We Can Be Heroes (with Susan Neiman)

We Can Be Heroes (with Susan Neiman)

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Ana and Mike Don’t Quit

Ana Marie Cox and Open Mike Eagle kick off the year with a conversation about survival in a collapsing media economy. They get into dry January, capitalism, self-promotion, YouTube pivots, and what it means to keep showing up even when the numbers don’t add up. Plus: the upside o ...  Show more

What If Merit Was Never the Metric? with Karen K. Ho

Journalist Karen K. Ho joins us to talk about what it really means to navigate the creative economy as an immigrant, a freelancer, and a former "success story." We talk about the myth of meritocracy, the emotional and financial toll of precarity after grad school, and the differe ...  Show more

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