Ishmael Reed—Righteous Indignation

About this episode

Ben Joravsky discusses AI and cultural issues with renowned writer Ishmael Reed.

The pope takes a stand against AI enslaving us. Ben riffs. Ishmael Reed joins the conversation from Oakland. Yes, that Ishmael Reed. One of America’s greatest writers—novelist, poet, essayist, playwright and song writer. And one of Ben’s heroes since like forever. The conversation flows from Musk to Thiel to Altman to Vance to Vivek, to Django to Lin Manual Miranda. Hamilton was no hero, people. Finally, how did Trump defeat Harris? Painting her as a Promiscuous Jezebel is how. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

People in this episode

Host: Ben Joravsky

Guest: Ishmael Reed

Topics covered

• AI
• literature
• politics
• cultural commentary
• media
• social issues

Keywords

• AI
• Ishmael Reed
• politics
• Hamilton
• Trump
• Harris
• cultural commentary

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Hamilton

Places: Oakland

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