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Hong Kong Burning: Simon Elegant on the 2019 Protests
Episode 2901
“It was a completely unthinking exercise in cost-cutting that made no sense in terms of the newspaper. I think perhaps if you want to destroy the new…
5 months ago
Is London Really Falling? Bethanne Patrick on Patrick Radden Keefe, Freya India and the Collapse of Book Reviewing
Episode 2900
“If criticism isn’t going to be written by one human mind, what else is it for? Criticism done by AI means nothing.” — Bethanne Patrick
Is London rea…
5 months ago
Never Trust a Handsome Soldier: Becky Holmes on the Past, Present and Future of Fraud
Episode 2899
“Fraud makes up between 40 and 50 percent of all crime in the UK. Police resource dedicated to fraud: 1 percent. No country is giving fraud the atten…
5 months ago
The Mysterious Mr Murdaugh: James Lasdun on Why a Father Annihilated His Son
Episode 2898
“Justice may have been served, but the human element of the story didn’t seem to add up.” — James Lasdun
In March 2023, Alex Murdaugh — wealthy scion…
5 months ago
Why History Keeps Happening: Patrick Wyman on Human Failure and Success in Building Civilizations,
Episode 2897
“Every single person that we meet was both the endpoint of thousands of years that brought them there, and the midpoint of some other process, and wa…
5 months ago
How Politicians Broke Our World: Ian Shapiro on Raising Ourselves Up After the Fall
Episode 2896
“The current crisis was far from inevitable. Politicians made consistently bad choices. In doing so, they fostered a crisis of confidence in politica…
5 months ago
Why the Future of Europe Is Wales: Glyn Morgan on the Rise and Fall of American Europe
Episode 2895
“Post-war Europe is essentially an American protectorate. Europeans don’t like to admit that. They only came to realize just how dependent they were …
5 months ago
Make Hungary (and America) Boring Again: Marc Loustau on Why Orbán Lost and How to Defeat Trump
Episode 2894
“Orbán rigged the electoral system to highly benefit the winner. He thought he would never face the realistic possibility of losing. When someone act…
5 months ago
Do We Really Want a No-Hands Job From Silicon Valley? Who Holds the Power in the Age of AGI
Episode 2893
“Anyone that’s properly using AI now knows that you tell it what you want, it gives you a plan, carries out the work, and you judge and tweak. You’re…
5 months, 1 week ago
May Day, May Day: Jason Pack on the Unhappy War in Iran We All Want to Ignore
Episode 2892
“Trump has no strategy and no endgame. No amount of success in tactics will win. No military campaign has ever been won solely from the air.” — Jason…
5 months, 1 week ago