Hearsay Culture Radio

Can Humans Stay Human in the Age of AI? Lee Rainie on Resilience, Trust, and the Future 24.06.2026 56:57 ↓

In this episode of Hearsay Culture, Dave Levine speaks with Lee Rainie about the new Imagining the Digital Future report, Building a Human Resilience Infrastructure for the AI Age, which […]

Tribe, Truth, and Technology: Barbara McQuade on the Disinformation Crisis 19.06.2026 58:57 ↓

In this episode of Hearsay Culture, Dave Levine speaks with Barbara McQuade about her book Attack from Within, exploring how deliberate falsehoods spread through politics, media, and technology to manipulate […]

Defending Democracy: Ty Cobb on Law, Power, and Truth 06.11.2025 59:08 ↓

On KZSU Stanford’s Hearsay Culture, Dave Levine hosts Ty Cobb—former Trump Russia investigation attorney and one of the world’s leading white-collar/government investigations lawyers—for an urgent conversation about the core challenge […]

When Nuance Vanishes: Searching for Truth in War 23.09.2025 59:37 ↓

Duke professor David Schanzer joined Hearsay Culture on August 21, 2025, to unpack his searing essay from his Perilous Times Substack, “Israel’s Gaza War Has Made Me a Shame to […]

Washington’s Broken—Your Hometown Isn’t Helpless 01.08.2025 58:55 ↓

In this powerful episode, longtime Hearsay Culture guest Lorelei Kelly returns to share her groundbreaking new project, Defend the Constitution, which empowers citizens to hold their own congressional-style field hearings. […]

The Fandom Machine: When Obsession Turns Ugly 25.07.2025 59:37 ↓

Dave Levine’s latest Hearsay Culture episode dives deep into the dark side of fan culture with Professor Mel Stanfill, author of 2024’s Fandom Is Ugly: Networked Harassment and Participatory Culture. […]

You’re the Product—Unless We Change the Internet 24.07.2025 59:25 ↓

What if the internet actually worked for us—not just watched us? On this episode of Hearsay Culture, author and former Google exec Richard Whitt joins to explore how we got […]

Friction, Consent, and the Illusion of Choice 18.07.2025 59:50 ↓

When infrastructure fails — planes crash, systems freeze, rights vanish — suddenly everyone cares. Villanova’s Brett Frischmann rejoins Hearsay Culture to explain how tech design, digital contracts, and AI are […]

Can Human Skills Survive Technological Advancement? 16.01.2025 59:36 ↓

In today’s world, generative AI is shaking up the job market, and many fear that their skills are on the chopping block. But Matt Beane’s book The Skill Code: How […]

Navigating the Noise: A Conversation with Pico Iyer on Finding Stillness in a Tech-Saturated World 14.01.2025 59:20 ↓

In a time when technology dominates our lives, it’s easy to feel adrift on an endless stream of screens and information. Yet, as the late Steve Jobs noted, “Technology alone […]

Facebook’s Broken Code, Revealed 19.07.2024 57:46 ↓

Almost from its inception, Facebook has been subject to intense scrutiny as a groundbreaking, but sphinx-like, corporate entity. Although CEO Mark Zuckerberg naturally received the most attention, many lesser-known and […]