The Triple Crisis That’s Breaking Hollywood—and Changing the Future of Movies
Hollywood is in the middle of a triple crisis. You can measure it in tickets, jobs, and ideas. Start with tickets. The best year for the movie business this century was 2002, when Americans and Canad...
24 Apr 1h 10min
The Most Powerful and Dangerous AI Model Yet
Two weeks ago, Anthropic announced an AI model so capable and so dangerous that it decided not to release it to the public. The model, codenamed Mythos, could autonomously infiltrate computer systems...
21 Apr 1h 2min
The Whole World Is Fighting About Energy
The two biggest stories in the world right now—the war involving Iran and the rise of artificial intelligence—are, at their core, the same story: energy. The Iran conflict has become a war of competin...
14 Apr 1h 4min
‘The Job Market for Young People Is Brutal’
Something weird is going on with the elevated unemployment rate for young people today, but no one knows what exactly it is. For the last year, as the unemployment rate for recent college graduates h...
10 Apr 1h 7min
America's Religious Revival Is a Mirage
Perhaps you’ve heard the news: The U.S. is experiencing a religious revival, and it’s concentrated among young people, who are flocking back to the fold. The Economist announced that “the West has sto...
8 Apr 1h 8min
Is China the Winner of the Iran War?
The 1970s oil crisis changed the world in ways that many people forget today, from the transformation of American politics to the rise of the Japanese electronics industry. The Iran war of 2026 could ...
3 Apr 52min
Why We're Addicted to ‘Sh*tty Flow’
One of the themes we’ve circled in the last few weeks is the way that the modern world can hijack our values. This principle was recently articulated by the philosopher C. Thi Nguyen in an episode cal...
31 Mars 48min
Anthropic Thinks AI Might Destroy the Economy. It's Building It Anyway.
Today’s podcast is an interview with one of the cofounders of the AI company Anthropic, Jack Clark. One thing I’m trying to do with the subject of artificial intelligence is offer a balance of perspec...
27 Mars 1h 2min
