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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
Drayton and Mackenzie: Alexander Starritt on How the 2008 Crash Ruined Everything
Episode 2928
“To explain the lives of people living in this moment, to look at the historical forces that are shaping all of us, you have to look at business and …
4 months ago
Ecocivilization and Our Discontents: Jeremy Lent on Why TINA Is Wrong
Episode 2927
“When you’re in a world that is careening out of control, where we’ve broken through seven of the nine safe dimensions of safe operating space that s…
4 months, 1 week ago
Anthropic Trounces OpenAI with Its Papal Pivot: Value Investing in Our AI Age
Episode 2926
“I don’t look to companies to be moral guides. I want them to be good companies. When you invest in the stock market, you want them to be growing fas…
4 months, 1 week ago
1776 as 1917: Sarah Pearsall's World History of the American Revolution
Episode 2925
“The thirteen colonies that became the United States were not even half of the British colonies that existed in the eighteenth century. We need to th…
4 months, 1 week ago
To Love or Hate the United States? Dominic Erdozain on the Problem of American Patriotism
Episode 2924
“We must perpetrate the paradox that our American cultural tradition lies in the future.” — Randolph Bourne, via Dominic Erdozain
Should Americans be…
4 months, 1 week ago
Life of the Party: Joe Cunningham on How Democrats Lost America’s Trust and How They Can Win It Back
Episode 2923
“I deliver it with the credibility of having won a district that Trump carried by 13 points. Not only how to speak to these voters, but how to win t…
4 months, 1 week ago
Is America Unfinished or Just Getting Started? Alexandra Natapoff on 250 Years of Justice and Injustice in the United States
Episode 2922
“As long as democracy is a collective endeavour of all the people who belong to it, in some sense it can never be finished — because we are constantl…
4 months, 1 week ago
Beyond the Lean Startup: Eric Ries on Why Good Companies Go Bad and How Great Ones Stay Great,
Episode 2921
“I took it for granted that we were trying to make the world a better place. But I think in retrospect that was naïve. What kind of change? For whom?…
4 months, 1 week ago
God Forgives, Brothers Don’t: Jasper Craven on the Damage West Point Has Done to American Boys
Episode 2920
“There is a pretty powerful strain in America today in which men feel some need to be violent and domineering to sort of prove their masculinity. And…
4 months, 1 week ago