May 8, 2023Eliezer Yudkowsky on the Dangers of AIEliezer Yudkowsky insists that once artificial intelligence becomes smarter than people, everyone on earth will die. Listen…Listen
April 24, 2023Michael Munger on the Perfect vs. the GoodIs the perfect really the enemy of the good? Or is it the other way…Listen
April 17, 2023Dana Gioia on Poetry, Death and MortalityWhen he was a child, poet Dana Gioia’s mother would come home from a long…Listen
April 10, 2023Daniel Gordis on Israel and Impossible Takes LongerAs Israel turns 75, has it fulfilled the promise of its founders? Daniel Gordis of…Listen
March 27, 2023Kevin Kelly on Advice, AI, and TechnologyPhotographer, author, and visionary Kevin Kelly talks about his book Excellent Advice for Living with EconTalk’s Russ…Listen
March 20, 2023Megan McArdle on the Oedipus TrapWhen physician Walter Freeman died in 1972, he still believed that lobotomies were the best…Listen
March 13, 2023Zach Weinersmith on Beowulf and Bea WolfTolkien read it as a tale about mortality. The poet David Whyte said it was…Listen
March 6, 2023Omer Moav on the Emergence of the StateSince at least Adam Smith, the common wisdom has been that the transition from hunter-gathering…Listen
February 20, 2023Marco Ramos on Misunderstanding Mental IllnessWhen psychiatrist Marco Ramos of Yale University prescribes antidepressants to patients in distress and they…Listen
February 13, 2023Adam Mastroianni on Peer Review and the Academic KitchenPsychologist Adam Mastroianni says peer review has failed. Papers with major errors make it through…Listen