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Back to SearchHow Billionaires Plan To Escape The World They've Destroyed
Episode 192
Douglas Rushkoff is a media and tech critic who has been called "one of the world's ten most influential intellectuals" by MIT. He has hosted PBS Fro…
3 years, 7 months ago
How Giant Corporations Squeeze Every Last Penny Out of Writers and Musicians
Episode 190
Rebecca Giblin is a professor at the University of Melbourne and the co-author (with Cory Doctorow) of Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Co…
3 years, 7 months ago
How to Save Sick Piglets While Avoiding Jail Time (w/ Wayne Hsiung and Matt Johnson)
Episode 189
Wayne Hsiung is a former law professor who was recently acquitted by a Utah jury after being charged with stealing two piglets from a factory farm, i…
3 years, 7 months ago
How To Be A Smart Media Critic Who Knows Propaganda When They See It
Episode 188
Norman Solomon is one of the foremost progressive media critics, having founded the Institute for Public Accuracy and authored or co-authored many bo…
3 years, 7 months ago
How Do You Create A Leftist Animated Cartoon That Is Actually Funny?
Episode 187
Shawn Vulliez and Aaron Moritz are the creators and hosts of the utopian leftist comedy podcast Srsly Wrong and also the creators of the new animated…
3 years, 7 months ago
Why You Don't Need To Worry About "Superintelligent AI" Destroying The World (But Artificial Intelligence Is Still Scary)
Episode 186
Some, including both geniuses like Stephen Hawking and nongeniuses like Elon Musk, have warned that artificial intelligence poses a major risk to hum…
3 years, 7 months ago
The Exciting Rise of the New U.S. Leftist Movement (w/ Raina Lipsitz)
Episode 185
Raina Lipsitz is a journalist whose book The Rise of a New Left: How Young Radicals Are Shaping the Future of American Politics profiles the young le…
3 years, 7 months ago
Why We Have To Teach Kids to Analyze and Debunk Propaganda
Episode 184
Sam Shain is a public school teacher whose book Education Revolution: Media Literacy for Political Awareness argues that K-12 students need to be equ…
3 years, 7 months ago
How the "Economic Style of Reasoning" Came to Dominate Social Policy
Episode 183
Prof. Elizabeth Popp Berman is the author of Thinking like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy, which documents how …
3 years, 7 months ago
Why Is There an Israel-Palestine Conflict in the First Place?
Episode 183
Today, we see children killed in Gaza by Israeli airstrikes, but anyone who gets their understanding of the Israel-Palestine conflict from news repor…
3 years, 7 months ago