Episodes
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news "We got him!" cheered protesters, headlines. What did they get? Narrated by Jared Moore
Published 06/08/24
Published 06/08/24
One of the co-founders of the Heterodox Academy returns to his academic specialty with a hair-raising warning about the digital age Narrated by Jared Moore www.Racket.news This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.racket.news/subscribe
Published 06/08/24
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news Going on strike from it all.
Published 05/30/24
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news In a possible preview of our future, a Twitter contractor proposed aggressive solutions for speech, including putting users in "voids" and replacing their content with pet pics Narrated by Jared Moore www.Racket.news
Published 05/29/24
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news "If I'm being honest...This type of approach was common practice in the USSR." www.Racket.news
Published 05/29/24
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news When Stanford's Election Integrity Partnership stirred up controversy, its participants defiantly planned a rerun for this year
Published 05/29/24
The Great Bipartisan Constitution-shredding project of 2024 continues at breakneck speed This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.racket.news/subscribe
Published 05/16/24
Should we teach more knowledge and less process? Why has knowledge become a bad word? Racket catches up with K-12 expert Natalie Wexler, author of "The Knowledge Gap" This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.racket.news/subscribe
Published 05/16/24
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news Life sentences for speech? Pre-crime detention? Ex post facto law? Anonymous accusers? It's all in Justin Trudeau's "Online Harms Bill," a true "threat to democracy" www.Racket.news
Published 05/14/24
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news Five years of bitterness between Joe Biden and the country's most influential newspaper burst into the open this week, opening a door for a press comeback www.Racket.news
Published 05/14/24
The latest "What happened to you, man?" piece goes next-level www.Racket.news This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.racket.news/subscribe
Published 05/09/24
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news How out of control is our surveillance state? Read about a dubious investigation that swept up communications of some of the country's most senior highest officials, and their families, in secret Narrated by Jared Moore www.Racket.news
Published 05/07/24
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news The standard-bearer for the "Voters are too dumb to understand the economy" movement takes an ironic stand against "magical thinking" www.Racket.news
Published 05/07/24
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news If you think you spent twenty years being ripped off while a generation of rent-seeking scam artists was showered with public subsidies, experts agree: your "perception" needs Narrated by Jared Moore www.racket.news
Published 04/29/24
Making high finance accessible to ordinary readers, one financial "shit burger" at a time. www.Racket.news This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.racket.news/subscribe
Published 04/29/24
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news After betraying voters to lead a weekend wipeout in Congress for the war-and-spying crowd, Mike Johnson was granted honorary "adult" status by adoring pundits www.racket.news
Published 04/25/24
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news On a Saturday to mark and remember, congress funds two wars and hands the intelligence agencies sweeping new surveillance power, getting nothing in return
Published 04/25/24
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news ESPN star Stephen A. Smith articulates what sports fans everywhere are thinking about Trump's trials Narrated by Jared Moore
Published 04/22/24
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news Thoughts on the resignation of the former NPR senior editor Narrated by Jared Moore
Published 04/22/24
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news A story about facts and decency is quickly reduced to another partisan bias tale. www.Racket.news
Published 04/14/24
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news Q&A With Coleman Hughes, author of "The End of Race Politics," who just experienced the mother of all book tour appearances www.Racket.news
Published 04/08/24
He's a bestselling writer with a penchant for bikes, but "Archedelia" author Matthew Crawford offers a new kind of wisdom. A Substack Q&A www.Racket.news This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.racket.news/subscribe
Published 04/01/24
A few thoughts on the arrival of a new Fahrenheit 451 future. Plus, a few mild site changes www.Racket.news This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.racket.news/subscribe
Published 04/01/24
Surely this is the funniest media story of the year? www.Racket.news This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.racket.news/subscribe
Published 04/01/24