Podcast Episodes

Dig: AI Hype Machine w/ Meredith Whittaker, Ed Ongweso, and Sarah West

Featuring Meredith Whittaker, Edward Ongweso Jr., and Sarah Myers West on the mundane dystopia concealed beneath the AI hype machine.

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Published on 2 years, 6 months ago

Michael and Us: Let's See What's On Netflix...

Our sacred quest to tackle every political comedy inevitably reaches the Will Ferrell/Zach Galifianakis vehicle THE CAMPAIGN (2012). We discuss what a middle-of-the-road comedy from the middle of the…

Published on 2 years, 6 months ago

Behind the News: On Clarence Thomas w/ Corey Robin

While other shows are getting applause for interviewing Corey Robin about his excellent book on Clarence Thomas (who is very much in the headlines these days), Behind the News was there first, as it …

Published on 2 years, 6 months ago

Dig: The Fall of OPEC w/ Giuliano Garavini

Featuring Giuliano Garavini on his book The Rise and Fall of OPEC in the Twentieth Century. The second in a two-part series on the 20th-century history of petrostates, petrocapitalists, and the world…

Published on 2 years, 6 months ago

Long Reads: Mussolini to Meloni w/ David Broder (Part 2)

Italy’s current prime minister Giorgia Meloni can trace her political roots all the way back to Mussolini. But what exactly does the Italian far right of today have in common with its fascist forebea…

Published on 2 years, 6 months ago

Michael and Us: If Movies Tire You, What Will Podcasts Do?

Hell is real, and it's really bad, and it's really important that you repent. That's the thesis of THE BURNING HELL (1974), a crackpot Evangelical oddity from the deep south, brought to you by the dy…

Published on 2 years, 6 months ago

Behind the News: The US Role in Ukraine w/ Christopher Layne

Christopher Layne discusses his Harper’s magazine article, “Why are we in Ukraine?” Plus: Marcus Brown talks about his augmented reality exhibit that evokes the eighteenth-century Wall Street slave m…

Published on 2 years, 6 months ago

Dig: The Rise of OPEC w/ Giuliano Garavini

Featuring Giuliano Garavini on his book The Rise and Fall of OPEC in the Twentieth Century. The first of a two-part series on the 20th-century history of petrostates, petrocapitalists, and the world …

Published on 2 years, 6 months ago

Michael and Us: America Would Never

A ragtag gang of Beltway misfits discover how to start a proxy war in CHARLIE WILSON'S WAR (2007), a lighthearted look at American intervention from the combined forces of Tom Hanks, Mike Nichols, an…

Published on 2 years, 6 months ago

Behind the News: Probation and Parole w/ Wanda Bertram

Wanda Bertram of the Prison Policy Initiative talks about some under-appreciated aspects of the carceral state: probation, parole, and civil commitment. Francisco Pérez of the Center for Economic Dem…

Published on 2 years, 6 months ago