Arts

Sam Leith’s guest this week is Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia and author of The Seven Rules of Trust. They discuss why trust is such an important value for public debate, and how it can address polarisation in society. Jimmy addresses the challenge Elon Musk has posed to Wikipedia after the entrepreneur branded

Doctorow lays out his "enshittification" playbook—how tech platforms lure users, trap businesses, then extract value from both—tying it to interoperability, right-to-repair, and DMCA lock-ins, with Facebook as Exhibit A. He explains why incremental state laws can break Big Tech's coalitions better than sweeping federal

The British designer Jay Osgerby believes in designing rigorously simple objects that are deeply felt and, hopefully, appreciated for generations to come. As the co-founder of the London-based industrial studio Barber Osgerby, Jay and his partner in the firm, Edward Barber, emphasize experimentation, innovation, and a

Steven Pinker joins to discuss his new book, When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyday Life, exploring how shared awareness coordinates everything from markets to manners. He traces spirals of silence, costly signals, and why a single public moment can fli

Are you struggling to find the right people to share your message with - people who actually want to learn from you and become life-long fans and supporters?  Being a guest on the right podcasts can make all that happen - but it starts with learning what you need to do to find these podcasts, and more importantly, beco

Martha welcomes journalist, author, and CNBC Squawk Box host Andrew Ross Sorkin to dive into his much-anticipated new book 1929. It details the real-life drama behind the most infamous economic crash in American history. Andrew brought some of his favorite juicy historical gossip to this conversation—from the scandalou