Hard Knox with Amanda Knox
Knox Robinson Productions
Show overview
Hard Knox with Amanda Knox has been publishing since 2020, and across the 6 years since has built a catalogue of 274 episodes, alongside 26 trailers or bonus episodes. That works out to roughly 240 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a weekly cadence.
Episodes typically run thirty-five to sixty minutes — most land between 43 min and 1h 2m — though episode length varies meaningfully from one episode to the next. Roughly 39% of episodes carry an explicit flag from the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-language Society & Culture show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 6 days ago, with 31 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2025, with 104 episodes published. Published by Knox Robinson Productions.
From the publisher
Amanda Knox has been many things—accused, convicted, exonerated, tabloid villain, true crime icon, best-selling author—and she's still figuring out what to make of it all. Hard Knox is warm without being soft, funny without being light, and intellectually serious without being academic. Amanda argues with her guests, changes her mind, and brings the kind of hard-won perspective that you can only get from someone who's a connoisseur of Italian prison food. To submit your questions and comments, subscribe at www.amandaknox.substack.com, where you’ll also gain access to ad-free and bonus episodes, subscriber-only essays, and more. www.amandaknox.com Twitter: @amandaknox IG: @amamaknox Bluesky: @amandaknox.com.bsky.social
Latest Episodes
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Why Unreasonable Women Go to Prison (Justine van der Leun)
Old School: The Modern Trauma Toolkit (Christine Gibson)
How to Hack Your Brain's Moral Code (Joshua Greene)
Humor as Catharsis
Old School: The Outlaw (Seth Ferranti)
Good News Bad News
Why Fear Makes Bad Policy (Laura Porter)
Fifty Words for Snow
Old School: The Canceling of the American Mind (Greg Lukianoff)
Married to the Work
How To Be A Woman in Public (Sophie Gilbert)
Walkie Talkies
Old School: Monsters (Claire Dederer)
The Myth of Confrontation
Why Men Need a Tribe (Elliott Ackerman)
A Wee Existential Crisis
How Paying for Intimacy Changes Everything (Andrea Werhun)
Andrea Werhun is an author, filmmaker, and former sex worker whose memoir and documentary Modern Whore challenge how we think about sex, labor, and stigma. In this wide ranging and often funny conversation, Andrea and Amanda dig into the making of the film, including its stylized recreations, dark humor, and the moment Amanda found herself rethinking whether sex work is truly different from other forms of intimate labor like therapy, caregiving, or au pairing. Along the way, they unpack the role of criminalization in creating harm, the politics of shame, and why putting a price on access to your body can radically change how you understand boundaries, value, and freedom. Modern Whore is out May 1, 2026 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ignorance Is Not Objectivity
What's the difference between bias and expertise? When a critic dismissed Amanda Knox's commentary on the Lucy Letby case as the grievance of a biased woman, the real question got buried: can lived experience be a form of expertise? And if so, what's the line between pattern recognition and confirmation bias? Amanda and Chris dig into the cognitive science, the structural failures of the justice system, and the countermeasures that might actually help us get it right. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Why You Believe Weird Things (Michael Shermer)
What is truth, and why does finding it actually matter? Amanda sits down with Dr. Michael Shermer, founding publisher of Skeptic Magazine, longtime Scientific American columnist, and author of Truth: What It Is, How to Find It, and Why It Still Matters, for a conversation that starts with epistemology and ends in a full-throated debate about free will. They talk about why our brains evolved more like lawyers than scientists — to win arguments, not find facts. They get into the hard problem of consciousness, what meditation might reveal that neuroscience can't yet measure, and whether the legal system could ever be redesigned around actual truth-seeking. And then Amanda makes the case for hard determinism and nearly talks Shermer into it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices