Is Trump Benefiting from Our 2020 Amnesia?
Eric Klinenberg, sociologist at New York University, joins Offline to discuss why our failure to process 2020 may lead to another disastrous Trump term. His newest book, 2020, breaks down the year tha...
24 Mars 20241h 1min
Kate Middleton MIA, UFOs, and How Conspiracies Got Fun
Kate Middleton sightings have dipped below UFO sightings, and the internet is having a heyday! It’s conspiracy theory week at Offline, with Max and Jon offering up their own takes on the missing Princ...
17 Mars 20241h 19min
TikTok Ban Returns, AOC Hounded by Protesters, and Jon Ronson on the End of Public Shaming
Jon Ronson, author of So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed and host of the BBC podcast “Things Fell Apart,” joins Offline to discuss culture wars—why do they originate in America? Are they going too far? Ar...
10 Mars 20241h 2min
Woke AI, Libs of TikTok DESTROYED, and the Offline Reality of Long COVID
Zeynep Tufekci, sociologist and New York Times opinion columnist, joins Offline to discuss why long covid has unleashed so much online vitriol, united the Senate, and exposed just how little Americans...
3 Mars 20241h 12min
An Ex-Tucker Carlson Employee Tells All
Tina Nguyen, national correspondent at Puck News, joins Offline to talk about her new memoir, “The MAGA Diaries.” The book sheds light on the conservative movement’s college recruitment pipeline, and ...
25 Feb 20241h 22min
The Neuroscience of Why We’re Susceptible to Lies, Outrage, and Fascism
Cass Sunstein, Harvard professor and coauthor of the forthcoming book, Look Again, joins Offline to discuss the dangers of habituation. When things become so commonplace that they blend into the backg...
18 Feb 20241h 3min
Authoritarians or A-holes? Kara Swisher on Tech's Biggest Egos
Kara Swisher, longtime tech reporter and author of the forthcoming memoir Burn Book, joins Offline to talk about the tech tycoons who think they’re qualified to run our country. She and Jon break down...
11 Feb 202456min
What's Really Behind the Media Apocalypse?
Peter Hamby, host of Snapchat’s Good Luck America and a founding partner at Puck News, returns to Offline to discuss whether journalism is headed towards extinction. With the latest round of media lay...
4 Feb 20241h 13min
