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Why Fertility Rates Are Plunging—in the U.S., South Korea, and Everywhere Else
Andrew Yeo joins to explain South Korea’s declining birth rate and why fertility affects just about everything else in society
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Why So Many Young Men Are Lonely, Sexless, and Extremely Online
Richard Reeves, the scholar who wrote ‘Of Boys and Men,’ joins to discuss the findings of a recent Equimundo report on the challenges that American men are facing in 2023
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How Hollywood’s Writers Strike Could Change the Future of TV and Movies
Derek speaks with Matt Belloni about past writers strikes and the potential impacts of the current WGA strike
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Why Youth Sports in America Are in Decline
Derek talks to Jason Gay of the Wall Street Journal and Tom Farrey, the executive director of the Aspen Institute’s Sports and Society Program, to see what’s going on and what we should do
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The Future of War Is Here
Brian Schimpf and Ross Andersen join to discuss uses of AI in military operations and how we can prevent it from having outsized effects
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A Diet Conspiracy: Is Ice Cream Secretly Good for You?
Public health historian and journalist David Johns joins to discuss the research behind ice cream’s potential health benefits
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An Optimistic Guide to America’s Clean-Energy Future
Ramez Naam and Vinod Khosla join to break down the progress we’re making toward a clean-energy economy and the tech that will help us get there
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The Most Important Thing Most Americans Misunderstand About Insomnia
Derek and Dr. Jade Wu discuss Americans’ anxiety about sleep and the connection between sleep and health
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How American Cities Can Avoid the “Urban Doom Loop”
Dror Poleg, an author who writes about the future of cities, talks about the effects of urban change on finance, work, real estate, and technology
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Americans Die Younger Than Those in Any Other Rich Country. Why?
To unravel this mystery, today’s guest is John Burn-Murdoch, a data journalist at the Financial Times, who recently published a magisterial investigation of the American death gap