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Two Years Till We're Cooked: The Death of White Collar Work and Other Human Things
Episode 2804
"Two years from now, all white-collar jobs may be gone." — Dario Amodei (via Keith Teare)
Keith Teare leads this week's tech roundup with a video he m…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
What is Love? Paul Eastwick on the New Science of Attraction
Episode 2803
"She's a ten to me and that's the part that matters." — Paul Eastwick
If it's Valentine's Day, we must be talking about love. Paul Eastwick studies at…
7 months, 4 weeks ago
Politics Without Politicians: Hélène Landemore's Case for Citizen Rule
Episode 2802
"How can you not be a populist in this day and age?" — Hélène Landemore
In February 2020, The New Yorker profiled a Yale professor making the case for…
7 months, 4 weeks ago
Can Billionaire Backlash Save Democracy? Pepper Culpepper on our Age of Corporate Scandal
Episode 2801
"I will say that QAnon was right and I was wrong." — Pepper Culpepper
From Bannon and Trump to Summers, Gates, Blavatnik and Chomsky, the Epstein scan…
8 months ago
Yesm, It's Fascism: Jon Rauch on Trump and the F Word
Episode 2800
"You either need to call it fascism or you need to invent a new word with more or less the same meaning." — Jonathan Rauch
Jonathan Rauch's viral Atla…
8 months ago
Californian True Crime: A Killing in Cannabis
Episode 2799
"The black market exists only because we decided that this form of trade should be illegal." — Scott Eden
In October 2019, tech executive Tushar Atre …
8 months ago
Rage in the American Republic
Episode 2798
"We all love Thomas Paine. We just wish we liked him." — Jonathan Turley
Jonathan Turley's new book asks a deceptively simple question: why did the Am…
8 months ago
Documenting America: How to See Beyond the Algorithm
Episode 2797
"It may not be Mister Right YouTube, but it is Mister Right Now." — Erika Dilday
On Super Bowl Sunday — with America celebrating its 250th anniversary…
8 months ago
Whoosh! That Really Was a Week in Tech: Winner-Take-All AI and the $1 Trillion Selloff
Episode 2796
"I didn't use my own software this week because the OpenAI agents were better. And that's me retiring my own software." — Keith Teare
Something broke …
8 months ago
Catching More Than Passes From Bobby: Stephen Schlesinger on what RFK Can Still Teach America
Episode 2795
"He went around the table asking us, 'Do you still believe in God?' — this was 1967, he was already being considered for the presidency. Why would a …
8 months ago