Episode summary: On good days, Seth Godin thinks about the progress we’re making on climate change. On bad days, he thinks about the problem of racing bibs.

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Episode summary: 19th century “zombie” laws are shambling into the abortion debate

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Episode summary: Gary Marcus and John Lanchester join David to discuss all things AI, from ChatGPT to the Turing test. Why is the Turing test such a bad judge of machine intelligence? If these machines aren’t thinking, what is it they are doing? And what are we doing giving them so much power to sha...

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Episode summary: 6. An Epiphany at the Hampstead Toy Boat Pond

Episode summary: Hello and welcome back! Delicious History is coming back with a vengeance, and this time it’s personal! For this season, we’ll be on the road, talking about some of the most important ways food has affected history on location! Starting in Ecuador, we’ll take you to Colombia, Spain,...

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Episode summary: For the first episode in the new series of History of Ideas – on the great essays and the great essayists – David discusses Montaigne, the man who invented a whole new way of writing and being read. From the fear of death to the joys of life, from the perils of atheism to the pitfal...

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Episode summary: The Mystery of Mastery with Adam Gopnik

Episode summary: For our first ever episode talking about Amazon (somehow?), Logic Magazine co-founder Moira Weigel tells us what she learned about Amazon by spending years interviewing its third-party sellers. From hand sanitizer hoarding to Chinese vendors getting “dragon boated,” Moira gives us a...

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Episode summary: What’s more intense than leading the IMF during a financial crisis? For Simon Johnson, it was co-authoring a book with Daron Acemoglu.

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Episode summary: Episodio 34: Zucchero, scheletri e marmellate assassine (Stagione 3)