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Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey' is finally here, but how exactly has a 3,000-year-old story endured long enough to become the foundation of Western storytelling? Derek is joined by Karen Ní Mheallaigh, chair of Classics at Johns Hopkins University, to explore the mysterious ori ...  Show more

Why does it feel like everything is more divided and exhausting than it used to be? Philosopher Agnes Callard has a surprisingly simple answer: the unicontext. It's her term for what happens when billions of people are all forced to inhabit the same global conversation through th ...  Show more

What happens when the world’s most powerful man falls out with its richest? Our correspondent analyses where the <a href="https://www.economist.com/united-states/2025/06/02/elon-musks-failure-in-government?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcast.np&utm_source=theintelligenc ...

RFK Jr. adviser Calley Means explains why so many Americans are suspicious of food and pharma companies, and what the HHS secretary nominee plans to do about it if he's confirmed. This episode was produced by Miles Bryan, edited by Jolie Myers, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and A ...  Show more