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Plain English with Derek Thompson
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About Plain English with Derek Thompson
Plain English with Derek Thompson is a podcast with 399 episodes in the PodLexicon database, each accompanied by a full searchable transcript and AI-generated summary. PodLexicon indexes every episode of Plain English with Derek Thompson and turns each one into a searchable AI summary — find the episode that covers a topic, track how that topic evolved over time, or compare what different guests said about it.
Topics Covered on Plain English with Derek Thompson
America's Shift from Alcohol to Cannabis History and Legalization of Cannabis Commercialization, Potency, and Product Change Consumer Behavior: Frequency, Age, and Purpose Health and Safety Risks Policy Alternatives Beyond Commercial Legalization Alcohol, Cannabis, and Social Life Economic Roots of Campus Wokeness
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Recent Episodes
Why Everything Is Going to Keep Getting More Expensive — August 25, 2026Higher Education’s Age of ‘Insufferable Hypocrisy’ — August 18, 2026It May Be Time to Freak Out About AI — August 14, 2026Why Americans Hate Data Centers — August 11, 2026Why America Is Switching From Booze to Weed — August 05, 2026"The End of Reading Is Here" — July 28, 2026What Translator Emily Wilson Thinks of Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey' — July 22, 2026Why 'The Odyssey' Is the West’s Greatest Story — July 17, 2026A Philosopher’s One-Word Theory for Why the World Feels So Weird — July 14, 2026How Israel Is Transforming American Politics — July 07, 2026MEGAPOD: The Most Overrated American Who Ever Lived — July 03, 2026A Surprising Theory About the Future of War — June 30, 2026SpaceX, AI Bubble Fears, and The Age of the Trillion-Dollar, Zero-Profit Company — June 26, 2026The Iran War Is Ending. Everybody Lost. — June 23, 2026The Donald Trump Corruption Scandal Draft — June 19, 2026The Most Exciting Month of Medical Breakthroughs in Years — June 16, 2026Old-igarchy: How the Elderly Conquered American Power — June 12, 2026How Modern Fatherhood Is Changing Men’s Brains — June 09, 2026What 400,000 Essays Reveal About AI and Creativity — June 05, 2026The Surprising Truth About America's Friendship Crisis — June 02, 2026Why the NBA Feels Broken—and Why the League Can’t Fix It — May 29, 2026The Men Who Think Toxic Feminism Destroyed America — May 22, 2026Does Anybody Know How to Solve an American Debt Crisis? — May 19, 2026The Global Fertility Crisis Is Worse Than You Think — May 15, 2026The Case Against the AI Job Apocalypse — May 12, 2026Why American Happiness Just Fell Off a Cliff — May 08, 2026One of the Deadliest Cancers in America May Have Met Its Match — May 05, 2026Why Too Much Freedom Is the Enemy of Success — May 01, 2026Why the Iran War Is Tearing MAGA Apart — April 28, 2026The Triple Crisis That’s Breaking Hollywood—and Changing the Future of Movies — April 24, 2026The Most Powerful and Dangerous AI Model Yet — April 21, 2026The Whole World Is Fighting About Energy — April 14, 2026‘The Job Market for Young People Is Brutal’ — April 10, 2026America's Religious Revival Is a Mirage — April 08, 2026Is China the Winner of the Iran War? — April 03, 2026Why We're Addicted to ‘Sh*tty Flow’ — March 31, 2026Anthropic Thinks AI Might Destroy the Economy. It's Building It Anyway. — March 27, 2026America's Tax System Is Broken — March 24, 2026The Casino-ification of America — March 20, 2026"Yes, AI Is a Bubble. There Is No Question." — March 17, 2026The Pill That Works Even When You Know It's Fake — March 13, 2026The Economic Crisis of the Iran War Goes Far Beyond Oil — March 10, 2026"American Democracy as We Know It Might Not Survive This Technology" — March 09, 2026Trump Is Doubling Down on Iran. How Should Democrats Respond? — March 06, 2026The Four Ways That the Iran War Could End — March 03, 2026How Metrics Make Us Miserable — February 27, 2026The Future of GLP-1 Drugs and AI Medicine, With Eli Lilly CEO David Ricks — February 24, 2026The Supreme Court Strikes Down Trump’s Tariffs. Now What? — February 21, 2026The Media Theory That Explains “99% of Everything” — February 17, 2026"America Isn’t Ready for What AI Will Do to Jobs" — February 13, 2026
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