Episode List

Episode 40

Why the Doomsday Clock is Closer to Apocalypse Than Ever, with Rachel Bronson

Why the Doomsday Clock is Closer to Apocalypse Than Ever

Doomsday Clock-new

Why the Doomsday Clock is Closer to Apocalypse Than Ever

Episode 39

Vladimir Putin’s No. 1 Enemy, with Bill Browder

Meet Vladimir Putin’s No. 1 enemy

Vladimir Putin

Meet Vladimir Putin’s No. 1 enemy

Episode 38

How Google and Facebook Are Ruining Capitalism, with Luigi Zingales

How Google and Facebook are ruining capitalism 

Facebook and Google

How Google and Facebook are ruining capitalism

 

Episode 37

Why Some Nations Prosper and Others Fail, with James Robinson

Why some nations prosper and others fail

Ruins

Why some nations prosper and others fail

Episode 36

The Hunt for Alien Life and Exoplanets, with David Charbonneau

The hunt for alien life and exoplanets

Artist illustration of large exoplanet with a star in the distance

The hunt for alien life and exoplanets

Episode 35

Why Chasing The Good Life Is Holding Us Back, With Lauren Berlant

Why chasing the good life is holding us back

Family on vacation

Why chasing the good life is holding us back

Episode 34

Saving Our Cities By Studying A Million Neighborhoods With Luis Bettencourt

Saving our cities by studying a million neighborhoods

Digital city

Saving our cities by studying a million neighborhoods

Episode 33

Why Talking to Strangers Will Make You Happier with Nicholas Epley

Why talking to strangers will make you happier

Strangers talk on a bus

Why talking to strangers will make you happier

Episode 32

Leading Presidential Scholar Analyzes Trump Impeachment with William Howell

What’s at stake with a Trump impeachment

Secret service watches Marine One

What’s at stake with a Trump impeachment

Episode 31

The Politics of Archaeology In Iraq With Christopher Woods

The Politics of Archaeology In Iraq With Christopher Woods 

Persian relief

The Politics of Archaeology In Iraq With Christopher Woods 

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