• Episode 53 (with David Barboza Part 4)
    Jan 9 2025

    Episode Four: A dream assignment: David moves to Shanghai and begins covering China. He goes from "Sock City" to Apple, to the extraordinary changes in China's economy, politics and culture. The final episode covers everything from Wuhan to Taiwan, fentanyl to semiconductors, quantum computing to cyberhacking, to Xi's political standing and how much (and how many of) China's most successful people dislike and distrust Xi.

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    1 hr and 1 min
  • Episode 52 (with David Barboza Part 3)
    Jan 9 2025

    Episode Three: The not-a-partnership partnership of one of the world's greatest entrepreneurs and one of the world's richest men is a case study in modern China. David describes the "partnership" that became the subject of an extraordinary report co-produced by The New York Times and David's news magazine, The Wire China.

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    17 mins
  • Episode 51 (with David Barboza Part 2)
    Jan 8 2025

    Episode Two: We begin our conversation with David about China and whether the "Thucydides Trap" can be avoided.

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    34 mins
  • Episode 50 (with David Barboza Part 1)
    Jan 8 2025

    Episode One: David Barboza, former Shanghai Bureau Chief for The New York Times, is building a new kind of media company. Call it Bloomberg for China.

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    32 mins
  • Episode 49 (with Deb Roy)
    Dec 28 2024

    In the final episode of our Cortico trilogy, we talked with the company's founder and CEO, Deb Roy, about the future of "building civic muscle" and his roadmap for a national Cortico network.

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    1 hr and 8 mins
  • Episode 48 (with Deb Roy and Alex Kelly Berman)
    Dec 21 2024
    Part two of our conversations with the senior management of Cortico, the platform for "deeper conversations". Featuring Deb Roy and Alex Kelly Berman.
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    1 hr and 7 mins
  • Episode 47 (With Deb Roy and Kathy Cramer)
    Dec 11 2024
    Cortico, in collaboration with the MIT Center for Constructive Communication (CCC), has built a platform that connects rather than divides communities, and in so doing, helps create a healthier society. We talked to its CEO and co-founder, Deb Roy, and one of its Directors, Prof. Kathy Cramer, about how it works and how it's working.
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    39 mins
  • Episode 46 (with Jane Metcalfe Part 2)
    Dec 4 2024

    Part Two of our interview with Jane Metclafe, a woman who saw the future clearly. Twice.

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    42 mins