Scene on Radio: Capitalism
Hosted by John Biewen and Chenjerai Kumanyika and Rebecca Nagle · Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University
4.9from 50 ratings
- 154
- Episodes
- 18
- Transcribed
- 50
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2015
- First episode
About Scene on Radio: Capitalism
Scene on Radio is a two-time Peabody-nominated podcast that dares to ask big, hard questions about who we are—really—and how we got this way. Our latest is Season 7, Scene on Radio: Capitalism. Previous series include Seeing White (Season 2), looking at the roots and meaning of white supremacy; MEN (Season 3), on patriarchy and its history; The Land That Never Has Been Yet (Season 4), exploring democracy in the U.S. and why we don’t have more of it; The Repair (Season 5), on the cultural roots of the climate crisis; and Season 6, Echoes of a Coup, the story of the only successful coup d'etat in U.S. history, in Wilmington, North Carolina, in 1898. Produced and hosted by John Biewen, with collaborators, Scene on Radio comes from the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University. The show is distributed by PRX.
- Publisher
- Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University
- Category
- society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 1 Sept 2015
- Latest episode
- 9 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
18 of 154 episodes have a transcript.
9 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
S8 E9: The News, Bonus Q&A
2 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Guest Episode: Occupy! An Unfinished Uprising
19 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
Guest Episode: The Battle for Free Speech
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S8 E9: The News, Bonus Q&A
Published 9 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And I think the other thing and then for the journalists that remain in the newsroom, there's sort of an expectation for them to do more using AI. It's like now, you know, but it's not really clear. It's particularly in fact checking is a great example. If you have to fact check to make sure that this whatever AI you're using didn't just hallucinate the news you're reporting. That's not necessarily less work, but then there's an expectation that somehow, you know, AI makes your work easier. So I think that like in those ways, you know, kind of removing the human labor out of the picture with this myth of what AI can do is really a problem. […]
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- Maggie Blackhawk
- Phil Deloria
- Les High
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John Biewen and Chenjerai Kumanyika and Rebecca Nagle host the show. Published by Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University.
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