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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
Episode 2241: Gaia Bernstein on the Threat of AI Companions to Children
No, social media might no longer be the greatest danger to our children’s well-being. According to the writer and digital activist Gaia Bernstein, th…
1 year, 7 months ago
Episode 2240: Ray Brescia on how our private lives have been politicized by social media
Have our private lives become inevitably political in today’s age of social media? Ray Brescia certainly thinks so. His new book, The Private is Poli…
1 year, 7 months ago
Episode 2239: Frank Vogl on why Trump's financial deregulation is likely to lead to another global economic crash
The zealously anti-regulatory Trump is back and anti-corruption activist Frank Vogl is very worried. Vogl warns that MAGA’s increasingly deregulated …
1 year, 7 months ago
Episode 2238: What to make of J.D. Vance's speech at the Paris AI Summit
So what to J.D. Vance's highly controversial speech at the Paris AI Summit this week? According to That Was The Week’s Keith Teare, it was “a breath …
1 year, 8 months ago
Episode 2237: Matthew Karp explains how progressives can successfully bulldoze America
“Expect More Bulldozings”, the Princeton historian Matthew Karp predicts in this month’s Harpers magazine about MAGA America. In his analysis of the …
1 year, 8 months ago
Episode 2236: Colum McCann and Dianne Foley on what a mother said to her son's ISIS executioner
What can a mother say to the cold-blooded executioner of her son? In American Mother, the heartrending story of the murdered American journalist Jim …
1 year, 8 months ago
Episodes 2235: Jeffrey Toobin on whether we all deserve second chances
If there’s anyone who knows the value of a pardon, it’s Jeffrey Toobin, the publicly shamed and now rehabilitated CNN legal analyst. In his latest bo…
1 year, 8 months ago
Episode 2234: Walter Mosley on Easy Rawlins, King Oliver and the history of fictional black American detectives
The acclaimed American writer Walter Mosley has a new King Oliver book out: Been Wrong So Long It Feels Like Right, a novel that follows Oliver's sea…
1 year, 8 months ago
Episode 2233: John Kay on why (almost) everything we are told about business is wrong
According to the Scottish economist Sir John Kay, author of The Corporation in the 21st Century, the Magnificent Seven tech companies that supposedly…
1 year, 8 months ago