The Numlock Podcast

By Walt Hickey Welcome to the Numlock Sunday edition. This week, I spoke to Pat Garofalo who writes the wonderful newsletter Boondoggle. Pat appears in Numlock all the time, here’s a recent thing of his I covered in February : Lawmakers in  11 states  have introduced bills for the 2021-22 legislative session that would form an interstate compact to eliminate tax giveaways to corporations. Right no...

By Walt Hickey Welcome to the Numlock Sunday edition. This week, I spoke to Joshua Darr, professor of political communication at Louisiana State University and an author of the new book Home Style Opinion: How Local Newspapers Can Slow Polarization . Here's what I wrote about it: The  Desert Sun , a local newspaper serving Palm Springs and the Coachella Valley, launched a fascinating project on th...

By Walt Hickey Welcome to the Numlock Sunday edition. This week, another podcast edition! This week, I spoke to MIT Technology Review editor Karen Hao, who frequently appears in Numlock and wrote the bombshell story “ How Facebook Got Addicted to Spreading Misinformation .” The story was a fascinating look inside one of the most important companies on the planet and their struggles around the use...

By Walt Hickey Welcome to the Numlock Sunday edition. This week, I spoke to Abraham Josephine Riesman, the author of the electric new book True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee , out last week . It’s another podcast Sunday edition. Let me know what you think of these. I have been waiting for this book for ages, I’m a huge fan of Abe’s and the topic could not be more prescient. We talk about...

By Walt Hickey Welcome to the Numlock Sunday edition. Each week, I'll sit down with an author or a writer behind one of the stories covered in a previous weekday edition for a casual conversation about what they wrote. This week, I spoke to Alex Davies, the author of the brand new book Driven: The Race to Create the Autonomous Car . It’s just out as of last week and is an enthralling read about th...