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Episode 2537: How to Survive our Age of Technological Mayhem
“That he not busy being born is busy dying”, Dylan noted in “It’s Alright, Ma (I’m Only Bleeding)”, his grim 1965 masterpiece about reinvention. Six…
1 year, 4 months ago
Episode 2536: Is Spying an Un-American activity?
Is spying an un-American activity? Not according to Jeffrey Rogg, whose new book, The Spy and the State, tells the story of American intelligence fro…
1 year, 4 months ago
Episode 2535: Tim Minshall on How We Manufacture Things, Why It Matters and How We Can Do It Better
Walmart just announced it would be raising prices because of tariffs. So is that a good argument against Trump’s autarkic trade policies? Perhaps. Bu…
1 year, 5 months ago
Episode 2534: Why Generative AI is a Technological Dead End
Something doesn’t smell right about generative AI. Earlier this week, we had a featuring a former Google researcher who described large language mode…
1 year, 5 months ago
Episode 2533: Leah Litman on the Bad Vibes of the Supreme Court
It’s probably not news that today’s Supreme Court runs on crazy conservative grudges and even crazier patrimonial fringe theories. But according to L…
1 year, 5 months ago
Episode 2532: Mattea Kramer on how Addiction has replaced Apple Pie as the most American of things
Rather than apple pie, addiction might be defining quality of 21st century American life. That, at least, is the view of Mattea Kramer, author of Unt…
1 year, 5 months ago
Episode 2531: Emily Bender and Alex Hanna on the AI Con
Is AI a big scam? In their co-authored new book, The AI Con, Emily Bender and Alex Hanna take aim at what they call big tech “hype”. They argue that …
1 year, 5 months ago
Episode 2530 William Dalrymple on how Ancient India transformed the world
The traditional notion of western civilization is premised on the legacy of ancient Greece and Rome. Other less Eurocentric historians, like the Silk…
1 year, 5 months ago
Episode 2529: Who is cheating whom in American universities?
“Who’s Cheating?” asks Keith Teare in his weekly summary of tech news. Keith is defending a Columbia University student who was punished for openly u…
1 year, 5 months ago
Episode 2528: Jason Riley on how racial preferences have done more harm than good for black Americans
Not everyone will like this argument. Jason Riley, the Wall Street Journal columnist and author of The Affirmative Action Myth, argues that affirmati…
1 year, 5 months ago