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Data Centers Are a Political Kickball
But are Americans really upset about them — or something much larger? The data-center fury, Bradley argues in today's episode and in his recent Subst…
10 hours ago
Fear Is Not Going To Save Us From AI [REPOST]
But a concrete economic plan for extreme job losses just might. In this repost from an episode first released in June, Daniel Schreiber, CEO of Lemon…
2 weeks, 4 days ago
What You Can Learn from a Great Spy Novel
Bradley talks to Michael Idov, author of The Cormorant Hunt, about how his own life — coming to the US from Latvia at age 16, running a café on the L…
3 weeks, 5 days ago
21 Reasons for Hope
If you write out a list of bad things happening in the world right now, it's easy to feel the apocalypse closing in on us. To counteract that kind of…
4 weeks ago
"The Most Dangerous Thing You Can Do is Nothing"
What can be done to preserve the value of learning in the age of AI? Bradley sits down with Adam Chilton, the dean of University of Chicago Law Schoo…
1 month ago
“Finally, I Feel Peace”
Bradley returns from a week-long stay at the Hoffman Institute, an intensive personal-development program that he calls “the single most helpful expe…
1 month ago
Live at P&T: Where Are Democracy’s Lifeboats?
Harvard Law professor Lawrence Lessig joined Bradley for a live event last month at P&T Knitwear, co-hosted by Teddy Himler of Optimist Ventures, abo…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
The Secret to Writing Is Editing
Bradley shares his ten rules for writing well, starting with the most important: get it down fast and spend almost all your time editing. Plus: why t…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
The Vibe Jive
Was MAGA's cultural dominance ever real, or was it always partly a joint hallucination of self-aggrandizing Republicans and self-lacerating liberals?…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
The Case for Grace
What if the secret to happiness is as simple as learning to extend a little more grace? Bradley argues that every unnecessary judgment — of your own …
1 month, 3 weeks ago