The Human Progress Podcast
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- The Costs of Holding Back AI | Kristian Stout | Ep. 87 · 50 minArtificial intelligence promises to transform the economy, boost productivity, and expand human capabilities. But fears of mass unemployment, catastrophic risks, and the rapid…
- Agency and the Making of History | Martin Seligman | Ep. 86 · 59 minWhy do some civilizations flourish while others stagnate? Martin Seligman, a psychologist, author, and founder of the modern positive psychology movement, suggests that the…
- The Mental Health Paradox | Jonathan Alpert | Ep. 85 · 47 minAmericans 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 entered…
- Growth vs. Redistribution in the Fight Against Poverty | Kevin Corinth | Ep. 84 · 52 minThe United States has spent decades trying to reduce poverty through an expanding social safety net. But how much of the country’s progress against poverty is thanks to that…
- How Markets Make Us Better People | Walker Wright | Ep. 83 · 1 h 10 minOur research fellow Chelsea Follett speaks with Walker Wright about the moral character of markets, the relationship between economic freedom and good behavior, the effects of…
- Progress and the Price System | Brian Albrecht | Ep. 82 · 1 h 0 minOur editor Marian Tupy speaks with economist Brian Albrecht about the role of prices in modern prosperity. They discuss why price controls fail, whether scarcity can ever truly…
- The Myth of American Decline | Michael Strain | Ep. 81 · 55 minOur 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…
- Rethinking the Gilded Age | Brian Domitrovic | Ep. 80 · 35 minThe 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…
- The System That Feeds Us | Jan Dutkiewicz | Ep. 79 · 55 minThe 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…
- What Climate Science Really Says | Roger Pielke Jr. | Ep. 78 · 56 minRoger 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 · 59 minSamuel 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…
- Meaning and Morality in the Modern Age | Steven Pinker | Ep. 76 · 1 h 3 minSteven 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 · 1 h 12 minOur 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…
- Environmentalism Without Degrowth | Zion Lights | Ep. 74 · 1 h 10 minEnvironmentalists often claim that solving climate change requires scarcity: less energy, less consumption, and less economic growth. Zion Lights, a former radical…
- The Pattern Behind History's Golden Ages | Johan Norberg | Ep. 73 · 59 minJohan Norberg examines the conditions that create human flourishing and why golden ages so often come to an end. Buy his book, Peak Human.
- The Misdiagnosis of American Mental Health | Chris Ferguson | Ep. 72 · 1 h 17 minPsychologist Chris Ferguson joins Adam Omary to discuss American mental health, cognitive biases, and the dangers of narrative overreach. Buy his book, Catastrophe!: How…
- American Poverty Is a Measurement Problem | Scott Winship | Ep. 71 · 1 h 1 minScott Winship joins Marian Tupy to discuss how bad measurement choices distort the picture of poverty and inequality in the United States.
- The New Right Manufactures Misery | Yaron Brook | Ep. 70 · 54 minYaron Brook joins Marian Tupy to discuss the pessimistic populism of the New Right.
- Milei Midterms: An Update on Argentina | Marcos Falcone | Ep. 69 · 54 minPolicy analyst Marcos Falcone joins Chelsea Follett to discuss Milei’s recent electoral success and the economic reforms he might pursue using this new political leverage.
- How Liberty Made Progress Possible | Peter Boettke | Ep. 68 · 1 h 12 minPeter Boettke joins Marian Tupy to examine the institutional foundations of the modern world. Check out his book, The Historical Path to Liberty and Human Progress.
