Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchHas the U.S. Presidency Become a Dictatorship? (Update)
Episode 260
Sure, we all pay lip service to the Madisonian system of checks and balances. But presidents have been steadily expanding the reach of the job. With an election around the corner, we updated our 2016…
Published on 1 year, 2 months ago
605. What Do People Do All Day?
Episode 605
Sixty percent of the jobs that Americans do today didn’t exist in 1940. What happens as our labor becomes more technical and less physical? And what kinds of jobs will exist in the future?
SOURCES:D…
Published on 1 year, 2 months ago
EXTRA: Roland Fryer Refuses to Lie to Black America (Update)
Episode 514
His research on police brutality and school incentives won him acclaim, but also enemies. He was suspended for two years by Harvard, during which time he took a hard look at corporate diversity progr…
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago
604. Did the N.F.L. Solve Diversity Hiring? (Part 2)
Episode 604
What happened when the Rooney Rule made its way from pro football to corporate America? Some progress, some backsliding, and a lot of controversy. (Second in a two-part series.)
SOURCES:Tynesia Boyea…
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago
603. Did the N.F.L. Solve Diversity Hiring? (Part 1)
Episode 603
The biggest sports league in history had a problem: While most of its players were Black, almost none of its head coaches were. So the N.F.L. launched a hiring policy called the Rooney Rule. In the f…
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago
EXTRA: In Praise of Maintenance (Update)
Episode 263
We revisit an episode from 2016 that asks: Has our culture’s obsession with innovation led us to neglect the fact that things also need to be taken care of?
SOURCES:Martin Casado, general partner at…
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago
602. Is Screen Time as Poisonous as We Think?
Episode 602
Young people have been reporting a sharp rise in anxiety and depression. This maps neatly onto the global rise of the smartphone. Some researchers are convinced that one is causing the other. But how…
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago
601. Multitasking Doesn’t Work. So Why Do We Keep Trying?
Episode 601
Only a tiny number of “supertaskers” are capable of doing two things at once. The rest of us are just making ourselves miserable, and less productive. How can we put the — hang on a second, I've just…
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago
What Is the Future of College — and Does It Have Room for Men? (Update)
Episode 503
Educators and economists tell us all the reasons college enrollment has been dropping, especially for men, and how to stop the bleeding. (Part 3 of our series from 2022, “Freakonomics Radio Goes Back…
Published on 1 year, 4 months ago
EXTRA: Why Quitting Is Usually Worth It
Stephen Dubner appears as a guest on Fail Better, a new podcast hosted by David Duchovny. The two of them trade stories about failure, and ponder the lessons that success could never teach.
SOURCES:D…
Published on 1 year, 4 months ago