Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchPlease use this Draft for 10/22 - Libsyn Ads Ops
Carnegie Endowment’s Alicia Wanless argues that disinformation isn’t new—it’s just our latest pollutant. In The Information Animal, she maps centurie…
1 year ago
Michael Kirk — "RFK Jr.'s Latest Addiction: Attention"
Frontline's Michael Kirk discusses The Rise of RFK Jr., charting Kennedy's path from sex and drug addiction to what Kirk calls "an addiction to valid…
1 year ago
Michael Townsend & Jeremy Workman: "Secret Mall Apartment"
Michael Townsend and director Jeremy Workman tell the wild true story of an eight-artist collective that built a hidden home inside Providence Place …
1 year ago
Chris Murphy: “Congress needs to take war powers back.”
Mike revisits his 2019 conversation with Senator Chris Murphy on the AUMF — the two-decade-old law still used to justify U.S. military strikes from Y…
1 year ago
Lisa Graves: On The Roberts Court's Power Play
Lisa Graves joins to discuss Without Precedent: How Chief Justice Roberts and His Accomplices Rewrote the Constitution and Dismantled Our Rights—from…
1 year ago
Not Even Mad: Jonah Goldberg & Zee Cohen-Sanchez
Hamas hostages, Trump and autocracy, and the strangely quiet shutdown — we tackle all three. Why Trump’s blunt style played in the Middle East, wheth…
1 year ago
Jonathan Mahler: The Tabloids That Made The City That Made the Country
Mahler walks us through The Gods of New York: Egotists, Idealists, Opportunists, and the Birth of the Modern City, 1986–1990—how a late-'80s crucible…
1 year ago
Cory Doctorow: Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It
Doctorow lays out his "enshittification" playbook—how tech platforms lure users, trap businesses, then extract value from both—tying it to interopera…
1 year ago
SCOTUS’s Shadow Docket, Calibrated + Steven Vladeck
Mike previews the new Supreme Court term: Colorado’s conversion-therapy ban, transgender athlete cases out of Idaho and West Virginia, a Louisiana Vo…
1 year ago
Funny You Should Mention: Steph Tolev
Season 3 of Funny You Should Mention begins with the “Filth Queen” herself Steph Tolev to explore why gross can be smart, how crowd work goes viral, …
1 year ago