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In an excerpt from his new book, ‘The Insider Advantage,’ Wharton’s Matthew Bidwell examines what provides a fulfilling career, as well as which jobs have the highest and lowest job satisfaction.

In “Weimar Germany,” Victor Sebestyen focuses on the populist culture wars that brought an end to popular rule in the fledgling republic.

An OpenAI Insider Explains Why He Quit.

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College degrees hold less value, while jobs in the trades are booming.

Malcolm talks about his new bestselling book The American Way of Killing, the cities of America being under policed comparatively to foreign counterparts, Baltimore being an example of a place that has brought down shootings, murders and arrests. Related book: The American Way of Killing: The Invention of an Epidemic

When companies create products that hurt people, the victims can sue. The legal system allows those who are harmed to seek compensation from those who are responsible. These liability laws are one of the oldest forms of corporate regulation, and an effective one. Liability is a powerful incentive to behave responsibly. It speaks to corporations in a language they understand: Money.

In less than four years, mathematician Steve Strogatz watched AI go from flailing at basic arithmetic to solving problems that baffle the world’s best mathematicians. In September of 2026, Open AI announced it had solved a Millennium Prize Problem, one of math’s highest achievements. In short, mathematics is right now on the cusp of a reckoning that may be coming for all of us. In this episode, Steve grapples with the idea that the window might be closing on humanity’s effort

Blaise Agüera y Arcas argues that function defines life more than material does, and that AI belongs in the same story

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Reihan Salam on why large American cities are often so ineffective at governing themselves and how these cities can deliver better government to their residents.

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