Podcast Episodes

One of the Deadliest Cancers in America May Have Met Its Match

Hard to detect and almost impossible to treat, pancreatic cancer has long been one of medicine’s most ruthless killers. For decades, it’s been the ca…

2 months, 2 weeks ago

Why Too Much Freedom Is the Enemy of Success

Freedom is one of the few ideas everyone agrees on. Surely more choice and autonomy is a good thing, right? But what if our endless pursuit of freedo…

2 months, 3 weeks ago

Why the Iran War Is Tearing MAGA Apart

For nearly a decade, critics have predicted that this would be the moment Trumpism finally fractures - January 6, the overturning of Roe v. Wade, end…

2 months, 3 weeks ago

The Triple Crisis That’s Breaking Hollywood—and Changing the Future of Movies

Hollywood is in the middle of a triple crisis. You can measure it in tickets, jobs, and ideas.

Start with tickets. The best year for the movie busine…

2 months, 4 weeks ago

The Most Powerful and Dangerous AI Model Yet

Two weeks ago, Anthropic announced an AI model so capable and so dangerous that it decided not to release it to the public.

The model, codenamed Myth…

3 months ago

The Whole World Is Fighting About Energy

The two biggest stories in the world right now—the war involving Iran and the rise of artificial intelligence—are, at their core, the same story: ene…

3 months, 1 week ago

‘The Job Market for Young People Is Brutal’

Something weird is going on with the elevated unemployment rate for young people today, but no one knows what exactly it is.

For the last year, as th…

3 months, 1 week ago

America's Religious Revival Is a Mirage

Perhaps you’ve heard the news: The U.S. is experiencing a religious revival, and it’s concentrated among young people, who are flocking back to the f…

3 months, 2 weeks ago

Is China the Winner of the Iran War?

The 1970s oil crisis changed the world in ways that many people forget today, from the transformation of American politics to the rise of the Japanes…

3 months, 2 weeks ago

Why We're Addicted to ‘Sh*tty Flow’

One of the themes we’ve circled in the last few weeks is the way that the modern world can hijack our values. This principle was recently articulated…

3 months, 3 weeks ago