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Episode 2251: Kristian Ronn on why, in the short term, we all might be dead
In the long run, Keynes famously quipped, we are all dead. But Swedish entrepreneur Kristian Ronn reverses Keynes to argue that in the short term we,…
1 year, 7 months ago
Episode 2250 Rebecca Haw Allensworth on America's Cult of the Professional
Should lawyers, home alarm fitters, hairdressers and plumbers all have to get a license to do their business? And what about dog walkers and surgeons…
1 year, 7 months ago
Episode 2249: Caroline Fleck on the Skill Set that will Change your Life
Who wants to change their life? Who want to transform their relationships and increase their influence? If that’s you, then Stanford based psychologi…
1 year, 7 months ago
Episode 2248: Yoni Applebaum on why America is STUCK in a Crisis of Immobility
According to the Atlantic’s Yoni Applebaum, America is STUCK - literally and otherwise. In his new book Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied …
1 year, 7 months ago
Episode 2247: Andrew Cockburn on Trump and Musk's Futile War Against the Deep State
Not everyone sees Trump or Musk as an existential threat to the American federal bureaucracy. In the March cover story of Harper’s, their Washington …
1 year, 7 months ago
Episode 2246: Russia's invasion of Ukraine is a carnival of hypocrisy
Given the shameful American sacrifice of Ukraine, there will be few timelier movies than Anna Kryvenko’s upcoming “This House is Undamaged”,. It will…
1 year, 7 months ago
Episode 2245: Is it really "not hard" to be a billionaire these days?
Lots of healthy disagreement in this week’s THAT WAS THE WEEK tech show with Keith Teare. We debate the impact of AI on coding jobs, with Keith sugge…
1 year, 7 months ago
Episode 2244: Tim Wu on how to decentralize capitalism
Why is reforming capitalism so essential? In the latest issue of Liberties Quarterly, Tim Wu argues that unregulated capitalism not only leads to eco…
1 year, 7 months ago
Episode 2243: Nick Bryant on why Trump 2.0 is as historic as the Fall of the Berlin Wall
How historic are Trump 2.0’s first few weeks? For the veteran correspondent, Nick Bryant, the longtime BBC man in Washington DC, what the Trump regim…
1 year, 7 months ago
Episode 2242: Ian Goldin on the past, present and future of migration
Few books are timelier than Ian Goldin’s new The Shortest History of Migration. Drawing from his personal history as a South African emigrant and his…
1 year, 7 months ago