David McRaney

Books

The You Are Not So Smart Podcast

Interview with Central Standard
I sat down with the fine people at KCUR’s Central Standard to talk about my upcoming book about changing your mind. Continue reading →
Interview with Dr. Drew
I visited Dr. Drew’s podcast to talk about the Dunning-Kruger Effect, changing your mind, and how to deal with people who refuse to accept evidence that threatens their ideologies. Continue reading →
Interview with Rationally Speaking
I spent an afternoon with Julia Galef on the Rationally Speaking podcast discussing why it is so hard to change your mind and the minds of others. Continue reading →
Beautiful Clutter
Two potted plants live near a yellow rocking chair on the tiny front porch sitting on some weathered green astroturf. A bell clangs when you pull open the single front door, and then that wonderful backdraft of a million inked letters on thousands of aging paper pages rushes past you. Continue reading →
How Fox News Stole My Father
You need captives to create a captive audience. Continue reading →
Sleeping with the Dead
Jennifer Johnson no longer gets chills when she hears them. In the business they are called rattles or crackles. They are the sounds a body produces when trapped air makes its way back through the larynx. A death groan. Continue reading →
Interview with Dime Magazine
Reckoning with Southern roots - DIME Magazine interviews best-selling Mississippi author David McRaney about what it means to be a Southern writer who doesn’t write about hounddogs or whiskey. Continue reading →