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An Inconvenient Woman: Keri Leigh Merritt on Lillian Smith, the Southerner Who Defied Jim Crow America
Episode 3054
“She is absolutely a Cassandra. She is unafraid to tell the stark naked truth, no matter how ugly it is.” — Keri Leigh Merritt
In April, Gal Beckerma…
10 hours ago
Biography of a Dangerous Idea: Andrew Curran on How the Enlightenment Invented Race
Episode 3053
“The Enlightenment may have produced race, but it also produced what we might call anti-racism.” — Andrew Curran
Most of us imagine the eighteenth ce…
1 day, 10 hours ago
Artificial Intimacy: Sherry Turkle on Who We Become When We Talk to Machines
Episode 3052
“The original sin of generative AI is having chatbots speak in the first person.” — Sherry Turkle
Fifteen years ago, at the height of the social medi…
2 days, 8 hours ago
London Station: David McCloskey on the CIA, MI6 & the End of the Special Relationship
Episode 3051
“What if we fell out with the Brits? What if the agency and the Brits started spying on each other again?” — David McCloskey
What if the Americans and…
3 days, 11 hours ago
The Age of Cures: Barry Werth on How Big Pharma Once Saved Your Life
Episode 3050
“Kennedy and Trump are taking a wrecking ball to probably the most important thing we have done consistently better than the rest of the world over t…
4 days, 8 hours ago
A Fabulous Debt: Robin Wigglesworth on How Bonds Built the Modern World
Episode 3049
Amidst all the talk of an AI bubble, bonds are back in the news. The world’s two leading business newspapers, The Wall Street Journal and The Financi…
5 days, 9 hours ago
And Now For Something Completely Similar: Untangling the Power from the Pretense of Our AI Circus
Episode 3048
Lenin supposedly said there are decades where nothing happens, and weeks where decades happen. This wasn’t one of those weeks.
It might have looked l…
6 days, 8 hours ago
Trump Has Finally Lost the Plot: Jonathan Rauch & Peter Wehner on the Autumn of the American Patriarch
Episode 3047
“His intent is getting worse, but his capacity is diminishing. The next two years will be some kind of mad race to figure out which of these two thin…
1 week ago
Proudly-Jewish & Never-Boring: Alan Dershowitz on His Divorce from the Democratic Party
Episode 3046
“A good divorce is better than a bad marriage, and this is a good divorce.” — Alan Dershowitz
The American lawyer Alan Dershowitz says he’s been voti…
1 week, 1 day ago
Eureka in Silicon Valley! Richard Socher on Why AI Will Unlock a New Scientific Renaissance
Episode 3045
“There’s no realistic scenario where AI wipes out all of humanity. It’s like a mix of sci-fi.” — Richard Socher
Eighteen months ago, when he last cam…
1 week, 2 days ago