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Episode 2331: The Week that Silicon Valley went from Woke to DOGE
It’s been quite a few days in Silicon Valley. "There are decades where nothing happens,” Lenin famously observed, “and there are weeks where decades …
1 year, 8 months ago
Episode 2330: Eoin Higgins on how reactionary tech billionaires bought Glenn Greenwald and Matt Taibbi
Wow. According to the journalist and historian Eoin Higgins, right wing tech billionaires like Marc Andreessen, David Sacks and Peter Thiel have “bou…
1 year, 8 months ago
Episode 2329: Ethan Zuckerman on how the United States learned to love online censorship
Internet scholar and activist Ethan Zuckerman is horrified by the American ban on TikTok. As a self-described “progressive” with a long and distingui…
1 year, 8 months ago
Episode 2328: A gay Jewish atheist rides to the rescue of American Christianity
Trust a gay Jewish atheist to defend the value of American Christianity. In his new book Cross-Purposes: Christianity's Broken Bargain with Democracy…
1 year, 8 months ago
Episode 2327: John Lee Hooker Jr explains who gets to go to Heaven and who doesn't
Who gets to go to heaven and who doesn’t? According to John Lee Hooker Jr., son of the legendary bluesman and author of From The Shadow of the Blues,…
1 year, 8 months ago
Episode 2326: Mike Colias assesses the impact of Trump's Tariffs on the US Auto Industry
Few people know the U.S. car industry more intimately than the Wall Street Journal deputy auto editor Mike Colias. His new book, Inevitable, offers a…
1 year, 8 months ago
Episode 2325: Charles Piller on Fraud, Arrogance, and Tragedy in the Quest to Cure Alzheimer's
More than 6 million Americans now suffer from Alzheimer’s Disease. So the stakes in find a cure for this neurological illness are huge. Too large, in…
1 year, 8 months ago
Episode 2324: Why we need some Sputnik Thinking on Wealth Redistribution in our AI Age
A week is certainly a long time in tech. On last week’s That Was the Week roundup, Keith Teare and I were asking if Trump’s America was a tech oligar…
1 year, 8 months ago
Episode 2223: Sophia Rosenfeld asks if our age of choice might also be an age of tyranny
In an era where even toothpaste shopping can trigger an existential crisis, intellectual historian Sophia Rosenfeld explore how we became both impris…
1 year, 8 months ago
Episode 2322: Andrew Lipstein on how to reinvent American masculinity
According to Andrew Lipstein, here are 3 questions at the heart of his acclaimed new novel Something Rotten: a) What do we want masculinity to look l…
1 year, 8 months ago