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Dave Troy is a technologist, historian, and researcher who has studied disinformation and extremism online since the earliest days of the internet.
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- The AI Consciousness Trap with Anil Seth · 1 h 7 min · Season 4 Episode 7Even if we could build a conscious machine, should we? Neuroscientist Anil Seth says no - and he doubts we can. This fall, the question of whether AI might be conscious left the…
- The Nerd Reich Redux with Gil Durán · 1 h 10 min · Season 4 Episode 6Trying to explain American politics without the radicalized billionaires behind it is like trying to explain 9/11 without mentioning Al-Qaeda. Gil Duran first joined us in March…
- Democracy Without Politicians with Terry Bouricius · 1 h 11 min · Season 4 Episode 5What if elections, which are a cornerstone of democracy, don't produce the outcomes that we desire? Terry Bouricius spent twenty years as an elected lawmaker in Vermont - city…
- Midterms, AI, and MAGA with Dr. Jen Golbeck · 1 h 10 min · Season 4 Episode 4Half a percent doesn't sound like much. In a close midterm, it is everything. Dr. Jen Golbeck has spent two decades as a computer scientist studying what the internet can figure…
- The Case for National Service with Scott Reich · 1 h 3 min · Season 4 Episode 3Scott Reich recently took the TED Democracy stage in Philadelphia to argue that a renewed ethos of service could help repair our fractured country. He joins Dave Troy for a…
- The Power of Predictions with Carissa Véliz · 55 min · Season 4 Episode 2Most of the predictions you encounter every day are closer to the realm of power than the realm of knowledge — and once you see that, you can't unsee it. Oxford philosopher…
- Crypto Is Interested in You with Molly White and Tonantzin Carmona · 1 h 10 min · Season 4 Episode 1You may not be interested in crypto, but crypto is interested in you. Cryptocurrency has stopped being a finance story. In 2026 it's a political-money machine - woven into our…
- Ghost Nation: Taiwan's Struggle for Survival with Chris Horton · 1 h 34 min · Season 3 Episode 9If you've been following world events, you know that Taiwan's future has become a major question, and a fulcrum for the future of democracy. Chris Horton is the author of "Ghost…
- Project Russia and the Future of Western Democracy with Jason Pack · 57 min · Season 3 Episode 8In this episode, we dive into geopolitical tensions, focusing on Russia’s influence on global politics and its ideological underpinnings. David Troy and Jason Pack from the…
- The Nerd Reich with Gil Duran · 1 h 9 min · Season 3 Episode 7Journalist and political communications specialist Gil Duran joins Dave for a discussion of The Network State, the latest in a long line of Libertarian Exit ideologies. Based on…
- Henry Wallace and the World that Wasn't with Benn Steil · 1 h 6 min · Season 3 Episode 6Donald Trump wasn't the first presidential candidate to be groomed by the KGB to advance Russian interests. That dubious honor belongs to Henry A. Wallace, who ran for president…
- Money, Lies, and God with Katherine Stewart · 50 min · Season 3 Episode 5Dave interviews Katherine Stewart about her new book 'Money, Lies, and God,' which explores extremist movements in the United States, particularly focusing on the rise of…
- Russia's Third Empire with Dina Khapaeva · 1 h 5 min · Season 3 Episode 4Dave interviews Dina Khapaeva, Russian culture expert at Georgia Tech, about the book "Third Empire: Russia as it ought to be," written by Mikhail Yuriev, one of the authors of…
- The Geopolitics of the Russian Orthodox Church with Lucy Ash · 1 h 19 min · Season 3 Episode 3Dave interviews noted British journalist and documentarian Lucy Ash about her new book, The Baton and the Cross: Russia's Church from Pagans to Putin. They discuss intricate…
- Project Russia and the Kremlin's War on the West · 57 min · Season 3 Episode 2You've heard of Project 2025, but there's another framework that may be even more important for understanding the current assault on Western democracies. "Project Russia" is a…
- The Tech Coup with Marietje Schaake · 53 min · Season 3 Episode 1Big tech companies are playing an outsized role in our world and are increasingly involved in creating policy that has negative impacts on democracies. In her book The Tech Coup…
- How to Win an Information War with Peter Pomerantsev · 44 min · Season 2 Episode 15In this special bonus episode, Dave interviews author Peter Pomerantsev about his new book "How to Win an Information War: The Propagandist Who Outwitted Hitler." The book…
- The October Surprise with Craig Unger · 1 h 7 min · Season 2 Episode 14The term "October Surprise" has come to mean any kind of shock that might upend a November election. But the original October Surprise was in 1980, when Ronald Reagan's campaign…
- Crypto Is Bad, Actually · 1 h 56 min · Season 2 Episode 13No joke: Peter Thiel envisioned PayPal as a way to challenge to the global political order. And that vision is just now coming into place in 2024. In this election cycle…
- Opus Dei with Gareth Gore · 1 h 9 min · Season 2 Episode 12The secretive Catholic sect Opus Dei seems to be popping up everywhere. But what is it? Many people are familiar with it from depictions in fiction like "The Davinci Code," but…
