How to Beat the Gamification of Our Lives with C. Thi Nguyen
The scoring mechanics of video games are ostensibly how the player is directed to have fun. Scores put interesting bounds on the experience of play, lead to creative solutions, and even inspire entire...
11 Feb 1h 32min
Is the Trump Regime Crumbling? with Osita Nwanevu
After the madness of the past decade, it can feel impossible to tell where we’re at in our political story as a country. Between Trump kidnapping the president of Venezuela, his ludicrous threats towa...
4 Feb 1h 18min
What Nuclear War Would Actually Look Like with Annie Jacobsen
For decades, the threat of total nuclear annihilation cast a long shadow on everyday life. Nowadays, it almost seems like an old-fashioned kind of fear. Unfortunately, the possibility of human civiliz...
28 Jan 1h 23min
Susan Orlean Shares the Secrets of a Lifetime of Reporting
Susan Orlean is one of the greatest living nonfiction writers. She has an uncanny ability to find stories in mundane, unexpected places, and approach them with such a level of authentic fascination th...
21 Jan 1h 32min
You Are Being Robbed of Your Attention with D. Graham Burnett and Peter Schmidt
Would you rather that your attention were a resource freely directed toward your interests, or a measure of how many ads can be propelled into your eyeballs in a single session? Our attention has been...
14 Jan 1h 24min
The Hidden Plot to Legalize Corruption with David Sirota
It kind of seems like political corruption should be illegal, doesn’t it? Whether it’s happening on the right or the left, the whole filthy ordeal has made our government more dysfunctional for everyo...
7 Jan 1h 27min
An AI Expert Challenges an AI Skeptic, with Ethan Mollick
Even if the AI bubble bursts, the technology won’t just disappear. We’re going to live alongside some version of AI, so we have to ask: what does our future with AI look like? This week, Adam invites ...
31 Dec 20251h 29min
An AI Safety Expert Explains the Dangers of AI with Steven Adler
Why should we assume that AI is safe? As the technology has grown at an alarming rate, companies like OpenAI have seen wrongful death lawsuits begin to stack up as their product drives users to suicid...
24 Dec 20251h 34min
