Host of the Hard Knox podcast, NYT best-selling author, advocate for criminal justice reform and media ethics. Turning adversity into insight.
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When you finally deliver a creative project you’ve been working on for a long time, how do you cope with the emotional hangover, how do you make space to reflect, and how do you give yourself grace to not have the answers or know what’s next?
What happens when fighting for your life becomes a crime?
“Trauma” has become a controversial word in the current culture wars.
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What if a quiz show could fix America’s political divide?
Sunday, July 19 at 9:00amPT/12:00amET
As she prepares for the premiere of her one-woman show, Cartwheel, at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this August, Amanda has been thinking about the relationship between tragedy and comedy.
Seth Ferranti is a former LSD kingpin and fugitive on the US Marshall’s Top 15 Most Wanted list who faced a highly publicized and lengthy prison sentence due to the DEA’s early-’90s crackdown on LSD.
Amanda woke up to good news and bad news arriving at the exact same moment — again.
Sunday, June 28 at 8:00amPT/11:00amET
The death penalty is often sold as justice.
An Essay on Untranslatable Words
Watch now | Amanda Knox is a multi-linguist and self-described word nerd.
Greg Lukianoff is one of our nation’s foremost defenders of free speech, co-author of “The Canceling of the American Mind,” and president of FIRE, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression.
What happens when your creative partner is also your spouse?
Tuesday, May 26 at 3:00pmPT/6:00pmET
What happens when a culture decides that visibility is power and then punishes women for being visible?
An essay on being together-but-alone
In this monthly Hard Knox essay Amanda explores the “third way of being”: not alone, not truly together, but that warm middle state where you want someone near without the obligation of actually meeting them.
We are now routinely faced with a dilemma: News breaks hat an artist beloved has done something horrible.
What happens when confronting the person who hurt you doesn’t bring the closure you hoped for?
