Best Cory Ruth Podcasts (2025)

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PCOS Nutrition Without the All-or-Nothing Spiral (Book Review of "PCOS Is My Power" with Cory Ruth, MS, RD) 36:10

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SHE'S BACK!!! Cory Ruth (aka The Women’s Dietitian) is here to talk about her brand new book, PCOS Is My Power, and why she’s determined to make PCOS feel less like a life sentence and more like a gift. You’ll also hear a very real conversation about how restrictive PCOS advice (hello, “just do keto”) can backfire, especially if you already struggl…

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174. Rules, Games, and Anarchy -- Jay Dragon 52:04

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Ever since C. Thi Nguyen appeared on the podcast, I've been trying to use games to understand more about the relationship between rules and life. Jay Dragon, whose game Wanderhome is almost ruleless, joins me to discuss games, rules, and anarchy, and we especially talk about how we can analyze oppressive real-world systems as if they're games. Here…

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Prospect Lives: Behind the clerical curtain on Christmas Eve 40:12

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Anglican priest Alice Goodman explains how clerics manage their Christmas “turnaround time’, while Gen Z-er Alice Garnett takes us behind the scenes on a comedy panel show. Vitali Vitaliev is reminded of his first life in Soviet Russia by a museum of banned books in Tallinn, while Sarah Collins cautions against the use of AI therapy. Hosted on Acas…

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‘Despair is a luxury’: A year of hope with Zizek, Mehdi Hasan, Robert Macfarlane and others 42:15

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In the final podcast of the year, Ellen and Alona look back at their favourite episodes from 2025. During a dark year, Prospect has been collecting glimmers of hope. They asked some of the most interesting thinkers today—from politics, to environment to tech—for their perspectives on hope and optimism. What keeps them fighting for a more just world…

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173. From William Morris to Bauhaus to Midcentury Modern -- Robin Schuldenfrei 1:05:34

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Robin Schuldenfrei rejoins me to talk more Bauhaus! In this episode, we discuss her book Luxury and Modernism, covering the complexities of the Bauhaus, which had a leftwing ethos but produced luxury objects, and made them by hand to appear machine made. Robin talks us through how the contradiction between luxury and egalitarianism ran from Morris'…

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K-pop and Sydney Sweeney’s jeans: Prospect’s cultural year in review 49:18

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Swooning audiences, demon-hunting popstars, and Sydney Sweeney’s jeans—it’s been quite a year for arts and culture. In this week’s special episode, three of Prospect’s critics join books and culture editor Pete Hoskin to chat over eggnog and mince pies. Kate Maltby, Lucy Scholes and Laura Barton encounter the Prospect wheel of fortune and share the…

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How to Quiet Food Noise Naturally (Without Ozempic) 29:06

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If food feels like the background noise of your entire life, this episode is for you. GLP-1 meds like Ozempic and Wegovy can quiet food noise dramatically. Unfortunately, this only lasts while you're actively taking the medication. For many, they can't stay on them forever or don't want to start them at all. Even still, there are some currently on …

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The budget’s good bit: Terri White and Ruth Patrick on the two-child benefit limit 35:51

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Seven MPs were suspended for rebelling on the two-child benefit limit last year. Now that the government has announced it will lift the policy, what will change? And why was this such a major focus for anti-poverty campaigners? Ellen and Alona are joined by two experts on the subject: journalist and campaigner Terri White and Ruth Patrick, professo…

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Prospect Lives: Chatbot friends and corresponding with strangers 32:24

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This month, Anglican priest Alice Goodman explains why she has mixed feelings about pilgrimages, while Gen Z-er Alice Garnett despairs at the development of AI friends. Sarah Collins contracts a case of burnout, while Kiran Sidhu enters into correspondence with a stranger. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…

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Cory Doctorow: How the internet went to sh*t 51:02

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Why does every platform seem to get worse over time? This week, Ellen and Alona are joined by journalist, tech activist and sci-fi writer Cory Doctorow, who coined the term “enshittification” to describe the decay of digital services into exploitative, user-hostile platforms. As constraints that once kept platforms in check have broken down, Cory s…

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Fixing 50+ Years of Food Obsession. Here's What We Did That a GLP-1 & Weight Loss Surgery Failed To | Client Confessional with Heidi 39:03

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What happens when you’ve spent your whole life thinking about food and your weight from the moment you wake up to the moment you go to bed… and suddenly your mind feels calm for the first time ever? In today’s Client Confessional, Heidi (now in her mid-60s) opens up about a lifetime of struggling with her weight, binge eating, food noise, and the c…

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172. Liberty as Independence -- John McGowan 1:16:40

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John McGowan joins me to discuss Liberty as Independence, Quentin Skinner's new book about the way that our ideals of liberty were formed in in 17th and 18th century debates. The book covers legendary figures, such as Hobbes, Milton, Locke, Swift, Paine, and Jefferson, as well as many lesser-known figures that they engaged with. For more from John …

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How Palantir infiltrated the state 30:11

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Palantir has acquired key UK government contracts, promising to make government more effective. But Peter Thiel’s controversial company has also worked with the US government and ICE on deportations and with Israel’s military during its war on Gaza. This week, investigative journalist Mark Wilding joins Ellen to explain how the tech giant has becom…

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Serhii Plokhy: How close are we to nuclear war? 38:43

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In a world of unpredictable strongman leaders, do nuclear weapons keep us safe or make us more vulnerable? This week, Ellen and Alona are joined by Serhii Plokhy, historian and author of The Nuclear Age, to discuss the threat of nuclear conflict. From Putin’s war in Ukraine to China’s expanding arsenal and new nuclear “threshold” states, Serhii dis…

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Biblical Truths for a Healthy Relationship with Food and Body: 4 Things Every Christian Should Hear 28:14

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What does the Bible really say about health, food, and body image? You asked, I'm delivering! Due to popular demand, here's another episode on the topic of faith & food freedom or being a Christian woman while navigating a healthy relationship with food. I've boiled my thoughts down to 4 biblical truths I think every Christian woman (or man, really…

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171. Reel Politik -- Nathan Gelgud 1:01:04

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Nathan Gelgud joins me to discuss Reel Politik, a comics collection about a group of Brechtian revolutionaries who take over the movie theatre they work in. Nathan and I discuss our shared love for movies, the radical nature of paying attention to a movie screen, and The Chelsea Theater, a local movie theatre in Chapel Hill that Nathan and I both l…

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Yanis Varoufakis on Mamdani, hope and resistance 48:30

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How should the left resist fascism? This week, Prospect’s Ben Clark speaks to Yanis Varoufakis, economist and Greece’s former finance minister, whose most recent book is Raise Your Soul: A Personal History of Resistance. Yanis reflects on writing a feminist history as a man, what his family’s encounters with Nazism taught him, and whether today’s l…

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The Future of Aid 36:55

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In this episode of Policy Insights, sponsored by ASI and produced by Prospect Publishing, Prospect deputy editor Ellen Halliday talks to Annalisa Prizzon from ODI Global, Daniel Pimlott from ASI, and Stefan Dercon from the Blavatnik Institute and Oxford University about the future of foreign aid. Our expert guests share their perspectives on the ch…

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170. The Biblical Curse of Wealth -- Pastor Micah 1:00:47

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Pastor Micah joins me to share a radical reading of the Book of Genesis in which wealth isn't a blessing on God's people, but a curse! I recently appeared on Micah's podcast, The Word in Black and Red, to discuss the 10 Commandments with Micah. That link is here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s-2-20-exodus-19-20-arrival-at-mt-sanai-the-ten-…

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Halloween special: AI and modern monsters 38:56

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Zombies, werewolves and...ChatGPT? In this week’s spooky special, Ellen and Alona are joined by historian and “monster consultant” Surekha Davies, who argues that humans have always created monsters to understand the world—and ourselves. In her new book Humans: A Monstrous History, she explores a history of monsters, as well as the weird and horrif…

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"I can control everything… except food." An Episode for the Perfectionist 30:13

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You can crush it in your career, manage a family, and hit every goal on your vision board… But your secret stash of food says otherwise 👀 In this episode, I’m breaking down why perfectionists (the high-functioning, Type A, “I’ve got this” women) are the ones MOST likely to binge in secret. We’ll talk control, shame, biology, and the sneaky psycholo…

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169. The Teacher and Society -- Alfie Kohn 41:01

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Alfie Kohn returns to the show to discuss his new podcast, the role of teachers in social progress, and why someone's view on chatbots in the classroom tells you eveything you need to know about their view of education. You can listen to Kohn's Zone wherever you get your podcasts, or get it straight from his website: https://www.alfiekohn.org/podca…

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‘Petty rules make no sense in an authoritarian takeover!’ 52:19

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Does Washington need a shake up? As the Democratic party faces its lowest favourability ratings on record, one man wants to completely change its brand. This week, Prospect’s Ben Clark speaks to Saikat Chakrabarti, progressive political adviser and former chief of staff to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who is now running for Congress himself. Saikat di…

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Trump, texting and taking a stand 37:16

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This month our writers are reflective: Alice Goodman asks how to be a priest in divided times, while Gen Z-er Alice Garnett questions the assumptions that underpin modern texting etiquette. Mindful life writer Sarah Collins decides to shift her pessimistic mindset, while rural life writer Kiran Sidhu learns to let go. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com…

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Robert Jenrick and the rise of British ethnonationalism 41:48

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This week, political columnist Ben Ansell joins Prospect’s Alona and Imaan to discuss the rise of ethnonationalism in British politics, and the popularisation of the term “white British”. Ben explains the origin and implications of a term that has gone politically “viral”. He also discusses how a national conversation about asylum policy has “metas…

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If "Brain Over Binge" Didn't Work For You, Here's Why (Dietitian Reacts | Book Review) 20:02

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You read Brain Over Binge. You tried to “just stop binging.” You waited for your “animal brain” to quiet down… but somehow you still ended up knee-deep in granola at 11 p.m. You’re not broken. The book just left out a few key chapters. 🤣 In this episode, I'll review Brain Over Binge through the lens of an evidence-based dietitian who works with wom…

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168. Enshittification -- Cory Doctorow 34:47

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It's not your imagination: everything is getting worse. And there's a reason why.

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Are we all being manipulated? This week, Ellen and Alona are joined by Cass Sunstein–one of the scholars behind “nudge” theory–who explains how companies exploit our cognitive biases for their own profit. Cass is the founder and director of the Program on Behavioral Economics and Public Policy at Harvard, and author of Manipulation: What It Is, Why…