What Post-Democracy America Looks Like
U.S. democracy is likely to break down during this second Trump presidency, but what lies ahead isn’t a traditional dictatorship. Dr. Steven Levitsky joins Offline to explain competitive authoritarian...
16 Feb 20251h 24min
Can Democracy Survive the Attention Wars? with Chris Hayes
MSNBC’s Chris Hayes joins Offline to discuss how our society’s commodification of attention has made us miserable while empowering authoritarians like Donald Trump. Chris’s new book, The Sirens’ Call,...
9 Feb 20251h 14min
Fighting the Broligarchs with Senator Chris Murphy
Senator Chris Murphy joins Offline with a warning for his fellow Democrats: the longer we take to counter Trump’s horrifying shock and awe strategy, the harder it will be to get up off the mat. The C...
2 Feb 20251h 22min
Trump's TikTok Dilemma, Crypto Cons Debunked, and The Truth About the Loneliness Epidemic
TikTok is back from the dead... at least for now. After a self-imposed shutdown and a shameless appeal to President Trump, the countdown to the TikTok ban has restarted. Meanwhile, the rest of Silicon...
26 Jan 20251h 11min
The Episode China Doesn’t Want You to Hear
The Supreme Court is the latest branch of government to kicktok TikTok to the curb—at least under its present Chinese ownership. Max and Jon break down what may happen to the app over the next few day...
19 Jan 20251h 23min
Lina Khan on Fighting Big Tech
Offline’s favorite foe of Big Tech, FTC Chair Lina Khan, joins the show to talk to Jon about standing up to Meta and Amazon, how the internet has changed the way monopolies operate, and why her work h...
12 Jan 20251h 6min
The Surgeon General's Very Offline Parting Message (and a Comically Online Holiday Segment)
Surgeon General Vivek Murthy joins Offline to share his final prescription for the nation He and Jon talk about why his parting message is all about community, the online reaction to the United Health...
22 Dec 20241h 27min
Was Luigi Mangione Too Online?
The more we learn about the alleged killer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, the more his digital footprint falls into the Offline wheelhouse. Luigi Mangione has posted about Jonathan Haidt and ...
15 Dec 202456min
