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Everything Is Television
A theory of culture and attention
Oct 10
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Self-Driving Cars Are Miracle Drugs. (Plus: Is the Youth Cancer Epidemic a Myth?)
Welcome back to The Sunday Morning Post.
Oct 5
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This Is How the AI Bubble Will Pop
The artificial intelligence boom is the most important economic story in the world. But the numbers just don't add up.
Oct 2
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September 2025
Why Are Liberals More Depressed?
Mental health, ideology, and the psycho-politics of the future
Sep 30
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TSMP: If Placebos Work So Well, Why Not Prescribe Sugar Pills For Everything?
A Sunday Morning Post about the strange wonder of placebo effects in medicine and society, with brief appearances by Indiana Jones and William James
Sep 28
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The End of Thinking
The rise of AI's "thinking" machines is not the problem. The decline of thinking people is.
Sep 24
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The 25 Most Interesting Ideas I've Found in 2025 (So Far)
Charts and history lessons—across culture, politics, AI, economics, health, science, and the long story of progress
Sep 18
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All the Sad Young Terminally Online Men
Political violence is like a lightning bolt: sudden, surprising, seemingly random, yet always emerging from a local weather system. Do not forget that…
Sep 15
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The Age of Diagnosis: How the Over-Medicalization Of Everything Makes Us Sick, Anxious, and Lost
Or: Why does it seem like every psychological condition is an "epidemic" these days?
Sep 12
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Trump’s Formula to Conquer the Economy, the Colleges, and Everything Else
Step one: Create pain. Step two: Demand tribute. Step three: Repeat.
Sep 10
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What’s Happening to the Economy Is Obvious to Anyone Paying Attention
This is the road to stagflation
Sep 6
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The Boring Truth About Why America Got Fat
The truth about calories, ultra-processed food, and why “myth-busting” media sometimes makes more myths
Sep 5
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