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Not a Bad 100 Days, But ...
April 14, 2026
Not a Bad 100 Days, But ...
April 14, 2026

Is Mayor Mamdani's first hundred days as mayor a genuine reason for celebration, or just a decent start before the hard part kicks in? Bradley gives the mayor real credit for focusing on the operational stuff that actually matters to New Yorkers, but says that if he's serious about running this city, he should start making the case for bringing the subways and buses back under city control, the way Bloomberg brought the schools back under mayoral control in 2002.

April 14, 2026
Crypto in a Collared Shirt
April 9, 2026
Crypto in a Collared Shirt
April 9, 2026

Amid meme coins, scams, and scary price swings, something more consequential is quietly happening in the crypto world: stablecoins are offering a faster, cheaper way to transact — the original promise that Bitcoin made but never quite delivered on.

April 9, 2026
Too Smart for Our Own Good
April 7, 2026
Too Smart for Our Own Good
April 7, 2026

What if we human beings are an evolutionary anomaly, a species that discovered how to destroy ourselves before we learned how not to?

April 7, 2026
Can You Be Good and Great?
April 2, 2026
Can You Be Good and Great?
April 2, 2026

Sebastian Mallaby, author of The Infinity Machine, joins Bradley to argue that Demis Hassabis may be the rarest breed: a Nobel Prize-winning scientist and world-changing CEO who cares deeply about safety.

April 2, 2026
It's Way Too Early for the Horse Race
March 31, 2026
It's Way Too Early for the Horse Race
March 31, 2026

We all need to stop worrying about who the Democrats will nominate in 2028, argues Bradley.

March 31, 2026
Is Business Waking Up from Its 30-Year Nap?
March 19, 2026
Is Business Waking Up from Its 30-Year Nap?
March 19, 2026

One big reason that the Left has grown so powerful in the city, Bradley argues, is that the Partnership for New York — the group that should have been fighting for centrist, pro-business interests — never showed any inclination to play politics.

March 19, 2026
Am I Too Hard on the Left?
March 17, 2026
Am I Too Hard on the Left?
March 17, 2026

Progressives make life hard on the rest of us, Bradley argues, by claiming to champion the poorest Americans while supporting policies that reflect their own biases and selfishness.

March 17, 2026
The Plague of Zero-Sum People
March 10, 2026
The Plague of Zero-Sum People
March 10, 2026

Why do a small minority of selfish, fear-mongering people wield so much power over the rest of us?

March 10, 2026
Man with a Scan
March 5, 2026
Man with a Scan
March 5, 2026

Bradley sits down with Andrew Lacy, founder and CEO of Prenuvo, to explore how full-body MRI scans are shifting healthcare from reactive to proactive — and why that shift could be the most important change in medicine today.

March 5, 2026
Anthropic Loses the Battle
March 2, 2026
Anthropic Loses the Battle
March 2, 2026

But in taking a principled stand against the Pentagon and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, it will gain valuable trust with customers, argues Bradley, and that means winning the war.

March 2, 2026
The Radical Rest
February 24, 2026
The Radical Rest
February 24, 2026

"We don't need purity," says Bradley. "We don't need saviors." The remaking of our institutions starts from the middle, he argues, which has a lot of untapped power against the extremes on both sides.

February 24, 2026
What is a Museum For?
February 18, 2026
What is a Museum For?
February 18, 2026

Calling in from Istanbul, Bradley opens with impressions of a historically rich but complicated city — ancient cisterns, street cats, a shady taxi driver, and bomb-proof doors on a synagogue.

February 18, 2026
A Bold Prediction About Prediction Markets
February 12, 2026
A Bold Prediction About Prediction Markets
February 12, 2026

Why are the biggest names in venture betting big on prediction markets? Aaron Miller, principal at Will Ventures, joins Bradley to talk about the evolution of platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket into a new kind of financial exchange and societal "source of truth."

February 12, 2026
I Want to Give Up All the Time
February 10, 2026
I Want to Give Up All the Time
February 10, 2026

Everybody fails, doubts themselves and encounters unexpected obstacles on the path to whatever they're trying to achieve.

February 10, 2026
Who Knew AI Was This Terrible at Math?
February 3, 2026
Who Knew AI Was This Terrible at Math?
February 3, 2026

What do you get when you ask five AI platforms to crunch some numbers and help solve an investment decision for you?

February 3, 2026
Live from P&T Knitwear: Of Platforms and Politics
January 29, 2026
Live from P&T Knitwear: Of Platforms and Politics
January 29, 2026

In the 1990s, we were promised that the internet was going to decentralize wealth and power. How did we end up with what feels like the exact opposite of that?

January 29, 2026
How to Stand Up to a Bully
January 27, 2026
How to Stand Up to a Bully
January 27, 2026

Bradley assesses the strange predicament of the middle power in a zero-sum world.

January 27, 2026
The Manchurian Economy
January 20, 2026
The Manchurian Economy
January 20, 2026

Bradley walks through his “Manchurian Economy” thesis—tariffs, intimidation of speech and IP, politicizing the Fed and federal data, choking immigration and R&D, and the broader slide toward rule-of-law instability.

January 20, 2026
Live from P&T: A Boyhood Dream Comes True
January 15, 2026
Live from P&T: A Boyhood Dream Comes True
January 15, 2026

Steve Somers, the beloved Shmoozer on WFAN and author of a new memoir Me Here, You There, joined Bradley and his longtime producer Paul Rosenberg for a live conversation late last year at P&T Knitwear

January 15, 2026
The Power Grab
January 13, 2026
The Power Grab
January 13, 2026

What will trigger the fiercest backlash to the AI boom? Rather than job losses or generative-AI weirdness, says Bradley, it'll be data centers and their insatiable appetite for electricity.

January 13, 2026
A Weird Thing About Happiness
January 6, 2026
A Weird Thing About Happiness
January 6, 2026

For the first episode of 2026, Bradley explores the hard choices that lead to contentment over the long run, resisting the dopamine loop of money and status in favor of purpose, perspective and love.

January 6, 2026
Bradley goes Rogan
December 23, 2025
Bradley goes Rogan
December 23, 2025

Buckle up for this super-sized episode as Bradley and Alex take on abundance v. zero-sum thinking, the limits of capitalism, the purpose of religion, where higher education is heading (off a cliff, of course, but how high?), what roles AI can never take away from us and why humans are powerless in the presence of babies and dogs.

December 23, 2025
The Prosperity Riddle
December 18, 2025
The Prosperity Riddle
December 18, 2025

Daniel Wortel-London, author of The Menace of Prosperity: New York City and the Struggle for Economic Development, 1865–1981, joins Bradley to unpack a century of economic policy, arguing that elites have often undermined cities even as they claimed to save them—and that smarter, more inclusive development is still possible.

December 18, 2025
What Was the Weirdest Book You Thoroughly Loved?
December 16, 2025
What Was the Weirdest Book You Thoroughly Loved?
December 16, 2025

For Bradley, it was Blob: A Love Story by Maggie Su.

December 16, 2025
The New Rules of Power in New York
December 11, 2025
The New Rules of Power in New York
December 11, 2025

Drawing on the months of reporting he did for The New Yorker, Staff Writer Eric Lach walks through how Mamdani’s campaign rewrote the playbook on field organizing, social media, and “politics you can see” in the streets — rather than the "politics you can't see" in back rooms.

December 11, 2025
Forecast: Tech and Politics in 2026
December 9, 2025
Forecast: Tech and Politics in 2026
December 9, 2025

Bradley makes 12 bold predictions about next year, focusing on the tidal wave of AI regulation hitting state legislatures, why electricity prices will soar and put incumbents in a major bind, the inevitable mishandling of mental-health chatbots, how all the politicians rushing to copy Mamdani's short-form videos are going to create one hell of a blooper reel, and much more.

December 9, 2025
How the Middle Fell Out of Venture Capital
December 2, 2025
How the Middle Fell Out of Venture Capital
December 2, 2025

Bradley walks through the changing VC landscape, using his own fund history as Exhibit A, and going into detail on his return to an “equity for services” model.

December 2, 2025
The Superpower of Being Regular
November 25, 2025
The Superpower of Being Regular
November 25, 2025

Governor Kathy Hochul’s real edge isn’t charisma or disruption, says Bradley, but a deeply “regular” superpower - backing things like universal school meals, subway security, phone bans in schools, childcare tax credits, and a crackdown on shoplifting simply because normal people want them.

November 25, 2025
Dare to Be Reasonable
November 20, 2025
Dare to Be Reasonable
November 20, 2025

Bradley talks to Oliver Libby — venture investor, civic reform advocate, and co-founder of The Resolution Project — about his new book Strong Floor, No Ceiling: Building a New Foundation for the American Dream.

November 20, 2025
A Massive Week for Mobile Voting
November 18, 2025
A Massive Week for Mobile Voting
November 18, 2025

While the Mobile Voting Project posted its open-source code to GitHub, where it is available for any jurisdiction to use, the New York Times ran a front-page, above-the-fold story on Anchorage utilizing it for elections next spring.

November 18, 2025