Plain History: How Norman Borlaug Stopped the Apocalypse
In every generation, important people predict that the end is near and the apocalypse is coming. In the 1960s, the fear was that population growth would destroy the planet—that fertility would outrun ...
16 Touko 20251h 8min
Why Do Americans Pay So Much for Drugs?
On Monday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order telling drugmakers to slash the prices of their medicines. Once again, the president showed an amazing nose for interesting questions. Stati...
13 Touko 20251h 7min
Is Pop Culture Worse Than Ever?
In music, billion-dollar investments in old catalogues are squeezing out new music. In film, Hollywood has become addicted to the regurgitation of familiar IP. In visual art, critics bemoan the strait...
9 Touko 20251h
The Job Market for Young Grads Is Flashing Red
Last month, the unemployment rate for recent college grads surged to nearly 6 percent. Compared to the overall economy's jobless rate, the unemployment rate for recent grads is higher now than in any ...
6 Touko 202543min
Megapod: The Crisis in American Science
Today, we are witnessing an unprecedented assault on American science. Thousands of workers have been dismissed from the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. Billions of ...
2 Touko 20252h 4min
Is This the Chinese Century?
In the last few weeks, for the first time in my life, I’ve seriously thought about the 21st century not being another American century. A recent essay in the journal Foreign Affairs by Rush Doshi and...
29 Huhti 20251h 8min
What Americans Get Wrong About ADHD
In 1937, a Rhode Island psychiatrist named Charles Bradley ran an experiment on 30 child patients who had complained of headaches. He gave them an amphetamine, that is a stimulant, called Benzedrine, ...
25 Huhti 20251h 7min
An Astrophysicist Explains the "Strongest Evidence Yet" of Alien Life
Last week, a team of astrophysicists from the University of Cambridge announced that they had discovered the “strongest indication” ever of extraterrestrial life. The source did not come from Mars or ...
22 Huhti 20251h 4min
