Summary: Virginia Heffernan is joined by Isaac Butler, host of Slate's new podcast "Lend Me Your Ears," to talk about his show and what inspired it. Plus, Isaac and Virginia talk to the author of <em>Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics</em>, Stephen Greenblatt, about the psychic tyranny of of Shakespeare's tyrants and what the work of the playwright can tell us about Trump and our era.<br><br>Go check out <a href="https://slate.com/culture/2018/05/introducing-lend-me-your-ears-slates-new-podcast-on-shakespeare-and-politics.html"><em>Lend Me Your Ears</em></a>!<br><br>And join us for our <a href="http://slate.com/live">live show in Brooklyn, New York on May 30th</a>!
