Night Owls Episode 66 (with Marc Dunkelman)
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A conversation with Brown University’s Marc Dunkelman who has written an important book: Why Nothing Works: Who Killed Progress—and how to Bring it Back.” Dunkelman has written an alternative history of the Democratic Party, a 150 year struggle between top-down and bottom-up progressivism that has led to stagnation.
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Night Owls Episode 65 (Daniela Rus)
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We interviewed Daniela Rus, Director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT. She talks about the marriage of robotics and AI; what she calls "physical intelligence." It's a fascinating hour.
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Night Owls Episode 64 (Wolfgang Munchau Part 3)
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The last part of our interview with the brilliant Wolgang Munchau
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Night Owls Episode 63 (Wolfgang Munchau Part 2)
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The 2nd in our series where we interview Wolfgang Munchau
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Night Owls Episode 62 (Wolfgang Munchau Part 1)
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The 1st of our 3 part series interviewing Wolfgang Munchau
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Episode 61 (with Larry Summers)
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Larry Summers on Team Trump's economic policies, the attack on academia and the future of artificial intelligence.
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Night Owls Episode 60
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Capitulation Week A major liberal law firm capitulates to Trump pressure. A major Ivy League University capitulates to Trump pressure. Zelensky capitulates to Trump pressure. In Israel, Bibi Netanyahu tries to replicate Trump pressure…and the Dems best response is yesterday’s Bernie singing yesterday’s song. John and Joe revisit last week.
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Night Owls Episode 59 (with Martin Wolf)
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A conversation with Martin Wolf, chief economics commentator at the Financial Times, London. We discuss his recent book -- The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism -- and recent events.
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Night Owls Episode 58 (With Sen. Tom Cotton)
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Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) talks about his new book -- "Seven Things You Can't Say About China" -- and says most of them.
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Night Owls Episode 57
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A world in disarray
info_outlineEpisode Four: A dream assignment: David moves to Shanghai and begins covering China. He goes from "Sock City" to Apple, to the extraordinary changes in China's economy, politics and culture. The final episode covers everything from Wuhan to Taiwan, fentanyl to semiconductors, quantum computing to cyberhacking, to Xi's political standing and how much (and how many of) China's most successful people dislike and distrust Xi.