(Recorded December 03, 2016) This Week: Adrian’s away, but we have a book club discussion with the author of Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy.
Category Archives: Book Club
#129: Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right by Jane Mayer
(Recorded September 17, 2016) This week in our book club discussion, we discuss Jane Mayer’s Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right, but don’t worry you can listen even if you didn’t read it.
#96 The Prize: Who’s in Charge of America’s Schools? by Dale Russakoff
(Recorded January 23, 2016) This week in our book club discussion, we discuss Dale Russakoff’s The Prize: Who’s in Charge of America’s Schools?
Also, here’s a shorter version by the same author that appeared in the New Yorker: Schooled: Cory Booker, Chris Christie, and Mark Zuckerberg had a plan to reform Newark’s schools. They got an education.
#12: Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright (Rebroadcast)
(Recorded May 25, 2014) This week, a book club discussion on Going Clear by Lawrence Wright: (1) the tenants of Scientology; (2) the biography of L. Ron Hubbard; (3) David Miscavige takes the helm; (4) Scientology vs. the IRS; (5) battling suppressive persons, a modus operandi; (6) religion, cult, or business?; and (7) can the church survive?
#64: Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick
(Recorded June 07, 2015) This week: a discussion of Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick.
Image Credits: Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il
Theme music by ProleteR.