What Makes Us Human? Kate O’Neill on the H Word, Verbal Slop, and the Meaning of Tech Humanism
“AI companies are taking advantage of our natural tendency to ascribe an inner life to our interlocutors. They profit when you think the cha...
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Never Invite Sally Quinn: The Illustrious Washington Hostess on Ben Bradlee, Jill Biden and the Sexiness of Silence
“I considered it elder abuse. She put him through the paces, not only before the debate, but after. She should have gotten him out of there...
Gerontocracy in America: Samuel Moyn on How the Old Are Hoarding Power and Wealth
“Age is the modality in which class is lived in America today.” — Samuel Moyn Yesterday we had 91-year-old Mordecai Kurz on the show. Tomorr...
The Trouble with Trillionaires: Mordecai Kurz on Capitalism, Democracy, and the Second Gilded Age
“Between 1980 and 2019, the billionaires gained $25 trillion. By today it’s probably $35 trillion. The question is who will pay for reform?...
The Vanishing Black Family: Delano Squires on Marriage, Moynihan, and the Crisis in Black America
“Second wave feminism taught women that femininity was weak, masculinity was toxic, marriage was oppressive, the home was a prison, and chil...
A Century of Orations: Nathan Perl-Rosenthal Listens to 2,500 Voices of the American Revolution
“As early as 1805, you had orators getting up there — barely twenty years after American independence was recognised by Great Britain — sayi...
Up to the Stars and Down into the Gutter: Elon Musk's Ascent/Descent to SpaceX and White Nationalist Violence
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars,” Oscar Wilde wrote in his 1892 play Lady Windermere’s Fan . This week, E...
No Statecraft for Old Men: Jack Watling on the New Rules of Power in a Chaotic World
“Power trumps money fundamentally. And I think we’ve seen the extent to which these companies are very subservient to the US government. Bec...
The David Frum Show: Frum on Gatsby, Trump the Fascoid and What It Means to Be an American
“That’s not the America that I believed in and that I chose to merge my fate with.” — David Frum on Trump’s predatory foreign policy What do...
Save San Francisco’s Soul: Jonathan Weber on Technology and Politics in the City By the Bay
“The same creative and political forces that gave rise to [San Francisco’s] boom nearly engineered its collapse.” — Jonathan Weber In Hitchc...
Brooklyn Al Primo Posto: Vincent Coppola’s Magical Memoir of the Church, the Mafia and the Gowanus Canal
“I never knew, and I was a bright kid. I didn’t know who the mayor of New York was, but I could tell you the names of all the mafia guys on...
Trump Finally Gets the Priceless Book He Deserves: Ben Fountain on How Rasputin Swims the Potomac
“The hyperreal is the real. The surreal is the real in The United States. We’ve reached that point. The absurd is the real. And so that’s wh...
The Unexceptional Exceptionalism of the United States: Michael Mandelbaum on the American Way of Foreign Policy
“The United States has conducted an unusually ideological foreign policy, an unusually economic foreign policy, and an unusually democratic...
The Jeffrey Epstein of Antiquities: Matthew Campbell on the Man Who Got Away With Stealing the Gods,
“Objects in museums have to come from somewhere. The stories of how they came to be in those collections often involve laws being broken, un...
D-Day for AI: How to Create an End Game That Will Benefit Everyone
“AI represents successful capitalism. What we have alongside that is unsuccessful government. Government has no plan — left or right.” — Kei...
Good Bobby, Bad Bobby: Evan Thomas on the Greatest Riddle in 20th Century American Politics
“He didn’t just say it, he meant it, he felt it — and the combination of the power guy, the ruthless power guy, and the profound idealist wa...
Why Football Saves Our Souls: Brian Bunk on the Collective Beauty of the World’s Most Popular Game
“That kind of put soccer on my radar as a sport. I saw how deeply it meant to people, in a way I didn’t appreciate prior to that. And then I...
Get the F*** Out of Your House: Yotam Marom on How to Raise the Volume on the Politics of Powerlessness
“Get the f*** out of your house and join an organisation. Groups are how we make movements. They’re how we make political and social change....
Around the World in One Long Depression: Liaquat Ahamed on 1873 & the Making of the Global Economy
“Be optimistic about the boom, but don’t buy the stock.” — Liaquat Ahamed on the AI bubble Yesterday, Alexander Starritt argued that the 200...
Drayton and Mackenzie: Alexander Starritt on How the 2008 Crash Ruined Everything
“To explain the lives of people living in this moment, to look at the historical forces that are shaping all of us, you have to look at busi...