Truth Social and Reddit IPOs; New York Housing Roundup; Judith Butler on Gender; English Loan Words in Your Language

Coming up on today’s show:

Felix Salmon, chief financial correspondent for Axios, host of the Slate Money Podcast and author of The Phoenix Economy: Work, Life, and Money in the New Not Normal (‎Harper Business, 2023), talks about both Reddit and Truth Social going public and what that means for their investors and users.
David Brand, housing reporter for WNYC/Gothamist, talks about the deal taking shape on housing in the state budget; whether “squatters” are a real and growing issue and a state Court of Appeals decision that might upend NYC’s property tax system.
Judith Butler, professor at the University of California, Berkeley and the author of several books, including Gender Trouble and their latest, Who’s Afraid of Gender? (Macmillan, 2024), talks about her pioneering academic work on the concept of gender and how fraught, and misunderstood, the topic has become.
Listeners who speak a second language call in to share which words in English are commonly used in that language, and what it might say about that culture.

Transcripts are posted to each segment as they become available.

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