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Save San Francisco’s Soul: Jonathan Weber on Technology and Politics in the City By the Bay
Episode 2938
“The same creative and political forces that gave rise to [San Francisco’s] boom nearly engineered its collapse.” — Jonathan Weber
In Hitchcock’s Ver…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Brooklyn Al Primo Posto: Vincent Coppola’s Magical Memoir of the Church, the Mafia and the Gowanus Canal
Episode 2937
“I never knew, and I was a bright kid. I didn’t know who the mayor of New York was, but I could tell you the names of all the mafia guys on the corne…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Trump Finally Gets the Priceless Book He Deserves: Ben Fountain on How Rasputin Swims the Potomac
Episode 2936
“The hyperreal is the real. The surreal is the real in The United States. We’ve reached that point. The absurd is the real. And so that’s what I was …
3 months, 3 weeks ago
The Unexceptional Exceptionalism of the United States: Michael Mandelbaum on the American Way of Foreign Policy
Episode 2935
“The United States has conducted an unusually ideological foreign policy, an unusually economic foreign policy, and an unusually democratic foreign p…
3 months, 4 weeks ago
The Jeffrey Epstein of Antiquities: Matthew Campbell on the Man Who Got Away With Stealing the Gods,
Episode 2934
“Objects in museums have to come from somewhere. The stories of how they came to be in those collections often involve laws being broken, unethical b…
3 months, 4 weeks ago
D-Day for AI: How to Create an End Game That Will Benefit Everyone
Episode 2933
“AI represents successful capitalism. What we have alongside that is unsuccessful government. Government has no plan — left or right.” — Keith Teare
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4 months ago
Good Bobby, Bad Bobby: Evan Thomas on the Greatest Riddle in 20th Century American Politics
Episode 2932
“He didn’t just say it, he meant it, he felt it — and the combination of the power guy, the ruthless power guy, and the profound idealist was fascina…
4 months ago
Why Football Saves Our Souls: Brian Bunk on the Collective Beauty of the World’s Most Popular Game
Episode 2931
“That kind of put soccer on my radar as a sport. I saw how deeply it meant to people, in a way I didn’t appreciate prior to that. And then I was in L…
4 months ago
Get the F*** Out of Your House: Yotam Marom on How to Raise the Volume on the Politics of Powerlessness
Episode 2930
“Get the f*** out of your house and join an organisation. Groups are how we make movements. They’re how we make political and social change. They’re …
4 months ago
Around the World in One Great Depression: Liaquat Ahamed on 1873 & the Making of the Global Economy
Episode 2929
“Be optimistic about the boom, but don’t buy the stock.” — Liaquat Ahamed on the AI bubble
Yesterday, Alexander Starritt argued that the 2008 financi…
4 months ago