Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAI’s Biggest Skeptic Sees a Bubble
Episode 260
The AI boom is the biggest investment mania in decades, channeling trillions of dollars into data center infrastructure. If investors bet right, the…
11 months, 1 week ago
Why Information Refuses to Be Controlled
Episode 259
We’re living through an era of information disruption. Novel technologies like AI and social media are unleashing pent-up social and political ener…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Trump’s $200 Billion Tariff Showdown at the Supreme Court
Episode 258
On November 5, the Supreme Court heard the most globally consequential oral arguments in years as Trump’s trade war faces a final legal reckoning. Th…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
"A House of Dynamite” Writer on How Nuclear War Works
Episode 257
A House of Dynamite, a new Netflix film, may be the most realistic depiction of a nuclear crisis ever made. Screenwriter Noah Oppenheim partnered wit…
1 year ago
Inside MS-13, the Gang That Swallowed a Country
Episode 256
MS-13 brought El Salvador to its knees and has spread to a dozen other nations, doing battle with presidents as much as rival gangs. Yet despite its …
1 year ago
Trump’s Foreign Aid Cuts Aren’t What You Think
Episode 255
The end of USAID was among the biggest early controversies of President Donald Trump’s second term. The world watched in horror as Elon Musk’s DOGE t…
1 year ago
Did the Bolsonaro Trial Really Save Brazil's Democracy?
Episode 254
Brazil’s Supreme Court has just convicted former president Jair Bolsonaro of attempting a coup to nullify his 2022 election loss. The country’s judic…
1 year ago
Will AI Kill us All? Nate Soares on his Controversial Bestseller
Episode 253
Nate Soares is one of the world’s leading AI “doomers” and co-author of If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All—the N…
1 year, 1 month ago
Trump’s Greenland Fixation and the China-Russia Strategic Opportunity in the Arctic
Episode 252
In this episode of The World Unpacked, host Isaac Kardon is joined by Alexander (Sasha) Gabuev, Director of the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center in Ber…
1 year, 2 months ago
The New Geopolitics of Subsea Cables
Episode 250
Subsea cables carry 95% of the world’s data—but remain largely invisible in global policy debates. In this episode, Isaac Kardon is joined by Carnegi…
1 year, 3 months ago