A rant, Christopher Sweat

By Christopher Sweat

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Hosted by a highly opinionated interdisciplinary thinker and orchestrator of technology. Discussing high-technology, politics, economics, corporate finance, and business. A rant, Christopher Sweat, is recorded in tandem with my writing at christophersweat.substack.com.

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Episode Date
Rachel Cohen Ran the Numbers
Aug 04, 2026
Chicago Runs on One Job
Jul 03, 2026
Neither Camp
Jun 10, 2026
“We Put So Much Fear in Bezos He Didn’t Show Up”
May 26, 2026
The Vanity and the Wayfinder
May 18, 2026
Rep. Norma Hernandez on HB2723, Progressive Revenue, and the Politics of the Legislature
May 15, 2026
Conversation with Christopher Sweat of GrayStak Media hosted by Dylan Blaha
May 06, 2026
Inside Illinois: Where Policy, Activism, and Capital Intersect
May 04, 2026
"The Seat Belongs to the Movement": Inside Chicago’s Emerging Model of Political Power with Ald. Rosanna Rodriguez Sanchez
Mar 20, 2026
The Surprise Candidate in Illinois’ 9th: Inside Kat Abughazaleh’s Unconventional Campaig
Mar 11, 2026
Karina Villa on Redefining the Illinois Comptroller’s Office
Mar 01, 2026
Kevin Ryan for U.S. Senate — Testing a Reform Agenda
Feb 17, 2026
The Electoral Strategy Behind Anabel Mendoza’s Congressional Campaign
Feb 08, 2026
What Representation Looks Like in Illinois Right Now - A Conversation with Nick Uniejewski
Jan 30, 2026
Ald. Jessie Fuentes and the Mechanics of Municipal Power
Jan 21, 2026
Interview: Christopher Sweat sits down with Dylan Blaha & Demi Palecek
Dec 28, 2025
Interview: Christopher Sweat sits down with Ald. Byron Sigcho-Lopez of Chicago's 25th Ward
Dec 18, 2025
Interview: Christopher Sweat sits down with Heena Musjabi and Ahmed Rehab of CAIR Chicago
Dec 11, 2025
Interview: Christopher Sweat sits down with Andy Thayer, a famed Chicago Activist.
Dec 04, 2025
Interview: Christopher Sweat sits down with Mahnoor Ahmad, DuPage County Board District 2 Candidate
Dec 04, 2025
Discourse: Overlap between ICE & IDF?
Dec 01, 2025
Interview: Christopher Sweat sits down with Juli & Nino, Organizers at Activist at PSL Chicago
Nov 22, 2025
Interview: Christopher Sweat sits down with Richard Berg, host of FightBack! Radio
Nov 19, 2025
Interview: Hani Almadhoun, Co-founder of Gaza Soup Kitchen, Humanitarian & Philanthropist (Peoples Conference for Palestine)
Sep 09, 2025
Interview: Farah Chalisa, Human Rights Attorney & Activist (Peoples Conference for Palestine, Detroit, 2025)
Sep 04, 2025
Kenneth Roth, Fmr Executive Director of Human Rights Watch, on safety for activists in Chicago and more
Jul 12, 2025
Multiple Arrests at March in Manhattan
Jun 27, 2025
May Day Protest in Chicago, 2025
May 06, 2025
Douglas County Sheriff Carries Out Summary Killing, DA Fails to Prosecute
Apr 15, 2025
Nick Sous Interview on Disruptive Politics in Downers Grove, IL at Rep Sean Casten Townhall
Apr 10, 2025
TeslaTakedown: Political dissent or shareholder activism?
Apr 07, 2025
Political Speech from Activist Jinan Chehade, Chicago, 26 March 2025
Mar 26, 2025
Lee Edwards on San Francisco Politics and the State of Technology
Apr 03, 2024
Dr. Kaleb Demerew, Red Sea Rivalries
Mar 15, 2024
Pyotr Kurzin, international political analyst and host of The Global Gambit on the Russia
Mar 05, 2024
Mark Blyth & Sven Steinmo: Austerity, Dictators and Democracy
Feb 13, 2024
Trump is not the Problem
Feb 06, 2024
Dr. Kaleb Demerew on Institutions, Mass Violence, & Ethiopia's Ethnic Federalism
Feb 03, 2024
Dr. Sven Steinmo on Historical Institutionalism, Evolutionary Theory, & Political Science
Jan 23, 2024
Negin Shiraghaei: Activist, Journalist, Feminist, & Political Thinker
Jan 19, 2024
Dr. Brian Keating, Cosmologist & Experimental Physicist
Jan 05, 2024
Colin Wright, Ph.D., Evolutionary Biologist, Writer & Founding Editor of Reality's Last Stand (Audio)
May 17, 2023
Alexandra Siegel, Ph.D., a Political Scientist at CU Boulder on Digital Authoritarianism, Repression Technology, Machine Learning, and more.
May 16, 2023
Shukriya Bradost, Ph.D. student at Virginia Tech on Iranian Politics, Women's Rights, & Securitization. (Audio)
May 15, 2023
Bilyana Lilly, Ph.D. on Russian Information Warfare, Cybersecurity, Election Disruption & more... (Audio)
May 13, 2023
Networks, States, & the Future of Advanced Economies
Mar 22, 2023
Balaji: The Network State
Mar 19, 2023
Razib Khan, a thinker and writer on genetics and data science.
Aug 11, 2022
Anna George, DPhil doctoral student at the Oxford Internet Institute on online political behaviour, political extremism, and hate groups.
Jul 21, 2022
A conversation with Cathy Fawaz, Ph.D. candidate on Political Comms at Regent's University London
Jul 13, 2022
Venture Capital
Jun 03, 2022
Nations, The Book Store
May 26, 2022
War, The Book Store
May 24, 2022
A monologue titled, The Book Store
May 20, 2022
A conversation with Salih Hudayar, Prime Minister of East Turkistan Government in Exile, on Human Rights and Genocide.
May 10, 2022
A conversation with Maral Karimi, Ph.D. candidate at the University of Toronto on Iran, political dissent, feminism and more.
Apr 01, 2022
A conversation with Ri Sharma, Growth Marketer & Founder of Wall Street Confessions
Mar 29, 2022
A conversation with Jonathan Scott, hacker and Computer Science Ph.D. student researching mobile & IOT.
Feb 23, 2022
A conversation with Hollis Robbins, Ph.D., Dean of Arts & Humanities at Sonoma State University, Author, Poet and so much more.
Feb 16, 2022
A conversation with Sanjana Singh, emerging poet, orator, and interdisciplinary thinker.
Feb 09, 2022
A conversation with Karen Tatarian, Ph.D, Robotics Engineer at SoftBank Robotics Europe.
Feb 04, 2022
A conversation with Sven Steinmo, Ph.D., professor at CU Boulder on American Exceptionalism, Wealth Inequality, & American Politics
Jan 23, 2022
Monologue + a conversation with Lex Fridman
Jan 19, 2022
A conversation on Human Rights with Gissou Nia, Director of the Strategic Litigation Project at the Atlantic Council.
Jan 17, 2022
Public Intellectuals (Audio)
Dec 29, 2021
Announcements (In Audio)
Dec 20, 2021
re: Bloomberg Opinion, Trump SPAC (In Audio)
Dec 17, 2021