# Amanda Knox Host of the Hard Knox podcast, NYT best-selling author, advocate for criminal justice reform and media ethics. Turning adversity into insight. Page: Feed: --- ## [Creative Aftermath](https://amandaknox.substack.com/p/creative-aftermath) _2026-08-18 · Amanda Knox_ 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? [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/211756986/10e0d19ac0a198dbe646d872de02dfbb.mp3) ## [Why Unreasonable Women Go to Prison (Justine van der Leun)](https://amandaknox.substack.com/p/why-unreasonable-women-go-to-prison) _2026-08-11 · Amanda Knox_ What happens when fighting for your life becomes a crime? [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/202301622/60fddb4053f3accaa285a798c282532f.mp3) ## [Old School: The Modern Trauma Toolkit (Christine Gibson)](https://amandaknox.substack.com/p/old-school-the-modern-trauma-toolkit) _2026-07-28 · Amanda Knox_ “Trauma” has become a controversial word in the current culture wars. [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/207320455/b0f9fd3cc8cebf6ef9c8b97554c28461.mp3) ## [CARTWHEEL: Edinburgh Fringe Festival Debut, Aug 7](https://amandaknox.substack.com/p/cartwheel-edinburgh-fringe-festival) _2026-07-22 · Amanda Knox_ See it in Seattle July 30 - Aug 2 ## [How to Hack Your Brain's Moral Code (Joshua Greene)](https://amandaknox.substack.com/p/how-to-hack-your-brains-moral-code) _2026-07-14 · Amanda Knox_ What if a quiz show could fix America’s political divide? [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/202206007/8b3df5d98be56fe9a47f11c7e8746d0f.mp3) ## [Founding Member Video Hangout on Sunday, July 19](https://amandaknox.substack.com/p/founding-member-video-hangout-on-eac) _2026-07-10 · Amanda Knox_ Sunday, July 19 at 9:00amPT/12:00amET ## [Humor as Catharsis](https://amandaknox.substack.com/p/humor-as-catharsis) _2026-07-09 · Amanda Knox_ 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. [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/206216135/0fd072c2573a32ef9a438a79cb4d94f3.mp3) ## [Old School: The Outlaw (Seth Ferranti)](https://amandaknox.substack.com/p/old-school-the-outlaw-seth-ferranti) _2026-06-30 · Amanda Knox_ 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. [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/203732642/de35386d997263335f19998bf5a85d1d.mp3) ## [Good News Bad News](https://amandaknox.substack.com/p/good-news-bad-news) _2026-06-23 · Amanda Knox_ Amanda woke up to good news and bad news arriving at the exact same moment — again. [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/202628877/c2e1eec51ae261dbebe336bbd93096c4.mp3) ## [Founding Member Video Hangout on Sunday, June 28](https://amandaknox.substack.com/p/founding-member-video-hangout-on-7f5) _2026-06-16 · Amanda Knox_ Sunday, June 28 at 8:00amPT/11:00amET ## [Stay updated on your professional world (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/wkmyOeJSSalm) _2026-06-16 · **Sponsored**_ Keep in touch with people you know, build your career. ## [Why Fear Makes Bad Policy (Laura Porter)](https://amandaknox.substack.com/p/why-fear-makes-bad-policy-laura-porter) _2026-06-16 · Amanda Knox_ The death penalty is often sold as justice. [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/191506714/2561f19d887850b97d20f0e92d5b0d13.mp3) ## [Fifty Words for Snow](https://amandaknox.substack.com/p/fifty-words-for-snow-04d) _2026-06-11 · Amanda Knox_ An Essay on Untranslatable Words ## [Fifty Words for Snow](https://amandaknox.substack.com/p/fifty-words-for-snow) _2026-06-09 · Amanda Knox_ Watch now | Amanda Knox is a multi-linguist and self-described word nerd. [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/201175698/3442cd187687aa54cd60f735358d13a1.mp3) ## [Old School: The Canceling of the American Mind (Greg Lukianoff)](https://amandaknox.substack.com/p/old-school-the-canceling-of-the-american) _2026-06-02 · Amanda Knox_ 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. [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/198613126/5c06f24dc5b062c0485479793d737aa1.mp3) ## [Married to the Work](https://amandaknox.substack.com/p/married-to-the-work) _2026-05-26 · Amanda Knox_ What happens when your creative partner is also your spouse? [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/198886203/8990038128f867e33a5d2820c562e0a4.mp3) ## [Founding Member Video Hangout on Tuesday, May 26](https://amandaknox.substack.com/p/founding-member-video-hangout-on-7f1) _2026-05-21 · Amanda Knox_ Tuesday, May 26 at 3:00pmPT/6:00pmET ## [How To Be A Woman in Public (Sophie Gilbert)](https://amandaknox.substack.com/p/how-to-be-a-woman-in-public-sophie) _2026-05-19 · Amanda Knox_ What happens when a culture decides that visibility is power and then punishes women for being visible? [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/191517048/2c4eee20d4b651ed6de68b356530408c.mp3) ## [Walkie Talkies](https://amandaknox.substack.com/p/walkie-talkies-8d1) _2026-05-14 · Amanda Knox_ An essay on being together-but-alone ## [Walkie Talkies](https://amandaknox.substack.com/p/walkie-talkies) _2026-05-12 · Amanda Knox_ 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. [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/196694728/5e448f8c7574d6a0707c7b0bf77fae00.mp3) ## [Old School: Monsters (Claire Dederer)](https://amandaknox.substack.com/p/old-school-monsters-claire-dederer) _2026-05-05 · Amanda Knox_ We are now routinely faced with a dilemma: News breaks hat an artist beloved has done something horrible. [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/195386517/3a2a98fb932b56168b996b67a178db6f.mp3) ## [Retro Grid Dungeon Crawler (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/ZcLatCietpMa) _2026-05-05 · **Sponsored**_ Retro grid movement with first-person combat, loot and skill-tree progression. ## [The Myth of Confrontation](https://amandaknox.substack.com/p/the-myth-of-confrontation) _2026-04-28 · Amanda Knox_ What happens when confronting the person who hurt you doesn’t bring the closure you hoped for? [Listen](https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/195380854/811d131ff609a2ef5fce9aa64d17ff8b.mp3)