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Podcast: EconTalk (LS 69 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: The Great Fertility Collapse (with Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde)Pub date: 2026-10-12Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationFor the first time in human history, we're not having enough children to keep the world's population from falling. And fertility is collapsing fastest not in rich nations but...

Podcast: The Gray Area with Sean Illing (LS 74 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)Episode: Our gender dividePub date: 2026-10-12Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationWhat happens to a society when its members become increasingly wary of one another, and relationships break down based on gender lines?In today’s episode, guest host Christine Emba speaks with...

Podcast: Plain English with Derek Thompson (LS 62 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)Episode: America’s Crisis of Social Connection, With Adam GrantPub date: 2026-10-13Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationAmericans spend more time alone than ever, as parties, nights out with friends, and dinner gatherings become less common. Cellphones, social media, TV, and...

Podcast: The Human Progress Podcast (LS 32 · TOP 5% what is this?)Episode: The Mental Health Paradox | Jonathan Alpert | Ep. 85Pub date: 2026-09-30Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationAmericans have never been more aware of mental health. Therapy is more accessible, psychiatric diagnoses are more common, and the language of trauma and self-care has...

Podcast: HistoryExtra podcast (LS 70 · TOP 0.05% what is this?)Episode: The German Peasants' War: a summer of fire and bloodPub date: 2025-09-28Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationThe German Peasants' War of 1524-5 was the largest popular uprising in western Europe before the French Revolution. Thousands flocked to its cause as it swept across vast...

Podcast: Chicago Booth Review Podcast (LS 37 · TOP 2.5% what is this?)Episode: Why are refugees more likely to be entrepreneurs?Pub date: 2024-07-03Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn the US, 13 percent of refugees become entrepreneurs, compared to 9 percent of Americans born in the US. In this episode we hear from Andrew Leon Hanna, a Chicago...

Podcast: ChinaTalk (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: China's Economy is Broken | Logan WrightPub date: 2026-09-28Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationAfter the global financial crisis, China added a third of global GDP to its bank assets in just eight years... the largest single-country credit expansion in at least a century. Today investment is...

Podcast: The Next Big Idea (LS 59 · TOP 0.1% what is this?)Episode: The One Word That Explains ProgressPub date: 2026-10-01Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationMartin Seligman founded the positive psychology movement. Now, at 84, he’s shaking up the field all over again. He’s got a new book out. It’s called Agency. And in it, he says, he’s trying to...

Podcast: The Book Club (LS 49 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Matthew Sweet: The Great DictatorPub date: 2026-10-06Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIn this week’s Book Club podcast, Sam Leith is joined by author Matthew Sweet to discuss his new biography, The Great Dictator, about the bestselling novelist Barbara Cartland.They explore the...

Podcast: The Gray Area with Sean Illing (LS 74 · TOP 0.01% what is this?)Episode: Is it bad to want to be rich?Pub date: 2026-10-05Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationIs wanting to be rich selfish? Does making money require exploiting other people? Or can the pursuit of wealth actually benefit society?In this episode guest host Sally Herships speaks...