Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThis Is a Very Weird Moment in the History of Drug Laws
Drug policy feels very unsettled right now. The war on drugs was a failure. But so far, the war on the war on drugs hasn’t entirely been a success, e…
2 years ago
Watching the Protests From Israel
Ultimately, the Gaza war protests sweeping campuses are about influencing Israeli politics. The protesters want to use economic divestment, American …
2 years ago
Is Green Growth Possible?
A decade ago, I was feeling pretty pessimistic about climate change. The politics of mitigating global warming just seemed impossible: asking people …
2 years ago
Salman Rushdie Is Not Who You Think He Is
Salman Rushdie’s 1988 novel, “The Satanic Verses,” made him the target of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, who denounced the book as blasphemous and issu…
2 years ago
This Conversation Made Me a Sharper Editor
In our recent series on artificial intelligence, I kept returning to a thought: This technology might be able to churn out content faster than we can…
2 years ago
A $1.7 Million Toilet and Liberalism's Failure to Build
There is so much we need to build right now. The housing crunch has spread across the country; by one estimate, we’re a few million units short. And …
2 years, 1 month ago
What if Dario Amodei Is Right About A.I.?
Back in 2018, Dario Amodei worked at OpenAI. And looking at one of its first A.I. models, he wondered: What would happen as you fed an artificial int…
2 years, 1 month ago
Will A.I. Break the Internet? Or Save It?
The internet is in decay. Do a Google search, and there are so many websites now filled with slapdash content contorted just to rank highly in the al…
2 years, 1 month ago
How Should I Be Using A.I. Right Now?
There’s something of a paradox that has defined my experience with artificial intelligence in this particular moment. It’s clear we’re witnessing the…
2 years, 1 month ago
The Rise of ‘Middle-Finger Politics’
Donald Trump can seem like a political anomaly. You sometimes hear people describe his connection with his base in quasi-mystical terms. But really, …
2 years, 1 month ago