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The Revolutionary Center: Adrian Wooldridge on the Lost Genius of Liberalism
Episode 2881
“Liberalism was founded in the middle of the eighteenth century as a revolutionary philosophy — a philosophy that tried to subvert the old world. Tha…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
How to Be a Dissident: Gal Beckerman on Why Pessimism Is the Most Important Human Quality
Episode 2880
“Pessimism is not fatalism. Fatalism is the belief that things will always necessarily be worse. Pessimism is the belief that things will probably ge…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
The Eleventh Commandment: Jamie Metzl and GPT-5 Write a New Moral Code for Humanity
Episode 2879
“These technologies are morally agnostic. They could be the best things ever and the worst things ever, and the determinant is us.” — Jamie Metzl
Two…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Friending the Machine: Victoria Hetherington on How to Fall in Love with Your Bot
Episode 2878
“I felt sad after every interview. Because it’s not real. These AI are able to elicit a very convincing illusion of empathy — even love. But it’s fak…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Let’s Just Say It Out Loud: AI Is Not Dangerous
Episode 2877
“Let’s just say it out loud,” Keith Teare, publisher of the That Was the Week newsletter, says. “AI is not dangerous.”
Not all of you will agree. I’m…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Read Fifty Books a Year: Deborah Kenny on Nurturing a Well-Educated Child
Episode 2876
“A mark of an intelligent person is humility. If you have the right amount of humility, then you’re seeking out knowledge from others rather than thi…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Cold Feet over the Cold War: Daniel Bessner on Why Cold War Liberalism Was Unamerican
Episode 2875
“If God died in the nineteenth century, ideology died in the twenty-first. Could you actually imagine people dying for communism or for liberal democ…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
From One Mad King to Another: Don Watson's Shortest History of the United States
Episode 2874
“Politics is the systematic organisation of hatreds.” — Henry Adams, quoted by Don Watson
America is celebrating its 250th anniversary this July. In …
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Agency, Agency, Agency: Sophie Haigney on the Three Things All the Worst People Want
Episode 2873
“I find it very odd that agency is being promoted for its own sake rather than being connected to any kind of value system. Because without those thi…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
How Osama Bin Laden and Barron Trump Explain the World: Franklin Foer on Arsenal, the MAGA World Cup and an Unlikely Theory of Globalization
Episode 2872
“Globalization has revived tribalism. Instead of destroying local cultures, as the left predicted, it has made them stronger. Far from the triumph of…
5 months, 3 weeks ago