Tag: podcasts
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Listen: https://ift.tt/FksnV1I Oil may dominate the headlines about the Middle East, but the real power often flows through water. Three narrow passages – the Suez Canal, the Strait of Hormuz,… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/FkuvMht The war in Iran has had some visible consequences, like skyrocketing energy costs and higher gas prices, but the effects of this war are often far less obvious… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/UScBrt8 Today’s great political fiction is a path-breaking work of science fiction: David explores Ursula Le Guin’s The Dispossessed (1974), which imagines a world without the need for government or coercive… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/Qz2Yd7X Africa is the literal center of the world’s map and increasingly the center of gravity for ISIS, the manpower source for Russia’s war in Ukraine, and the contested… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/JCunBpZ Casting is finally underway for a new James Bond. But why has it taken five years to even begin the search? Since Daniel Craig retired as Bond in… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/cLmSzfy In this week’s Better Offline, Ed Zitron is joined by economist Paul Kedrosky to talk about why nobody can find the ROI of AI, why there won’t be… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/lGKP2r8 For the first in a new set of episodes about some of the great political fictions of the past hundred years David explores Aldous Huxley’s much misunderstood dystopian… more ›
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Listen: https://ift.tt/9iNplJ4 Ioan Grillo has spent decades on the ground in Mexico watching the cartels evolve, and his assessment is sobering. Violence has shifted form more than it's receded. Governments… more ›