The Public Sphere

Sep 21, 2018

Pete and Luke discuss a few articles that interrogate Silicon Valley culture and the limits of philanthropy.

• Christopher Mackin, "Silicon Valley and the Quest for a Utopian Workplace," The New Republic.
• David A. Banks, Silicon Valley Labor Organizing, The Baffler.
• Robert Homan, "Think Different: Apple’s...

Sep 14, 2018

Wes Bishop joins Pete to discuss the second Gilded Age. The top 1% owns more wealth and has captured the majority of gains from economic growth than at any time since 1920s in the United States, even as worker productivity has increased across the board. In other words the 99% are producing more but receiving...

Sep 6, 2018

This is an emergency podcast to discuss the Bob Woodward excerpts published in the Washington Post and the anonymous "senior official in the Trump administration" op-ed in the New York Times.

• I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration
• Bob Woodward’s new book reveals a ‘nervous breakdown’ of...

Sep 6, 2018

Pete and Luke discuss Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the Democratic Socialists of America, the legacy of the Third Way, and what electoral success might look like.