by Dave Levine | Sep 23, 2025
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 Be a Jewish Zionist.” Drawing on his national security expertise, Schanzer argues Israel’s...
by Dave Levine | Aug 1, 2025
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. Drawing on decades of experience in and...
by Dave Levine | Jul 25, 2025
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. Stanfill reveals how online fan communities, often dismissed...
by Dave Levine | Jul 24, 2025
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 from a utopian, people-powered web to a system driven by surveillance, manipulation, and...
by Dave Levine | Jul 18, 2025
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 wired for speed, not sense — and why...