Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchHow Companies Make Us Worship Our Work - interview with Carolyn Chen, author of "Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes a Religion in Silicon Valley"
Episode 127
Carolyn Chen's book Work Pray Code: When Work Becomes Religion In Silicon Valley is about how something disturbing is happening in Silicon Valley: pe…
4 years, 1 month ago
"How Are You Going To Pay For That?" and Other Dumb Political Questions - interview with Ryan Cooper, managing editor of The American Prospect
Episode 126
Ryan Cooper is the managing editor of The American Prospect and co-host of the Left Anchor podcast. He is the author of the new book How Are You Goin…
4 years, 1 month ago
How 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, 1 month 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, 1 month 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, 1 month 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, 2 months 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, 2 months 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, 2 months 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, 2 months 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, 2 months ago