Episode summary: 2010s online activism, the Reddit blackout, antitrust, academic data access, Newt Gingrich, enshitifcation. We brought scholar/activist Dave Karpf on to talk about his work leading fellow academics to fight for data access standards, and we ended up with a Reimagining greatest hits....

Episode summary: The owner of the Comedy Cellar shares his views on the evolving comedy scene.

Episode summary: Is he the best-read guest in the history of the show?

Episode summary: Podcast | US History in 15 Foods: A Conversation with Anna Zeide

Episode summary: Taxonomy of the Modern Mystery Story

Episode summary: Rose and David share a collection of their favorite personal automations ranging from task and project management to home automation.

Episode summary: This week David talks to American historian Gary Gerstle about the shape-shifting journey of the US Republican Party, from the Civil War to the battles of today. How did the party of the North become the party of the South? When did the war party lose its appetite for war? Why does...

Episode summary: Episode 88: Fascinating Things: A Conversation With Craig Morris, Director of the Western Wheat Quality Lab - WA Grains

Episode summary: Get your headphones on for this episode! Rob dives into three remarkable examples of scoring. He features examples from the Serial/NYT series “The Retrievals,” scored by Phoebe Wang, “My Mother Made Me” from PRX’s Radiotopia Presents scored by Ian Coss, and The Atlantic’s “Holy Week...

Episode summary: When we had Tracy Chou on the show in 2021, she was rolling out software to give users a revolutionary toolset to block harassment on Twitter, and she was doing it with the Twitter corporation’s help. Fast forward to today, when she’s one of Time Magazine’s 2022 Women of the Year an...