Derek Thompson
American journalist and author
American journalist and author
Every podcast episode featuring Derek Thompson that Attunex has found: 600 interviews and appearances across 120 shows between 2014 and 2026. Most often on Plain English with Derek Thompson (408), The Bill Simmons Podcast (14) and Fareed Zakaria GPS (6). Often in conversation with Bill Simmons, Tim Miller and Jon Favreau. Follow Derek in Attunex to get new appearances automatically, each with an on-device transcript and summary.
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Americans spend more time alone than ever, as parties, nights out with friends, and dinner gatherings become less common. Cellphones, social media, TV, and the internet have made it easier than ever…
Welcome to Episode #145! We bring on friends Nathan and Jon for a 3-man weave covering a wide variety of topics in the world of Bill Simmons. (0:00-25:30) We start off reminiscing about becoming fans…
Podcast : Plain English with Derek Thompson (LS 62 · TOP 0.1% what is this? ) Episode : The Bitter Rivalries Behind the Race to Build Superintelligence Pub date : 2026-10-06 Get Podcast Transcript →…
While the cult of Trump is dragging Republicans' popularity down, the Democrats have good, ideologically diverse candidates running all over the place. And voters aren't stupid: They know Trump's war…
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com While the cult of Trump is dragging Republicans' popularity down, the Democrats have good, ideologically diverse…
AI apocalypse, recession fears, sky-high mortgage rates, and now, the plague? Last week, a researcher at a plague institute in Siberia died after developing severe pneumonia, sparking rumors of…
Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, and Demis Hassabis are three of the most important figures in AI superintelligence, but each of them have very different ideas about what this technology should become and…
Abundance is a tempting goal as Americans face shortages of housing and rising energy prices. But there are government regulations and interest groups that fight efforts to build more housing and…
Last year, Republicans were the heavy favorites to hold the Senate in the following years midterms. Now, however, prediction markets and political forecasters see a very different race. Today, Nate…
Sarah and Beth discuss the horror described in Jane Doe's complaint, the campus culture at Cornell, and the challenges of addressing sexual assault in college environments. They cover: The reporting…
Derek Thompson published a piece today finding that the share of Americans who host friends or family at home at least monthly has fallen from 42% in 1975 to 12% in 2026 — a 70% collapse in 50 years.…
Derek Thompson published a piece today finding that the share of Americans who host friends or family at home at least monthly has fallen from 42% in 1975 to 12% in 2026 — a 70% collapse in 50 years.…
What makes a hit a hit? Why do some bands make it while others fade into obscurity? Chuck Klosterman’s new book imagines an alternate history of 20th century music and uses it to explore why some…
Erick Erickson breaks down the Pentagon data breach that exposed nearly 3 million people and the FBI job site hack, asking whether Iran is probing American defenses while Pete Hegseth's future gets…
Why does the richest country on earth take decades and billions to build what it once built in years? In this VWM book breakdown of Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson, we look past the…
With new breakthroughs in math and biology alongside reports of AI agents escaping and hacking systems, suffice it to say AI has had an interesting few weeks. How worried should we be about it all?…
Education outcomes have been getting worse across much of the world, with reading and math scores falling to historic lows. The U.S. has seen some of the steepest declines in decades. But, why does…
On today's show, Krystal and Saagar discuss the Fed hiking interest rates, Gas stations running out of diesel, Derek Thompson joins to discuss AI and polling showing 78% of Americans think it could…
An OpenAI safety incident sparks a bigger question: what happens when AI systems start acting like they’re beyond human control? In this condensed summary of Breaking Points with Krystal Ball and…
A sharp look at how war, oil shocks, and the Fed’s first unanimous rate hike in years are reshaping the economy. In the full Breaking Points episode, Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti unpack why the…
Expert economists keep making predictions about America’s financial future, and those predictions keep being … wrong. Over the past few years, we’ve heard warnings about a recession, inflation,…
Podcast : Plain English with Derek Thompson (LS 62 · TOP 0.1% what is this? ) Episode : The New Book That Scares Big Tech Pub date : 2026-09-08 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 - fast…
Claudio Alvarez Teran "UNICONTEXTO" - Agnes Callard. Por qué el sesgo de negatividad y la política de la identidad “Unicontexto”, sobre el colapso de los contextos, sesgo de negatividad y el dominio…
Trust in American higher education is near a historic low. Tuition has soared, and the payoff for a college degree is now in question as graduates face a weird and challenging job market.…
In the late 19th century, a railroad boom fueled by easy money, speculative investment, and new technology helped kick off one of the worst financial crises in American history. Sound kind of…
Today on the show, twenty-five years after 9/11, America is still living with the consequences of the war on terror. It produced major tactical successes, at enormous human and financial cost. Fareed…
So many people seem to hate AI, and it’s not just because it might displace millions of jobs, destroy the world, or deepen distrust in big corporations and government. The reason might actually be…
Americans are spending more time alone than ever before. Derek Thompson, author of "The Anti-Social Century" and co-author of Abundance, joins Jerusalem Demsas and Matthew Yglesias to argue that this…
Podcast : Plain English with Derek Thompson (LS 62 · TOP 0.1% what is this? ) Episode : Why America Is Switching From Booze to Weed Pub date : 2026-08-05 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411…
For much of the 21st century, the U.S. economy was built around cheap money. Today, though, interest rates are rising, and borrowing is getting much more expensive. At the same time, the federal…
Podcast : Plain English with Derek Thompson (LS 62 · TOP 0.1% what is this? ) Episode : Higher Education’s Age of ‘Insufferable Hypocrisy’ Pub date : 2026-08-18 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by…
The Ringer’s Bill Simmons is joined by Derek Thompson to discuss the finances of sports and the developing story of Mark Walter's Lakers sale. Then, they discuss the 2016 NBA cap spike before ending…
It would be an understatement to say that higher education is in crisis, as it faces attacks from both the current presidential administration as well as issues of its own making, like diversity…
Welcome back to Impact Theory, I’m Tom Bilyeu. Today, we’re cutting through the noise around artificial intelligence—addressing both the real and overblown fears dominating the headlines. Together…
Today, Derek talks with cybersecurity expert Alex Stamos about a recent wave of alarming AI cyberattacks. For decades, one of the biggest fears about AI has been that the machines will start doing…
It seems a universal fact that AI has become an indispensable part of the American economy. At the same time, opposing AI has also become one of the most influential causes in American politics.…
Two extraordinary trends are happening in the United States simultaneously. One is that alcohol consumption is declining precipitously. The share of Americans who drink has hit a record low since…
Last week, during a cyber evaluation, an OpenAI model its developers believed had no internet access got online anyway and found the answers to its own test posted on Hugging Face. OpenAI shut the…
This podcast is best in video form! You can watch this one and 200+ more on the Our Changing Climate YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@OurChangingClimate In this Our Changing Climate climate…
There’s no doubt that reading is in decline. But what is that decline doing to the way we think? Derek talks with The Atlantic's Rose Horowitch about why Americans are reading fewer books than ever…
The Democratic Party was facing an identity crisis when Donald Trump began his second term in January 2025. Just two months later, Democratic media Thinkboiz Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson published…
George Hahn connects the dots across the week’s biggest stories: how cheaper Chinese models are challenging America’s AI dominance, why Oracle’s growing debt is raising alarms about the AI boom, and…
In a conversation recorded live on Substack, Scott Galloway and Derek Thompson discuss the rise of the “antisocial century” — and what our growing isolation is doing to our happiness, relationships,…
Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey' has brought one of history's oldest stories back into the spotlight. It’s also sparked a fresh debate about what it means to adapt a classic. Today, Derek is joined…
Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey' is finally here, but how exactly has a 3,000-year-old story endured long enough to become the foundation of Western storytelling? Derek is joined by Karen Ní…
Why does it feel like everything is more divided and exhausting than it used to be? Philosopher Agnes Callard has a surprisingly simple answer: the unicontext. It's her term for what happens when…
Podcast : Plain English with Derek Thompson (LS 62 · TOP 0.1% what is this? ) Episode : A Surprising Theory About the Future of War Pub date : 2026-06-30 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411…
Peter Beinart joins Derek to unpack a major shift inside the Democratic Party. As Democratic Socialist-backed candidates notch a string of surprising primary victories, one issue has emerged as a…
To celebrate America's 250th birthday, Derek is joined for a history draft by three of the country's leading historians: Beverly Gage, H.W. (Bill) Brands, and Richard White. The goal isn't to revisit…
Are we truly barreling toward automated mass unemployment, or are we experiencing a messy, foundational reorganization of how human labor operates? In this deeply analytical update, Larry Port…
From the bombing campaigns of World War II to the precision strikes of the modern era, for 80 years air power has defined modern warfare. But today, a new technology is changing the battlefield:…
Hit makers: Como nascem as tendências (Ana Death Duarte) - Amazon Brazil Store: https://www.amazon.com.br/dp/8595081301?tag=9natreebrazil-20 - Amazon Worldwide Store:…
For decades, investors valued companies based on a familiar formula: Grow revenue, earn profits, and reward shareholders. But a new era may be beginning - one where trillion-dollar companies can lose…
ข้อความโพสต์จาก Derek Thompson ได้เขียนข้อความไว้ว่า "ชาวอเมริกันมักจะคิดว่าถ้ารายได้เพิ่มขึ้น 30-50% จะทำให้รู้สึกสุขมากขึ้น" - ความสุขไม่มีทางสิ้นสุด รวยแค่ไหนถึงจะรวย หรือว่ามีแค่ไหนถึงจะพอ -…
Abundance begins with a provocative question: what if some of the shortages shaping modern life are not inevitable? Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson argue that problems involving housing,…
Four months ago, the U.S. and Israel launched a surprise attack on Iran. Supporters predicted a decisive victory that would curb Iran’s nuclear ambitions and reshape the balance of power in the…
Podcast : Plain English with Derek Thompson (LS 62 · TOP 0.1% what is this? ) Episode : Old-igarchy: How the Elderly Conquered American Power Pub date : 2026-06-12 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by…
What is Donald Trump good at? In his second administration, he promised lower prices, stronger manufacturing, and an end to foreign conflicts. Instead, inflation has risen, blue-collar job growth has…
(01:34) - Midjourney Medical (25:50) - AI Talent Wars 2.0 (31:58) - Derek Thompson, co-author of *Abundance* and host of the *Plain English* podcast, discusses the stagnation in chair design over…
For years, scientists worried that medical progress was slowing down. Drug development became more expensive than ever with more complex clinical trials, and even then, many new treatments offered…
Prior to the 1930s, old age in America often meant poverty. But thanks to Social Security, Medicare, medical advances, and rising asset prices, over the past 90 years, older Americans have become one…
Humans are unusual dads. Across the animal kingdom, dads are often absent from child-rearing altogether. But among humans, fatherhood takes many forms, and in the last half century, it has changed…
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world. This episode explores Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson as a systems-level analysis of state capacity,…
For generations, we've defined creativity by its products: the novel, the painting, the song, the breakthrough idea. We look at the work, and from the work we see the creator as “creative.” But AI is…
On today's episode, Manny asks whether Noah and Devan want kids, as a part of a conversation about the declining birth rate around the world. They hear from Anna Louie Sussman, author of the upcoming…
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Republicans never defend Trump’s corruption on the merits. Their lot in life is just to serve up anti-moral excuses…
Republicans never defend Trump’s corruption on the merits. Their lot in life is just to serve up anti-moral excuses for his repeated acts of immorality. And the Dems are currently in a bit of a moral…
Modern loneliness is often treated as a simple problem: People are simply spending more time alone. But what if that's not the whole story? Over the last several years, Derek has written about…
The NBA’s vibes have been unusually awful recently. There has been widespread hand-wringing about the homogenization of modern offenses and the league’s notoriously weak regular-season TV ratings. A…
Over the past century, attitudes about gender roles have become one of the clearest dividing lines in the country. Many Republicans, both men and women, say men are getting a raw deal in modern…
On his 40th birthday, Derek Thompson takes a step back and looks at how his thinking on the national debt has changed. Back when he first covered fiscal policy, concern about government borrowing was…
Podcast : Plain English with Derek Thompson (LS 62 · TOP 0.1% what is this? ) Episode : The Case Against the AI Job Apocalypse Pub date : 2026-05-12 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by Listen411 -…
It's rather obvious Americans have not exactly been … cheerful for the last few years. And it's showing up in the data – the General Social Survey , the Consumer Sentiment Survey from the University…
Fertility rates are collapsing around the world. In rich countries and poor ones, in secular societies and religious ones, people are having fewer children than ever before. Some explanations focus…
Saagar and Emily discuss Bibi blames social media for anti-Israel sentiment in the US, Derek Thompson joins on billionaire AI takeover. Derek Thompson: https://www.derekthompson.org/ To become a…
For the past few years, Silicon Valley executives and economists have warned that artificial intelligence could wipe out millions of jobs. Some companies have even blamed AI for layoffs. But what if…
Ed Elson brings on Cal Newport and Derek Thompson to explore how AI is reshaping the way we think and learn to the downside. They dig into how its impact on human intelligence could fundamentally…
Brace for a hard look at how AI’s breakneck growth is reshaping politics, neighborhoods, and who controls the future. In this condensed Breaking Points episode (original ~56 minutes → 12-minute…
Imagine a world in 2050 where energy is nearly free and diseases are cured by medicines synthesized in orbit. In Abundance, Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson argue that today's crises from housing…
America is richer than ever. Unemployment is low. Wages are high. According to traditional metrics, the economy looks strong. So why are Americans feeling so bad? Today, Derek talks with bestselling…
Hard to detect and almost impossible to treat, pancreatic cancer has long been one of medicine’s most ruthless killers. For decades, it’s been the cancer that science couldn’t crack. But that might…
AI – and coverage of it – is everywhere. But what is artificial intelligence, really, beyond the buzzword? Each week, in a special new miniseries - ‘The AI End Game’ - Chris Hayes is joined by…
The unified class project of billionaires is doing to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers. And artificial intelligence is only exacerbating this…
Podcast : Plain English with Derek Thompson (LS 62 · TOP 0.1% what is this? ) Episode : Why Too Much Freedom Is the Enemy of Success Pub date : 2026-05-01 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by…
Freedom is one of the few ideas everyone agrees on. Surely more choice and autonomy is a good thing, right? But what if our endless pursuit of freedom is actually making us more anxious, less…
Everyone says having kids changes your life. That’s true. But it’s not the whole story. Sean talks with author Derek Thompson about fatherhood, how raising kids can shock you, and why parenting feels…
Abundancia: Cómo construimos un mundo mejor (Ezra Klein) - Amazon Español Store: https://www.amazon.es/dp/B0FPRJ6J37?tag=9natreespain-21 - Amazon Worldwide Store:…
We’re excited to announce a new special WITHpod series, "The AI End Game: Power, Profit, and Progress." AI – and coverage of it – is everywhere. But what is artificial intelligence, really, beyond…
For nearly a decade, critics have predicted that this would be the moment Trumpism finally fractures - January 6, the overturning of Roe v. Wade, endless internal feuds, even Trump’s online beef with…
“Abundance” came out a little over a year ago. It’s been exciting — and a little disorienting — seeing how it’s rippled out into the world, and the ways it’s been embraced and debated and critiqued.…
“Abundance” came out a little over a year ago. It’s been exciting — and a little disorienting — seeing how it’s rippled out into the world, and the ways it’s been embraced and debated and critiqued.…
📝 Notas y enlaces del capítulo aquí: https://www.jaimerodriguezdesantiago.com/kaizen/268-todo-es-television/ ¿Te has fijado que las redes sociales son, cada vez, menos sociales? Hoy en día, más del…
Hollywood is in the middle of a triple crisis. You can measure it in tickets, jobs, and ideas. Start with tickets. The best year for the movie business this century was 2002, when Americans and…
This episode is a recording of ‘Book Club Live’ hosted by the wonderful folk from Good Together . Matt Berry ( Good Together ) hosts Millie Rooney (Executive Director at Australia reMADE ), Dan Hill…
Instead of pumping the brakes on the Iran war, President Trump is breaking the pumps. This week Alex looks at how high gas prices are impacting Americans, and why they’ve long been considered an…
We’ve heard a lot about the loneliness epidemic in this country, but it might be worth asking: Do we even like spending time with people anymore? Derek Thompson, staff writer at The Atlantic, joins…
Two weeks ago, Anthropic announced an AI model so capable and so dangerous that it decided not to release it to the public. The model, codenamed Mythos, could autonomously infiltrate computer systems…
The two biggest stories in the world right now—the war involving Iran and the rise of artificial intelligence—are, at their core, the same story: energy. The Iran conflict has become a war of…
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.com Derek Thompson is a long-time writer at The Atlantic. His books include Hit Makers , On Work , and Abundance…
Something weird is going on with the elevated unemployment rate for young people today, but no one knows what exactly it is. For the last year, as the unemployment rate for recent college graduates…
Perhaps you’ve heard the news: The U.S. is experiencing a religious revival, and it’s concentrated among young people, who are flocking back to the fold. The Economist announced that “the West has…
The 1970s oil crisis changed the world in ways that many people forget today, from the transformation of American politics to the rise of the Japanese electronics industry. The Iran war of 2026 could…
Main Show Starts At 9:56 What were the big trends in AI and Data Science in 2025 and what does it tell us about what to expect in 2026. Andrew Jones-Rooy is here to explain. And we discuss Derek…
One of the themes we’ve circled in the last few weeks is the way that the modern world can hijack our values. This principle was recently articulated by the philosopher C. Thi Nguyen in an episode…
Today’s podcast is an interview with one of the cofounders of the AI company Anthropic, Jack Clark. One thing I’m trying to do with the subject of artificial intelligence is offer a balance of…
If you're a typical worker with a salary, you have almost no control over how much tax you owe. But if you own a company worth billions of dollars, the income tax is, in the words of my guest today,…
In 2017, Americans legally bet about $5 billion on sports. Last year, that number rose to $160 billion. Gambling hasn’t just taken over sports. It’s invaded culture, politics, and even international…
Podcast : Plain English with Derek Thompson (LS 62 · TOP 0.1% what is this? ) Episode : The Pill That Works Even When You Know It's Fake Pub date : 2026-03-13 Get Podcast Transcript → powered by…
The AI buildout continues to break records, as the hyperscalers pour hundreds of billions of dollars into chips and data centers, even as investors punish their stock prices. But the revenue side of…
Bike Networks Now! Audiobook: Chapter 5. Exhibit A for "Abundance" Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson’s book “Abundance” calls out the inability of blue cities and states over recent decades to build the…
Why do placebo effects work, even when patients know that they're taking a sugar pill? How do "nocebo" effects work, and why do some people hold onto beliefs that they suspect might bring them pain…
The Strait of Hormuz is the tiny bottleneck that could destabilize the global economy. As a critical passageway for crude oil, natural gas, and critical inputs for fertilizer, computer chips, and…
What happens when the two biggest stories in the world—the Trump White House and the development of advanced artificial intelligence—collide? Well, nothing good, apparently. When contract…
Derek Thompson, journalist and co-author of Abundance, joins Offline to hash out some hard truths about AI: who it will actually replace, why we haven’t seen more labor market disruption, and why the…
Derek Thompson, journalist and co-author of Abundance, joins Offline to hash out some hard truths about AI: who it will actually replace, why we haven’t seen more labor market disruption, and why the…
Donald Trump’s polling has continued to edge down week after week. And yet approval of the Democratic Party is still stuck near its all-time low, according to Gallup and other surveys. One…
Not only is Trump failing to provide any clarity on why the United States went to war against Iran, the administration is also sticking to its habit of declaring an emergency based on some arcane…
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.thebulwark.com Not only is Trump failing to provide any clarity on why the United States went to war against Iran, the administration…
Is A.I. gonna boom, bust or just become Excel? And how screwed are we either way? Plus: Peyton Manning, Lamar Jackson, Geraldo Rivera's vault, a young Tim Pawlenty, vibe-coding NFL scouts... and…
Dramatic regime change. Moderate regime evolution. A calamitous regional conflict. Or … no change at all. Today we consider how the Iran conflict might evolve following the killing of Supreme Leader…
The modern world swims in numbers: work metrics, fitness metrics, health metrics, social media metrics. Sometimes the quantification of life can make things better. But very often, I think they force…
The GLP-1 drug revolution has taken the medicine world by storm. I’ve done several episodes on the science of GLP-1s. But we’ve never done an episode like this before, where we talk to one of the…
Donald Trump suffered a huge blow Friday when the Supreme Court struck down the centerpiece of his economic policy: his vast system of tariffs. So, what happens now? Harvard’s Jason Furman explains…
In the mid-20th century, a group of media and communications scholars proposed that the shift from spoken to written language—from orality to literacy—transformed our politics, our media, our social…
AI slop is flooding every channel. Here's what changes, what doesn't, and how to cut through the noise. In this episode, Eric and Jonathan dig into the great content reset — the collision of AI,…
In his epic cover story for The Atlantic this month, staff writer Josh Tyrangiel spoke to dozens of economists, workers, tech CEOs, and AI experts about the danger that artificial intelligence might…
Hello! I’m back from paternity leave just in time to talk about the biggest media earthquake of the year (so far): the Washington Post meltdown. For decades, the Post was a journalistic gem with…
Journalist Derek Thompson joins Scott Galloway to examine why Americans feel increasingly unhappy — even as many measures of health, safety, and quality of life improve. They discuss how media…
Throughout December and January, we’ve been re-airing some of our favorite episodes of the past year and beyond, and today's episode marks the end of our "best of" series for this year! This list…
Throughout December and January, we’re going to be re-airing some of our favorite episodes of the past year and beyond. This list includes interviews that really stuck with me and some others that…
Throughout December and January, we’re going to be re-airing some of our favorite episodes of the past year and beyond. This list includes interviews that really stuck with me and some others that…
Throughout December and January, we’re going to be re-airing some of our favorite episodes of the past year and beyond. This list includes interviews that really stuck with me and some others that…
Over the past year, Democrats have learned to embrace economic abundance thanks to Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson’s bestselling book. But is this the same kind of abundance the Left has traditionally…
Throughout December and January, we’re going to be re-airing some of our favorite episodes of the past year and beyond. This list includes interviews that really stuck with me and some others that…
The perennial fight returns... In one corner, there are the wizards: optimists who are betting that technology and economic growth can solve our problems faster than it can create them? In the other…
Throughout December and January, we’re going to be re-airing some of our favorite episodes of the past year and beyond. This list includes interviews that really stuck with me and some others that…
At the end of the year, I wanted to revisit our very first podcast conversation with some of my favorite liberal journalists. In our very first live show in Washington, D.C., Derek Thompson, Ezra…
The best moments from the Andrew Yang Podcast in 2025 are here! Highlights include editor and audience picks featuring Derek Thompson, Jimmy Chen, Arthur Brooks, Gunjan Banerji, and more, with deep…
Throughout December and January, we’re going to be re-airing some of our favorite episodes of the past year and beyond. This list includes interviews that really stuck with me and some others that…
Warum fehlen saubere Energie, bezahlbarer Wohnraum und moderne Infrastruktur? Nicht aus technischen Gründen, sondern weil Knappheit politisch erzeugt wird. Ezra Klein und Derek Thompson zeigen: Gut…
Throughout December and January, we’re going to be re-airing some of our favorite episodes of the past year and beyond. This list includes interviews that really stuck with me and some others that…
In this episode of Galaxy Brain, Charlie Warzel turns the camera on himself to ask a simple question: Why are you seeing his face? Using YouTube’s takeover of podcasts as a starting point, he…
Throughout December and January, we’re going to be re-airing some of our favorite episodes of the past year and beyond. This list includes interviews that really stuck with me and some others that…
Last month, Derek Thompson published an intriguing essay that made waves in technology criticism circles. It was titled: “Everything is Television.” In today’s episode, Cal takes a closer look at…
You open your eyes at dawn and turn in the cool bedsheets. From outside, you can hear the California High-Speed Rail as it comes to a screeching halt. Your government issued Meta glasses deliver a…
How can we resist the gamification of our economy — and help others do the same? The advent of digital technology has incentivized ease and encouraged isolation. Young people, especially young men,…
Podcast : Plain English with Derek Thompson (LS 62 · TOP 0.1% what is this? ) Episode : The American Math Crisis Pub date : 2025-11-21 Notes from Farrel Buchinsky's Listen Later : Wrote an article…
Throughout December and January, we’re going to be re-airing some of our favorite episodes of the past year and beyond. This list includes interviews that really stuck with me and some others that…
In this episode, Oden talks to rank-and-file union member and college professor Jason Koslowski about Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson's book Abundance , and the roadmap it puts forward for the…
One of my favorite theories about the modern world is the idea that culture is "stuck." Whether the decline of ornamentation in modern architecture, or the fact that every corporate logo looks the…
The University of California San Diego is one of the best public colleges in America. So it was fairly shocking when the school released a report on the steep decline in academic preparedness of its…
Many AI experts believe that some time in the next few years, we will build something close to artificial general intelligence (AGI), a system that can do nearly all valuable cognitive work as well…
Sometimes, the perfect guest to discuss your own writing is ... you. On this special crossover episode, I am interviewed by Ben Smith and Max Tani of Semafor's Mixed Signals podcast about my recent…
Is television the final form of all media? Derek Thompson, the co-author of Abundance, podcaster, and Atlantic writer joins Mixed Signals to explain what he sees as the forces behind what Ben and Max…
Youth unemployment is rising. Hiring is freezing up. The housing market is a mess. How did things get so bad for young people in the economy? And are things as bad as they seem? Michael Batnick and…
This week was a straight flush for Democrats. Zohran Mamdani completed his heroic arc to become mayor of the world’s most important city. Democrats ran up huge margins in the big governor races in…
In this episode, Dan Hugger speaks with Anne Bradley, vice president of academic affairs at The Fund for American Studies and professor of economics at The Institute of World Politics, about Ezra…
Welcome to the third installment of our interview series here at The Honest Broker— also available on our new YouTube channel and Apple Podcasts . Today, I’m happy to share my conversation with Derek…
Ken Burns—the award-winning filmmaker whose documentary films and television series on American history include 'The Civil War' (1990), 'Baseball' (1994), 'Jazz' (2001), and 'Country Music'…
Last week, an FBI investigation into gambling led to the arrest of several prominent basketball stars, raising questions about the state of legalized sports betting, which has enriched professional…
Bestselling author Michael Lewis joins the show to talk about how bubbles happen, the legacy of 'The Big Short' and the global financial crisis, 'Moneyball' and how the data analytics revolution…
Today’s guest is Ethan Mollick. Ethan is a professor of management at Wharton, where he specializes in entrepreneurship and innovation. He is the author of the book 'Co-Intelligence: Living and…
By some measures, the Democratic Party has never been so unpopular as a political brand. While this fact obviously reflects some difficult realities for the party, it also creates an opportunity for…
Two weeks ago, in one of our most popular podcasts of the year, the investor and author Paul Kedrosky explained why he thinks AI is a bubble. In the last few days, practically everybody seems to…
It's the cursed book club once again, as we drag Sinan on just to read a horrible tome that the world would be better off without. This time it's "Abundance" by "journalists" Ezra Klein and Derek…
For close to a decade, technology analyst Dan Wang--"a gifted observer of contemporary China" (Ross Douthat)--has been living through the country's astonishing, messy progress. China's towering…
In the second episode of our two-part miniseries on the future of entertainment, Derek goes from Hollywood to NYC to understand why Broadway musicals are in trouble. "With the cost of staging…
Today we are joined by Jack Meyer, an economics masters student at Oxford, as well as an aspiring political economist and economic historian. His current areas of study include innovation,…
In this kickoff episode of our Abundance series, we’re asking the big question: Can abundance actually be abundant? We’re unpacking the buzzy optimism of Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson’s “abundance…
Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson is a provocative and ambitious exploration of why the United States, despite its wealth and technological prowess, fails to build at a scale commensurate…
The film and TV business has quietly—or, if you work in the industry, not so quietly—been in a depression for the past few years. Original TV work has plummeted. In 2024, Americans bought about 40…
America is rich—richer than ever. Yet Americans are more anxious, lonelier, and less satisfied than people in many poorer nations. The 2025 World Happiness Report ranked the U.S. 24th in life…
I’ve had the privilege of talking to many brilliant people about artificial intelligence. And when you ask them to imagine the most beneficial consequences of this technology, they almost always give…
The past few weeks have marked a low point for free speech principles in America. The head of the FCC openly threatened ABC for the language of a comedian. The president told a reporter that networks…
In our very first live show in Washington, D.C., Derek Thompson, Ezra Klein, and Matt Yglesias joined host Jerusalem Demsas for a disagreement-ridden conversation to tape the first episode of our new…
Desde la redacción del New York Times Javier del Pino y Marc Bassets conversan con el periodista Ezra Klein, quien publica con Derek Thompson ‘Abundancia’ (Capitán Swing), un ensayo donde se analizan…
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit plus.flux.community Episode Summary Whether it’s the SwiftBoat Veterans or Moms for Tyranny, right-wing groups are notorious for popping…
In the past few weeks, we’ve done several episodes on obesity, GLP-1 drugs, and nutrition science. What we haven’t talked about as much is the politics of food. And today’s guests say: If you really…
This year, American tech companies will spend $300 billion to $400 billion on artificial intelligence, which is in nominal dollars more than any group of companies have ever spent to do anything.…
Matt Belloni, the host of the Town podcast and the author of Puck’s 'What I’m Hearing' newsletter, joins the show to talk about Jimmy Kimmel's punishment, what happened behind the scenes at ABC and…
To read more of Derek's reporting on GLP-1 drugs, you can subscribe to his Substack here. GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Zepbound don't just help with Type 2 diabetes and weight loss. They seem to curb…
In the past few years, we have witnessed a frightening spiral of political violence. We’ve seen the killing of Charlie Kirk; the killing of Brian Thompson, the health insurance executive; the…
America is sicker than ever. That’s what the data says, anyway. Psychological and psychiatric diagnoses have soared. Between the 1990s and the mid-2000s, bipolar disorder among American youth grew by…
Today on the show, Fareed sits down with Atlantic staff writer Anne Applebaum to discuss this week’s meeting between China’s Xi Jinping, Russia’s Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un and the…
In the second of our two-episode series on Donald Trump, economics, and power, we talk to Henry Farrell, a professor of political science at Johns Hopkins. Farrell has written extensively on how the…
Today is the first of two interviews this week trying to answer this question: What is Trumponomics? From the 1980s to the 2010s, it was generally assumed that Republicans and Democrats had settled…
Memory is the glue of life. Without it, our focus softens, our experience of the world blurs, and our identities melt away. But as people age, their memory declines. Many billions of dollars have…
This week on Sinica, I'm delighted to be joined by Dan Wang, formerly of Gavekal Dragonomics and the Paul Tsai Law Center at Yale University, now with the Hoover Institute's History Lab. Dan's new…
In the Ten Steps to Autocracy, step four is convincing citizens that democracy just isn’t working. If democracy isn’t working, then people will be seduced by populist promises and grievance politics.…
Today’s pod is about the economic story of the moment. It’s about new technology that supporters claim will transform the U.S. economy, an infrastructure build-out unlike anything in living memory…
Today on the show, Fareed is joined by President Biden’s former National Security Adviser, Jake Sullivan, for a wide-ranging conversation on the major takeaways from Friday’s Trump-Putin Summit, and…
According to analysis by Financial Times writer John Burn-Murdoch, something extraordinary has happened to Americans’ personalities in the last decade. Longitudinal tests indicate that we’ve…
🎧 NEW PODCAST EPISODE Episode 146 – Abundance In this episode, Andy and Roger wade into the political and cultural crosscurrents sparked by the book Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson. They…
This episode is presented by Create A Video – A deep dive into the rise of solitude in America, how it's fueled by "smart" technology, and the impact on the larger society. Subscribe to the podcast…
Last week, the Bureau of Economic Analysis published the latest GDP report. It contained a startling detail. Spending on artificial intelligence added more to the U.S. economy than consumer spending…
Subscribe to Derek’s new Substack. In 1991, the median age of first-time homebuyers was 28. Now it’s 38, an all-time high. In 1981, the median age of all homebuyers was 36. Today, it’s 56—another…
For this "Summer Friday" we've put together some of our favorite conversations this year: Derek Thompson , staff writer at The Atlantic , author of the "Work in Progress" newsletter and host of the…
Even before the cancellation of 'The Late Show With Stephen Colbert,' the business of comedy was changing rapidly. Twenty years ago, comedians aspired to be late-night hosts, or to star in movies, or…
In this episode, Susan reflects on Derek Thompson's article The Death of Partying in the USA to explore a troubling trend: the steady decline of in-person socializing, especially among young people.…
Sign up for Derek's Substack here. Harvard economist Jason Furman returns to the show to answer two big, burning questions. First, if Trump's economic ideas are as bad as most economists say, why…
Couples are having kids much later in their lives. As young people spend more of their 20s and 30s getting established in their careers, and marriage is delayed, and home buying is delayed, the…
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Sign up for the Derek Thompson newsletter. In Game 7 of this year's NBA Finals, Indiana Pacers guard Tyrese Haliburton tore his Achilles in the first quarter while attempting to drive to the basket…
In this episode of Econ 102, we're republishing a conversation between Noah Smith and Derek Thompson recorded live on Substack in June. They explore Derek’s shift from The Atlantic to Substack and…
Derek Thompson and Waleed Shahid join Jon Lovett for a spirited debate over Zohran Mamdani’s surprise victory in New York—and what it says about where the Democratic coalition goes from here. Was it…
This conversation with Howard Bloom continues my previous conversation with him of two weeks ago. We discussed (among other things) Howard’s new book “ The Case of the Sexual Cosmos: Everything You…
AI generated summary and discussion. Abundance argues that America's 21st-century problems stem from "chosen scarcities"—policy and political decisions, not inherent limitations. The authors advocate…
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