How Peter Thiel Became the Right’s Tech-Authoritarian Kingmaker
Peter Thiel isn’t as rich as Elon Musk or as notorious as Steve Bannon. But over the last 10 years he has grown from Silicon Valley’s oddball conservative to an ideological anchor of the Trump era. An...
25 Aug 20241h 2min
“WarGames” with Jon Lovett and Ben Rhodes
Jon Lovett and Ben Rhodes join Max to explore how 1983’s “WarGames” predicted the internet era. The film is a fascinating time capsule of Reagan era tech optimism, nuclear war doomerism, and Matthew B...
22 Aug 20241h 4min
Trump and Elon’s Trainwreck Interview & J.D. Vance’s Real Tech Agenda
Elon Musk hosted Donald Trump for a two and a half hour ramble on Twitter’s garbage live streaming platform—and if you think SpaceX flubs launches…well, they’ve got nothing on X Spaces. Max sits down ...
18 Aug 202457min
How Tim Walz’s Big Dad Energy Went Viral
Why is Tim Walz, a 60-year-old dad from Minnesota, so internet savvy? And why is he so good at making right wingers look not just weird, but also extremely, chronically and dangerously online? Jon and...
11 Aug 202440min
JD Vance, Project 2025, and How the Right Got Weird
All of a sudden, nearly every Democrat in the country has started calling out Republicans for being really damn weird. And with JD Vance’s pronatalist views and Trump’s insistence that Kamala Harris i...
4 Aug 202450min
Kamala Harris’ Coconut-Pilled Brat Girl Summer
Kamala Harris memes are bringing together leftists and wine moms, neolib shills and NeverTrumpers, political wonks and pop stars across every platform. Why is the presumptive Democratic nominee for pr...
28 Jul 202455min
Why Kamala Fandom is Rocking the Internet – and the Trump Assassination Isn't
We still don’t know why a 20-year-old from Pennsylvania opened fire on Trump last weekend. Lone shooters whose paths from normalcy to vigilantism seem esoteric, obscure, or perverse have become a fami...
21 Jul 202456min
The Biden Reckoning Will Be Tweeted; plus, Interviewing Nazis with Elle Reeve
Elle Reeve, CNN commentator and author of the new book Black Pill, joins Offline to share her reporting on the darkest corners of the internet. For over a decade, Reeve has tracked the emergence of th...
14 Jul 20241h 5min
