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Hearsay Culture Network
by Hearsay Culture Network
On the air since 2006, Hearsay Culture (HC) has delivered over 260 interviews and is an established global media and expert policy voice. Hearsay Culture is a leading outlet for engaging, quality reporting on technology and society.
Episodes
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The Most Important AI Policy You (Probably) Haven't Thought About Much
In this episode of Hearsay Culture, Dave Levine speaks with Doni Bloomfield about his forthcoming article (with Jeff Gordon), The New Export Control Equlibrium, and why export controls — one of the trade levers used by nations to protect their domestic industries — have become one of the most...
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Can Technology Make Us Wiser—or Just Busier?
In this episode of R&D with D&D, Denise Howell and Dave Levine welcome law blog pioneer Ernie Svenson for a wide-ranging conversation about technology, trust, and the habits that help us think more clearly in an increasingly distracted world. From legal technology and online communication to...
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Who Teaches Us About Technology? Hollywood Has a Lot to Say.
In this episode of R&D with D&D, Dave Levine and Denise Howell speak with Gerald Sim about his book, Screening Big Data, exploring how films shape—not simply reflect—our understanding of big data, algorithms, AI, and technological power. Rather than focusing on familiar dystopian stories, Sim...
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Who Owns the Future? AI, Creativity, and the Next Generation of Internet Law
In this episode of Denise Howell’s Uneven Distribution, Denise welcomes longtime friend and technology lawyer Evan Brown for a wide-ranging conversation about how familiar internet law questions—from the famous “monkey selfie” copyright case to cryptocurrency, TikTok, biometrics, and AI-generated...
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Can Humans Stay Human in the Age of AI? Lee Rainie on Resilience, Trust, and the Future
In this episode of Hearsay Culture, Dave Levine speaks with Lee Rainie about the new Imagining the Digital Future report, Building a Human Resilience Infrastructure for the AI Age, which gathers insights from hundreds of experts on how artificial intelligence is likely to reshape society over the...
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Tribe, Truth, and Technology: Barbara McQuade on the Disinformation Crisis
In this episode of Hearsay Culture, Dave Levine speaks with Barbara McQuade about her book Attack from Within, exploring how deliberate falsehoods spread through politics, media, and technology to manipulate public opinion and undermine democratic institutions. McQuade draws on her experience as…
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Defending Democracy: Ty Cobb on Law, Power, and Truth
On KZSU Stanford’s Hearsay Culture, Dave Levine hosts Ty Cobb—former Trump Russia investigation attorney and one of the world’s leading white-collar/government investigations lawyers—for an urgent conversation about the core challenge facing the U.S. today: attacks on the rule of law. We move...
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When Nuance Vanishes: Searching for Truth in War
Duke professor David Schanzer joined Hearsay Culture on August 21, 2025, to unpack his searing essay from his Perilous Times Substack, “Israel’s Gaza War Has Made Me a Shame to Be a Jewish Zionist.” Drawing on his national security expertise, Schanzer argues Israel’s response has crossed the line...
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Washington’s Broken—Your Hometown Isn’t Helpless
In this powerful episode, longtime Hearsay Culture guest Lorelei Kelly returns to share her groundbreaking new project, Defend the Constitution, which empowers citizens to hold their own congressional-style field hearings. Drawing on decades of experience in and around Congress, Kelly lays out…
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The New Power Brokers: Digital Creators
In this episode we examine the creator economy, where the lines between law, entertainment, and the future of work are blurring. Creators aren’t just entertainers; they’re architects shaping the digital landscape, the future of work, and even the laws that govern our online lives. From…
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The Fandom Machine: When Obsession Turns Ugly
Dave Levine’s latest Hearsay Culture episode dives deep into the dark side of fan culture with Professor Mel Stanfill, author of 2024’s Fandom Is Ugly: Networked Harassment and Participatory Culture. Stanfill reveals how online fan communities, often dismissed as harmless, can fuel toxic...
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You’re the Product—Unless We Change the Internet
What if the internet actually worked for us—not just watched us? On this episode of Hearsay Culture, author and former Google exec Richard Whitt joins to explore how we got from a utopian, people-powered web to a system driven by surveillance, manipulation, and profit—and how we might fix it. We...
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Friction, Consent, and the Illusion of Choice
When infrastructure fails — planes crash, systems freeze, rights vanish — suddenly everyone cares. Villanova’s Brett Frischmann rejoins Hearsay Culture to explain how tech design, digital contracts, and AI are wired for speed, not sense — and why that’s a problem. He calls for a radical rethink:...
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Glitch in the System: Meredith Broussard on What Tech Gets Wrong
NYU’s Meredith Broussard pulls back the curtain on the hidden biases baked into today’s “smart” tech—from flawed facial recognition to the AI that underdelivered during her own cancer diagnosis. She tackles what’s broken in journalism, education, and healthcare—and why shiny new gadgets won’t fix...
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Can Human Skills Survive Technological Advancement?
In today’s world, generative AI is shaking up the job market, and many fear that their skills are on the chopping block. But Matt Beane’s book The Skill Code: How to Save Human Ability in an Age of Intelligent Machines offers a powerful blueprint to safeguard what makes us irreplaceable, and what...
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Navigating the Noise: A Conversation with Pico Iyer on Finding Stillness in a Tech-Saturated World
In a time when technology dominates our lives, it’s easy to feel adrift on an endless stream of screens and information. Yet, as the late Steve Jobs noted, “Technology alone is not enough.” In this unique episode, we sit down with bestselling author and global thinker Pico Iyer, whose...
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Doctors, Insurance, and AI: Making Healthcare Affordable
U.S Health Care Expenditures have risen to $4.5 trillion or $13,493 per capita, double the cost in other developed nations (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, 2023). These figures are staggering but will continue to increase absent intervention. New healthcare startups present such...
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Health Care Up The Ying-Yang
While many investors remain uncomfortable with innovations in women’s health care, Denise and her guest Marina Gerner are not. Join them to unpack Marina’s new book The Vagina Business, which examines over 100 entrepreneurs, researchers, and investors across 15 countries, all focused on…
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Revealing Hidden Dynamics in Technology
Although we interact with technology seemingly endlessly, we don’t often consider what kinds of biases technology both reflects back to humans, but also exacerbates by its very nature as dumb code. On this episode of R&D with D&D, Dave and Denise chat with Prof. Mar Hicks of the University of...
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Facebook's Broken Code, Revealed
Almost from its inception, Facebook has been subject to intense scrutiny as a groundbreaking, but sphinx-like, corporate entity. Although CEO Mark Zuckerberg naturally received the most attention, many lesser-known and unknown individuals played critical roles in Facebook’s launch, idealistic…
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Tech Changes Everything, Except Us
Leo Laporte is a serial pioneer. Already a well-loved fixture on radio and cable TV, where he made technology both accessible and exciting, Leo was one of the first to recognize and run with podcasting’s potential. His production, business, and sponsorship models led podcasting’s evolution from...
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Storytelling and Jazz with Jeremy Pelt
Jeremy Pelt’s new book Griot is filled with stories from Black jazz musicians in an effort to broaden representation and share on social issues within the industry. Jeremy Pelt began his musical journey at a young age listening to stories from his grandparents. When setting out to write his new...
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On the air since 2006, Hearsay Culture (HC) has delivered over 260 interviews and is an established global media and expert policy voice. Hearsay Culture is a leading outlet for engaging, quality reporting on technology and society.
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