“Today’s future-positive writers critique our economies while largely seeming to ignore that anything might be amiss in our private lives,” writes Kristen Ghodsee. Even our most ambitious visions of utopia tend to focus on outcomes that can be achieved through public policy — things like abundant clean energy or liberation from employment — while ignoring ma ... Show More
Apr 24
Stewart Brand, Silicon Valley’s Favorite Prophet, on Life’s Most Important Principle
Stewart Brand might be the most influential philosopher of the internet – at least in its more idealistic era. In the 1960s, Brand was the central bridge figure between the San Francisco counterculture and the emerging technology scene. He created the legendary Trips Festival wit ... Show More
50 m
Apr 21
Why Are Palantir and OpenAI Scared of Alex Bores?
Leading the Future, a super PAC whose funders include the founders of companies like Palantir and OpenAI, is spending millions of dollars this election cycle, and a considerable amount of that money is going toward attack ads against Alex Bores – even though Bores himself used to ... Show More
1h 32m
Apr 17
Our Tax System Should Make You Furious
Jeff Bezos, Michael Bloomberg and Warren Buffett are three of the richest people in the world, but they pay little in income tax relative to their wealth. In 2021, ProPublica published an investigation built on leaked tax documents that reveal what some of the richest Americans r ... Show More
1h 5m
Jun 2023
Everyday Utopia and Radical Imagination with Kristen Ghodsee
<p class="MsoNormal">It's perhaps more important than ever in these especially tumultuous, lonely, and oppressive times that we continue to believe that another world is possible. Simply reimagining the way we raise our children, the homes that we dwell in, the property we horde ... Show More
2 h
Dec 2023
Le livre Vivons heureux avant la fin du monde
Inspiré du podcast de Delphine Saltel Delphine Saltel s'interroge avec humour sur le couple, la famille et la sexualité. Dans ce livre, elle fait appel à des experts, sociologues ou philosophes, pour éclairer ce qu’elle et nous avec, vivons au quotidien. Une coédition ARTE Éditio ... Show More
30s
May 2019
Adam Gopnik Wants to Make Liberalism Great Again!
Adam Gopnik, the celebrated New Yorker writer whom Tina worked with for many years when she was editor in chief, talks with her about his new book, A Thousand Small Sanities, born of a talk he had with his teenage daughter on the night President Trump was elected. In the book, Go ... Show More
41m 19s
Apr 2023
Ep. 207 – Real Life Series: Book Launch with Dan Harris & JoAnna Hardy
<p>For episode 207 of the Metta Hour Podcast, we are celebrating the release of Sharon’s new book, Real Life, with a recording of her virtual book launch event.</p><p>Recorded on April 11, 2023, and hosted by the <a href="https://www.dharma.org/ims-book-club/" rel="noopener noref ... Show More
56m 56s