Learned a lot from my conversation w/ esteemed Indian political scientist Pratap Bhanu Mehta (who was a target of Modi's crackdown on free speech in academia) about how authoritarianism takes root and how India's situation compares/contrasts w/ ours. Watch here or listen on the Nonzero podcast.
I sat down with Samuel Hammond to discuss the tariff rationales held by various White House factions and concluded that to fully explain the incoherence of Trump's tariff policy you need to add an additional factor: Trump.
Had a great chat about the weird world of Orson Welles w/ Milton Lawson, who has written an epic comic that, via fictional extrapolation, takes Welles into an even weirder world. You can watch here or listen on the Nonzero podcast.