‘So Close to the Edge’: Adam Tooze on the Pandemic Economy
John interviews Adam Tooze, a historian, the author of five books on economic history, and a professor at Columbia University, where he is t...
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News Items Podcast with John Ellis
Ninety percent of the news out there tells you nothing about where the world is going — ten percent of it tells you everything. Every afternoon on the News Items Podcast with John Ellis, Joh...
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20 of 103 episodesSteve Coll on the Taliban’s Return to Power
John interviews Steve Coll, a staff writer at The New Yorker, the dean of the Columbia Journalism School, the author of eight books, and a t...
From Kabul to Oregon: Jeffrey Stern on Reporting the World
John interviews Jeffrey Stern. An award-winning journalist and the author of three books, Jeffrey originally started his career as a foreign...
Why Spy Novels Matter, with Joseph Kanon
John interviews Joseph Kanon, a former publishing executive who became a bestselling author in his 50s. Joseph’s spy novels take place in th...
How A.I. Can Help Us Fight Climate Change
John interviews Priya Donti, a Ph.D. student in computer science at Carnegie Mellon University. She is also the co-founder and chair of Clim...
Why Big Tech Won’t Get Into the News Business, with Josh Tyrangiel
John interviews journalist Josh Tyrangiel. After quickly rising through the ranks at Time Magazine, Josh became the editor of Bloomberg Busi...
‘Like Cellophane on Fire’: Joe Klein on the Fall of Afghanistan
John interviews Joe Klein, an award-winning journalist who wrote for Time, Newsweek, The New Yorker, and New York Magazine, among others, an...
How Neural Networks Changed the Face of A.I.
John interviews Cade Metz, a technology correspondent at The New York Times and the author of “Genius Makers,” a book on artificial intellig...
M.L.B. Chief Rob Manfred on What’s Next for Baseball
John interviews Major League Baseball’s commissioner, Rob Manfred. Before joining the MLB in 1998, in part to oversee labor relations, Rob w...
‘Brain on Fire’: How Susannah Cahalan Reported On Her Own Illness
John interviews Susannah Cahalan, author of the bestselling memoir “Brain on Fire.” In 2009, Susannah’s reporting career at the New York Pos...
How Tesla (Almost) Failed to Start, with Tim Higgins
John interviews Tim Higgins. Tim is a tech reporter at The Wall Street Journal, a regular CNBC contributor, and the author of “Power Play: T...
When A.I. Recognizes Emotion, with Rosalind Picard
John interviews A.I. scientist Rosalind Picard. Rosalind is a pioneer in the field of affective computing, the co-founder of two companies a...
The Case Against Ghislaine Maxwell, with Lisa Bryant
John interviews Lisa Bryant, the director and executive producer of the Netflix docuseries “Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich.” In the second epi...
How Jeffrey Epstein Got ‘Filthy Rich,’ with Lisa Bryant
John interviews Lisa Bryant, the director and executive producer of the Netflix docuseries “Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich.” In the first epis...
‘Inevitable’: Gayle Tzemach Lemmon on the US' Afghan Exit
John interviews Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, a bestselling author and an adjunct senior fellow for women and foreign policy at the Council on Forei...
On the Origins of the Coronavirus, with Donald McNeil
John interviews award-winning journalist Donald G. McNeil Jr. In this, the second half of a two-part interview, John and Donald talk about t...
Time for a Vaccine Mandate, with Donald McNeil
John interviews award-winning journalist Donald G. McNeil Jr. about a recent essay, published in Medium, where he excoriates the Biden admin...
How Substack Breaks Through the Attention Economy
John interviews Hamish McKenzie, one of the co-founders of Substack. Since its start in 2017, the company has managed to upend the relations...
How Voice Profiling Will Revolutionize Health Care, with Rita Singh
John interviews Rita Singh: a pioneer in the emerging field of voice profiling, the author of “Profiling Humans from Their Voice,” and an as...
We're on the Verge of Guiding Our Own Evolution, with Jane Metcalfe
John interviews Jane Metcalfe, the former president and co-founder of Wired magazine, about her fascinating career: from starting the “Rolli...