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Technology
Interviews with technologists and scholars of technology about their new books.
August 27, 2026
Content Confusion
We often blame social media for the rampant problem of disinformation, but the truth is that mainstream news media is often equally at fault. Not only…
August 23, 2026
Journalism in the Age of AI
What if AI’s biggest impact on journalism isn’t replacing journalists, but forcing us to rethink what journalism is for? In this episode, Joanne Kuai…
August 20, 2026
A Succinct View of How AI is Changing Business and Work Right Now
Does it seem like the business world is in its own version of an arms race to figure out AI? It’s a moment when even a little wisdom, grounded in exp…
August 20, 2026
Hot Type
Hot Type: The Magnificent Machine that Gave Birth to Mass Media and Drove Mark Twain Mad (Bloomsbury, 2026) is the epic story of the magnificent 19th-…
August 17, 2026
Jehnie Burns on Mixtape Culture
Peoples & Things host, Lee Vinsel, talks with writer and researcher, Jehnie I. Burns about her book, Mixtape Nostalgia: Culture, Memory, and Represent…
August 15, 2026
We the Platform
We the Platform: How the Internet Changed Twenty-First-Century Literature (Columbia University Press 2026) by Aarthi Vadde is a groundbreaking account…
August 9, 2026
Beyond Free Speech
Are we driving our technology, or is it starting to drive us? In this thought-provoking conversation, Eli Karetny sits down with researcher and author…
August 8, 2026
The Arcana of Reproduction
The definitive feminist analysis of reproductive and ‘caring’ labor to emerge from Italian feminism of the 1970s. Emerging from the great social uphe…
August 7, 2026
55 The Microbiopolitics of Novel Foods
What role do microbes play in aquaponic farming and cultivated meat production, and how might such novel food technologies impact microbiomes? In this…
August 3, 2026
Beyond the Facts
Beyond the Facts: Tacit Knowledge and the Hidden Infrastructure of Our Informed Times (Bloomsbury, 2025) describes tacit knowledge, what it is, how …
July 31, 2026
The Resurgence of War and the Collapse of Arms Control
How the nuclear guardrails were dismantled. What arms control actually did (risk management, predictability, geography), how it unravelled from the 20…
July 30, 2026
Re-Evaluating CX in the AI Era
Michael Brand is a CX strategist and trainer, based in Switzerland, who has been named a Thinkers 360 Top 50 Global Thought Leader on Customer Loyalty…
July 30, 2026
The Long Reach of the Strong Arm
How do authoritarian regimes silence critics across borders? And what are the repressive tools and strategies that authoritarian regimes use transnati…
July 28, 2026
Fintech Capital
How is finance changing in the contemporary world? In FinTech Capital: The Digital Transformation of Everyday Money and Finance (Princeton University …
July 23, 2026
Building A Freedom Infrastructure in the Age of Networked Control
Host Licia Cianetti talks to Venezuelan democracy activist and co-founder of the World Liberty Congress Leopoldo López. As part of PPP’s ongoing colla…
July 22, 2026
The Hidden Curriculum of Video Games
Despite decades of inflammatory rhetoric, the real risk of video games lies not in their violent imagery but in the ethical and political sensibilitie…
July 21, 2026
Thresholds of Digital Gameplay
Contemporary digital gameplay is only accessible by navigating an ecosystem of interfaces that support its computational nature. Account logins, contr…
July 20, 2026
Commodore 64
The Commodore 64 is the most significant computer of its era. From 1982 to 1994, a total of 27 million units were sold—more than any other computer fro…
July 17, 2026
SimPolitics
This book is available open access. For more than six decades, the public has been promised that computers will revolutionize politics, both nati…
July 14, 2026
Technothriller
Technothriller: Film and the American Imagination (MIT Press, 2026) is the first dedicated examination of popular movies classified as “thrillers” tha…