Scott talks with Bret Stephens, New York Times opinion columnist and founder and editor-in-chief of SAPIR, a quarterly that covers issues of Jewish concern.

Starting in 2014, Brett co-authored, with fellow New York Times columnist Gail Collins, The Conversation, an edited transcript of a witty and substantive dialogue between two civilized colleagues from opposite ends of the political spectrum: Brett was the conservative, Gail, the liberal. Earlier this year, book projects for each paused The Conversation but, in September, the popular feature returned with Bret and a rotating panel of contributors including Times Opinion writer Frank Bruni.

Earlier in his career Brett had two stints at the Wall Street Journal: first in 1998 as an op-ed editor, then in 2004 to write the Journal's "Global View" column. While with the Journal, he received the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 2013 and the next year he released his book AMERICA IN RETREAT: THE NEW ISOLATIONISM AND THE COMING GLOBAL DISORDER.

Scott talks with Moon Unit Zappa, daughter of visionary musician Frank Zappa. Moon was just 26 when, in 1993 her father, then aged 52, died of prostate cancer. Two years later, Frank was posthumously inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame by the Velvet Underground’s Lou Reed. Moon's 2024 memoir Earth to Moon, which is an illuminating, often disillusioning, peak behind the Zappa family curtain.

Patricia Heaton, two-time-Emmy winner for Everybody Loves Raymond and The Middle, is a cradle Catholic whose sister is a nun. She talks with Scott about her spiritual and personal discovery developed after she her time on those series ended, and how it helped her through addiction.

Julia Sweeney is best known for her androgynous alter ego Pat on SNL and her one woman shows God Said Ha! and Letting Go of God. Her latest show Julia Sweeney: Older and Wider deals with religion but also parenting and feminism.