Can America still be a force for good?
For the past century, America's foreign interventions often carried the pretense of liberal idealism – to help bring peace and prosperity to people around the world. But it doesn't take a history scho...
23 Apr 1h 2min
Destroy the internet to save it?
People tend to defend online anonymity by pointing to the long tradition of anonymous speech in American democracy.But modern anonymity is an entirely new beast. Should we ban anonymity on the interne...
16 Apr 56min
Should Race Matter in College Admissions?
When the Supreme Court rejected affirmative action at colleges and universities in 2023, finding that Harvard and the University of North Carolina practiced race-based discrimination against Asian Ame...
9 Apr 1h 9min
Matthew Yglesias vs. Jerusalem Demsas: The Trailer
Watch the official trailer for The Argument — a new podcast cohosted by Jerusalem Demsas and Matthew Yglesias.Has affirmative action gone too far? Should we abolish internet anonymity? Is liberal hypo...
2 Apr 1min
Stop Letting Instagram Explain Your Love Life -- The Science of Attraction
Are men naturally promiscuous and drawn to younger women? Are women obsessed with tall, older, rich men? Dating discourse is littered with pop evolutionary psychology that makes broad claims about how...
23 Feb 1h
The Scientific Method Comes for Criminal Justice
Economists love to say there are no free lunches. Jennifer Doleac thinks criminal justice is one of the rare places where that’s wrong.In this episode, host and Editor of The Argument, Jerusalem Demsa...
17 Feb 1h 9min
Ross Douthat on the End of Conservatism
Trump didn’t just reshape the GOP—he may have ended what we used to call “the conservative movement.” New York Times columnist Ross Douthat joins host Jerusalem Demsas to map the new right: the collap...
9 Feb 1h 7min
Did the Opioid Epidemic Help Republicans Win?
Over less than 25 years, the opioid epidemic killed over 800,000 Americans. These deaths and the resulting economic and political ramifications were unequally distributed across the country. Some plac...
2 Feb 1h 6min
