Dystopia Now

By Kate Willett and Emile Torres

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Episodes: 61


 May 4, 2025

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Dystopia Now is a show where a comedian (Kate Willett) and an academic (Emile Torres) explore the philosophies and religions of Silicon Valley and tech billionaires shaping our country, our world, and our future.

Episode Date
PATREON PREVIEW: Surveillance Pricing with Zephyr Teachout
May 21, 2026
Of Dawkins and Data Centers
May 14, 2026
Altman Attack: What is Violence?
May 07, 2026
From Fordism to Muskism with Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff
Apr 30, 2026
The AI Con with Alex Hanna and Emily Bender
Apr 23, 2026
Big Tech is Watching You with Taylor Lorenz
Apr 04, 2026
Understanding the U.S. Blockade on Cuba with David Ramírez Álvarez
Mar 25, 2026
The Ethics of Human Extinction Part 1
Mar 20, 2026
Data Centers in My Backyard with Dylan Gyauch-Lewis
Mar 05, 2026
Gilded Rage with Jacob Silverman
Feb 23, 2026
The Unabomber
Feb 05, 2026
Four Companies, Under AGI
Jan 26, 2026
LARPing into Authoritarianism with Dr. Alexander Thomas
Jan 17, 2026
How Tech Bros are Innovating Imperialism
Jan 10, 2026
The Distant Future: 2025 Expectations versus Reality
Dec 28, 2025
Epstein Part 2: Transhumanism & Eugenics with Keira Havens
Dec 12, 2025
Epstein Part 1: Chomsky Struggle Session
Dec 04, 2025
Escaping Effective Altruism
Nov 14, 2025
Algospeak, Vibes, and Post-Rats with Adam Aleksic (Etymology Nerd)
Nov 07, 2025
Fan Fic at the End of the World
Nov 01, 2025
How Tech Billionaires Bought the Narrative with Eoin Higgins
Oct 23, 2025
Is Saving Shrimps Effective Altruism? w/ Guest Comedian Josh Gondelman
Oct 17, 2025
Peter Thiel's Antichrist Lectures
Oct 04, 2025
Bryan Johnson, Mortal
Sep 15, 2025
The Astroturf Agenda with Dean Preston
Sep 05, 2025
My BF is AI
Aug 29, 2025
Patreon Preview: The Vox Writer w/ Eugenics Fanfic (Effective Altruism in Media)
Aug 28, 2025
UNLOCKED: Zizians Part 1- A Cult Within a Cult
Aug 21, 2025
PATREON PREVIEW: Listener Q and A
Aug 19, 2025
"These F*cking People" with Adam Becker
Aug 17, 2025
PATREON PREVIEW: The Extropians
Aug 11, 2025
Simone and Malcolm Collins: TESCREAL Parents
Aug 08, 2025
PATREON PREVIEW: The Zizians Part 3: The Murder Spree
Aug 01, 2025
Mark Zuckerberg: Bunker Boy
Jul 31, 2025
Tech and Hasbara
Jul 25, 2025
Mind Uploading and Life Extension
Jul 18, 2025
Ecomodernism and Nuclear Energy
Jul 11, 2025
Thiel is the Antichrist with Will Menaker
Jul 06, 2025
Pro-Natalism, Anti-Natalism and Efilism with Briahna Joy Gray
Jun 20, 2025
The Crapture: Transhumanism and Christianity
Jun 12, 2025
Transhumanism and Capitalism with Dr. Alexander Thomas
Jun 05, 2025
The Tech Bro Zone with Quinn Slobodian
May 28, 2025
PATREON PREVIEW: The Zizians, A Cult Within A Cult
May 25, 2025
Dragging Matt Yglesias with Nathan Robinson
May 22, 2025
TESCREAL Overview with Kath Barbadoro and Alex Ptak
May 15, 2025
The Dark Enlightenment (Nick Land and Curtis Yarvin)
May 08, 2025
UNLOCKED: Nuke Mars (Bezos vs. Musk)
May 04, 2025
COPAGANDA with Alec Karakatsanis
May 01, 2025
Q & A Part 1 -- Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
Apr 23, 2025
Sam Altman Part 2: Doomsday Prepping and Simulation Hypothesis
Apr 17, 2025
Sam Altman Part 1: Building God, Scanning Eyeballs
Apr 10, 2025
Curtis Yarvin
Apr 04, 2025
The Effective Altruists and the "Abundance" Movement
Mar 27, 2025
Peter Thiel Part 1
Mar 20, 2025
Pessimism of the Intellect, Optimism of the Will
Mar 12, 2025
Patreon Preview: Nuke Mars (Bezos vs. Musk)
Mar 11, 2025
The Tech Right with Jacob Silverman
Mar 05, 2025
Surveillance Capitalism with Albert Fox Cahn
Feb 26, 2025
Elon Part 2: Doomers vs. Accelerationists
Feb 19, 2025
The Nerd Reich with Gil Duran
Feb 12, 2025
Elon Musk Part 1
Feb 03, 2025