How Giant Corporations Squeeze Every Last Penny Out of Writers and Musicians
Rebecca Giblin is a professor at the University of Melbourne and the co-author (with Cory Doctorow) of Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll...
4 Nov 202249min
How to Save Sick Piglets While Avoiding Jail Time (w/ Wayne Hsiung and Matt Johnson)
Wayne Hsiung is a former law professor who was recently acquitted by a Utah jury after being charged with stealing two piglets from a factory farm, in a story that made national news. In 2017, animal ...
4 Nov 202245min
How To Be A Smart Media Critic Who Knows Propaganda When They See It
Norman Solomon is one of the foremost progressive media critics, having founded the Institute for Public Accuracy and authored or co-authored many books on media including Unreliable Sources: A Guide ...
4 Nov 202259min
How Do You Create A Leftist Animated Cartoon That Is Actually Funny?
Shawn Vulliez and Aaron Moritz are the creators and hosts of the utopian leftist comedy podcast Srsly Wrong and also the creators of the new animated series Papa and Boy, currently making its debut on...
4 Nov 202251min
Why You Don't Need To Worry About "Superintelligent AI" Destroying The World (But Artificial Intelligence Is Still Scary)
Some, including both geniuses like Stephen Hawking and nongeniuses like Elon Musk, have warned that artificial intelligence poses a major risk to humankind's future. Some in the "Effective Altruist" c...
4 Nov 202248min
The Exciting Rise of the New U.S. Leftist Movement (w/ Raina Lipsitz)
Raina Lipsitz is a journalist whose book The Rise of a New Left: How Young Radicals Are Shaping the Future of American Politics profiles the young leftists who are bringing socialism back to American ...
4 Nov 202240min
Why We Have To Teach Kids to Analyze and Debunk Propaganda
Sam Shain is a public school teacher whose book Education Revolution: Media Literacy for Political Awareness argues that K-12 students need to be equipped with the ability to analyze media and spot mi...
4 Nov 202241min
How the "Economic Style of Reasoning" Came to Dominate Social Policy
Prof. Elizabeth Popp Berman is the author of Thinking like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy, which documents how a style of reasoning that heavily emphasizes effici...
4 Nov 202244min
