220: Adam Friedland Just Wants to Understand
Adam Friedland sits down with Jon to make sense of his unlikely rise from the self deprecating (and self defecating) cohost of Cum Town to…a public intellectual? "The Adam Friedland Show" has a knack ...
31 Jan 1h 6min
219: The Fight to Liberate Minnesota (and America)
Minneapolis isn’t just protesting ICE—it’s fully organizing against it. Lydia Polgreen, journalist and opinion columnist at The New York Times, joins Offline to explain the difference, share what she ...
24 Jan 1h
218: The Enshittification of the Internet (with Cory Doctorow)
Journalist, blogger, and science fiction writer Cory Doctorow stops by the studio to talk to Jon about “enshittification,” his theory that explains how, sometime over the last decade, everything onlin...
17 Jan 1h 5min
217: ICE Killings and the Death of Shared Reality
Does misinformation even matter if no one can agree on a shared reality? The New Yorker’s Jay Caspian Kang joins Offline to explain how the ICE shooting in Minnesota exposes Americans’ algorithm silos...
10 Jan 50min
216: What Comes After Trump?
What does 21st century authoritarianism look like in the United States? Author and Atlantic staff writer George Packer joins Offline to talk about America’s zombie democracy, who could be the most dan...
20 Dec 20251h 11min
215: The Movement to Protect Kids from Big Tech
Julie Scelfo, founder of Mothers Against Media Addiction, sits down with Jon to talk about the impacts AI and social media are having on our kids…and what we can do to stop it. Julie breaks down what ...
13 Dec 202558min
214: A Techno-Optimist’s Case for AI
Economist and techno-optimist Noah Smith, author of the Noahpinion Substack, joins Offline to debate the promise of artificial intelligence, the benefits of online fragmentation (could it be good for ...
6 Dec 202554min
