Skip to content
HomeVideosBooksBlogsPodcasts
EpisodesShowsTopics

HistoryListsWatch laterLiked videosFollowing

The videos, books, blogs and podcasts Hacker News keeps recommending, all in one place.

VideosBooksBlogsPodcastsAboutPrivacySettings

Data from Hacker News, HackerTube, HackerBooks, HackerBlogs and Open Library. Credits · Not affiliated with Y Combinator.

HomeVideosBooksBlogsPodcasts
Ctrl K
    Artwork for The Gray Area with Sean Illing
    Episode

    American democracy's structural flaw

    The Gray Area with Sean Illing · Apr 17, 2026 · 39 min

    Back in 2015, before President Donald Trump, before January 6, before all the craziness of the last decade, Matt Yglesias made a blunt prediction: American democracy is doomed. Guest host Zack Beauchamp talks with Matt about what that argument got right, what it missed, and why the real problem might not be any one politician but the structure of the system itself. They get into presidential…

    Related

    • The Metaculus Threat To Democracy Index

      Astral Codex Ten Podcast • Jul 10, 2026 • 10 min
    • Episode 213: The Shallow, Power-Flattering Appeal of High Status #Resistance Historians

      Citations Needed • Dec 4, 2024 • 1 h 20 min
    • Ep 225: How US Media Frames Democracy that Actually Helps People as 'Buying Votes'

      Citations Needed • Jul 23, 2025 • 1 h 04 min
    • Tina Eliassi-Rad on Democracies as Complex Systems

      COMPLEXITY • Dec 13, 2021 • 58 min
    • Are Insurgent Democrats Breaking the Party — or Rebuilding It?

      On with Kara Swisher • Jul 20, 2026 • 55 min
    • Ben Wikler Has a Plan to Save Democracy

      On with Kara Swisher • Jul 23, 2026 • 53 min
    • Trump, One Year In: The 310th Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying

      DarkHorse Podcast • Jan 21, 2026 • 1 h 51 min