Top Picks 2021: Why Connection Wins Every Time

After a year of conversations, it’s time to reflect on our favorites. We go behind the scenes with the team to surface the episodes that have moved us, changed us and sustained us during this abjectly crappy time in American life. Founding producer Susan George tells Kelly her top 3 picks, ending with her #1: writer, thinker, humanist Johann Hari. Susan mentions: Episode 37 Amanda Ripley on Personal and Global Conflict and Episode 39 Carvell Wallace on Understanding and Acceptance as well as Johann Hari’s book Lost Connections and Andrew Sullivan’s book Virtually Normal: An Argument about Homosexuality.