Plain History: The Gilded Age
Corruption. Class wars. Technological splendor. The dawn of a new age of business and government. Rockefeller and Carnegie. The Gilded Age in America—roughly the 1870s through the early 1900s—was one ...
24 Maalis 202559min
ABUNDANCE! With Ezra Klein
Donald Trump is serving up a scarcity agenda to America. He and the White House say we don’t have an economy that works, so we might just need to accept a period of economic hardship. They say America...
17 Maalis 20251h 19min
How Gen Z Sees the World
Generation Z, which was born between the late 1990s and the early 2010s, has a unique economic, political, and cultural identity. In the 2024 election, Gen Z shifted strongly to the right. They are le...
12 Maalis 202557min
Can a Vaccine Cure the World’s Deadliest Cancer?
Cancer is not a singular disease but a category of hundreds, even thousands, of rare diseases with different molecular signatures and genetic roots. Cancer scientists are looking for a thousand perfec...
7 Maalis 202547min
How AI Could Change the Future of Music
Artificial intelligence tools for musicians are getting eerily good, very fast. Their work can be maddening, funny, ethically dubious, and downright fascinating all at the same time. TV and podcast co...
4 Maalis 202557min
The End of Reading
Something alarming is happening with reading in America. Leisure reading by some accounts has declined by about 50 percent this century. Literacy scores are declining for fourth and eighth graders at ...
28 Helmi 202559min
'How Progressives Froze the American Dream' (Live)
If you had to describe the U.S. economy at the moment, I think you could do worse than the word stuck. The labor market is stuck. The low unemployment rate disguises how surprisingly hard it is to fi...
25 Helmi 202554min
Plain History: The Astonishingly Successful Presidency of James K. Polk
Who is the most successful president in American history? George Washington secured American independence. Abraham Lincoln preserved the union and ended slavery. Franklin D. Roosevelt ended the Depres...
21 Helmi 20251h 3min
