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Your Data Will Be Used Against You: Andrew Guthrie Ferguson on Policing in the Age of Self-Surveillance
Episode 2794
A man was convicted by his own heartbeat — and that's just the beginning of our digital dystopia.
About the Guest
Andrew Guthrie Ferguson is Professor …
8 months, 1 week ago
To Catch a Fascist: The Ethics of Unmasking the Radical Right
Episode 1
An anti-fascist spy handed American officials evidence of murderous intent from a Nazi planning server — and they declined to act.
About the Guest
Chri…
8 months, 1 week ago
How Meat Can Save the Planet: The Vegan Case
Can meat save the planet? That’s the paradoxical promise of the longtime vegan activist Bruce Friedrich, founder of the Good Food Institute. In his n…
8 months, 1 week ago
It's Always Exploding Somewhere: Why No Weapon Is Ever Perfect
There’s something absurdly Strangelovian about the American quest for a perfect weapon. As Jeffrey Stern warns in The Warhead, his new history of The…
8 months, 1 week ago
Where's the Countercultural Outrage to Trump?
Why did Nixon trigger a remarkable cultural American renaissance while Trump has generated an avalanche of social media bluster, but few great movies…
8 months, 1 week ago
AI's Adolescent Crisis: And It's Still Just a Toddler
Is AI going through an adolescent crisis, even it’s still just a toddler? There certainly seems to be a lot of adolescent angst amongst our new AI ov…
8 months, 1 week ago
Running Away From America: The Rhodes Scholar Who Ran a Male Brothel in Bali
When asked what his parents did, Atlantic CEO and competitive marathoner Nicholas Thompson had a stock response. "My mother's an art historian at Bab…
8 months, 1 week ago
Your 2026 Reading List: Seven Books You Won't Want to Miss
According to our favorite literary reviewer, Bethanne Patrick, these are the seven books that “will really matter” in 2026:
* Land by Maggie O’Farrell…
8 months, 1 week ago
Human Fracking: The $17 Trillion War for Your Attention
Pay attention to this interview. Because, you see, attention is seriously expensive — the Silicon Valley industry being worth $17 trillion, at least …
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Fear and Fury: From Bernie Goetz to Kyle Rittenhouse
New books are like London buses. You wait and wait and then a handful comes at the same time. Take, for example, histories of the New York City vigil…
8 months, 2 weeks ago