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The daily show about books, writers, and big ideas. Hosted by Andrew Keen.
“Every single person that we meet was both the endpoint of thousands of years that brought them there, and the midpoint of some other proces...
“The current crisis was far from inevitable. Politicians made consistently bad choices. In doing so, they fostered a crisis of confidence in...
“Post-war Europe is essentially an American protectorate. Europeans don’t like to admit that. They only came to realize just how dependent t...
“Orbán rigged the electoral system to highly benefit the winner. He thought he would never face the realistic possibility of losing. When so...
“Anyone that’s properly using AI now knows that you tell it what you want, it gives you a plan, carries out the work, and you judge and twea...
“Trump has no strategy and no endgame. No amount of success in tactics will win. No military campaign has ever been won solely from the air....
“Nobody has ever made money selling America short. We’re an extraordinary country.” — John Steele Gordon To honor America’s semiquincentenni...
“It’s like wrecking a car to steal a pair of sunglasses. The sunglasses are the ransom. The damage to the car is fifty to seventy-five billi...
“Violence has been misdiagnosed. And there’s a misdiagnosis that has caused us to not be able to control it as we could.” — Dr. Gary Slutkin...
America is once again at war. Helen Benedict is one of our most distinguished writers on the moral consequences of war. Her new novel, The S...
“All these groups from 1945 on said: we can resist any hate group in America, even the Ku Klux Klan, as long as we take them on one at a tim...
“The truth is paywalled, and the lies are free.” — Current Affairs editor, quoted by Brewster Kahle The internet, we were promised, would re...
“White men are 29 percent of the population but hold 90 percent of Fortune 500 CEO positions, 90 percent of venture capital, and 98 percent...
“Sam Altman’s best case scenario is that abundance lifts everyone up to a much higher standard, but it also exacerbates inequality. That was...
“The burdens of slavery did crush some people. They elicited outright armed rebellion from others. And between those two extremes, there’s a...
“They weren’t interested in being on the side of God so much as they are insistent that God is on their side.” — Peter Wehner on Hegseth and...
“Liberalism was founded in the middle of the eighteenth century as a revolutionary philosophy — a philosophy that tried to subvert the old w...
“Pessimism is not fatalism. Fatalism is the belief that things will always necessarily be worse. Pessimism is the belief that things will pr...
“These technologies are morally agnostic. They could be the best things ever and the worst things ever, and the determinant is us.” — Jamie...
“I felt sad after every interview. Because it’s not real. These AI are able to elicit a very convincing illusion of empathy — even love. But...
“Let’s just say it out loud,” Keith Teare , publisher of the That Was the Week newsletter, says. “AI is not dangerous.” Not all of you will...
“A mark of an intelligent person is humility. If you have the right amount of humility, then you’re seeking out knowledge from others rather...
“If God died in the nineteenth century, ideology died in the twenty-first. Could you actually imagine people dying for communism or for libe...
“Politics is the systematic organisation of hatreds.” — Henry Adams, quoted by Don Watson America is celebrating its 250th anniversary this...
“I find it very odd that agency is being promoted for its own sake rather than being connected to any kind of value system. Because without...
“Globalization has revived tribalism. Instead of destroying local cultures, as the left predicted, it has made them stronger. Far from the t...
“You don’t have enough money to pay all the bills? Well, cut the budget for parks and rec, cut the budget for libraries, cut the budget for...
“We keep getting wake-up calls and snoozing the alarm. Now is the time to actually get out of bed and confront this problem before it is too...
“Once you start clamping down on speech, it will have serious collateral damage. And we’re starting to see that now.” — Jacob Mchangama The...
“The media has its own agenda, completely separate from anything going on in the real world, creating the story themselves.” — Keith Teare L...
“It’s ultra stable. Health care doesn’t move. If you biopsied American health care in 2010 and again in 2026, no one could figure out which...
“You can face your history and still love your country. This is my attempt at doing that.” — Beverly Gage When the Yale Pulitzer Prize-winni...
“Doing science is like reading the mind of God.” — Demis Hassabis, quoted in The Infinity Machine This week’s New Yorker uncomplimentary pro...
“There are parts of the business and finance world that are invested in making these things seem intimidating and scary. We really enjoy mak...
“Historically, when the college-educated become politically radicalised, that does tend to lead to real shifts.” — Noam Scheiber A universit...
“When we trust AI to tell us the truth, we are setting ourselves up to hand over something deeply human to a machine that does not have our...
“His ultimate failure is not simply losing. It’s his failure to stop Trumpism from being such a dominant force in America.” — Julian Zelizer...
“We shape our tools, and thereafter they shape us.” — Marshall McLuhan (attributed) Who gets to tell the AI story? A movie, a media company...
“Millions of people have gone out and said, ‘Stop, don’t do that.’ And that is a wonderful thing.” — Peter Edelman We are in Washington DC t...
“That’s my story, but not where it ends.” — Bob Dylan, “Key West (Philosopher Pirate)” Fitzgerald said there were no second acts in the Amer...
“When Haiti plays Brazil, Haitians will feel equal. Football gives even the weakest and the poorest a fighting chance. That is profound.” —...
“The World Cup is a kind of religious feast. It’s like Easter, or Passover, or Eid, but it’s for all of humanity.” — A Church of England vic...
“There is tremendous loneliness in the kind of life where you just don’t feel like anybody knows you.” — Margaret Rutherford Yesterday, the...
“Perfection is the devil. Growth means a greater capaciousness, not a narrowing and an optimisation.” — Daniel Smith Don’t feel bad about fe...
“We can survive. Can we thrive? That’s a different question.” — Corey Nathan Robert Mueller died last week. Educated at Princeton, this Viet...
“Happiness is a rare commodity. There’s a lot of fuel for the claim that unhappiness is caused by some software, when in fact the roots of u...
“Why does someone need to be the first trillionaire? The damage it’s doing just to get to that level is extreme.” — Glen Galaich Excessive w...
“Friction is what brings us together. If we were never able to communicate in real space, we would not truly learn what it is to be human.”...
“The shortest distance between you and me is a story.” — Colum McCann In 1932, Albert Einstein wrote to Sigmund Freud asking if humanity cou...
“What conclusion do you draw if you see a system that continues to grow more powerful despite failing at the things it says it’s going to ac...