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Trump Seizes the Means of Production and Zohran's Bench Press
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Today we talk about Trump’s bid to create a sovereign wealth fund by investing in private companies, the parallels these actions have to his shakedowns of elite universities and Zohran’s attem…
Published on 13 hours ago
Has AI Sold Out? with Jessica Dai and Ben Recht
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Today, we have on Jessica Dai and Ben Recht to talk about AI culture, Jessica’s prescient article from 2 years ago about alignment and the priorities of AI companies. What do these companies ac…
Published on 1 week ago
Four Years of New York City that Changed the World with Jonathan Mahler
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This week, we have a long talk with an author we both have admired for a while, Jonathan Mahler. His new book, The Gods of New York: Egoists, Idealists, Opportunists, and the Birth of the Moder…
Published on 2 weeks ago
Marjorie Taylor Greene pulls in the Horseshoe and Gilded Age Takes
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Today we talk briefly about the Gilded Age (Jay is watching TV again) and what to make of Marjorie Taylor Greene’s statements about Gaza, America First, and foreign interventions. Is she tryin…
Published on 3 weeks ago
Starvation in Gaza with Jeremy Konyndyk
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Today, we have on Jeremy Konyndyk, the president of Refugees international and a longtime humanitarian and emergency operator. He has served in senior appointments in two U.S. administrations. …
Published on 4 weeks ago
The ICE Fashion Show, Operator Cosplay and Masked Federal Agents with Patrick Hultgren
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Today, we talk about what the hell ICE is wearing out in the streets of American cities, “operator cosplay” which is the phenomenon of yahoos dressing up like they’re in special forces, and we …
Published on 1 month ago
Trump says 'nobody cares about Epstein' and the disastrous floods on the east coast
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Today we talk about how the Epstein story and Schrodinger’s client list has fractured the right and whether this might finally be the thing that ol’ Donny Trump can’t wriggle out of. And we tal…
Published on 1 month, 1 week ago
Zohran: The best, worst, and most likely case scenarios
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Today, we talk a bit more about Zohran and go through our best and worst case scenarios for his reign in New York City. How will he deal with intensive media scrutiny? Will his immense politica…
Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago
A New Book About Fake Work and Some Zohran Takes with Leigh Claire LaBerge
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Today, we have on Leigh Claire LaBerge, a professor at CUNY and the author of Fake Work: How I Began to Suspect Capitalism is a Joke, a funny and touching look back at what it was like to be y…
Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago
What Happened to the Anti-War Right with Sohrab Ahmari
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Today, we welcome a guest from across the aisle to talk about what might be happening with the anti-war, anti-interventionist right in the face of Trump’s strikes against Iran. Sohrab Ahmari is…
Published on 2 months ago