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Why do some civilizations flourish while others stagnate? Martin Seligman, a psychologist, author, and founder of the modern positive psychology movement, suggests that the answer may lie not just in institutions or technology, but in what…
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August 18, 2026 · 1 hr 11 min

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Progress and the Price System | Brian Albrecht | Ep. 82

July 31, 2026 · 1 hr 1 min

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The Myth of American Decline | Michael Strain | Ep. 81

July 10, 2026 · 55 min

Our managing editor Chelsea Follett speaks with economist Michael Strain about the myth of American decline and the dangers of populism. They discuss the rise of populism on the left and right, the evidence that American living standards…
Rethinking the Gilded Age | Brian Domitrovic | Ep. 80

June 12, 2026 · 35 min

The Gilded Age has become one of the most common analogies for our own time, invoked as shorthand for economic inequality and political corruption. But that comparison misses much of what made the period extraordinary. After the Civil War…
The System That Feeds Us | Jan Dutkiewicz | Ep. 79

May 26, 2026 · 55 min

The industrial food system is often treated as a symbol of everything people distrust about modernity: too processed, too corporate, too artificial, and too detached from land and labor. That critique obscures one of the greatest…
What Climate Science Really Says | Roger Pielke Jr. | Ep. 78

May 8, 2026 · 56 min

Roger Pielke Jr. joins Marian Tupy to discuss the latest climate research and how to think clearly about climate change.
America's Turn Against Markets | Samuel Gregg | Ep. 77

April 24, 2026 · 59 min

Samuel Gregg joins Chelsea Follett to discuss the rise of a more interventionist economic consensus and the case for markets in modern America. Check out his book, The Next American Economy: Nation, State, and Markets in an Uncertain…
Meaning and Morality in the Modern Age | Steven Pinker | Ep. 76

March 24, 2026 · 1 hr 3 min

Steven Pinker joins Marian Tupy to discuss the so-called "crisis of meaning," the decline of religion, and what can give life purpose in a modern, largely secular world.
Discontent in the Age of Plenty | Brink Lindsey | Ep. 75

February 27, 2026 · 1 hr 12 min

Our editor Marian Tupy speaks with writer and policy scholar Brink Lindsey about his new book The Permanent Problem: The Uncertain Transition from Mass Plenty to Mass Flourishing. They discuss why material abundance produces…