A Philosophy of Games That Is Really a Philosophy of Life
When we play Monopoly or basketball, we know we are playing a game. The stakes are low. The rules are silly. The point system is arbitrary. But what if life is full of games — ones with much higher st...
25 Feb 20221h 12min
Best Of: Stop. Breathe. We Can’t Keep Working Like This.
We were promised, with the internet, a productivity revolution. We were told that we’d get more done, in less time, with less stress. Instead, we got always-on communication, the dissolution of the bo...
22 Feb 202254min
A Critique of Government That Liberals Need to Hear
Government is a bureaucratic, slow-moving institution. It’s too easily captured by special interests. It’s often incapable of acting at the speed and scale our problems demand. And when it does act, i...
18 Feb 20221h 16min
Relationships Are Hard. This Unusual Parenting Theory Can Help.
This is one of those episodes I feel I need to sell. Because on one level, it’s about an unusual theory of parenting known by the acronym RIE — for the nonprofit group Resources for Infant Educarers, ...
15 Feb 20221h
It's Not Your Fault You Can't Pay Attention. Here's Why.
“The sensation of being alive in the early 21st century consisted of the sense that our ability to pay attention — to focus — was cracking and breaking,” writes Johann Hari in his new book, “Stolen Fo...
11 Feb 20221h 6min
What the Heck Is Going on With the U.S. Economy?
Should we be celebrating a Biden boom? Lamenting inflation and its consequences? Both?We know how to talk about booms, like the ’90s. We know how to talk about busts, like after the financial crisis. ...
8 Feb 20221h
Let’s Talk About How Truly Bizarre Our Supreme Court Is
“Getting race wrong early has led courts to get everything else wrong since,” writes Jamal Greene. But he probably doesn’t mean what you think he means.Greene is a professor at Columbia Law School, an...
4 Feb 20221h 6min
Democrats Chase Shiny Objects. Here's How to Build Real Power.
There’s good reason to worry about the future of democracy, and little reason to believe Democrats have a viable plan for protecting it. They built their strategy around passing a major suite of votin...
1 Feb 20221h 5min
