Episode 210: Ben Taub, New Yorker Staff Write...

Have you ever wondered how your favorite movie or book—or podcast, TV series, documentary, or article—got made? Origin Stories has you covered. Each week, veteran journalist Matthew Shaer talks to a different writer or director about the creation of a work close to their own hear ...  Show more

This is the story of what happens when Evan Ratliff, co-host of Longform and a longtime tech journalist, makes a digital copy of himself, powered by AI, in order to understand how amazing and scary and utterly ridiculous the world is about to get. In Episode 1, Evan clones his vo ...  Show more

0:00 Intro 5:15 How would you define yourself? 11:05 'Lebanon Shot Twice' 22:34 'Beirut Guilty Pleasures' 38:39 Television 54:40 Freedom 1:03:23 Career 1:13:19 Q&A 1:35:22 Prime We're with Zaven Kouyoumdjian for Episode 353 of The Beirut Banyan, recorded live at Aaliya's Books. C ...  Show more

0:00 Intro 2:25 Life in Beirut 10:48 Learning through Podcasting 17:20 Is consensus-driven governance the core problem? 23:04 Reflections 44:28 The Ultimate Stumbling Block 1:01:42 Freedom of Expression Click to watch: https://youtu.be/sDm5PSdUeOc We're with the Lebanese Politics ...  Show more

A conversation with Bashshar Haydar - professor of philosophy and the Mohammad Atallah chair of ethics at the American University of Beirut. Click to watch: https://youtu.be/kBFTpM-J3QY Discussing the wider topic of war ethics in philosophy, difficulties of academic/scholarly deb ...  Show more

0:00 Intro 6:21 Post-elections 16:21 Independent 25:47 Social media 32:20 Jamil Al Sayyed 41:02 Charbel Nahas 1:02:56 Curiosity in politics 1:08:29 Syria in the background 1:16:52 2000 1:24:53 2005 1:28:56 July 2006 1:38:11 May 2008 1:41:13 2019 1:48:45 The last chapter 2:02:02 Q ...  Show more