What Jordan Neely’s Death Tells Us About Mental Illness and Vigilantism
On May 1, 2023, a 30-year-old homeless man named Jordan Neely boarded the F train in New York City. Neely appeared to be in the midst of some kind of mental health crisis, as witnesses describe him ac...
7 Juni 202358min
How to Live Longer and Healthier with Dr. Peter Attia
It’s almost hard to believe, but in the 1950s doctors were frequently portrayed in TV commercials for. . . cigarettes. That’s because smoking wasn’t just seen as cool and glamorous, but as an actual h...
1 Juni 20231h 18min
Get To Know Tim Scott: The GOP’s Newest Presidential Hopeful
Earlier today, South Carolina Senator Tim Scott entered the race for President. That makes him the sixth Republican candidate to get into the race, in a crowded attempt to beat the current frontrunner...
22 Maj 202355min
Israel at 75: Miracles and Madness
Seventy-five years ago this week, the Jewish community of Palestine (known as the yishuv) gathered in the art museum of Tel Aviv—then a city of less than 200,000 inhabitants—in order to perform a resu...
17 Maj 20231h 36min
America Needs a Self-Help Book. Tim Urban's Got One.
A few years ago, writer and cartoonist Tim Urban started becoming troubled by what he saw going on in the world around him. He noticed that while technology was progressing in unbelievable ways—people...
12 Maj 20231h 16min
Peter Thiel Says America Has Bigger Problems Than Wokeness
Peter Thiel doesn’t shy away from taking big bets. From Facebook (he was the company’s first outside investor) to Gawker (he successfully conspired to put the website out of business) and, of course, ...
3 Maj 20231h 20min
AI With Sam Altman: The End of The World? Or The Dawn of a New One?
Just six months ago, few outside of Silicon Valley had heard of OpenAI, the company that makes the artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT. Now, this application is used daily by over 100 million user...
27 Apr 20231h 9min
‘My Friend’s Descent into Madness and Bloodshed’: An American Tragedy
Jonathan Rosen has spent the last few years trying to understand the story of his closest childhood friend, Michael Laudor. Michael Laudor was, by all accounts, a genius. Maybe even a prodigy. Academ...
19 Apr 20231h 40min
