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Episode 2248: F.H. Buckley on the case for Trumpism
It’s hard to know if F.H. Buckley is keen on Donald Trump. On the one hand, Buckley and his wife wrote a number of speeches for Trump in his 2016 cam…
1 year, 10 months ago
Episode 2247: David Masciotra on how the Boss and the Dude can save America
So how can The Dude and The Boss save America? According to the cultural critic, David Masciotra, Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski and Bruce “The Boss” Sp…
1 year, 10 months ago
Episode 2246: Jonathan Rauch on the catastrophic ordinariness of contemporary America
So was November 5 a moral catastrophe signaling the death knell of American liberalism or just another election in the turbulent history of American …
1 year, 10 months ago
Episode 2245: Elon Musk, Silicon Valley and the Reinvention of American Government
“There is one winner regarding the most significant story this week,” Keith Teare writes in his That Was The Week technology newsletter. But, as he e…
1 year, 10 months ago
Episode 2244: John Hagel on overcoming fear - his proudest achievement over the last 20 years
In association with our friends at Digital-Life-Design (DLD), Europe’s iconic annual tech conference which next January celebrates its twentieth anni…
1 year, 10 months ago
Episode 2243: Frank Furedi on why the West must fight for its History
The endless culture wars rage on. In his new book, The War Against the Past, the sociologist Frank Furedi believes that unless what he calls “the Wes…
1 year, 10 months ago
Episode 2242: Gary Gerstle identifies the outlines of our Post Neoliberal Age
As the author of The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order, the Cambridge University historian Gary Gerstle was one of first people to recognize the …
1 year, 10 months ago
Episode 2241: Gary Shapiro on how to become a Pivot Guy
Gary Shapiro is my Pivot Guy. As the longtime CEO of the Consumer Technology Association, the organization that puts on Las Vegas’ annual CES, Gary k…
1 year, 10 months ago
Episode 2240: Parmy Olson on the race for global AI supremacy between OpenAI and Deep Mind
It’s the race that will change the world. In Supremacy, one of the FT’s six short-listed best business book of the year, Bloomberg columnist Parmy Ol…
1 year, 10 months ago
Episode 2239: Good Morning America! AI, Trump and the Silicon Valley Future
Might November 5 mark a new dawn for both Silicon Valley and America? Palo Alto based serial entrepreneur Keith Teare is ambivalent. In his That Was …
1 year, 11 months ago