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Best podcasts about John R Macarthur

Latest podcast episodes about John R Macarthur

Keen On Democracy
Episode 2070: John R. MacArthur warns that reading digital screens might be shrinking our brains

Keen On Democracy

Play Episode Listen Later May 22, 2024 42:32


The digital revolution has few more persistent critics than John (Rick) MacArthur, the legendarily outspoken publisher of Harper's Magazine. His skepticism about Silicon Valley, he confesses, came at the turn of the century when he overheard the gibberish sales talk from a rabble of start-up entrepreneurs in a San Francisco restaurant. In the quarter century since, MacArthur hasn't been shy to argue that the internet is killing not just our culture and economy, but also our democracy. His latest crusade is what he considers to be the disturbing impact of screens on our cognitive skills . Kids learn better on paper, he insists. Which may be why Harpers - in contrast with the Atlantic and the New Yorker - is first and foremost a print rather than an online magazine. John R. (Rick) MacArthur is president and publisher of Harper's Magazine and an award-winning journalist and author. Under his leadership, the magazine has received nineteen National Magazine Awards, the industry's highest recognition. He writes monthly columns for The Providence Journal and, in French, for Montreal's Le Devoir newspaper. His critically acclaimed first book, Second Front: Censorship and Propaganda in the Gulf War, won the Illinois ACLU's 1992 Harry Kalven Freedom of Expression award and was a New York Times notable book. His second book, The Selling of "Free Trade": NAFTA, Washington, and the Subversion of American Democracy, was published in 2000. He has also written You Can't Be President, published in 2008 and reissued in 2012 as The Outrageous Barriers to Democracy in America. L'Illusion Obama was published in 2012 in France and Canada. Mr. MacArthur grew up in Winnetka, Illinois, and graduated in 1978 from Columbia University with a B.A. in history. He lives with his wife and two daughters in New York City.Named as one of the "100 most connected men" by GQ magazine, Andrew Keen is amongst the world's best known broadcasters and commentators. In addition to presenting KEEN ON, he is the host of the long-running How To Fix Democracy show. He is also the author of four prescient books about digital technology: CULT OF THE AMATEUR, DIGITAL VERTIGO, THE INTERNET IS NOT THE ANSWER and HOW TO FIX THE FUTURE. Andrew lives in San Francisco, is married to Cassandra Knight, Google's VP of Litigation & Discovery, and has two grown children.Keen On is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit keenon.substack.com/subscribe

The Brendan O'Neill Show
229: John R MacArthur: The weirdness of post-Trump America

The Brendan O'Neill Show

Play Episode Listen Later May 11, 2023 70:59


John ‘Rick' MacArthur, president and publisher of Harper's Magazine, returns to The Brendan O'Neill Show to discuss the worrying rise of the authoritarian right, the left's perversion of history, and why a return to ‘normalcy' is not the answer to America's ills. Apply now for spiked's internship scheme: https://www.spiked-online.com/interns  Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/   Sign up to spiked's newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/  Check out spiked's shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/

Red Scare
The Possibility of a Podcast w/ Michel Houellebecq *TEASER*

Red Scare

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 1, 2023 1:49


The ladies get drunk on Zoom with Michel Houellebecq and discuss his new article on euthanasia and assisted suicide for Harper's Magazine.   Special thanks to Giulia Melucci, John R. MacArthur, Lysis Li, Eli Keszler and Mathieu Malouf for making it happen!

Spectator Radio
Mary Wakefield, John R. MacArthur and Daisy Dunn

Spectator Radio

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 17, 2022 24:12


On this week's episode: Mary Wakefield asks why no one's mentioning the cult Tom Cruise belongs to (00:54), John R. MacArthur asks if Macron should be scared by an ascendant Jean-Luc Mélenchon (06:58), and Daisy Dunn orients herself after listening to the Gucci Podcast (17:57).

Americano
What if Bernie wins in Iowa?

Americano

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 3, 2020 26:49


With John R. MacArthur, publisher of Harper's magazine and a contributor to Spectator USA. Presented by Freddy Gray. 

The Harper’s Podcast
Impeachment and the Mueller Report

The Harper’s Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 13, 2019 68:27


Today, November 13, 2019, as witnesses take the stand in the first public hearings on the impeachment of President Donald Trump, the Harper's Podcast looks back to another major report on presidential infraction. The Department of Justice released its redacted version of the Mueller Report almost seven months ago, on April 18. Although the 448-page document revealed new depths to the chaos of the Trump presidency, its inconclusiveness was a disappointment and a setback to those who had hoped to see clear grounds for impeachment. On May 30, Harper's Magazine organized a discussion about the report's implications between four experts—Karen J. Greenberg, director of the Center on National Security at Fordham Law School; Elizabeth Holtzman, a former member of the U.S. House of Representatives who recommended three articles of impeachment against Richard Nixon; James Oakes, an American historian specializing in slavery, antislavery, and the Civil War; and Brenda Wineapple, author of a recent book on the impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson. In a conversation that takes on new relevance during the current prosecution, the panelists discussed common misunderstandings of the impeachment process (at least one of which was shared by Donald Trump), the narrowness of the argument that impeachment proceedings might perversely “help” the president, and the provision's larger historical importance as a means of reasserting the limits of presidential power. The panel took place at the New York Society for Ethical Culture and was moderated by Harper's president and publisher John R. MacArthur. This episode was produced by Violet Lucca and Andrew Blevins.

The Harper’s Podcast
Humanitarian Wars?

The Harper’s Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 7, 2019 71:42


The oxymoron “humanitarian war” is sometimes used ironically, at other times derisively, and still at others earnestly. In his recent book, excerpted in the April issue of Harper's Magazine, Rony Brauman, former president of Doctors Without Borders, explores criteria deemed essential to justify violence. “While claiming to protect populations,” Brauman writes, “the United Nations is rehabilitating war—when in fact it was created to prevent it. And in granting itself the right to declare war and to call it ‘just,' the U.N. is acting as both referee and player, and legalizing the conflation of judges and parties to a conflict.” In this week's episode, Brauman is joined on a panel by Harper's president and publisher John R. MacArthur and Columbia University professor Elazar Barkan. They probe the lessons of Libya, Somalia, and Kosovo; the threshold of violence that demands international involvement; and how the framework of humanitarianism can be co-opted, to disastrous effect, by propaganda. Read an excerpt of Brauman's book here: https://harpers.org/archive/2019/04/humanitarian-wars-regis-meyran-rony-brauman/

Americano
What do Democrats make of Jeremy Corbyn?

Americano

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 16, 2017 14:02


With John R. MacArthur, president of Harper's Magazine. Presented by Freddy Gray.

Americano
Will the Clintons ever go away?

Americano

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 24, 2017 21:38


With John R. MacArthur, publisher of Harper's magazine. Presented by Freddy Gray.

Americano
What is there to fear from the Trump presidency?

Americano

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 17, 2016 23:39


With John R. MacArthur, president of Harper's magazine. Presented by Freddy Gray.

Ralph Nader Radio Hour
Barry Ladendorf, John R. MacArthur

Ralph Nader Radio Hour

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 6, 2015 57:31


Ralph talks about the human and financial costs of war to Barry Ladendorf, the President of Veterans for Peace.  And journalist, John R. MacArthur, tells us why President Obama would push for a bad "free trade" deal like the Trans Pacific Partnership.  Plus Ralph answers more of your Facebook questions.

KUCI: Weekly Signals
John R. MacArthur Interview / September 23, 2008

KUCI: Weekly Signals

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 23, 2008


An interview with John R. MacArthur, the author of You Can't Be President: The Outrageous Barriers to Democracy in America. After the debacle of the 2000 presidential election, many Americans were asking themselves if their vote really counted anymore. Yet does the problem go even deeper than that? Is America really a democracy anymore? In a rollicking piece of reportage based on years of reporting, Harper's Magazine Publisher John R. MacArthur examines how the system really works-and doesn't work-nowadays. Why is it that all the major candidates seem to be rich Ivy-Leaguers? Why is there so little difference between the Republicans and the Democrats on so many key issues? Does an outsider really have a chance? Covering the recent candidacies of Ned Lamont and Ralph Nader, reporting on local efforts to effect change, and examining funding and influence in our electoral system in general, MacArthur presents a clarion call to restructure electoral politics. MacArthur, president and publisher of Harper's Magazine, is an award-winning journalist and author of the acclaimed books The Selling of "Free Trade": NAFTA, Washington, and The Subversion of American Democracy and Second Front: Censorship and Propaganda in the Gulf War.

Bill Moyers Journal (Audio) | PBS
Melissa Harris-lacewell on race in America, Bruce Bawer on fundamentalisms, and Rick MacArthur on the trade deal

Bill Moyers Journal (Audio) | PBS

Play Episode Listen Later May 18, 2007 56:40


Bill Moyers Journal looks at the trade deal in the works between the new leadership in Congress and the Bush Administration, which has the Democrats under fire from America's workers. Bill Moyers gets perspective on the deal from Harper's magazine publisher John R. MacArthur, author of The Selling of "Free Trade": NAFTA, Washington, and the Subversion of American Democracy. Also on the program, Princeton's Melissa Harris lacewell on race, politics, and spirituality; and author Bruce Bawer, who left America for Europe to escape fundamentalist bigotry, on what his journey says about America, Europe, and Islamic fundamentalism?