All Episodes
Mansplaining — 137 episodes
Episode 137: Should Billionaires Exist?
Episode 136: Living a Meaningful Life
Episode 135: Gerrymandering: A Jerry-Built Contraption
Episode 134: The Clock is Ticking to Doomsday
Episode 133: What is It About Dogs?
Episode 132: Who’s Happier: Liberals or Conservatives?
Episode 131: The Next Pandemic
Episode 130: Flat Earthers Are Still Around
Episode 129: Mansplaining Mailbag
Episode 128: We’ve Got a Gambling Problem
Episode 127: The Proper Retirement Age
Episode 126: The Decline and Fall of Expertise
Episode 125: Darkness Over Light in Film and TV
Episode 124: The Best (and Worst) Holiday Music
Episode 123: Tripping Your Way Out of Trauma
Episode 122: Why Gas Stoves Stink
Episode 121: Halloween: A Singularly American Stew
Episode 120: Potatoes and Tomatoes: Hardy Migrants
Episode 119: Flag Fetish
Episode 118: The Pros and Cons of Gerontocracy
Episode 117: What Rousseau Might Say About the USA
Episode 116: The Cemetery Industry is Not Dead Yet
Episode 115: Will There Be Enough Water?
Episode 114: About Those Expiration Dates…
Episode 113: Green Lawn Origin Story
Episode 112: We’re Dawdling on High-Speed Rail
Episode 111: We Best Not Nuke Nuclear
Episode 110: Housing and the Land-Value Tax
Episode 109: A Quantum Leap in Computing
Episode 108: There’s No Dressing Up Dress Codes
Episode 107: The Skinny on GLP-1 Drugs
Episode 106: Are Lotteries Justifiable?
Episode 105: An Appalling Lack of Savings
Episode 104: The Rap on Map Apps
Episode 103: Things Are Looking Up (We Hope)
Episode 102: In Search of Peace and Healing
Episode 101 Bonus Content: The Past and Future of Air Travel
Episode 101: Will Air Travel Crash and Burn?
Episode 100: What Makes Pop Music Artists Run Out of Ideas?
Episode 99: What Makes a Company Run Out of Ideas?
Episode 98: The Checkered Legacy of Legacy Admissions
Episode 97: The Threat to Critical Infrastructure
Episode 96: All the Lonely People
Episode 95: Fusion Is (Still) Just Around the Corner
White-Hot Take: Childless Cat Ladies?
Episode 94: Decoding the Unitary Executive Theory
Episode 93: Fertility and the Elusive Sweet Spot
Episode 92: American Climate Refugees?
Episode 91: The Vultures Are Circling Around College Athletics
Episode 90: The (Non-Existent) Connection Between Bail Reform and Crime
Episode 89: Reckoning with the Brain-Computer Interface
Episode 88: Does “Clutch” Performance Exist?
Episode 87: Economic Forecasting is a Joke
Episode 86: The Future is Now for Electric Vehicles
Episode 85: Does John Fetterman Herald the Return of Blue-Collar Liberalism?
Episode 84: When Machines Become Smarter Than Humans
Episode 83: The Robotics Revolution That Wasn’t
Episode 82: What We’re Thankful For
Episode 81: Understanding Effective Altruism
Episode 80: How to Solve Immigration (in 40 Minutes)
Episode 79: Nothing Is Real, Not Even this Podcast
Episode 78: What Makes a Hero?
Episode 77: Can a Machine Be Intelligent?
Episode 76: To Play Or Not To Play Football
Episode 75: Bad Data ≠ Good Science
Episode 74: The Weather Report Is Calamitous
Episode 73: The Cases For and Against Universal Basic Income
Episode 72: Do Deficits Really Matter?
Episode 71: The Debt Ceiling Disaster Scenario
Episode 70: Must We All Have Smartphones?
Episode 69: Why Increased Productivity Doesn’t Create More Leisure
Episode 68: : Those Namby-Pamby NIMBYs
Episode 67: The Best Pop Song Ever Written?
Is Cord-Cutting a Looming Apocalypse for Pro Sports?
Episode 65: What Critical Race Theory Is (and Is Not)
Episode 64: Is Aging a Disease?
Episode 63: The State of Statehood for DC and Puerto Rico
Episode 62: Rumors of Religion’s Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
Episode 61: The Origin of New Year's Day
Episode 60: The Artist is a Bot
Episode 58: Welcome to the Metaverse!
Episode 57: The Ups and (Mostly) Downs of Vaping
Episode 56: Whither the Russian Military?
Episode 55: Boob Tube Bests Big Screen
Episode 54: The Hullabaloo Over Charter Schools
Episode 53: I’m Scared, Therefore I’m Armed
Episode 52: Wrapping Our Brains Around Love
Episode 51: Is There a Link Between Abortion and Crime?
Episode 50: Why We Laugh
Episode 49: Are Cities In Trouble?
Episode 48: I Own It, Now You Pay For It
Episode 47: College Is For Girls
Episode 46: What We Get From Watching Sports
Episode 45: Spring Forward or Fall Back - Pick One
Episode 44: Charity Begins Where, Exactly?
Episode 43: Making Sense of Anti-Vaxxers
Episode 42: What To Do About Homelessness
Episode 41: A Second American Civil War?
Episode 40: The Skinny on Crime Statistics
Episode 39: What’s Causing Havana Syndrome?
Episode 38: The Myth of the Myth of Altruism
Episode 37: Finally, Some Good News
Episode 36: Is a Virus Alive?
Episode 35: Music Streaming and Me
Episode 34: The Rent Is Too Damn High
Episode 33: Are We Ever Gonna See Self-Driving Cars?
Episode 32: TERF Battles
Episode 31: Politicians and Harassers Are Not-So-Strange Bedfellows
Episode 30: The Wave Theory of Populism
Episode 29: Jury Nullification
Episode 28: Space: The Final Public-Private Partnership
Episode 27: Filiflustered
Episode 26: Replaced by a Machine
Episode 25: UFOs Are Real!
Episode 24: Why Haven't We Cured Cancer?
Episode 23: Demystifying NFTs and the Blockchain
Episode 22: Attack of the Killer Robots
Episode 21: Deepfakes and the Warping of Reality
Episode Twenty: Pondering A Meatless Future
Episode Nineteen: No News Is Not Necessarily Good News
Episode Eighteen: Unpacking the Green New Deal
Episode Seventeen: ERA Maybe
Episode Sixteen: Are We the Sum Total of Our Memories?
Episode Fifteen: Breaking Up (Big Tech) Is Hard to Do
Episode Fourteen: Here’s the Dope on Drug Legalization
Episode Thirteen: Whitewashing the Negro Leagues
Episode Twelve: The Thing About Christmas
Episode Eleven: To Defund the Police, or Not to Defund the Police, That is the Question
Episode Ten: ¿Qué Pasa con the Hispanic Vote?
Episode Nine: The Dodo Bird. The Passenger Pigeon. Movie Theaters?
Episode Eight: Flunking the Electoral College
Episode Seven: What Would Yeezus Do?
Episode Six: Do Western Wildfires = Climate Change?
Episode Five: Just (Don’t) Do It – Political Boycotts in Sports
Episode Four: The Cannibalistic Pedophiles Are Coming!
Episode Three: The Good Old Days of Deadly Flu Pandemics
Episode Two: When The Feds Come A-Knockin’ (On Your Head)