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A Grand Unified Theory of Cultural Stagnation
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58:51Nov 25, 2025
The American Math Crisis
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54:07Nov 21, 2025
How Superintelligent AI Could Upend Work and Politics
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58:43Nov 18, 2025
Everything Is Television
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57:09Nov 14, 2025
Are Young People Screwed?
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52:31Nov 12, 2025
The Democrats Have a New Winning Formula
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1:00:43Nov 7, 2025
How the American Revolution Changed the World, With Ken Burns
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59:19Nov 4, 2025
The Problem With Sports Gambling
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54:45Oct 31, 2025
Michael Lewis on How the Global Financial Crisis Explains Trump, Crypto, and Everything Else
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1:12:03Oct 28, 2025
What Happens When AI Learns to Do Our Jobs
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54:14Oct 24, 2025
Can "Touch-Grass Populism" Save America?
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59:48Oct 21, 2025
Everybody Thinks AI Is a Bubble. What If They’re Wrong?
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52:07Oct 17, 2025
The Future of Entertainment, Part 2: What’s the Matter With Broadway?
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47:18Oct 14, 2025
The Future of Entertainment, Part 1: Is Hollywood's Business Model Broken?
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46:22Oct 10, 2025
Why Money Doesn't Buy Happiness in America
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48:38Oct 7, 2025
Is AI Really About to Solve Human Disease?
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53:41Oct 3, 2025
How America Became a Nation of "Free Speech Hypocrites"
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52:18Sep 30, 2025
What’s the Matter With America’s Food?
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52:32Sep 26, 2025
This Is How the AI Bubble Could Burst
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59:26Sep 23, 2025
The Jimmy Kimmel Saga and America's Free-Speech Crisis
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40:51Sep 19, 2025
If GLP-1 Drugs Are Good for Everything, Should We All Be on Them?
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54:22Sep 16, 2025
Charlie Kirk's Killing and America's Age of "Salad-Bar Extremism"
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52:15Sep 12, 2025
America in the Age of Diagnosis
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57:07Sep 9, 2025
Trumponomics Explained, Part 2: The Enshittification of American Power
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52:08Sep 5, 2025
What Is Trumponomics? Part 1: How Donald Trump Is Breaking American Capitalism
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49:33Sep 3, 2025
The Healthiest "Super-Agers" Have One Thing in Common, According to a 25-Year Study
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41:48Aug 27, 2025
Plain History: How the Transcontinental Railroads Built the Modern World
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55:49Aug 20, 2025
The Modern World Is Changing America’s Personality For the Worse
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47:10Aug 13, 2025
Will AI Usher In the End of Deep Thinking?
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58:13Aug 6, 2025
The New Geography of Housing in America
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42:23Jul 30, 2025
The Demise of Late-Night TV Is an Omen for American Culture
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47:22Jul 23, 2025
If Trump’s Economic Ideas Are So Bad, Why Isn’t the U.S. Economy Doing Much Worse?
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52:05Jul 17, 2025
Fertility Needs a Scientific Revolution
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47:14Jul 16, 2025
The Mysterious Rise of Major Injuries in Professional Sports
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54:10Jul 9, 2025
How Abundance Won in California
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59:00Jul 3, 2025
What's Next for the Middle East: War, Peace, or Revolution?
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47:05Jun 25, 2025
NYC Mayoral Candidate Zohran Mamdani on Abundance, Socialism, and How to Change a Mind
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A Grand, Unified Theory of Why Americans Are So Unhealthy
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