Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchBest of: What ‘Drained-Pool’ Politics Costs America
In February, I spoke with Heather McGhee. I’ve been thinking about the conversation ever since.
“The American landscape was once graced with resplend…
5 years, 2 months ago
Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy Wants You to Be Bad at Something. It’s for Your Own Good.
Recently, I picked up Jeff Tweedy’s “How to Write One Song.” It was a bit of a lark. Tweedy is the frontman for Wilco, one of my favorite bands, but …
5 years, 2 months ago
Why Do We Work So Damn Much?
Historically speaking, we live in an age of extraordinary abundance. We have long since passed the income thresholds when past economists believed ou…
5 years, 3 months ago
Republicans Are Setting Off a ‘Doom Loop’ for Democracy
The insurrection at the Capitol on Jan. 6 failed. Donald Trump is not the president. But at the state level, the Republican war on elections is posti…
5 years, 3 months ago
Sarah Schulman’s Radical Approach to Conflict, Communication and Change
Sarah Schulman’s work — as a nonfiction writer, novelist, activist, playwright and filmmaker — confronts the very thing most people try to avoid: con…
5 years, 3 months ago
Welcome to the ‘Take This Job and Shove It’ Economy
This is a strange moment in the economy. Wages are up, but so is inflation. Jobs are growing, but maybe not fast enough. Quit rates are at a 21st-cen…
5 years, 3 months ago
The Freeing of the American Mind
Free minds. Freedom fries. Free speech. The Freedom Caucus. Freedom from. Freedom to. What do Americans really mean when they talk about freedom?
Loui…
5 years, 3 months ago
Sam Altman on the A.I. Revolution, Trillionaires and the Future of Political Power
“The technological progress we make in the next 100 years will be far larger than all we’ve made since we first controlled fire and invented the whee…
5 years, 3 months ago
Employers Are Begging for Workers. Maybe That’s a Good Thing.
There has been a bit of panic lately over employers who say not enough people want to apply for open jobs. Are we facing a labor shortage? Have stimu…
5 years, 3 months ago
Is A.I. the Problem? Or Are We?
If you talk to many of the people working on the cutting edge of artificial intelligence research, you’ll hear that we are on the cusp of a technolog…
5 years, 3 months ago