Chris Hayes on How Biden Can Have a Better 2022
Nothing like a newborn and paternity leave to leave you feeling a bit out of the loop. So for my first podcast back since October, I wanted to wander through the thickets of where we are politically a...
11 Tammi 20221h 3min
Best Of: This Conversation Will Change How You Think About Thinking
For decades, our society’s dominant metaphor for the mind has been a computer. A machine that operates the exact same way whether it’s in a dark room or next to a sunny window, whether it’s been worki...
4 Tammi 20221h 8min
Best Of: Why Sci-Fi Legend Ted Chiang Fears Capitalism, Not A.I.
For years, I’ve kept a list of dream guests for this show. And as long as that list has existed, Ted Chiang has been atop it.Chiang is a science fiction writer. But that undersells him. He has release...
28 Joulu 202150min
Best Of: Noam Chomsky's Theory of the Good Life
How do you introduce Noam Chomsky? Perhaps you start here: In 1979, The New York Times called him “arguably the most important intellectual alive today.” More than 40 years later, Chomsky, at 92, is s...
21 Joulu 20211h 12min
Timeless Wisdom for Leading a Life of Love, Friendship and Learning
“Today, we are supercompetent when it comes to efficiency, utility, speed, convenience, and getting ahead in the world; but we are at a loss concerning what it’s all for,” Leon Kass writes in his 2017...
14 Joulu 20211h 5min
Families Are Drowning in Care Costs. Here’s How To Change That.
Every day in the United States, more than 10,000 babies are born and 10,000 people turn 65. But America doesn’t have anything close to a comprehensive family policy. That means no guaranteed paid fami...
7 Joulu 202153min
Predicting the Future Is Possible. ‘Superforecasters’ Know How.
Can we predict the future more accurately?It’s a question we humans have grappled with since the dawn of civilization — one that has massive implications for how we run our organizations, how we make ...
3 Joulu 202152min
Best Of: How Blue Cities Became So Outrageously Unaffordable
Joe Biden’s economic agenda is centered on a basic premise: The United States needs to build. To build roads and bridges. To build child care facilities and car-charging stations. To build public tran...
30 Marras 20211h 8min
