Failure (prelude) After Meghan Daum’s marriage falls apart she meets some new friends on YouTube. Also, reporter Paris Martineau tells us about a new game

The People have Spoken Filmmaker Astra Taylor asks “What is Democracy?” and YouTube creates the most disliked video in the history of the platform. Chapter

The Cultural Marxism Industry In the 1930’s, Theodor Adorno fled Nazi Germany. In America, he studied the Authoritarian Personality. On YouTube, he’s the object of

Institutionalized Critic Anand Giridharadas demystifies the rise of the thought leader, artist Chris Vargas rememorializes the Stonewall riots and your host clears up which side

Failure (interlude) Failure has always been a key concept for your host so this week we pull two stories out of the Benjamen Walker podcast

Bad Recommendations John Herrman EXPOSES the truth about YouTube’s paranoid style. ToE’s Andrew Callaway DESTROYS Jordan Peterson. (Must listen!!!) Chapter four in the new ToE

The Greater Firewall China’s next generation surveillance technology is being used to build out the world’s internet. But China is also exporting new philosophical and

Authoritarian Schizophrenia Right wing populists have stormed the world wide web. They even have a beachhead in China. Chenchen Zhang tells us about the racism

Operation Three-Eyed Raven ToE’s special correspondent Chris tells us the truth about Game of Thrones, Trump, the CIA, and the importance of stories. Chapter seven

YouTube’s Inferno Youtube insists that it is not liable for the hate speech in its platform. This was also what the said about the copyrighted