Podcast #36: Jerry Mander
Author and activist Jerry Mander reflects on a long life of technoskepticism and how it relates to the current global moment.
Author and activist Jerry Mander reflects on a long life of technoskepticism and how it relates to the current global moment.
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Despite marketing spin, Facebook’s Libra, like any cryptocurrency, would have done nothing to address poverty.
Our third print issue is about to ship nationally.
A review of tech and social critic Douglas Rushkoff’s latest book, Team Human.
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Father Jim Keenan of Boston College discusses Pope Francis’s views on environmentalism and social justice, and how those resonate across belief systems.
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