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Novels and Ideas (with Teju Cole & Tara Menon)
Novelist Teju Cole and scholar Tara Menon join our host, Nicholas Dames, to consider how novels inspire readers to wrestle with difficult ideas. From...
Introducing Season 2: The Novel Now
In the age of Twitter, TikTok, and streaming TV, why are people still turning to the novel, a centuries-old cultural technology? Season 2 of...
Silicon Valley and Beyond (with Meredith Broussard & Margaret O’Mara)
How did Silicon Valley become such a historically and globally significant hub of technological innovation? What—and who—gets left out of the stories people tell...
Cultures Online (with Lauren Michele Jackson & Richard Jean So)
What new cultural forms are developing in the vast universe of the internet? How can observers and scholars keep up with the accelerated pace...
Societies Online: Privacy & Power (with Alice E. Marwick)
In this two-part inquiry into what the internet is doing to societies, two leading scholars who study online media take a critical look at...
Societies Online: Facebook & Democracy (with Siva Vaidhyanathan)
In this two-part inquiry into what the internet is doing to societies, two leading scholars who study online media take a critical look at...