The thirty-fifth episode of Semantic Reactions, the official podcast of the Institute of General Semantics, is now available for your listening pleasure. Our July 2025 podcast features writer and journalist Ryan Zickgraf, the author of an op-ed on the continuing relevance of Neil Postman’s best known book, Amusing Ourselves to Death that was recently published by the Washington Post. IGS president Lance Strate conducts the interview, which touches on politics and democracy, gamergate, the effects of screens and social media on public discourse, the additional impact of AI, the decline of rationality and time-binding, as well as the reaction against technology on the part of Gen Z.

You can access Episode 35 via our host site, and it is also available through most major podcast platforms, also on YouTube, and below: