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Athens vs Sparta: Adrian Goldsworthy on the Rivalry That Made the West
Episode 2909
“History is really interesting because it’s about people. And people are interesting. So there are plenty of different ways of doing this, and I thin…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Sometimes Fixed Sometimes Fickle: Audun Dahl on Why Our Moral Judgements Are Always in Flux
Episode 2908
“We need to develop better theories of why the other side believes what they do. Having an accurate theory includes recognizing if somebody is a psyc…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
From SEAL Sniper to Puddle Jumper: Brandon Webb on How to Raise Confident and Joyful Kids
Episode 2907
“Being a father is probably one of the toughest and most rewarding jobs I’ve ever had. A lot of the principles I used to teach snipers apply to kids:…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
The Sweatshop of the Meritocracy: Dylan Gottlieb on How the Yuppies Conquered America
Episode 2906
“As recently as the mid-seventies, under 5% of Ivy Leaguers are headed to Wall Street. It’s actually not that attractive. But as Wall Street’s deregu…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Where Are the Firefighters? Jonathan Vigliotti on How Los Angeles Was Left to Burn
Episode 2905
“All the warnings were there. It was almost a carbon copy — the same warnings that were ignored before Paradise, ignored again before the Palisades. …
4 months, 3 weeks ago
What Would You Do With the Last 19 Minutes of Your Life? Vincent Yu on an Apocalypse that Fizzled
Episode 2904
“They’re all me. Every single one. I see them almost as if they’re inoculated on various petri dishes, and the petri dishes are all put into this pr…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
A Nation of Strangers: Ece Temelkuran on Rebuilding Home in a Homeless World
Episode 2903
“We’re losing home on so many different levels. Physically. Politically. Morally. And after AI, spiritually — because language, our spiritual home, i…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
That Sounds Incredibly Boring: Keith Teare's Vision of our Jobless AI Future
Episode 2902
“You can’t be confident about human decision-making. You can be confident on the potential of technology. Humans are quite capable of making both wro…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
Hong Kong Burning: Simon Elegant on the 2019 Protests
Episode 2901
“It was a completely unthinking exercise in cost-cutting that made no sense in terms of the newspaper. I think perhaps if you want to destroy the new…
4 months, 4 weeks ago
Is London Really Falling? Bethanne Patrick on Patrick Radden Keefe, Freya India and the Collapse of Book Reviewing
Episode 2900
“If criticism isn’t going to be written by one human mind, what else is it for? Criticism done by AI means nothing.” — Bethanne Patrick
Is London rea…
4 months, 4 weeks ago