Andrew Tate, Dan Bilzerian, and the death of romance
Is online dating advice actually making it harder to find love? This week, Jerusalem Demsas and Matthew Yglesias wade into the world of online dating advice, from the manosphere influencers coaching m...
18 Juni 1h 4min
How environmentalists lost the plot
Is modern environmentalism anti-progress?This week, Jerusalem Demsas and Matthew Yglesias read Rachel Carson's Silent Spring – the book that launched the modern environmental movement. Jerusalem and M...
11 Juni 1h 12min
Do we need to build God to cure cancer?
AI companies keep promising it will cure cancer. But what does that actually mean — and would an AI capable of doing it be one we'd want to live alongside? Jerusalem Demsas and Kelsey Piper debated th...
4 Juni 58min
Why is crime falling everywhere?
America is on track for its lowest homicide year since 1900, but nobody seems to be celebrating. Matt Yglesias and Jerusalem Demsas debate why crime has dropped so dramatically and what caused the pan...
28 Maj 53min
Why Democrats and Republicans want you to pay $50,000 for a car
This week on The Argument, Jerusalem Demsas and Matthew Yglesias debate the tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles. Jerusalem argues that Americans should have access to cheaper, climate-friendly cars, ...
21 Maj 57min
Did Joe Biden really kill Spirit Airlines?
Spirit Airlines is dead and the right, true to form, is blaming Joe Biden. The immediate cause of Spirit's demise is pretty clear: the war with Iran spiked jet fuel costs, and the already-battered air...
14 Maj 1h 8min
Boy moms and Nazi POWs: how "The Feminine Mystique" changed feminism
Betty Friedan thought Korean POWs were dying in captivity because their mothers were housewives. She thought boy moms were making their sons gay. She wrote a whole chapter comparing suburban kitchens ...
7 Maj 1h 5min
Should we end asylum?
Matthew Yglesias wants to end asylum. On a new episode of The Argument, Matt argues that the post-WWII asylum framework is not just politically untenable but practically unworkable. Jerusalem Demsas, ...
30 Apr 1h 12min
