Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchIs AI Really About to Solve Human Disease?
Season 4 Episode 61
I’ve had the privilege of talking to many brilliant people about artificial intelligence. And when you ask them to imagine the most beneficial conseq…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
How America Became a Nation of "Free Speech Hypocrites"
Season 4 Episode 60
The past few weeks have marked a low point for free speech principles in America. The head of the FCC openly threatened ABC for the language of a com…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
What’s the Matter With America’s Food?
Season 4 Episode 58
In the past few weeks, we’ve done several episodes on obesity, GLP-1 drugs, and nutrition science. What we haven’t talked about as much is the politi…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
This Is How the AI Bubble Could Burst
Season 4 Episode 57
This year, American tech companies will spend $300 billion to $400 billion on artificial intelligence, which is in nominal dollars more than any grou…
10 months ago
The Jimmy Kimmel Saga and America's Free-Speech Crisis
Season 4 Episode 56
Matt Belloni, the host of the Town podcast and the author of Puck’s 'What I’m Hearing' newsletter, joins the show to talk about Jimmy Kimmel's punish…
10 months ago
If GLP-1 Drugs Are Good for Everything, Should We All Be on Them?
Season 4 Episode 55
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GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Zepbound don't just help with …
10 months, 1 week ago
Charlie Kirk's Killing and America's Age of "Salad-Bar Extremism"
Season 5 Episode 54
In the past few years, we have witnessed a frightening spiral of political violence. We’ve seen the killing of Charlie Kirk; the killing of Brian Tho…
10 months, 1 week ago
America in the Age of Diagnosis
Season 4 Episode 53
America is sicker than ever. That’s what the data says, anyway.
Psychological and psychiatric diagnoses have soared. Between the 1990s and the mid-20…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Trumponomics Explained, Part 2: The Enshittification of American Power
Season 4 Episode 52
In the second of our two-episode series on Donald Trump, economics, and power, we talk to Henry Farrell, a professor of political science at Johns Ho…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
What Is Trumponomics? Part 1: How Donald Trump Is Breaking American Capitalism
Season 4 Episode 51
Today is the first of two interviews this week trying to answer this question: What is Trumponomics?
From the 1980s to the 2010s, it was generally as…
10 months, 2 weeks ago