Substack Live!

Coming up: Lina Khan, Andrew Marantz, Arnab Dutta, & Peter Conti-Brown

I’m going to host a series of Substack Lives over the coming weeks, all at noon Eastern on Thursdays, starting next week. These will be 40-minute, fast-aced conversations on a range of topics. The technology is pretty slick - we can take questions from viewers as the conversation progresses.

The idea is that you can join a stimulating conversation while you’re having lunch on the East Coast or your morning cup of coffee on the West.

On May 22nd, I’ll be in conversation with Arnab Dutta, the director of policy implementation at Employ America, to discuss the growing movement to create a new national investment bank in the United States. The idea has been percolating since 2021 (see this Atlantic piece from the time), with support on the left and right. Sign up to get a reminder!

On May 29th, Andrew Marantz from The New Yorker and I will discuss his recent piece “What It’s Like to Live Under Autocracy,” which asks us to consider how we know when authoritarianism has taken hold. Sign up to get a reminder!

On June 5th, I’ll be in conversation with Peter Conti-Brown, the Class of 1965 Associate Professor of Financial Regulation at the Wharton School—and my dissertation advisor! We’ll be discussing how to think about Fed “independence” in the wake of Trump’s threats to fire Jay Powell and what to make of recent claims that the Fed has become too politicized. Sign up to get a reminder!

Finally, On June 12th, I’ll be joined by the former Chair of the Federal Trade Commission, Lina Khan. We’ll try to make sense of how Trump and Republicans are approaching on antitrust and antimonopoly, the ongoing cases against Meta, Amazon, Google, what’s next for the antimonopoly movement — and for Khan personally. Sign up to get a reminder!

If you have particular questions that you’d like for me to ask ahead of any of these interviews, please send me a direct message here on Substack. I’ll try my best to get them in.