Tag: Futurology

• Futurology: The Death Knell of the Nation-State (with Rana Dasgupta and Jonathan Blake)

  August 5, 2025

  Listen: https://ift.tt/WrEl0jp The modern nation-state wasn’t just a conglomeration of laws and armies. It was a belief in borders, in belonging, in the promise that citizenship could ground identity in… more ›

• Futurology: How We Discovered Our Own Extinction (with Thomas Moynihan and Benjamin Bratton)

  August 4, 2025

  Listen: https://ift.tt/7EGaKxy For most of human history, the end of the world was a divine promise, inevitable and liberating for the holy alone. But the invention of extinction changed that.… more ›

• Futurology: Did the Sun Ever Set on the Age of Empire? (with Niall Ferguson and Nathan Gardels)

  July 16, 2025

  Listen: https://ift.tt/XWfcruN On America’s 250th birthday, historian Niall Ferguson suggests that the US has reached an age when most republics fizzle out. Donald Trump’s rise is merely a symptom of… more ›