One of its first three employees, journalist Dylan Matthews is a senior correspondent and head writer for Future Perfect at Vox. For those unfamiliar, Future Perfect tells stories about people and organizations “finding the best ways to do good.”
Dylan came across Peter Singer’s book The Life You Can Save at a formative age, helping cement his interests around global health, anti-poverty efforts, philanthropy, and economic policy.
In this episode, Dylan and Charlie muse about difficulties in maintaining the distinctions between truth and falsehoods in this age of social media, the necessity of transparency when dealing with societal problems, and the evolutions of the modern American political parties — all through the lens of the obligations and functions of journalism. It’s a fascinating discussion we hope you’ll share!
To learn more about Dylan Matthews and Future Perfect and to find his writings, follow him on Vox.
PLEASE LEAVE A RATING & REVIEW ON YOUR PREFERRED PODCAST MOBILE APP:
What do concert tickets and philanthropy have in common Generally not much but a couple of friends of The Life You Can Save are working very hard to change that Tech entrepreneurs Joshua Ross and Adam McCurdie could have made a fortune building their ticketing platform start up but a trip to war torn Sri Lanka fueled their desires to do work that was truly meaningful
According to its author Peter Singer those with money are behaving unethically even immorally if they don t take steps to end the poverty and suffering of others Listen to this fascinating conversation around why we give or don t As you might imagine the reasons are complex rooted in human psychology tinged with fear and cognitive dissonance and seasoned with a lack of cultural pressure thanks to an idea called the diffusion of responsibility
Most of us in the west have our first pair of shoes long before we can actually walk Not true for Caroline Teti who had her first pair of shoes at 12 when it was time to go to high school Today Caroline is the Director of Recipients Advocacy at GiveDirectly Global 8211 we hope you ll enjoy Charlie s conversation with this absolutely inspiring woman
