The Fandom Machine: When Obsession Turns Ugly

Can Humans Stay Human in the Age of AI? Lee Rainie on Resilience, Trust, and the Future

In this episode of Hearsay Culture, Dave Levine speaks with Lee Rainie about the new Imagining the Digital Future report, Building a Human Resilience Infrastructure for the AI Age, which […]

Tribe, Truth, and Technology: Barbara McQuade on the Disinformation Crisis

In this episode of Hearsay Culture, Dave Levine speaks with Barbara McQuade about her book Attack from Within, exploring how deliberate falsehoods spread through politics, media, and technology to manipulate […]

Defending Democracy: Ty Cobb on Law, Power, and Truth

On KZSU Stanford’s Hearsay Culture, Dave Levine hosts Ty Cobb—former Trump Russia investigation attorney and one of the world’s leading white-collar/government investigations lawyers—for an urgent conversation about the core challenge […]

When Nuance Vanishes: Searching for Truth in War

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 […]

Washington’s Broken—Your Hometown Isn’t Helpless

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. […]