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A Car for the Ages: The Lunar Rover and the Triumph of the Final Moon Landings - A conversation with Earl Swift
Episode 480
While everyone has their own personal list, we could all maybe agree on some of the most iconic cars ever made. The VW Beetle, the 1968 Ford Mustang,…
4 years, 9 months ago
Bill Gates Has Always Shown Us Who He Is: A Conversation with Tim Schwab
Episode 479
Two years ago if you convened a focus group to give an opinion on Bill Gates and his foundation, the response would have been overwhelmingly positive…
4 years, 9 months ago
What AI Really Is, Whose Making It Happen and What It Means For The Future: My conversation with Cade Metz
Episode 478
When Hal asked Astronaut David Bowman to “open the pod bay doors,” it was as if our most primal fear of machines came rushing headlong into the 20th …
4 years, 9 months ago
How We Got To Globalization Today: A Conversation with Jeffrey Garten
Episode 477
In the period immediately following WWII, the United States dominated the global economy. We had won the war, and the economic status that went alo…
4 years, 9 months ago
A Constitution of Knowledge: A Conversation with Jonathan Rauch
Episode 476
Some days it seems that everything we’ve taken for granted with respect to the functioning of America and American democracy is under siege. Hundreds…
4 years, 9 months ago
We Are Our Information: A conversation with Caleb Scharf
Episode 475
We are awash in data and information. So much so that we wonder if it has any meaning at all? But what if the very existence of the information and …
4 years, 9 months ago
Amazon, Bezos and a Global Empire
Episode 474
Back in 1953, it was reported that Charlie Wilson, the then head of General Motors, said that what’s good for General Motors was good for America. Wh…
4 years, 10 months ago
Our New Addiction to Outrage: The American Psychosis
Episode 473
There once was a time when we were, if not united, at least we had a common set of cultural touchstones. Movies, TV, sports, even the three networks …
4 years, 10 months ago
Reasons for Hope in Rural America: A Conversation with Gigi Georges
Episode 472
In an effort to make urban American understand rural America, particularly since the 2016 election, books about rural America have become almost a ge…
4 years, 10 months ago
A Conversation with Chris Matthews:
Episode 471
I think we can all stipulate that we are at a precarious moment in the relatively short history of American democracy. Even among those not following…
4 years, 10 months ago