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 Maj 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 Maj 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 Maj 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 Apr 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 Apr 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 Apr 20251h 4min
A Toy Manufacturer Explains How Trump’s Tariffs Could Crush His Industry
In the past three weeks, we've spoken to economists about the tariffs. We’ve spoken to a historian about the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act and the 100-year legacy of American protectionism. We've spoken to ...
17 Apr 202533min
Why America Will Lose Its Trade War With China
The U.S. is in the opening innings of a full-blown trade war with China. What does that actually mean? What do we sell to China? What does China sell to us? How is each country dependent on the other ...
16 Apr 202543min
