Fresh Air

Filmmaker Paul Greengrass on rage, rebellion and ‘The Uprising’

What I wanted was to do a story about an ordinary person, an ordinary farmer, caught up in tumultuous events, events that would feel, I think, although it's set in the medieval world, would feel very familiar to an audience today, because I think in many ways, when you think of the turbulence in our world today, it is driven by these great inequalities and the rage that people feel about elites and all those things that wherever you are on the political spectrum, I think we recognise that that's what's going on in your country and mine and Europe and beyond.

Fresh Air

How the government wastes our time

I think that we don't see these things as being purposeful, modifiable, rooted in things like sexism and racism in some cases. And so, yeah, the time tax, what is it taking from you to get that thing?

TED

We’ve Solved Many Medical Mysteries. Where Are the Cures? | Saloni Dattani | TED

It's not profitable to develop new drugs and vaccines against diseases that affect people in poverty, in poorer countries, even if millions of children might benefit. Even if there's a huge economic benefit as well. It took foreign aid and philanthropy to fund the research to test it. And it literally took decades to reach the children who needed it.

The Prof G Pod

"It Scared Me How Realistic It Is" — AI Porn's Danger

I think the greatest innovation in history isn't vaccines or the iPhone. I think it's the American middle class. And only 40% of men throughout history, I understand, have reproduced and 80% of women.

The Prof G Pod

"It Scared Me How Realistic It Is" — AI Porn's Danger

Only 40% of men throughout history, I understand, have reproduced and 80% of women. The majority of men throughout history have not had the opportunity to reproduce because the majority of the spoils have gone to a small group of people and they can engage in what I would loosely refer as Porsche polygamy.

Through Line

Lies, theft, and cover-up: the history of Monopoly you've never heard

Monopoly reflects some of the enduring inequities in American society and the uglier parts of our history. From segregation and redlining to capitalism run rampant. Yet, it's also built on this powerful American lore. The idea that anyone with just a little bit of cash can rise from rags to riches in this country.

Office Hours

Do Ivy League Degrees Actually Matter? | Office Hours

The Ivy League generally attracts two cohorts, freakishly remarkable kids and the children of rich people. And disproportionately, increasingly more the latter than the former. The former is used as Vaseline to smear over the lens of income inequality and the fact that kids from the top 1% income earning households are 77 times more likely to get into an elite university.

TED

The Invisible Threat Taking Away Our Brightest Minds | Drew McCartor | TED

If you rob one child of their potential, that's a tragedy. But to do it to a billion kids, that changes the trajectory of humanity.

TED

The Kind of AI We Actually Need | Van Jones | TED

Abundance without participation, abundance without inclusion, feels like scarcity. It feels like scarcity. You think you're scaling abundance, but we experience it as you scaling scarcity.

Book of the Day

Sen. Chris Murphy wants the left and right to fix the country’s 'spiritual rot'

Somebody is getting screwed in this country and somebody is doing the screwing. It's just not immigrants and Muslims and gay kids and drag shows. It's corporations and billionaires and super PACs.

Office Hours

Scott Galloway: Social Security Is Failing Young People | Office Hours

How do we do away with the the transfer and the cost of transferring money from an anxious, obese, and depressed generation to the wealthiest generation in the history of the planet, and that is baby boomers.

Code Switch

Obama's new Presidential Center and his tricky relationship with the South Side | Code Switch

I mean, it probably looks different if you're a tourist walking the grounds than it would if you're one of the kids of that high school across the street.

Book of the Day

Theo Baker delves into power and corruption at Stanford in 'How to Rule the World'

There is a sort of Stanford inside Stanford where the most elite students who are going to found the trillion-dollar companies are dragged into this alternate reality and and foisted with excess and access and learn how to cut corners.

Pivot

Trump’s Not Thinking About Your Finances… At All | Pivot

It feels as if America is just becoming an operating system for the wealth of the top 1%

EconTalk

Adam Smith's Warning About Wealth, Fame, and Status (with Ross Levine)

Smith's sobering warning that when a society admires wealth and power for their own sake, it breeds servility and undermines freedom.

The Prof G Pod – Scott Galloway

What To Do In The Most Uncertain Market In Years | Prof G Markets

The 0.1% have their own transportation. They don't give a shit about 4-hour TSA lines. They have their own police forces. They live in buildings in neighborhoods that are of incredible security. They have their own health care. So what is their vested interest?

Prof G Markets

The $1.5B Insider Trade Before Trump’s Iran Post | Prof G Markets

When you have corruption like this at this scale, if you're a young kid, if you're a young Scott Galloway, a young Anthony Scaramucci, you're looking up and you're seeing a concrete ceiling.

Semafor

The Next 3 Billion on Tour Series: Nairobi Edition | Semafor Events

But still, one in five people across the planet remain excluded. There is a stark regional divide, a gender divide, and a digital divide that must be bridged.

Semafor

Blackrock Infrastructure Summit: State Spotlight | Semafor Media Partner

When infrastructure doesn't work for people, it hurts the family. It hurts her home budget money out of her rent or child care. And so for me, it was that that moment where it really crystallized when the fundamentals aren't working. People on the margins pay the dearest price for it.

Fresh Air

Inside the explosive growth of sports betting

It's turning all of American life into a Las Vegas table game. There's always this kind of glittering mirage of profit that you're chasing, when, in reality, it's designed to sort of demoralize and crush every regular person who plays.

Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!

We say "So long!" to Kristi Noem and Benetti plays ball

welcome to all of these gentlemen who are joining the world of impossible beauty standards that women have been inhabiting for centuries.