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Back to SearchHow To Be A Foreign Correspondent Without Swallowing Propaganda - interview with Patrick Cockburn, Middle East correspondent for The Independent, about his decades as a foreign correspondent
Episode 125
Patrick Cockburn has been a Middle East correspondent for The Independent for over 30 years and has become known for his combination of a deep knowle…
4 years ago
How Bill Gates Makes The World Worse Off
Episode 124
Bill Gates has long cultivated a reputation as the Good Billionaire, giving away vast sums of money toward global health and education initiatives th…
4 years ago
Astonishingly, There IS An Alternative! Interview with Yanis Varoufakis, former Finance Minister of Greece about his book "Another Now"
Episode 123
Yanis Varoufakis is the former Finance Minister of Greece, professor of economics at the University of Athens, co-founder of the Democracy in Europe …
4 years ago
Why Suppressing "Fake News" Can't Fix Our Journalism Crisis
Episode 122
Victor Pickard is a professor of Media Studies at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication. His book Democracy Without Jou…
4 years ago
What Policing Looks Like From The Inside
Episode 121
Rosa Brooks is a professor of law at Georgetown University and the author Tangled Up In Blue: Policing The American City, named one of the best books…
4 years ago
War Zones & Prisons: The Places We Hide Suffering and The Ways We Rationalize It
Episode 120
Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and the author of many bestselling nonfiction books. He began his career as a war correspondent, …
4 years ago
How Do Hedge Fund Managers Justify Their Existence?
Episode 119
Megan Tobias Neely is a sociologist whose book Hedged Out: Inequality and Insecurity on Wall Street takes a deep look inside the world of hedge funds…
4 years ago
How To Think Sensibly About Apocalypse and Catastrophe
Episode 118
Phil Torres is a scholar of "global catastrophic risk," meaning that he studies the various ways in which terrible things could happen to humanity: n…
4 years, 1 month ago
Why Is Climate Communication So Impossible and Frustrating?
Episode 117
George Monbiot has been working on issues of climate and environmental justice for three decades. A columnist for The Guardian, George's books includ…
4 years, 1 month ago
Our Era of Scams & Hype: From the Fyre Festival to Trump's Career to NFTs
Episode 116
We live in an age where economic success can depend a lot more on hype and branding than offering actual useful things that help people. Occasionally…
4 years, 1 month ago