Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchBest Of: Why Sci-Fi Legend Ted Chiang Fears Capitalism, Not A.I.
For years, I’ve kept a list of dream guests for this show. And as long as that list has existed, Ted Chiang has been atop it.
Chiang is a science fict…
4 years, 4 months ago
Best Of: Noam Chomsky's Theory of the Good Life
How do you introduce Noam Chomsky? Perhaps you start here: In 1979, The New York Times called him “arguably the most important intellectual alive tod…
4 years, 4 months ago
Timeless Wisdom for Leading a Life of Love, Friendship and Learning
“Today, we are supercompetent when it comes to efficiency, utility, speed, convenience, and getting ahead in the world; but we are at a loss concerni…
4 years, 5 months ago
Families Are Drowning in Care Costs. Here’s How To Change That.
Every day in the United States, more than 10,000 babies are born and 10,000 people turn 65. But America doesn’t have anything close to a comprehensiv…
4 years, 5 months ago
Predicting the Future Is Possible. ‘Superforecasters’ Know How.
Can we predict the future more accurately?
It’s a question we humans have grappled with since the dawn of civilization — one that has massive implicat…
4 years, 5 months ago
Best Of: How Blue Cities Became So Outrageously Unaffordable
Joe Biden’s economic agenda is centered on a basic premise: The United States needs to build. To build roads and bridges. To build child care facilit…
4 years, 5 months ago
Why Is Murder Spiking? And Can Cities Address It Without Police?
In 2020 the United States experienced a nearly 30 percent rise in homicides from 2019. That’s the single biggest one-year increase since we started k…
4 years, 5 months ago
The Case Against Loving Your Job
The compulsion to be happy at work “is always a demand for emotional work from the worker,” writes Sarah Jaffe. “Work, after all, has no feelings. Ca…
4 years, 5 months ago
Are We Witnessing the Mainstreaming of White Power in America?
Over the course of Donald Trump’s presidency, the far-right fringe became a surprisingly visible and influential force in American politics. Eruption…
4 years, 6 months ago
It's Time for the Media to Choose: Neutrality or Democracy?
“Making it harder to vote, and harder to understand what the party is really about — these are two parts of the same project” for the Republican Part…
4 years, 6 months ago