani Cobb on the Killing of Ahmaud Arbery
Larissa MacFarquhar on a Potentially Deadly Experiment, and Jelani Cobb on the Killing of Ahmaud Arbery
Abie Roehrig, a twenty-year-old undergraduate, has put his name on a list of volunteers for a human-challenge trial to t... Read more
22 May 2020
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28mins
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S01E11: A Camera, A Child, and A Vulture - Larissa MacFarquhar
S01E11: A Camera, A Child, and A Vulture - Larissa MacFarquhar
In the depths of a brutal famine in Sudan in 1993, Kevin Carter took a photo of a starving child and a perched vulture w... Read more
22 Nov 2019
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1hr 51mins
Larissa MacFarquhar on Getting Inside Someone's Head
Larissa MacFarquhar on Getting Inside Someone's Head
As a writer of profiles, Larissa MacFarquhar is granted the privilege of listening to, learning from, and sharing the st... Read more
16 Jan 2019
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1hr
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Can't Help Helping: Larissa MacFarquhar on Attitudes Toward Altruism
Can't Help Helping: Larissa MacFarquhar on Attitudes Toward Altruism
Most of us have no problem operating under the notion that we should do unto others as we would have others do unto us. ... Read more
23 Feb 2016
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30mins
Larissa MacFarquhar on Radical Altruism and *Strangers Drowning*
Larissa MacFarquhar on Radical Altruism and *Strangers Drowning*
Host Dr. Richard Louis Miller interviews renowned New Yorker journalist Larissa MacFarquhar, whose new book, *Strangers... Read more
6 Feb 2016
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56mins
Jessica Jackley and Larissa MacFarquhar: Impossible Idealism: Inventing a Moral Life
Jessica Jackley and Larissa MacFarquhar: Impossible Idealism: Inventing a Moral Life
What does it mean to devote yourself to helping others? Larissa MacFarquhar, a staff writer for The New Yorker, follows ... Read more
2 Oct 2015
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1hr 17mins
