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Tina Brown on how wealth can warp minds
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- Tina Brown on how wealth can warp minds
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- 1:33
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- "It all starts on the private plane," Tina Brown says. "Once you've experienced that buttery leather, that sinking into the seat ... These sort of experiences change your life."
On this week's episode of "The David Frum Show," Brown explains how some wealthy businesspeople can become addicted to the high-end lifestyle—and what they may do to keep it. Watch the full episode at the link.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84d72BTt0Qo&ab_channel=TheAtlantic
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- Why Do Billionaires Go Crazy? With Tina Brown | The David Frum Show
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- 47:45
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- The Atlantic’s David Frum opens this episode of The David Frum Show with a statement about Trump’s Iran strikes. The strikes fulfilled commitments of past presidents, who have long maintained that the U.S. would not allow an Iranian nuclear bomb. David also makes the point that Trump, who has already abused peacetime powers, is now a wartime president, a role that will allow him to wield even larger authority—and do even greater damage.
Then David is joined by the author and editor Tina Brown for a conversation about the disorienting effects of extreme wealth. They discuss how billionaires often become detached from reality, how philanthropy is used to consolidate image and influence, and how Brown’s personal experience with Donald Trump shaped her understanding of his ego and evolution.
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- Change Your Personality
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- 30:29
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- A few years ago, Olga Khazan, author of Me, But Better, (https://bookshop.org/a/12476/9781668012543) set out to change her personality, which even she found unpleasant. After consulting with experts on personality plasticity and then setting a deadline, Khazan put herself through an intense experiment intended to make herself more likeable, to herself and others.
Khazan tested and scored herself on a range of key personality traits at the beginning and end of the experiment. In this episode, Khazan and I talk about two of those traits: extroversion and neuroticism. Khazan shares how she dragged herself to improv classes and meditation lessons, and how having a baby threw a kink in her experiment.
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- Iran's Policies and Ideology At Odds With Each Other: Karim Sadjadpour
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- 1:30
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- "We really need to distinguish between the ideological objectives of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the national interests of Iran," the political analyst Karim Sadjadpour tells David Frum, "which, in my view, are two totally separate things that are at odds with one another."
Watch the full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_WO0x4ERV0&ab_channel=TheAtlantic
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- Karim Sadjadpour and What Comes Next for Iran | The David Frum Show
- Runtime
- 48:46
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- On this episode of The David Frum Show, The Atlantic’s David Frum urges an end to wishful thinking about Iran, and a focus instead on the regime’s threatening words and murderous actions.
Then David is joined by the Carnegie Endowment scholar Karim Sadjadpour for an urgent conversation about the internal decay of Iran’s theocracy. They discuss the survival instincts of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the regime’s obsession with martyrdom and repression, the true cost of the Islamic Republic’s nuclear ambitions, and the disconnect between the revolutionary slogans of the state and the aspirations of Iranian society.
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- Summer Reading: Learn Something Completely New
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- 0:43
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Warm weather and long days stoke the desire to let time and obligations fall away, and to give yourself over to an absorbing novel, history, or memoir. This year, The Atlantic’s editors and writers have selected books to suit every mood or fancy—including books in which you can learn something completely new.
Read the full list, and explore more of The Atlantic’s recommendations for summer reads, at the link in our bio.
Illustration: @andyrementer
https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2025/05/summer-reading-2025/682549/
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- A Military Parade in D.C.
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- 2:30
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- For the first time in more than three decades, the U.S. Army hosted a major military parade, commemorating its 250th birthday with a festival and procession in Washington, D.C. The June 14 celebration also fell on Donald Trump’s 79th birthday.
Critics have called out the parade’s cost—which could total as much as $45 million. The event also comes as the Trump administration faces pushback for widespread cuts to government programs, its deportation measures, and the decision to deploy 4,000 National Guard troops and 700 Marines into Los Angeles in response to protests in the city.
The Atlantic audience and engagement editor Grace Buono spoke with parade attendees to learn what the evening’s events meant to them.
Photos: Tayfun Coskun / Anadolu / Getty; Joe Raedle / Getty; Nic Coury / AFP / Getty; Anna Moneymaker / Getty.
https://theatln.tc/YI0uJnPs
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- The Real Problem With Trump's Parade
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- 17:22
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- In this bonus episode of Radio Atlantic, we talk with staff writer Tom Nichols about how all the pieces fit together: the military parade, the president’s speech at Fort Bragg, and the dispatching of Marines to the protests in Los Angeles.
It’s not just that President Trump wants to acclimate Americans to the sight of tanks in the streets. It’s not just that Trump is signaling to governors that he will use the forces at his disposal to override their wishes—the real problem is how the military begins to see itself.
Read more from The Atlantic’s Tom Nichols on “The Silence of the Generals” (https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/06/silence-generals/683106/) and “Trump Is Using the National Guard as Bait.” (https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/06/trump-provoke-not-pacify-los-angeles/683080/)
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- Senator Ruben Gallego and Democrats' Male-Voter Problem
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- 1:39
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- "Democrats are all about data until they don't like the data," Democratic Senator Ruben Gallego says. "The data for men is they're just not doing well. We have the lowest amount of college attainment. Salaries are going down. Life expectancy is going down. There's just a general discontent within the male population."
On this week's episode of The David Frum Show, Gallego discusses how Democrats are approaching American male voters.
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- Summer Reading: Bring a Page-Turner on Vacation
- Runtime
- 0:43
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Summer stokes the desire to let time and obligations fall away—and to give yourself over to an absorbing novel, history, or memoir. The Atlantic’s writers and editors have selected books to suit every mood or fancy—including the page-turners to bring on your next vacation.
Read the full list at the link.
https://theatln.tc/E77wViod
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- Elon and the Genius Trap
- Runtime
- 35:49
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Explaining how Musk tanked his reputation has many ways: First, he alienated environmentalists by teaming up with Trump, and then he alienated Trump fans by insulting their hero. Another way is clear by looking at American culture’s historical relationship with “genius,” and how it tends to go wrong.
In this episode, we talk with Helen Lewis, author of The Genius Myth: A Curious History of a Dangerous Idea (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/803542/the-genius-myth-by-helen-lewis/) , about what Musk has in common with Thomas Edison, how psychedelics fit into the archetype, and what the possible paths are for Musk moving forward.
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- Trump’s Gross Misuse of the National Guard
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- 2:33
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- “Donald Trump just did what no other president has ever done in the context of urban unrest: He sent federal troops to a state without a request from the governor,” Juliette Kayyem writes.
“Trump’s decision to exercise his Title 10 authority to federalize the National Guard under his command was not based on a careful assessment of the operational needs on the streets of Los Angeles,” Kayyem continues. “The president’s assertion that a troop presence is the answer to public unrest is particularly dubious. Historically, these deployments have proved of limited value even when the president and governor agree on goals.”
During the 1992 Los Angeles riots, after four white police officers were acquitted of assaulting Rodney King, 63 people were killed amid widespread arson and looting as rioting spread through the city. In 2005, Hurricane Katrina killed more than 1,000 people in Louisiana and left New Orleans with no functioning government and litt...
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- Senator Ruben Gallego and Democrats' Male-Voter Problem | The David Frum Show
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- 1:06:38
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- On this episode of The David Frum Show, The Atlantic’s David Frum opens with a warning about President Donald Trump’s behind-the-scenes strategy to subvert the 2026 midterm elections by creating chaos to justify his use of extreme executive power. David also discusses how Trump’s feud with Elon Musk reveals a deeper truth about power in the postdemocracy Republican Party.
Then David is joined by Arizona Senator Ruben Gallego to discuss how Democrats can win the votes of young men, the importance of free trade and patriotism in today’s Democratic Party, and how Gallego has been so successful with Latino voters at a time when Latino men are trending so strongly Republican.
David closes the episode with thoughts on Trump’s $100 million birthday military parade in Washington, D.C.
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- Pick Up the Novel Everyone Will Be Talking About
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- 0:43
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Summer is, perhaps counterintuitively, the season when many of us find ourselves with our nose constantly in a book. Warm weather and long days stoke the desire to let time and obligations fall away, and to give yourself over to an absorbing novel, history, or memoir. The Atlantic’s writers and editors have selected books to suit every mood or fancy—including the novel everyone will be talking about.
https://theatln.tc/bkmZc5kV
Read the full list at the link.
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- Marty Baron on the media's relationship to the Trump administration
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- 0:48
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- People have asked me what our failures were prior to Trump being elected," says the former executive editor of The Washington Post Marty Baron. "It wasn't the coverage of the campaign … It's that we didn't understand the country well enough."
Baron joins this week's episode of The David Frum show to discuss the media's relationship with the Trump administration. Watch the full episode at the link.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxoHfHmAqDU&ab_channel=TheAtlantic
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- Six Books You'll Want to Read Outdoors, by Bekah Waalkes
- Runtime
- 0:43
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Although books have the power to take readers to new places through vivid detail, reading can also be a practice in slow, sustained attention that sharpens one’s perception of the world around them—especially when done outdoors, Bekah Waalkes writes.
Each book on this list is worthy of getting lost in, Waalkes continues: “Some offer intriguing glimpses into faraway places or striking journeys; others meditate on the beauty to be found in a backyard. Crucially, each makes its own case for leaving your reading nook and getting out into the world.”
Read more about the best books to read outside at the link.
https://theatln.tc/H3SR9E1S
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- Mossad’s Former Chief Calls the War in Gaza ‘Useless’
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- 28:40
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- In April, 250 former Israeli intelligence officers signed their names to an open letter (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/14/israel-government-gaza-hostages-mossad-criticism) of protest asking Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not to proceed with his plans to escalate the war on Gaza.
One of them was Tamir Pardo, head of Mossad, Israel’s equivalent of the CIA, from 2011 to 2016. Pardo, with his decades of experience fighting terrorism, explains his perspective on how the war unfolded and what Netanyahu’s real motivations are behind continuing it.
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- A Grand Experiment in Parenthood and Friendship
- Runtime
- 2:10
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- With many parents desperate for support, some families are choosing to raise their kids with their best friends—and in doing so, Rhaina Cohen writes, they’re transforming the structure of their family life.
https://theatln.tc/d1xfCGul
It’s hard to know how common this choice may be—but some data indicate that parents choosing to parent with their best pals may be more common than people think. The decision, however, takes a fair amount of logistics: There’s finding adjacent homes, navigating different budgets, and balancing other family obligations that might keep parents from moving away from other relatives.
But in reporting this story, “I saw how the architecture of family life changed for parents when they had friends by their side,” Cohen writes. And despite any challenges, “every parent I spoke with said they had gained much-needed support and, in most cases, deeper friendships.”
Read the full story at the link in our...
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- Marty Baron and Trump's Bullying of the Media | The David Frum Show
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- 41:42
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- On this episode of The David Frum Show, The Atlantic’s David Frum opens with a warning about how Donald Trump’s second term has brought a more systematic and punishing assault on American media, through regulatory pressure, retaliatory lawsuits, and corporate intimidation.
Then David is joined by the legendary newspaper editor Marty Baron to discuss how today’s media institutions are struggling to stand up to power. Baron reflects on his tenure at The Washington Post, the new pressures facing owners such as Jeff Bezos, and how Trump has turned retribution into official policy. They also examine how internal newsroom culture, social media, and a loss of connection to working-class America have weakened public trust in journalism.
David closes the episode by reflecting on the recent media overhyping of President Joe Biden’s age issues.
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- Marty Baron on Congress and the press since Watergate
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- 1:25
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- "In the case of Watergate, you had a Congress that conducted an investigation that obtained internal tapes, and that made all the difference in the world. And now you have a president who has control of both houses of Congress, and you have a Congress, the Republican Party, that is completely servile," Marty Baron, a former Washington Post executive editor, tells David Frum.
On this week's episode of "The David Frum Show," Baron explores the relationship between the press and Congress in the 1970s and today.
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- Why Pilots Don’t Get Therapy
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- 2:05
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- A system meant to keep pilots from flying when they need mental-health care may be leading them to avoid getting the help they need. For "Radio Atlantic," Jocelyn Frank reports on the possible effects on passenger safety and more.
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- Title
- How to Age Up on a Warming Planet
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- 1:11
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Climate anxiety can be overwhelming, but there are ways to minimize doom loops that are good for both your mental health and for the planet.
Sarah Ray, professor and chair of environmental studies at Cal Poly Humboldt, speaks with Yasmin Tayag and Natalie Brennan about how current climate concerns compare with the existential crises of previous generations, and how to assuage your climate anxiety.
https://theatln.tc/ighWfppi
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- Title
- My Snail Mucin Is Caught in a Trade War
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- 2:09
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- “Americans’ love affair with K-beauty was fostered by many years of free trade with South Korea,” writes Nancy Walecki. “For skin-care aficionados, K-beauty was an ideal trifecta: a product that feels luxurious, seems effective, and is relatively affordable.”
“Korean snail mucin promised to hydrate skin and improve fine lines, and prompted a buying frenzy, during which I did drop my own American dollars on a facial ‘essence’ made from the secretions of snails. It has made my skin softer and only grossed me out twice.”
“Now my snail mucin is caught in a trade war,” Walecki writes.
President Donald Trump’s April announcement of nearly global tariffs included a 25 percent hike on goods imported to the U.S. from South Korea.
If the tariff succeeds and more K-beauty is soon made in America, the industry could lose its major selling point.
Read the full piece at the link: https://theatln.tc/3Ov68mZm
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- Why Pilots Don't Get Therapy
- Runtime
- 29:03
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- The Atlantic’s Jocelyn Frank reports on the detailed system that may be unintentionally leading pilots to avoid the mental-health care that they need, and increasing risks to passenger safety.
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- How J. D. Vance Swapped One Set of Elites For Another | The David Frum Show
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- 1:28
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- J. D. Vance "has swapped one set of elites for another," George Packer says.
On this week's episode of "The David Frum Show," Packer explains how Vance has been able to transition between groups of elites.
"The new elite that he's part of—and they are an elite—is the elite of the far right, who are billionaire tech investors and entrepreneurs and media investors."
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- George Packer on J. D. Vance’s Bargain With the Devil | The David Frum Show
- Runtime
- 51:18
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- On this episode of The David Frum Show, David opens with a Memorial Day message about corruption and extortion in the Trump White House, including revelations about meme-coin pay-to-play schemes and foreign-financed golf courses.
Then David is joined by his Atlantic colleague George Packer to discuss Packer’s new profile of Vice President J. D. Vance. They examine Vance’s sharp political turn from thoughtful memoirist to contemptuous shape-shifter, and debate whether Vance believes what he says or just knows what power demands.
David closes the episode with a reflection on Edward Luce’s new biography of Zbigniew Brzezinski and what Brzezinski’s legacy says about American power today.
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- Susan Rice and Trump’s National-Security Disaster
- Runtime
- 1:47
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- “Signalgate should be as big a national-security scandal as we’ve seen in decades,” former Ambassador Susan Rice says about the second Trump administration.
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- The Man in the Midnight-Blue Six-Ply Italian-Milled Wool Suit
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- 4:05
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Gary Shteyngart thought he was doomed to a lifetime of fashion misery. Then came The Suit.
“The suit would serve as the perfect carapace for a personality overly dependent on anxious humor and jaundiced wit, a personality that I have been trying to develop since I saw my lightly mustached punim in the mirror as a pubescent boy and thought, ‘How will I ever find love?’” Shteyngart writes. “The suit would transcend my physicality and bond with my personality directly.”
“It would take a lot of work, a lot of research, and possibly travel to two other continents. But it could be done,” Shteyngart continues. “At the right expense, with the most elegant and sturdy of Italian-milled fabrics, and with the greatest of Japanese tailors, a superior suit could be made for anyone, even for me.”
Watch Shtyengart’s journey of aesthetic rebirth here:
https://theatln.tc/eFOxjXrO
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- Title
- What RFK Jr. Doesn’t Understand About Autism
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- 25:22
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- We talk with Eric Garcia, author of We’re Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation (http://www.ericmgarcia.net/were-not-broken.html) and a political reporter at the Independent, about the myths spreading about autism under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Yes, there’s the one about how vaccines cause autism, which the scientific community has rejected. But there’s also a more fundamental one that Kennedy references often: Is there, as he repeats, an “autism epidemic”? And if not, what explains the dramatic rise in reported cases of autism over the last few decades? Garcia also recounts his own story growing up autistic in the age of exploding diagnoses, and landing now in a moment where, for his job, he covers a health secretary’s particular brand of concern.
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- Susan Rice and Trump’s National-Security Disaster
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- 2:01
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- “China is laughing,” the diplomat Susan Rice says. “They understand that in a trade war with the United States, in many ways they have the upper hand.”
On today's episode of “The David Frum Show,” Rice explains why China is well positioned to counter Donald Trump’s aggressive trade moves.
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- Susan Rice and China Calls Trump's Bluff | The David Frum Show
- Runtime
- 58:41
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- In this episode of The David Frum Show, David opens with a response to a listener’s question about working-class wages, unpacking the economic storylines that have shaped American politics over the last 40 years. In his answer, David challenges the idea that grievance politics are always rooted in material decline.
David is then joined by Ambassador Susan Rice for a sweeping conversation on the disintegration of national-security processes under Trump. They discuss the implications of “Signalgate,” the absence of a full-time national security adviser, and the staggering national-security risks posed by a $400 million jet gifted by Qatar. Rice offers a sobering look at what the breakdown of structure and accountability means for America’s alliances, adversaries, and the rule of law.
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- Title
- How to: Age Up Together
- Runtime
- 1:17
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- In the next 10 years, our society will become more old than young—but right now, we’re living in the most age-diverse time in human history. How do we reimagine aging, together?
“This is why I have this fantasy of buying a property with my friends and all of us getting older together,” co-host Yasmin Tayag says. Listen to more on How to Age Up, wherever you find your podcasts.
Listen to the full episode here:
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- Title
- Trump and the Crown Prince
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- 24:57
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
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- Lavender carpets. Golden swords. Arabian horses. President Trump arrived in the Gulf to a royal welcome. Both sides seem delighted about what they’re getting out of one another. So what are they getting? And what will it mean for the future of the Middle East?
We talk to Hussein Ibish, a senior resident scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute, about this new era of chumminess between the American president and the Gulf leaders. What does it mean that President Trump has not brought up any of Saudi Arabia’s human rights violations? Is that luxury jet Qatar gifted him just norm breaking or illegal? And how might this friendship influence Trump in his dealings with Israel as its Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, threatens to escalate attacks on Gaza?.
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- How much credit can the Trump administration fairly claim for the India-Pakistan cease-fire?
- Runtime
- 1:06
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Indian Member of Parliament Dr. Shashi Tharoor examines just how much (or little) credit the Trump administration can fairly claim for brokering the cease-fire between India and Pakistan. Watch and subscribe to "The David Frum Show":
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- Shashi Tharoor and the Trump Grift Machine | The David Frum Show
- Runtime
- 47:18
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- In this episode of The David Frum Show, The Atlantic’s David Frum breaks down what he calls “the week of the four scams”—a stunning display of misinformation and corruption from President Donald Trump involving fake trade deals, manipulated markets, and even a personal jet from Qatar.
David is then joined by Indian Member of Parliament and Chairman of the Committee on External Affairs Dr. Shashi Tharoor to examine the recent India-Pakistan cease-fire and just how much (or little) credit the Trump administration can fairly claim for brokering peace.
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- Title
- The Myth of the Poverty Trap
- Runtime
- 53:40
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- In 1981, an estimated 44 percent of the global population lived in extreme poverty. In 2019, that number shrank to just 9 percent. We often think of poverty as a trap, but recent research shows it doesn’t have to be. The economist and co-founder of GiveDirectly, Paul Niehaus, explains how extreme poverty fell over the past 40 years and how it could be eliminated for good.
Further reading:
“How Poverty Fell (https://econweb.ucsd.edu/~pniehaus/papers/how_poverty_fell.pdf) ,” by Vincent Armentano, Paul Niehaus, and Tom Vogl
“How Progressives Froze the American Dream (https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/03/american-geographic-social-mobility/681439/) ,” by Yoni Appelbaum
One Illness Away: Why People Become Poor and How They Escape Poverty (https://global.oup.com/academic/product/one-illness-away-9780199693191?cc=us&lang...
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- How to Age Up on a Warming Planet
- Runtime
- 41:05
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- How should we think about aging when the impacts of climate change can make the future feel so uncertain? That’s a question Sarah Ray, professor and chair of environmental studies at Cal Poly Humboldt, has been helping her students consider. Though climate anxiety can cause some to feel overwhelmed, Ray has tips for how to minimize doom loops and inaction. How to Age Up co-hosts Yasmin Tayag and Natalie Brennan talk about how current climate concerns compare to the existential crises of previous generations, and how to practice hope during uncertain times.
Here is a link to the full poem “The Low Road” by Marge Piercy (https://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/piercylowroad.html) . A passage is referenced in this episode.
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- Title
- The Art of the Doll
- Runtime
- 31:14
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Recently, Donald Trump mused that “maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls, you know?” We talk with a doll manufacturer and a policy analyst about tariffs and Americans’ relationship with choice.
Elenor Mak, founder of Jilly Bing (https://jillybing.com/) , talks about her dream of giving Asian American kids the choice of having a doll that looks like them, and how the new tariffs might kill it. And Martha Gimbel (https://budgetlab.yale.edu/person/martha-gimbel) , executive director of the Budget Lab at Yale, discusses the problem with this particular variety of two-doll nostalgia.
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- Title
- How Trump’s corruption follows an authoritarian playbook
- Runtime
- 1:32
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Donald Trump “lies about things that people can see and feel.”
Anne Applebaum explains how authoritarian regimes can use lying to create a culture of disengagement: “Nobody’s going to want to be part of this completely corrupt system where everyone is bad.”
Watch and subscribe to The David Frum Show: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDamP-pfOskNgMNI1eg0pajQfRu-q3NUO
- Title
- Anne Applebaum and the Most Corrupt Presidency in American History | The David Frum Show
- Runtime
- 1:02:14
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- In this episode of The David Frum Show, The Atlantic’s David Frum reflects on the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe, examining how postwar reconciliation—not battlefield triumph—became America’s true finest hour. He contrasts that legacy with Donald Trump’s recent bombastic Victory Day statement, urging a rededication to the values that built a more peaceful world.
David is then joined by The Atlantic’s Anne Applebaum to discuss the astonishing and brazen corruption of the Trump presidency, how authoritarian regimes seek to break institutions, and the hardship of losing friendships to politics.
Finally, David answers listener questions on fostering open-minded political dialogue among polarized high-school students, why America hasn’t developed a strong worker-based political movement like its European counterparts, and how to think about class in modern U.S. politics. He also weighs in on the risk of data suppression under th...
- Title
- How Hitler Overcame the Media in His Rise to Power
- Runtime
- 4:14
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- In the highly polarized media landscape of the Weimar Republic, Adolf Hitler could expect little accommodation from the press. Across Germany and around the world, Hitler’s attempts to assume power initially made him a laughingstock.
“We have come to view Hitler’s path to the chancellorship, and ultimately to dictatorship, as inexorable, and Hitler himself as a demonic force of human nature who defied every law of political gravity,” Timothy W. Ryback writes. And yet, when the journalist Dorothy Thompson encountered Hitler in 1931, she described him as a man of “startling insignificance.”
How could Thompson and so many other experienced journalists and political observers have underestimated Hitler—and the historical moment—to such a degree?
Read the full story at the link.
https://theatln.tc/dHigNHX9
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- Title
- The Death of Feminism
- Runtime
- 46:28
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- The ’90s are sometimes described as the beginning of the postfeminist era. But if feminism died 30 years ago, who killed it? The Atlantic staff writer Sophie Gilbert seeks to answer this question in her new book, Girl on Girl, and finds a likely suspect in the contemporaneous rise of internet pornography.
Further reading:
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Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/738003/girl-on-girl-by-sophie-gilbert/) , by Sophie Gilbert
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“Don’t Call Them Trash (https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/09/romance-novels-women-elinor-glyn-books/670609/) ,” by Sophie Gilbert
•
“Would You Give Po...
- Title
- The Future of America’s Health Care
- Runtime
- 0:51
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- “What I worry about most is the long-term consequence of losing a generation of young scientists,” former NIH director Francis Collins tells Jeffrey Goldberg.
At The Atlantic’s On the Future event, Collins discussed his worry that many students in Ph.D. and medical programs could leave the United States to work abroad: “This is the brain drain reversing its direction,” he said.
Watch his full conversation with Goldberg at the link.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6BKliG33fA&ab_channel=TheAtlantic
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- Title
- How to Define Old Age
- Runtime
- 31:30
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- In 2021 Dr. Kiran Rabheru, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Ottawa and a geriatric psychiatrist, found himself at the center of a medical debate. The World Health Organization wanted to officially designate “old age” as a disease, but with more than 40 years of work with aging populations, Rabheru saw this as another example of ageism that needed to be challenged. Dr. Rabheru talks with Yasmin Tayag about how he fought the WHO and about the impact such designations can have on research and our understanding of growing old.
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- Title
- The Future of America’s Health Care | The Atlantic Festival 2025
- Runtime
- 1:01
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- “When you mix politics and science, you just get politics.”
The former director of the National Institutes of Health, Francis Collins, spoke about the 234,000 Americans who are estimated to have died because of misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccine between June 2021 and March 2022.
Watch his full conversation with Jeffrey Goldberg at the link and learn more at @atlanticlive.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6BKliG33fA&ab_channel=TheAtlantic
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- Title
- Introducing Bracket City
- Runtime
- 1:06
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Did you know that in April of 1866 Ulysses S. Grant was arrested for speeding? Or that on this day in 1941 General Mills changed the name of "Cheerioats" to "Cheerios"? No? Then you're not playing the new word-puzzle trivia game Bracket City.
Bracket City is a daily puzzle in which players solve nested layers of clues to reveal a fun fact about this day in history. Start playing at TheAtlantic.com today!
https://www.theatlantic.com/games/bracket-city/
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- Title
- The Future of America’s Health Care | The Atlantic Festival 2025
- Runtime
- 28:35
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Francis Collins, the former director of the National Institutes of Health, joins us in conversation with Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic’s editor in chief, to explore how recent health-policy shifts will influence the future of drug discovery and development, disease response, and America’s position as a global leader in scientific and technological innovation.
Speakers include:
- Francis Collins, former director, National Institutes of Health
- Jeffrey Goldberg, editor in chief, The Atlantic
How are today’s political and policy shifts reshaping the world we live in? On the Future: An Atlantic Festival Event gathers top leaders in policy, finance, defense, tech, health, and climate for an unflinching look at the forces redefining America’s role on the global stage. From domestic change to international complexity, The Atlantic presents forward-looking conversations with the people shaping what's next.
Explore the full event: ht...
- Title
- Redefining Power: Women Shaping the New Political Agenda | The Atlantic Festival 2025
- Runtime
- 29:20
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- In this dynamic conversation, The Atlantic’s Jemele Hill brings together powerful female voices at the forefront of political and social change to explore how women are organizing around crucial issues such as health-care access and economic equity while building coalitions that reflect the realities of a changing America. The panel will also examine how women can harness their collective power to drive policy, influence elections, and reshape the political agenda for a more inclusive future.
Speakers include:
- Jemele Hill, contributing writer, The Atlantic
- Molly Day, COO, Moms First
- María Teresa Kumar, CEO, Voto Latino
How are today’s political and policy shifts reshaping the world we live in? On the Future: An Atlantic Festival Event gathers top leaders in policy, finance, defense, tech, health, and climate for an unflinching look at the forces redefining America’s role on the global stage. From domestic change to internat...
- Title
- Atlantic Reads: Abundance | The Atlantic Festival 2025
- Runtime
- 26:18
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson trace the political, economic, and cultural barriers to progress and propose a path toward a politics of abundance. At a time when movements of scarcity are gaining power in country after country, this is an answer that meets the challenges of the moment while wrestling honestly with the fury that so many rightfully feel.
Speakers include:
- Ezra Klein, columnist, podcast host, and co-author of Abundance
- Annie Lowrey, staff writer, The Atlantic
- Derek Thompson, staff writer, The Atlantic, and co-author of Abundance
How are today’s political and policy shifts reshaping the world we live in? On the Future: An Atlantic Festival Event gathers top leaders in policy, finance, defense, tech, health, and climate for an unflinching look at the forces redefining America’s role on the global stage. From domestic change to international complexity, The Atlantic presents forward-looking conversations with the people s...
- Title
- AI and the Shifting Defense Landscape | The Atlantic Festival 2025
- Runtime
- 26:22
- Date posted
- 1 year ago
- Description
- The U.S. is at the forefront of integrating AI into military operations, with expectations for even greater investments and integration of AI in the next 10 to 20 years. While the accelerated integration of AI is a paramount component of maintaining the U.S.’s military dominance, so is the need to address ethical and regulatory challenges. This session will explore how AI and machine learning are shaping the global defense landscape, focusing on the U.S.’s approach to navigating the complexities and opportunities of the next frontier in defense technology.
Speakers include:
- Brian Schimpf, co-founder and CEO, Anduril
- Derek Thompson, staff writer, The Atlantic, and co-author of Abundance
How are today’s political and policy shifts reshaping the world we live in? On the Future: An Atlantic Festival Event gathers top leaders in policy, finance, defense, tech, health, and climate for an unflinching look at the forces redefining America’s r...
