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How billionaires have colonized the New York City skyline: Katherine Clarke on the race to build the world's most exclusive skyscrapers
Aug 24, 202326 min
Say Everything Everywhere: Scott Rosenberg remembers the digital origins of bulletin boards, blogging and the social media revolution
Aug 24, 202337 min
This Is Wildfire: Nick Mott on how to protect ourselves, our homes and our communities in the age of heat
Aug 24, 202328 min
Why Twitter and Facebook are like nuclear weapons: Umut Ozkirimli traces his personal history of social media from the 2013 Gezi Park uprising to his own cancellation in 2020
Aug 24, 202331 min
Why the Revolution Won't Be Retweeted: Ece Temelkuran on social media's failure to change the world
Aug 24, 202336 min
The New Heart of Darkness: Siddharth Kara on how the (rechargable) blood of the Congo powers our lives
Aug 24, 202337 min
Playing Chess against Nature: Rafael Yuste explains how today's advances in neuroscience will eventually lead to a new Renaissance in understanding who exactly we are as a species
Aug 23, 202340 min
Sex, Faith and Murder in an Early 19th Century New England Mill Town: Bruce Dorsey on the first true crime story that captivated America
Aug 23, 202334 min
Why today's "Polycrisis" is akin to living in a hospice: Anya Kamenetz untangles the environmental, psychological, epidemiological, economic and political crises of our age
Aug 23, 202328 min
Why Big Tech threatens our civil rights, economy and democracy: Silicon Valley insider Tom Kemp warns about the existential dangers of Google, Facebook, Amazon and Apple
Aug 23, 202340 min
Can there be liberty in the Greater Middle East without democracy? Robert D. Kaplan on why Singapore offers a palatable political model for countries lying between the Mediterranean and China
Aug 22, 202332 min
Remembering the Digital Future: Ethan Zuckerman on the history of blogging, the Arab Spring and why there will never be another Twitter
Aug 22, 202338 min
The Silicon Valley Playbook for Existential Success: Behnam Tabrizi on why some companies succeed and others fail in the perpetual struggle to survive in today's innovative economy
Aug 21, 202338 min
On the Disinformation of Trump, RFK Jr and Putin: Lee McIntyre explains how we can fight for truth and protect democracy
Aug 21, 202342 min
What, exactly, is female beauty? Celeste Marcus on Bardot and Barbie as rival and perhaps incompatible types of beautiful women
Aug 21, 202340 min
Liberal Saint or Monty Pythonesque Sinner? D.J. Taylor uncovers a "New Life" for George Orwell that resurrects the iconic 20th century writer for a 21st century audience
Aug 21, 202341 min
8 inspiring non-fiction reads for the summer: Bethanne Patrick on books about New York City sex cults, the oceanic underworld, Ghanian confidence tricksters and American women, fathers and sons
Aug 18, 202332 min
What history teaches us about the future of venture capitalism: Keith Teare on how being a good investor requires us to overcome our emotions
Aug 18, 202338 min
Why Podcasters should NEVER read advertisements on their own shows: Jemima Kelly on the gross inauthenticity of podcasts and most other forms of "social" media
Aug 18, 202344 min
So how much would you pay for the Mona Lisa? Arturo Cifuentes explains the cost of art and why valuing paintings is like evaluating the price of real-estate
Aug 17, 202333 min
The Not-So-Secret World of Black Twitter: Deesha Philyaw on social media, the influencer generation and the loneliness of online existence
Aug 17, 202335 min
Getting Beyond the Happy Talk of Liberal Orthodoxy: Susan MacKenty Brady explains how men and women can begin talking fearlessly to one another again
Aug 17, 202332 min
The Woman Who Couldn't Wake Up: Quinn Eastman on Hypersomnia and the science of sleepiness
Aug 16, 202320 min
How Trust Works: Peter Kim on the science of how relationships are built, broken, and repaired
Aug 16, 202337 min
All of a sudden, there was all this freedom: David Winer on the origins of blogging, the self-publishing technology that has profoundly shaped the first quarter of the 21st century
Aug 15, 202343 min
If Life isn't a Movie, then How Should We Make Movies about Life? Olivia Rutigliano on Jean-Luc Godard's 1963 controversial film, "Le Mepris" (Contempt)
Aug 15, 202335 min
The Terrifyingly Exciting Promise of Nuclear Fusion: Matthew Moynihan on radically disruptive technology that, he promises, can conquer climate change and take us to Mars in a month
Aug 14, 202331 min
The Future of Money, Jobs, Climate and Failure: Andrew Hill on the Financial Times' best 15 business books from 2023
Aug 14, 202337 min
Dry Powder for a Dying Digital Economy? Keith Teare on the deepening venture capital crisis, how the innovators dilemma holds back Big Tech innovation, and why Substack is trying to reinvent the online media ecosystem
Aug 11, 202330 min
Did MTV Kill American Democracy? Kathryn Cramer Brownell on cable television and the fragmenting of America from Watergate to Fox News
Aug 10, 202330 min
Literary Insurrections and Memetic Apocalypses : Rion Amilcar Scott on the rise and (perhaps) fall of Black Twitter
Aug 10, 202325 min
The Scottish Coal-Miner's Daughter Who Took on the Bulgarian Cryptoqueen: Jennifer McAdam on her battle to take down Ruja Ignatova and her $27 Billion OneCoin Scam
Aug 10, 202330 min
The Seven Best Novels of the Summer: Bethanne Patrick on the literature of love, nostalgia, young call girls and valiant women
Aug 9, 202333 min
The Subversive Story of the B-52s: Scott Creney on one of the most iconic bands in American popular musical history
Aug 8, 202329 min
Feeding the AI Beast: Michael Wooldridge on the vast quantities of online data that have trained ChatGPT to mimic human language
Aug 7, 202334 min
Why America is Facing its greatest "Moral Moment "since the Civil War: Peter Wehner on the accountability of the Republican Party for Trump
Aug 7, 202348 min
Why We Need to Reoccupy Reality: Douglas Rushkoff on the Untethering of America between 2013 and 2023
Aug 6, 202340 min
How something really strange began to happen on social media in 2016
Aug 5, 202344 min
Bonfire of the Unicorns: Keith Teare on the near apocalypse for Silicon Valley billion dollar valued start-ups ("unicorns") and the impact of this meltdown on the broader innovation economy
Aug 4, 202334 min
Get Out of My Way
Aug 4, 202335 min
In Defense of the Abraham Accords
Aug 4, 202338 min
Remembering a first Tweet with the same bewitching nostalgia as a first kiss
Aug 3, 202332 min
Why 1968 was the year that broke American politics and how this could be repeated in 2024
Aug 3, 202339 min
Why Greta Gerwig's BARBIE is Cynical and Vapid
Aug 3, 202333 min
Why So Many Smart People Are Turning Against Democracy
Aug 1, 202339 min
If We Can Be Taught How to Write, Then Why Not Also Be Educated in How to Love?
Jul 30, 202338 min
How to go from a small handful of book sales to top of the bestseller list via a 16 second Tiktok
Jul 29, 202329 min
How Landscape Architecture should get us to Pause and then Reconnect with Nature
Jul 29, 202332 min
Following the Dirty Money in Today's Globalized Entrepreneurial Underworld
Jul 29, 202335 min
How the High Price of Money is Wrecking the Venture Capital Industry
Jul 28, 202341 min