Plain English with Derek Thompson

298 Episodes

1. Can a Vaccine Cure the World’s Deadliest Cancer?

   Published: 07/03/2025
2. How AI Could Change the Future of Music

   Published: 04/03/2025
3. The End of Reading

   Published: 28/02/2025
4. 'How Progressives Froze the American Dream' (Live)

   Published: 25/02/2025
5. Plain History: The Astonishingly Successful Presidency of James K. Polk

   Published: 21/02/2025
6. The Trump-Musk Doctrine: F-ck Around and Find Out

   Published: 18/02/2025
7. Is There a Scientific Case for Believing in God?

   Published: 14/02/2025
8. Fraud, Scandal, and Failure in the Fight Against Alzheimer's Disease

   Published: 11/02/2025
9. The Energy Story of the Moment: The Unstoppable Rise of Solar Vs. the Unmovable Demand for Global Fossil Fuels

   Published: 07/02/2025
10. The 5 Types of Wealth

    Published: 04/02/2025
11. Are GLP-1 Drugs "the Greatest Medical Breakthrough of the 21st Century"?

    Published: 31/01/2025
12. Tech Talk: AI Supremacy, TikTok’s Fate, and Crypto Decadence

    Published: 24/01/2025
13. Plain History Volume 1: Who Killed President James Garfield?

    Published: 21/01/2025
14. What's the Truth About Alcohol, Cancer, and Your Health?

    Published: 17/01/2025
15. The L.A. Fires: How They Happened, Climate Change’s Role, and What the City Must Do Now

    Published: 14/01/2025
16. ‘The Anti-Social Century’: America’s Epidemic of Solitude—and How to Fix It

    Published: 10/01/2025
17. The Big 2025 Economy Forecast: AI and Big Tech, Nuclear’s Renaissance, Trump vs. China, and What’s Eating Europe?

    Published: 07/01/2025
18. The Year's Biggest Breakthroughs in Science and Tech (Feat.: OK, But Seriously, What Is Quantum Computing?)

    Published: 31/12/2024
19. A Mysterious Health Wave Is Breaking Out Across the U.S.

    Published: 27/12/2024
20. The Productivity Paradox: Why Less Is More With Oliver Burkeman

    Published: 20/12/2024