Plain English with Derek Thompson

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Why Things Become Popular, with Chuck Klosterman

The Single Smartest Case Against AI Doom

The Truth About Mississippi's Education "Miracle"

Why Experts Keep Getting the Economy So Wrong

What’s the Point of College?

Higher education faces a critical inflection point as artificial intelligence challenges traditional models of learning and expertise. The evolution of the university has transitioned from an era of information scarcity to an era of deep expertise, and now requires a shift toward a third era centered on community-based...

The New Book That Scares Big Tech

AI Slop Is Breaking the Internet. Can We Save It?

The proliferation of AI-generated content, or "AI slop," threatens the integrity of the internet, pushing digital spaces toward a state of bot-driven echo chambers. Pangram, an AI detection tool founded by Max Spero, addresses this by classifying text based on patterns that distinguish machine-generated output from hum...

Why Everything Is Going to Keep Getting More Expensive

Higher Education’s Age of ‘Insufferable Hypocrisy’

It May Be Time to Freak Out About AI

Why Americans Hate Data Centers

The rapid expansion of AI data centers across the U.S. faces significant local backlash, driven less by ideological opposition to artificial intelligence and more by deep-seated distrust of corporate-government partnerships. Reporting from the Midwest, writer Jasmine Sun highlights how residents view these projects thr...

Why America Is Switching From Booze to Weed

"The End of Reading Is Here"

What Translator Emily Wilson Thinks of Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey'

Why 'The Odyssey' Is the West’s Greatest Story

A Philosopher’s One-Word Theory for Why the World Feels So Weird

The "unicontext" theory posits that modern technology and global connectivity have collapsed distinct, local normative environments into a single, universal room where the same rules apply regardless of context. This shift fundamentally alters human behavior, prioritizing the condemnation of universal "bads"—such as vi...

How Israel Is Transforming American Politics

MEGAPOD: The Most Overrated American Who Ever Lived

A Surprising Theory About the Future of War