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EP 200 Brian Chau on AI Pluralism

Posted September 28, 202301:00:05

Jim talks with Brian Chau about recent advancements in AI and viewing AI's relationship to society and politics through a pluralistic lens. They discuss...

EP 199 Yascha Mounk on the Identity Trap

Posted September 26, 202301:34:39

Jim talks with Yascha Mounk about the ideas in his new book The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power. They discuss tribalism among progressives,...

EP 198 Cory Doctorow on Seizing the Means of Computation

Posted September 19, 202300:53:42

Jim talks with Cory Doctorow about the ideas in his new book The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation. They discuss Cory's long...

EP 197 Susan Neiman on Why Left Is Not Woke

Posted September 7, 202301:21:09

Jim talks with Susan Neiman about the ideas in her latest book, Left Is Not Woke. They discuss the history & meaning of wokeness, the underlying...

EP 196 Pamela Denise Long on Affirmative Action for Freedmen

Posted August 24, 202301:04:40

Jim talks with Pamela Denise Long about the ideas in an open letter from the Coalition of Concerned Freedmen to college presidents, responding to the...