Longview is for the curious and open-minded. We believe the best journalism leaves you with better questions, rather than easy answers – and that understanding why and how people disagree is often more valuable than picking sides. We tell deeply-reported, carefully-crafted stories about the most pressing and interesting stories in our world.
Our Shows
The Last Invention
The AI revolution has begun – the product of a seventy-year quest by scientists, mathematicians, and visionaries who set out to build machines that could think. But what began as a fringe idea has now become one of the most powerful forces of the 21st century. This is the story of that journey: its rivalries, its competing visions of utopia and apocalypse, and the race to build what may be humanity’s last invention.
Reflector
The present makes more sense when you know what came before. Every week, Reflector uncovers the forgotten history behind a current obsession, crisis, or debate, and tells the story of how we really got here.
Our Mission
Longview is an experiment in curiosity. We’re politically independent — not aligned with any party, movement, or ideology — and we aim to approach every subject with fairness and respect. You won’t find easy dismissals here, just honest engagement with ideas, whether they’re popular or not.
We see disagreement as valuable, even necessary. When different perspectives collide, they sharpen one another. They help us see blind spots and get closer to the truth. We don’t see that tension as a bug. It’s a feature of free societies.
At Longview, we try to practice intellectual humility: being open about what we know, and just as open about what we don’t. Our work is guided above all by curiosity: the drive to question, to explore, and to notice what others might miss.
Our Team
ANDY MILLS
Andy was a co-creator of The Daily at The New York Times and created, produced and edited several audio documentary series including Rabbit Hole, Caliphate and The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling. He was the director of new show development for the New York Times and a producer with NPR’s Radiolab.
Contact: andy@longview.report
MATTHEW BOLL
Matthew was a part of the original team at the podcast company Gimlet and part of the transition team after the company was acquired by Spotify. He helped create the series Crimetown, Conviction: American Panic, The Horror of Dolores Roach, and Duet. Recently he was a producer of The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling. He won a Peabody for his work on the music of Uncivil.
Contact: matthew@longview.report
