Half the Answer, episode 89

Source: Liberal Currents

“How did sports betting burst onto the scene so violently in the last half-decade? Danny Funt, author of Everybody Loses: The Tumultuous Rise of American Sports Gambling, explains the legal, regulatory and business changes that have led us here.” (06/24/26)

https://www.liberalcurrents.com/the-legalization-of-sports-gambling-in-america-half-the-answer-89-with-danny-funt/

Reasonably Optimistic, 06/24/26

Source: Washington Post

“Host Megan McArdle talks with culture writer Kat Rosenfield about how dating apps, therapy-speak and online gender wars have changed romance — making flirtation feel risky, rejection feel catastrophic and desire feel suspect. They discuss the lost art of approaching people in real life, what older courtship norms got right and Rosenfield’s new novel, ‘How to Survive in the Woods.’” (06/24/26)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/impromptu/modern-dating-is-miserable-can-it-be-fixed/