190 Episodes

  1. Progress Check: Catching Up on the News with Zachary Karabell and Emma Varvaloucas

    Published: 4/10/2023

  2. Introducing What’s Your Problem: Building a Plane to Help Save the World

    Published: 23/08/2023

  3. Introducing Smart People Podcast: Lessons From the World’s Longest Scientific Study of Happiness

    Published: 9/08/2023

  4. Introducing Ones and Tooze: Could Green Hydrogen Revolutionize the Energy Sector?

    Published: 26/07/2023

  5. A Look Back and A Look Forward with Zachary Karabell and Emma Varvaloucas

    Published: 21/06/2023

  6. Renovating Our House with Danielle Allen

    Published: 14/06/2023

  7. A Better World with James Pethokoukis

    Published: 7/06/2023

  8. What We Talk About When We Talk About Science with Sara Walker

    Published: 31/05/2023

  9. How to Be Optimistic About America with John Avlon

    Published: 24/05/2023

  10. Ukraine's Counteroffensive with Tim Mak

    Published: 17/05/2023

  11. Demon Drugs and Moral Panics with Maia Szalavitz

    Published: 10/05/2023

  12. Artificial Unintelligence with Baratunde Thurston

    Published: 3/05/2023

  13. Challenging the Consensus on China with Jessica Chen Weiss

    Published: 26/04/2023

  14. Demanding More: Politics in Sub-Saharan Africa with Ebenezer Obadare

    Published: 19/04/2023

  15. The Boys Are Not All Right with Richard Reeves

    Published: 12/04/2023

  16. The Globalization Myth with Shannon O'Neil

    Published: 5/04/2023

  17. How to Create Positive Change with Danielle Moodie and Wajahat Ali

    Published: 29/03/2023

  18. Entangled with Isaac Saul

    Published: 22/03/2023

  19. Bootstrapping the American Dream with Alissa Quart

    Published: 15/03/2023

  20. Government Secrecy with Matthew J. Connelly

    Published: 8/03/2023

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What if instead of being on the brink of disaster, we’re on the cusp of a better world? No one can deny the challenges the world faces, from pandemics to climate change to authoritarianism. But pessimism and despair are too easy a response. Each week, Progress Network Founder Zachary Karabell and Executive Director Emma Varvaloucas convene a diverse panel of experts to discuss the central issues of our era, including sustainability, polarization, work, and the economy, and make the case for a brighter future. They emerge from their conversations with a counterintuitive but informed take: progress is on its way.

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