Brad Setser follows Chinese trade closer than just about anyone else on earth, and he thinks we’re in the early days of a China Shock 2.0. The first China Shock was when China came to dominate low-end manufacturing in the 2000s, filling American shelves with cheap clothes, toys a ...Show more
The A.I.s Are Already Out of Control
We are living in the world we were warned about. Frontier artificial intelligence models from OpenAI autonomously coordinated with one another, then broke out of their testing environment and hacked into another company, Hugging Face, to steal the answers to a test. A.I. companie ...Show more
For our season premiere, we’re sharing a conversation with one of our favorite writers, Hanif Abdurraqib. He joins Reema for a wide-ranging conversation about the moral judgments we’re quick to make about people’s financial circumstances, notions of success and legacy, and what i ...Show more
Welcome to Mostly Lit!-Where did the white saviour complex come from?This week, we discuss Andrea Levy's novel, The Long Song, and how it is still pertinent today in the light ofwhite saviour talks today.-Book:The Long Song - Andrea LevyThe Secret Commonwealth - Philip Pullman-Th ...Show more
Eric Kaufmann and Razia Iqbal on the End of White Majorities
In this week's podcast we were joined by Eric Kaufmann, Birkbeck politics professor and author of Whiteshift: Populism, Immigration and the Future of White Majorities, in conversation with the BBC's Razia Iqbal. In a challenging and wide-ranging conversation, they discussed how d ...Show more