Plain English with Derek Thompson

281 Episodes

1. Plain History: The Gilded Age

   Published: 3/24/2025
2. ABUNDANCE! With Ezra Klein

   Published: 3/17/2025
3. How Gen Z Sees the World

   Published: 3/12/2025
4. Can a Vaccine Cure the World’s Deadliest Cancer?

   Published: 3/7/2025
5. How AI Could Change the Future of Music

   Published: 3/4/2025
6. The End of Reading

   Published: 2/28/2025
7. 'How Progressives Froze the American Dream' (Live)

   Published: 2/25/2025
8. Plain History: The Astonishingly Successful Presidency of James K. Polk

   Published: 2/21/2025
9. The Trump-Musk Doctrine: F-ck Around and Find Out

   Published: 2/18/2025
10. Is There a Scientific Case for Believing in God?

    Published: 2/14/2025
11. Fraud, Scandal, and Failure in the Fight Against Alzheimer's Disease

    Published: 2/11/2025
12. The Energy Story of the Moment: The Unstoppable Rise of Solar Vs. the Unmovable Demand for Global Fossil Fuels

    Published: 2/7/2025
13. The 5 Types of Wealth

    Published: 2/4/2025
14. Are GLP-1 Drugs "the Greatest Medical Breakthrough of the 21st Century"?

    Published: 1/31/2025
15. Tech Talk: AI Supremacy, TikTok’s Fate, and Crypto Decadence

    Published: 1/24/2025
16. Plain History Volume 1: Who Killed President James Garfield?

    Published: 1/21/2025
17. What's the Truth About Alcohol, Cancer, and Your Health?

    Published: 1/17/2025
18. The L.A. Fires: How They Happened, Climate Change’s Role, and What the City Must Do Now

    Published: 1/14/2025
19. ‘The Anti-Social Century’: America’s Epidemic of Solitude—and How to Fix It

    Published: 1/10/2025
20. The Big 2025 Economy Forecast: AI and Big Tech, Nuclear’s Renaissance, Trump vs. China, and What’s Eating Europe?

    Published: 1/7/2025