(Re)introducing Radio Atlantic
Like the magazine, the show will “road test” the big ideas that both drive the news and shape our culture. Through conversations—and sometimes sharp debates—with the most insightful thinkers and writers on topics of the day, Radio Atlantic will complicate overly simplistic views. It will cut through the noise using clarifying, personal narratives. It will, hopefully, help listeners make up their own mind about how they think about certain ideas.
The national conversation right now can be chaotic, reckless, and stuck. Radio Atlantic aims to bring some order to our thinking—and help listeners be purposeful about how they unstick their minds.
New episodes come out Thursdays starting May 25, wherever you find your podcasts.
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Transcript
Hi, I'm Hannah Rosen, the new host of Radio Atlantic, and I'm here to make trouble, but in a friendly way.
Hannah, honestly, I don't know if you're just playing devil's advocate or you actually believe this, but I think you're off on this.
I just think you're genuinely off.
What do you mean I'm off?
I'm just being genuinely realistic.
Okay, something to know about me.
I've done a lot of competitive debating, so I know how to scrutinize an idea.
I want to do that on this podcast in a way that helps you make up your own mind about what's happening in the world.
I want us to look at the most interesting ideas, ideas out there we may not like so much or we don't understand or even trust, like AI medicine.
The people who have the means and the power, they're going to have the in-person doctor experience, right?
Whereas the rest of us are going to get doc bot, doc bot, exactly.
We'll get to the real edge of things that we all need to figure out about Ukraine, our courts, the elections, teens and social media.
Another frustrating element of this conversation is how paternalistic it ends up sounding, like rescuing these tiny damsels in distress from the evil machine.
I already like understand so much more than I did, you know, half an hour ago when we started this conversation.
There's this phrase someone said to me recently, road testing ideas, like you would road test a car.
You run them through the dirt, see if they can stand up to actual real-world conditions.
And I am totally okay being wrong.
Here is my promise.
I will approach every conversation thinking I could end up in a totally different place than I began.
And I'll create a space where we can think more calmly, openly, and freely.
And mostly what I want is for you and me to sometimes change our minds.
It's not something we do that much anymore.
You'll find episodes every Thursday wherever you listen.
All right, Chomsky, what else you got?
