Episode · The Ben & Marc Show · 2025-07-25

Books mentioned on New Media: Podcasts, Politics & the Collapse of Trust

1 book · With Marc Andreessen · Listen · Watch on YouTube

On this episode of The Ben & Marc Show, a16z co-founders Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz sit down with Erik Torenberg— General Partner at a16z and founder of the media company Turpentine—to unpack how the internet shattered the old media order and reshaped the way power works in America.

Ben Horowitz recommended Radical Son by David Horowitz.

Books mentioned, in the order they came up

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   Radical Son

   David Horowitz · at 48:28

   Radical Son by David Horowitz is a sprawling autobiographical account detailing the author's dramatic political transformation from a radical 1960s leftist activist into a prominent conservative commentator.

   Recommended

   “That whole story by the way is in David's David Horwitz's book called Radical Sun. Um which is one of the most it's one of the most shattering and preient books by the way.”

   Ben Horowitz New Media: Podcasts, Politics & the Collapse of Trust 2025-07-25 Listen at 48:28

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