Best Of: How America's Poet Laureate Sees Our World
“One of the biggest things about poetry is that it holds all of humanity,” the poet Ada Limón tells me. “It holds the huge and enormous and tumbling sphere of human emotions.”At the end of a turbule...
30 Dec 20221h 17min
Best Of: Want to Save Democracy? Run For Office.
This week, we’re revisiting some of our favorite episodes from the year. For those who make New Year’s resolutions, today’s conversation might plant the seed for a bold one: Running for office.Amanda ...
27 Dec 20221h 5min
Best Of: Who Wins — and Who Loses — in the A.I. Revolution?
This past year, we’ve witnessed considerable progress in the development of artificial intelligence, from the release of the image generators like DALL-E 2 to chat bots like ChatGPT and Cicero to a fl...
23 Dec 20221h 12min
Best Of: Is A.I. the Problem? Or Are We?
This past year, we’ve witnessed considerable progress in the development of artificial intelligence, from the release of the image generators like DALL-E 2 to chat bots like ChatGPT and Cicero to a fl...
20 Dec 20221h 17min
What I'm Thinking About at the End of 2022
As 2022 comes to a close, we decided to invite listeners to send in questions for an ask-me-anything episode. And boy, did you all deliver. We received hundreds of fantastic questions, and my column e...
16 Dec 20221h 14min
Time Is Way Weirder Than You Think
It’s not an exaggeration to say that “clock time” runs our lives. From the moment our alarms go off in the morning, the clock reigns supreme: our meetings, our appointments, even our social plans are ...
13 Dec 202253min
Three Signals We’ve Entered a New Economic Era
“From the U.S. Federal Reserve’s initial misjudgment that inflation would be ‘transitory’ to the current consensus that a probable U.S. recession will be ‘short and shallow,’ there has been a strong t...
9 Dec 20221h 3min
There’s Been a Massive Change in Where American Policy Gets Made
Since 2021, Democrats have controlled the House, the Senate and the presidency, and they’ve used that power to pass consequential legislation, from the American Rescue Plan to the Inflation Reduction ...
6 Dec 20221h 25min
