Olympian Caster Semenya on Fighting to Run
Who gets to compete as a woman? And who decides whether someone is “woman enough”? When it comes to South African runner Caster Semenya, it could be the European Court of Human Rights. The two-time Ol...
27 Nov 202349min
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on the OpenAI Debacle
In the swirl of drama around Sam Altman’s exit from OpenAI, one company seems to be the winner: Microsoft. It has both a significant partnership with, and an ownership stake in, the company, and now i...
21 Nov 202328min
The Fox News ‘Lying Tax,’ Tucker and More with Brian Stelter
Why did Fox News knowingly air unhinged conspiracy theories about Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic and then fire Tucker Carlson, its most popular host, just days after settling with Dominion for...
20 Nov 20231h 3min
Dan Doctoroff on Living with ALS and Building the Future
Dan Doctoroff had a storied career as Deputy Mayor of New York City during the first two Bloomberg administrations. In six years, Doctoroff helped rebuild the city after 9/11. He later oversaw the ter...
16 Nov 202355min
Adam Grant on Your Potential, Gen Z and — oops — Elon
Are tech bros successful because of some innate talent, or could any of us be like them? Organizational psychologist and Wharton School professor Adam Grant takes on the myth of innate talent and the ...
13 Nov 202359min
Can Mike Johnson Survive As House Speaker?
After three incredibly chaotic weeks, the House Republican Conference elected a relatively unknown (and startlingly retrograde) Louisiana congressman, Mike Johnson, as Speaker of the House. Today we l...
9 Nov 202353min
The Twitter Fantasy from Land of the Giants
Today we’re playing you an episode of Land of the Giants that takes a walk down memory lane to the early days of Twitter and how the platform became the best and worst place on the internet. If you li...
6 Nov 202352min
How Elon Broke Twitter — and Twitter Broke Elon — with Ben Mezrich
What does a dramatic narrative nonfiction account of a dramatic tech CEO look like? To find out, we turn to Ben Mezrich, the author whose books have been adapted to films like 21, The Social Network, ...
2 Nov 20231h 7min
