Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchPlain English BEST OF: What Experts Really Think About Smartphones and Mental Health
Season 4 Episode 81
Throughout December and January, we’re going to be re-airing some of our favorite episodes of the past year and beyond. This list includes interviews…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Plain English BEST OF: How Gen Z Sees the World
Season 4 Episode 80
Throughout December and January, we’re going to be re-airing some of our favorite episodes of the past year and beyond. This list includes interviews…
7 months ago
Plain English BEST OF: A Grand, Unified Theory of Why Americans Are So Unhealthy
Season 4 Episode 79
Throughout December and January, we’re going to be re-airing some of our favorite episodes of the past year and beyond. This list includes interviews…
7 months, 1 week ago
Plain English BEST OF: The Antisocial Century
Season 4 Episode 78
Throughout December and January, we’re going to be re-airing some of our favorite episodes of the past year and beyond. This list includes interviews…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Plain English BEST OF: How to Be Happy and the Science of Cognitive Time Travel
Season 4 Episode 77
Throughout December and January, we’re going to be re-airing some of our favorite episodes of the past year and beyond. This list includes interviews…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
A Grand Unified Theory of Cultural Stagnation
Season 4 Episode 76
One of my favorite theories about the modern world is the idea that culture is "stuck." Whether the decline of ornamentation in modern architecture, …
7 months, 3 weeks ago
The American Math Crisis
Season 4 Episode 75
The University of California San Diego is one of the best public colleges in America. So it was fairly shocking when the school released a report on …
8 months ago
How Superintelligent AI Could Upend Work and Politics
Season 4 Episode 74
Many AI experts believe that some time in the next few years, we will build something close to artificial general intelligence (AGI), a system that c…
8 months ago
Everything Is Television
Season 4 Episode 73
Sometimes, the perfect guest to discuss your own writing is ... you. On this special crossover episode, I am interviewed by Ben Smith and Max Tani of…
8 months, 1 week ago
Are Young People Screwed?
Season 4 Episode 72
Youth unemployment is rising. Hiring is freezing up. The housing market is a mess. How did things get so bad for young people in the economy? And are…
8 months, 1 week ago