Raskin's Top 2024 Interviews
Most Read Interviews from 2024
Friends,
Thanks so much for all your encouragement over the years. Below is a list of our five most read interviews from last year.
We also wanted to share interviews with Senator Joe Lieberman, Nobel Prize-winning economist Daniel Kahneman, and journalist Steve Silberman who all passed away this year.
Finally, since I often ask my guests their most-played songs of the year, I’ve shared my own list for 2024 below.
Most Read Interviews of 2024
5) Amy Chua (Yale Law Professor, Tiger Mom)
“I was the only Asian in my section at Harvard, and I had a chip on my shoulder. I was going to prove to people I could do it. So I learned a lot. I loved my judge. She terrified me, but I learned. But it didn't really help my career, and I didn't really enjoy the material.”
4) Jonathan Haidt (Social Psychologist, Author of The Coddling of the American Mind and The Anxious Generation)
“I never look at likes, though I do often find myself looking at the number of retweets, and a few times a week I’ll look to see when people mention me. I know I shouldn’t — and most public figures say just don’t ever look.”
3) Curtis Yarvin (a.k.a. “Mencius Moldbug”, Blogger)
“I’m an internet poster. I’m a poster, not a writer. I can pretend to be a writer, but really what I am is a poster. A poster posts. He doesn’t compose something and put it through a process. He posts. It’s like the difference between blitz chess and regular chess.”
2) Jesse Ventura (Former Governor and Wrestler)
“Being a villain allows you to be way more creative. Being a good guy, you have to be mom, apple pie, and the girl next door. Unless you're a gimmick. And unless you're a former bad guy who's turned good. But initially, oh, I didn't want to be a fan favorite. There's no creativity there.”
1) Michael Savage (Radio Host, Author, Ethnobotanist)
“My friend's family lived in Wantagh, Long Island — they were richer than us and bought a single-family house — and he got a recorder. And I remember we were playing with the recorder in his basement out on Long Island, and I heard my own voice. I thought, "That's amazing.”
Most-Listened-To Songs of 2024
“Sweet Lorraine” by Doc Cheatham
“Makisupa Policeman (Live)” by Phish
“Hard Times” by Bob Dylan
“24 Caprices, Op. 1: No. 1 in E Major” by Itzhak Perlman
“For All We Know (Live)” by Dave Brubeck Gerry Mulligan
-Max