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What Albert Camus Teaches Us About America: David Masciotra on a Country of Strangers,
Episode 2919
“We’ve learned how to tolerate acts of violence, acts of widespread death, disease — that other developed nations simply don’t tolerate. And that tol…
4 months, 1 week ago
Boy Meets Girl Meets AI Therapist: Fred Lunzer on Sike, Fictional Realism, and the Future of Love
Episode 2918
“If you write something you think is really fanciful today, tomorrow’s news headlines might be telling the exact same story. That’s the challenge of …
4 months, 1 week ago
Unvaccinated Under God: Kira Ganga Kieffer on Religion and Vaccine Hesitancy in Modern America
Episode 2917
“Vaccine hesitancy in the U.S. should be understood as religious expression — not as the product of scientific misinformation. These debates have bee…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
How to Win a Trade War: Soumaya Keynes on Trump, China, and Her Great-Great-Uncle Maynard
Episode 2916
“The rules-based system just hasn’t worked. China’s system is so opaque that you can’t see the subsidies. And when you’ve got China not interested in…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Bad Entrepreneurs and Even Worse Artists: Does Capitalism Have a Future in the AI Age?
Episode 2915
“The end of labor means the end of paid slavery. And the opening up of freedom — that is to say, choice of how to spend your time. The only question,…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
When California Was an Island: Peter Keating on the Cartography That Maps How We See the World
Episode 2914
“Maps are communicating vast quantities of new knowledge that was only estimated. They convey this imaginative energy — an imaginative energy that ma…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Don’t Use the F-Word: David Ost on Why the Red Pill, Not Fascism, Demystifies the Far Right
Episode 2913
“Fascism is the term that is everywhere and nowhere in contemporary political discussions. We can talk about right-wing populism — but the type of po…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Don't Retire, Rewire: Michael Clinton's Longevity Nation
Episode 2912
“Retirement is a false construct created a hundred years ago by the government. It was basically created when Social Security was born. Prior to that…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
How to Watch the World Cup Like a Genius: Nick Greene on Why the Best Team Doesn’t Always Win
Episode 2911
“Soccer matches are poorly designed experiments — you don’t necessarily find out which team was better. But any soccer fan will tell you that. Oftent…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Can Keith Teare Convince Jonathan Rauch That AI Is Benign? That Was the Week, Special Edition
Episode 2910
“The dangers are human, not AI. What’s dangerous is what a human does with AI, not what the AI does itself. In fact, even the idea that there is such…
4 months, 2 weeks ago