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Episode 2076: Sir Tim Lankester on the promise, failure and legacy of Margaret Thatcher's monetarist revolution
There will be a British general election on July 4. “The most consequential of our generation” no doubt many politicians will remind the voters. But …
2 years, 4 months ago
Episode 2075: Bethanne Patrick's six must-read new books for May
May might be almost finished, but you’ve still got time this Memorial weekend to begin reading one of Bethanne Patrick’s recommended new books. And t…
2 years, 4 months ago
Episode 2074: Raghuram Rajan on why India must break the mold if it is become a prosperous 21st century economy
Few people are better equipped to unravel the riddle of the Indian economy than the former Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, Raghuram Rajan. As…
2 years, 4 months ago
Episode 2073: Sulmaan Wasif Khan on the past, present and future conflict between America and China over Taiwan
Along with Ukraine and Gaza, Taiwan represents the third leg of our increasingly wobbly international political system. This week, for example, the C…
2 years, 4 months ago
Episode 2072: Keith Teare on Scarlett Johansson's voice and the creative promise/peril of AI
Another week in tech, another splashy AI scandal. This one involves OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and the voice of Hollywood star Scarlett Johansson. Dear Sa…
2 years, 4 months ago
Episode 2071: Jehuda Reinharz on Chaim Weizmann, the first President of Israel who aspired to be a British aristocrat
The debate about the supposed “colonial” foundations of Israel goes on and on. But I wonder whether Jehuda Reinharz’s definitive new biography of Cha…
2 years, 4 months ago
Episode 2070: John R. MacArthur warns that reading digital screens might be shrinking our brains
The digital revolution has few more persistent critics than John (Rick) MacArthur, the legendarily outspoken publisher of Harper’s Magazine. His skep…
2 years, 4 months ago
Episode 2069: KEEN ON America featuring Bobi Conn
Bobi Conn’s life is an American story. Growing up in a desolate Kentucky holler, her father a drug addicted outlaw who abused her mother, Conn has r…
2 years, 4 months ago
Episode 2068: Jacob Kushner on the National Socialist Underground's plot to kill German immigrants
Is it time to start worrying about the Germans again? Perhaps, at least according to Jacob Kushner, the author of LOOK AWAY: A True Story of Murders,…
2 years, 4 months ago
Episode 2067: Jordan Elgrably on richly complex stories about the Middle East and North Africa mostly ignored by Western media
Jordan Elgrably, the Morrocan-French editor of the Markaz Review, wants us to read complex stories about the Middle East and North Africa that our si…
2 years, 4 months ago