Season 9
S9 Ep66: How a Murder in Coal Country Toppled an American Dictator with Nicolo Majnoni
In this episode, Matt speaks with Nicolo Majnoni, creator of The Shadow Kingdom podcast, about his new season investigating the murder of union reformer Jock Yablonski and the battle to reclaim America’s most powerful coal union from corruption and violence. They explore how union boss Tony Boyle tu...
S9 Ep65: The Persuasion Game and How Influence Peddlers Target Democracy with Chad Lewis
In this episode, Chris speaks with Chad Lewis, author of The Persuasion Game , about how foreign influence operations exploit Western political vulnerabilities. Chad discusses the rise of Kremlin-backed disinformation campaigns, the use of political operatives and lobbyists to bypass formal institut...
S9 Ep64: China’s Long Arm: Uyghur Repression From Xinjiang to Washington with John Beck
Award-winning journalist John Beck joins Chris to discuss Those Who Should Be Seized Should Be Seized , his harrowing account of China’s campaign against Uyghurs, ethnic Kazakhs, and other Muslim minorities. Beck traces the lives of four people—from re-education camps in Xinjiang to exile in Turkey,...
S9 Ep63: How Global Finance Influences Geopolitics with Emmanuel Daniel
How does financial architecture shape the global order? Chris is joined by Emmanuel Daniel—author of The Great Transition and founder of TAB Global—for a sweeping look at how banking, capital markets, and emerging technologies are redefining geopolitics. They explore the evolution of the US dollar, ...
S9 Ep62: The Information Animal: Humans, Technology, and the Competition for Reality with Alicia Wanless
How do we make sense of truth in a world saturated with content? This week, Chris speaks with Alicia Wanless—director of the Information Environment Project at the Carnegie Endowment and author of The Information Animal—to explore how humans have always wrestled with information, long before the int...