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Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook’s hardest year, and what comes next
Episode 120
It’s been a tough year for Facebook. The social networking juggernaut found itself engulfed by controversies over fake news, electoral interference, …
7 years, 11 months ago
Is Mitch Landrieu the "White, Southern Anti-Trump"?
Episode 119
Mitch Landrieu is the white mayor of New Orleans, and he wants America to talk about race. Landrieu is the author of the new book, In The Shadow of S…
7 years, 11 months ago
Melinda Gates (live!) on stopping climate change, ending malaria, and the problems money can’t solve
Episode 118
Melinda Gates is the co-founder and co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the largest private foundation in the United States. With more…
7 years, 11 months ago
A better conversation on guns
Episode 117
Want to know why we can’t make any progress on the guns debate? Because this isn’t a debate over policy. It’s a debate over identity. After last mont…
8 years ago
This isn’t Joe Kennedy’s grandfather’s Democratic Party, and he knows it
Episode 116
When you’re sitting in front of Rep. Joe Kennedy, it’s clear that you’re sitting in front of a Kennedy. The face, the jawline — it’s all uncannily fa…
8 years ago
Amy Chua on how tribalism is tearing America apart
Episode 115
Human beings are tribal creatures, particularly when they feel threatened. And the reality of living in America in 2018, at a time of massive demogra…
8 years ago
How technology brings out the worst in us, with Tristan Harris
Episode 114
In 2011, Tristan Harris’s company, Apture, was acquired by Google. Inside Google, he became unnerved by how the company worked. There was all this en…
8 years ago
Steven Pinker: enlightenment values made this the best moment in human history
Episode 113
Does the daily news feel depressing? Does the world feel grim? It’s not, says Harvard professor Steven Pinker. This is, in fact, the best moment in h…
8 years, 1 month ago
Why my politics are bad with Bhaskar Sunkara
Episode 112
Bhaskar Sunkara is the founder and publisher of Jacobin, a journal of “socialist perspectives on politics, economics, and culture.” He launched the p…
8 years, 1 month ago
How Democracies Die
Episode 111
The year is young, but Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt’s How Democracies Die is going to be one of its most important books. It will be read as a …
8 years, 1 month ago