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How Wars End: A conversation with Gideon Rose
Episode 519
Gabriel Garcia Marquez famously said that it’s much easier to start a war than it is to end it. Certainly, we’ve seen this up close and personal in K…
3 years, 11 months ago
The Misinformation, Censorship and Noise That The Pandemic Gave Us: A Conversation with Joel Simon
Episode 518
While everyone is busy opining on the unknown and probably minor impact of a change of ownership of Twitter, we have literally ignored the chilling…
3 years, 11 months ago
A Whistleblower Stands Up To China: A Conversation with Ashley Yablon
Think about how different the world is because of whistleblowers. Think about the impact of Daniel Ellsberg, Coleen Rowley, Sherron Watkins, Jeffery …
4 years ago
Why the Internet Is Less Safe Than Flying or Driving or Eating: A Conversation with Bruce Schneier
Episode 516
The metaverse notwithstanding, the nexus between what happens on the internet, and what happens in the real, physical world, is disappearing. The blo…
4 years ago
A Whistleblower Stands Up To China: A Conversation with Ashley Yablon
Episode 515
Think about how different the world is because of whistleblowers. Think about the impact of Daniel Ellsberg, Coleen Rowley, Sherron Watkins, Jeffery…
4 years ago
The Pandemic Profiteers: A Conversation with J. David McSwane
Episode 514
Even if the details were never reported in real-time, you knew instinctively during the chaos of the early days of the Pandemic, in the winter of 202…
4 years ago
Is Crypto a Libertarian Dream or a Left-Wing Nightmare? A Conversation with Daniel Pinchbeck
Episode 513
Cryptocurrencies, NFTs, Dows, and the blockchain they ride on are still, in the view of many, the decentralized financial instruments of the future. …
4 years ago
A Nostalgia For the Journalism of Old: A Conversation with Brian Karem
Episode 512
For journalism, it may be the best of times and the worst of times. On the one hand the national media is more vibrant than ever before. The NYT, the…
4 years, 1 month ago
Corruption is America’s Operating System: A Conversation with Sarah Chayes
Episode 511
Historian and journalist Sarah Chayes, argues that we can’t fix our floundering democracy until we face — and fix — our current levels of corruption.…
4 years, 1 month ago
The Battle of Banks Not Tanks: A Conversation with Bill Browder
Episode 510
Beyond the minute-by-minute reporting of the ground war, the Twitter feeds, TickTock images, there are broader and more economically complex issues s…
4 years, 2 months ago