Biweekly podcast agenda‑setting

Regular, high‑profile biweekly podcasts hosted by public intellectuals act as condensed agenda machines: they package cross‑cutting frames (AI risk, attention, geopolitics, institutional critique) and push them quickly into policy conversations, media cycles, and think‑tank priorities. Because these shows are cheap to produce and amplifiable, they can set elite topic salience faster than traditional journals. — If true, a small number of recurring intellectual podcasts can disproportionately shape which policy problems and framings reach lawmakers and editors, making them a node of power requiring scrutiny.