Welcome to The Podcast Reader, a new publication for the intellectually curious and those open to new ideas, featuring selected transcripts of the world’s best longform podcasts. From the overwhelming volume of podcast content, we’ve chosen the highlights for you. Longform podcasts are an important new media, but the excellent content they create is underappreciated. It’s easy to be distracted when listening to them. Interesting details can be missed, especially when episodes are long, and if you’re finding part of a conversation uninteresting, there are no practical ways to ‘skim’ the material. Our printed podcast transcripts make it easier to focus on key points and follow complex ideas
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The Power of Quitting • Why you need kill criteria
What Do We Owe the Future? • Why we ought to be moral
The Dangers of Social Media • How can we raise anti-fragile children?
The History of Inequality is a Political History • Prosperity and equality come together
The Art of Presidential Speechwriting • Where does public policy really come from?
A Glimpse Into the Frontier of Astrophysics • On searching for black holes with pulsars
The Pursuit of Happiness
On Death and Reading