Hearsay Culture Radio

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

As you may have noticed (even in the barrage of election coverage), I've been silent since the end of July. The reason is rather simple: since July, I've taught five […]

I'm pleased to post show # 258, June 24, my interview with Prof. Paul Ringel of High Point University, author of Commercializing Childhood. Paul's study may seem superficially beyond Hearsay […]

I'm pleased to post show # 257, June 17, my interview with Prof. Neil Netanel of UCLA Law, author of From Maimonides to Microsoft: The Jewish Law of Copyright Since […]

It's been a busy summer, having (a) taught an exciting (and sadly timely) new course on Employment Discrimination Law. As a result, Hearsay Culture has taken a bit of a […]

I'm pleased to post Show # 255, May 13, my interview with Prof. Michael Schudson of the Columbia School of Journalism, author of The Rise of the Right to Know: […]

I'm pleased to post Show # 253, April 29, 2016 my interview with Prof. Pam Samuelson of UC Berkeley School of Law and School of Information, on the Authors Alliance. […]

Get ready for one of my common (but not yet patented – too abstract?) barrages of new shows over the next few days. That's what weekends are for – catching […]

Changing Digital Formats and New Legislation Create Shaky Ground U.S. history is captured in the thousands of tapes, vinyl, and cassettes made over the years. But many of these historic […]

Idealism, Democracy, and the Future of Cyberlaw The field of cyberlaw would not exist if it weren’t for Lawrence Lessig’s work in the late 1990s that helped make the Internet […]

I'm posting this show on a Sunday night, with The Jazztet's Another Git Together (Mercury SR-60737, 1962), playing on my turntable. This is an appropriate background — although, as my […]

I'm excited to post Show # 249, February 26, my interview with Lorelei Kelly of the New America Foundation on technology and legislative decision-making. Lorelei has done unique, critical and […]

I'm pleased to post Show # 248, January 29, my interview with The Guardian's Julia Powles and Prof. Ellen Goodman of Rutgers Law School, on the "Right to Be Forgotten." […]

As promised (at least via Twitter), I'm finally posting new shows for the winter quarter of 2016. First up: Show # 247, January 15, 2016, my interview with Nato Thompson, […]