Brian there on WNYC. We have New York Times investigative reporter Jody Kanter with us now.

Jody Kenter broke the Harvey Weinstein story. Some of you may remember with her colleague,

Megan Tew Tuey back in

2017, which gave maybe the most fuel of anything ever to the Me Too movement. She and Tuey later

wrote the book, she said about that investigation. But her new book is far from an expose.

It's a, quote, slim little statement of faith, she says. For young people,

people starting out in the work world specifically, it's called how to start discovering your life's

work, and it's out now. She writes, this life stage has never been easy. This era is making it harder.

We need to bring you all the help we can.

Now, this actually stems from Jody Cantor being invited to deliver a commencement address at Columbia University. She found herself stuck on some of the questions that many graduates

were silently asking, you know, like, how is anyone supposed to figure

out what to do with their life in this economy, in this generation, in this moment in the world?

And the result, based on the speech that she wrote for those new graduates, is this new book.

So we'll talk about that, of course.

We'll also talk about one of her big stories right now.

Jody broke the story of the Supreme Court's so-called shadow docket, the cases they take based on

the justice's own agendas, not just the cases that come to them up the usual appeals process chain.

So Jody Cantor, always great to have you on. Welcome back to WNYC.

It's amazing to be back with you, Brian.

Tell us more of the origin story of this book. When was that Columbia commencement speech?

And tell us more of why that was a challenge for you.

So this is a real New York story. About a year ago, I got an email from Columbia,

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