It’s easy to think of Memorial Day weekend as a chance to get tanner (the pool is calling), fuller (the grill is calling), and happier (the office is, well, not calling). But a three-day weekend on the cusp of summer is also a great time to get smarter.
Enter Vox’s expanding stable of thought-provoking podcasts.
Whether you’re driving to the beach or lying on a towel on the warm sand, here are 11 Vox podcast episodes that are bound to teach you something new. Happy listening.
Podcasts on identity:
The Ezra Klein Show: Work as identity, burnout as lifestyle (with Anne Helen Petersen and Derek Thompson). Ezra Klein reflects with BuzzFeed’s Anne Helen Petersen and the Atlantic’s Derek Thompson on the outsize role that career and productivity play in defining Americans’ sense of self. It’s a conversation so interesting that it justifies musing about work during your time off.
Switched on Pop: Country at the crossroads. Lil Nas X’s surprise hit “Old Town Road”…
