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"AI Is Too Busy to Take Your Job: The Electrifying Truth about our AIgorithmic Future
Yesterday, we focused on the death of the American way of work. But today the news on the AI front isn’t quite as dire. According to the New York bas…
1 year, 2 months ago
The Death of the American Way of Work: How the United States Lost Its Grip on the Future
In 1963, Jessica Mitford published her remarkable account of the American funeral industry, An American Way of Death. Over sixty years later, another…
1 year, 2 months ago
How Capitalism Turned Money into God: Paul Vigna on Buying the Almighty
It’s an old thesis - that capitalism has created a religion out of money. But nobody, not even Marx, has been quite as theologically explicit as Paul…
1 year, 2 months ago
AI as Dumb Waiter 2.0: Douglas Rushkoff on How Smart Technology Isn't Quite as Smart as It Claims
Douglas Rushkoff has spent decades warning how each new digital technological “revolution” has promised liberation but actually only compounds social…
1 year, 2 months ago
From Luther to Zuckerberg: Who killed Privacy?
So who killed privacy? It's the central question of Tiffany Jenkins' provocative new history of private life, Strangers and Intimates. The answer, ac…
1 year, 2 months ago
Is Mohammed bin Salman a Tyrant or an Enlightened Despot? Karen Elliott House on MBS's Transformation of Saudi Arabia
Is Mohammed bin Salman a tyrant or an enlightened despot? According to the former Wall Street Journal publisher Karen Elliott House, Pulitzer Prize-w…
1 year, 3 months ago
Why America is Destroying Itself: Charles Derber on Sociocide and America's Social Suicide
Sociocide is a chilling word. Coined by the Norwegian sociologist Johan Galtung, it means the deliberate destruction of a society's social infrastruc…
1 year, 3 months ago
A Satirist's Revenge on Wall Street: From Trading Hedge Funds to Telling Stories
It’s the fantasy of countless Wall Street analysts. Amran Gowani traded his lucrative career in hedge funds for the scarily solitary world of novel w…
1 year, 3 months ago
Living in Teddy's Shadow: How Roosevelt's Sons Found Redemption—and Regret—in Their Quest for the Giant Panda
How can anyone forget those photos of Trump’s sons celebrating over the carcasses of dead animals that they shot in Africa? Fortunately, not all sons…
1 year, 3 months ago
America's Heart of Moral Darkness: Peter Wehner on Trump's Apocalyptic Assault on African AIDS Victims
The last time Peter Wehner, who I’ve always imagined as America’s conscience, appeared on the show to talk about the “ethical darkness” that has fall…
1 year, 3 months ago