# Galaxy Brain A podcast by The Atlantic. The internet has warped public life: Politicians behave like influencers, the economy resembles a casino, and people can no longer agree upon a consensus reality. New conspiracy theories, memes, and main characters seem to pop up every day. A constant war is on for your attention, and it’s easy to feel lost. Each week, Galaxy Brain and its host Charlie Warzel invite you into conversations to make sense of the online fire hose. Is AI destroying our ability to think? Do your grandparents have a screen-time problem? Galaxy Brain looks beyond the algorithm and anchors you to the real—however strange it may be. Feed: https://feeds.megaphone.fm/galaxybrain ## Latest episodes - [The Armageddon Economy](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1378618386/16f4ca666cab) (2026-10-23, 53 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL3110367736.mp3 - [What ‘Grand Theft Auto’ Tells Us About America](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1378618386/451be0a2492a) (2026-10-16, 56 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL3932317734.mp3 - [Is Crypto Dead? Or More Influential Than Ever?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1378618386/df58e62120fd) (2026-10-09, 52 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL2145246328.mp3 - [An Argument Against AI Doom](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1378618386/8aba6ee8e4da) (2026-10-02, 60 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL3429044535.mp3 - [We’re All Being Recorded. What Do We Do About It?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1378618386/5ec2c1253825) (2026-09-25, 55 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL1730659202.mp3 - [Lina Khan on the AI-Safety Panic](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1378618386/9d26978502db) (2026-09-18, 35 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL8067606385.mp3 - [Is AI Writing Inevitable?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1378618386/fa58b00ccd83) (2026-09-11, 47 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL8466306241.mp3 - [The Singularity Is Not What It Seems](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1378618386/3f94c3b02581) (2026-09-07, 20 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL4303189074.mp3 - [Why So Many Men Are Unraveling](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1378618386/6c1a8eaa57b5) (2026-09-04, 51 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL5697116636.mp3 - [Welcome to the Scrolling Backlash](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1378618386/7fecba37c0ca) (2026-08-28, 70 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL6188947424.mp3 - [How Social Media Makes Our Lives Smaller](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1378618386/e9d65384cf70) (2026-08-07, 52 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL1130612369.mp3 - [The Former ‘Voice of Google’ Speaks Out](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1378618386/46fe4817d67b) (2026-07-31, 53 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL5705296785.mp3 - [Why AI Is Making Things More Expensive](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1378618386/d27d177c3a70) (2026-07-24, 42 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL3458637279.mp3 - [How the World Cup Finally Won Over America](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1378618386/93c6ac1f7ced) (2026-07-17, 34 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL5673397341.mp3 - [The Hidden Cost of Optimizing Everything](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1378618386/67bc2d58d182) (2026-07-10, 46 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL2685548897.mp3 - [What Do We Do About Elon Musk?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1378618386/c248f95a756a) (2026-07-03, 50 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL1534628206.mp3 - [Why Reading Feels So Hard Now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1378618386/d96d7ab04e96) (2026-06-26, 47 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL7642605977.mp3 - [How to Think About AI Before It’s Too Late](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1378618386/5e47a2c345aa) (2026-06-19, 49 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL7756822249.mp3 - [Jomboy on Robot Umpires and the Future of Baseball](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1378618386/d975fffefaf8) (2026-06-12, 39 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL7436240095.mp3 - [How to Win Elections in the Attention Economy](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1378618386/dba86edb8958) (2026-06-05, 44 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL9079697014.mp3 - [Why Everyone Hates AI Data Centers](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1378618386/171ea4e18959) (2026-05-29, 43 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL6132574968.mp3 - [How Dropout Cracked Internet Comedy](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1378618386/35b98464c74c) (2026-05-22, 43 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL2666089975.mp3 - [Chris Hayes on Calibrating Your AI Anxiety](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1378618386/eeebe6a7bf9c) (2026-05-15, 48 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL2772317561.mp3?updated=1778782369 - [Flipping Off Phones](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1378618386/df3ebb04ef0b) (2026-05-08, 53 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL6926466340.mp3?updated=1778184873 - [Did a Human Write This?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1378618386/3ade4d142bf1) (2026-05-01, 52 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL8641575636.mp3?updated=1777572932 - [How Short-Form Clips Took Over the Internet](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1378618386/d1260285af4f) (2026-04-24, 44 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL6808796140.mp3?updated=1776973123 - [Breaking Free From Alex Jones](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1378618386/a8bad61470bd) (2026-04-17, 59 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL9370388241.mp3?updated=1776371959 - [Your Favorite Influencer Might Be AI](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1378618386/966a792b89dc) (2026-04-10, 47 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL1398341170.mp3?updated=1775752925 - [Is AI Going to Turn Us All Into Middle Managers?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1378618386/bdfe93caa14b) (2026-04-03, 51 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL1798722339.mp3?updated=1775085914 - [What Is Twitter’s Legacy, 20 Years Later?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1378618386/4406cd91b9fd) (2026-03-27, 57 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL5421959138.mp3?updated=1774558547 - [How AI Is Reshaping the Battlefield](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1378618386/aed60f3c1723) (2026-03-20, 39 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL9613595821.mp3?updated=1773946667 - [Why Is It So Hard to Make a Good Weather App?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1378618386/2a486a6a5b1b) (2026-03-13, 36 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL8278656575.mp3?updated=1773350072 - [Did Netflix Ruin Movies?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1378618386/97daf3c4d5cf) (2026-03-06, 43 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL8444401762.mp3?updated=1772752199 - [What Do the People Building AI Believe?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1378618386/24f1365572b7) (2026-02-27, 37 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL4124594390.mp3?updated=1772140482 - [The AI-Panic Cycle—And What’s Actually Different Now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1378618386/05faad80c54c) (2026-02-20, 47 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL5221244112.mp3?updated=1771544406 - [King Gizzard, Spotify, and the Future of Music](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1378618386/b459253f94ee) (2026-02-13, 43 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL4415382019.mp3?updated=1770928484 - [The Manosphere Breaks Containment](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1378618386/fbdfd019a51c) (2026-02-06, 48 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL7393331845.mp3?updated=1770404154 - [How to Be a Citizen in the Information War (And Stay Sane)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1378618386/e5e612ed6047) (2026-01-30, 47 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL9294543806.mp3?updated=1769719574 - [ICE Is Turning Real Conflict Into Viral Content](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1378618386/e24ba320eb9b) (2026-01-23, 49 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL7798692103.mp3?updated=1769141986 - [The Internet Was Built to Objectify Women](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1378618386/1ab6c2af64bb) (2026-01-16, 40 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL2418989128.mp3?updated=1768521289 - [Grok’s "Digital Undressing" Crisis and a Manifesto to Build a Better Internet](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1378618386/e3ebc98b0b27) (2026-01-09, 76 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL8945527313.mp3?updated=1767911208 - [The New Mainstream Media](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1378618386/b56f53d0f637) (2026-01-02, 65 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL4424427836.mp3?updated=1767310667 - [Are Your Parents Addicted to Their Screens?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1378618386/10a93898a93c) (2025-12-26, 59 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL2428928431.mp3?updated=1766584530 - [Bonus Episode: Reacting to the Epstein Files’ Release](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1378618386/7923de9ca275) (2025-12-20, 73 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL3776887276.mp3?updated=1766252664 - [Prediction Markets and the ‘Suckerifcation’ Crisis With Max Read](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1378618386/bc9db56ab7c7) (2025-12-19, 55 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL9843644271.mp3?updated=1766080768 - [How YouTube Ate Podcasts and TV, With Rachel Martin, Ashley Carman, and Derek Thompson](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1378618386/903a8b533199) (2025-12-12, 64 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL4143523984.mp3?updated=1765492318 - [When Chatbots Break Our Minds, With Kashmir Hill](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1378618386/5c0c0dbd9298) (2025-12-05, 62 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL6299389468.mp3?updated=1764890564 - [America’s Slide Toward Simulated Democracy With Eliot Higgins](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1378618386/58bbb060ebed) (2025-11-28, 59 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL3743937230.mp3?updated=1764188983 - [Are Sports the Most Valuable Commodity in the World? With Pablo Torre](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1378618386/993a60d82054) (2025-11-21, 51 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL6959252888.mp3?updated=1763655154 - [The Internet Is a Misery Machine With Hank Green](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1378618386/0f3de4524fd6) (2025-11-14, 57 min): audio https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ATL7865471479.mp3?updated=1763059195 Shows are listed from Apple Podcasts' charts and directory, and Podcast Index where it is used. Every show and episode belongs to its publisher and plays from the publisher's own feed; this site hosts none of them.