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Biden’s Blue Authoritarianism: Stuart Schrader on How America’s Police Seized Power From Below
Episode 2871
“You don’t have enough money to pay all the bills? Well, cut the budget for parks and rec, cut the budget for libraries, cut the budget for fixing po…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Forget Iran: Eyck Freymann on Taiwan, China, and Why America Keeps Hitting the Snooze Button,
Episode 2870
“We keep getting wake-up calls and snoozing the alarm. Now is the time to actually get out of bed and confront this problem before it is too late.” —…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Can I Say It? Jacob Mchangama on Our Global Crisis of Free Speech
Episode 2869
“Once you start clamping down on speech, it will have serious collateral damage. And we’re starting to see that now.” — Jacob Mchangama
The Jyllands-…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Slippery Sam, Devious Dario, Honest Hassabis: Blowing Up Silicon Valley’s Cult of Personality
Episode 2868
“The media has its own agenda, completely separate from anything going on in the real world, creating the story themselves.” — Keith Teare
Last night,…
5 months, 4 weeks ago
The Failure of Ultra-Stability: Robert Pearl on Why American Healthcare is Quietly Rationing Us to Death
Episode 2867
“It’s ultra stable. Health care doesn’t move. If you biopsied American health care in 2010 and again in 2026, no one could figure out which slide was…
5 months, 4 weeks ago
Between Pride and Shame: Beverly Gage Gets in her Subaru & drives Across 250 Years of American History
Episode 2866
“You can face your history and still love your country. This is my attempt at doing that.” — Beverly Gage
When the Yale Pulitzer Prize-winning histori…
5 months, 4 weeks ago
The Many Faces of AI: Sebastian Mallaby on Demis Hassabis and the Quest to Read God’s Mind
Episode 2865
“Doing science is like reading the mind of God.” — Demis Hassabis, quoted in The Infinity Machine
This week’s New Yorker uncomplimentary profile of Op…
6 months ago
More Embarrassing Than Sex: Alex Mayyasi on Why Money Talk Makes Us So Nervous
Episode 2864
“There are parts of the business and finance world that are invested in making these things seem intimidating and scary. We really enjoy making thing…
6 months ago
An Anticapitalist Mutiny: Noam Scheiber on the Rise and Revolt of the College-Educated Working Class
Episode 2863
“Historically, when the college-educated become politically radicalised, that does tend to lead to real shifts.” — Noam Scheiber
A university degree h…
6 months ago
Truth is Dead: Steven Rosenbaum on AI as a Spectacularly Good Liar
Episode 2862
“When we trust AI to tell us the truth, we are setting ourselves up to hand over something deeply human to a machine that does not have our best inte…
6 months ago