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  • Today in Focus: Gary Younge on being pigeonholed as a black journalist

    Listen: https://ift.tt/4Ud8XHj Former Guardian columnist Gary Younge reflects on the pressures faced by minority journalists to focus on certain types of stories, and how they can break free of ‘the pigeonhole'. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus May 19,… more ›

  • Is America More Racist Than Britain? | Ash Sarkar meets Ta-Nehisi Coates

    There are few, true, public intellectuals anymore. But Ta-Nehisi Coates – author of ‘Between The World And Me’ and recipient of the MacArthur Genius Grant – is unquestionably foremost amongst them. His new book, The Message, is a sweeping exploration… more ›

  • Empire: 252. Victorian Narcos: Selling Drugs To The Queen (Ep 6)

    Listen: https://ift.tt/YxBs9l4 Who was Commissioner Lin and how did he crack down on foreign opium in China? Why was Charles Elliot so hopeless that he landed Queen Victoria with a bill owing millions to drug dealers? What was the Canton… more ›

  • Ta-Nehisi Coates Arthur Miller Lecture – 2023 PEN World Voices Festival

    PEN America, whose mission is to unite writers and their allies in defense of free speech, hosts the annual PEN World Voices Festival, a multi-day celebration of international literature and free expression held in New York and LA. For the… more ›

  • The idea of the commons and the future of capitalism

    Keynote Lecture by Professor Yochai Benkler (Harvard Law School) at the IASC 2nd Thematic Conference on Knowledge Commons – Engelberg Center, New York University School of Law, September, 2014 According to Professor Yochai Benkler, the past three decades have seen… more ›

  • Helen Thompson: Disorder. Europe’s Energy Reckoning

    The depth of Europe’s present energy predicaments both in relation to fossil fuel energy and the energy transition have a long history going back to the beginning of the 20th century. While coal as an energy source caused huge internal… more ›

  • Why we need an energy revolution – with Helen Thompson

    “The term energy transition is actually a misnomer. It should really be called…an energy revolution.” Helen Thompson, Professor of Political Economy at Cambridge University, talks about what the energy transition entails for Europe and the world. What we aspire to… more ›

  • The Bezos Cannes-tastrophe

    I was lying out on the beach in Golfe-Juan, toes buried in the sand, enjoying one of those rare, silent, holy moments during the Cannes Film Festival. https://louispisano.substack.com/p/the-bezos-cannes-tastrophe more ›

  • Networks 2

    Originally published on Livestream.com on November 17, 2017 at 11:56 AM CST Yochai Benkler, Harvard Law School; Julie Cohen, Georgetown Law Center; Discussant: Christopher Yoo, Penn Law School. — more ›

  • SPATIAL COMPUTING AND THE FUTURE OF CONTENT

    Originally published on Livestream.com on October 29, 2019 at 11:04 PM CDT Adaora Udoji Media Innovator, Emerging Tech | Digital Transformation Debra Simmons Founder and CEO, LEVER3 Dr. John Pavlik Professor of Journalism and Media Studies, Rutgers School of Communication… more ›