Zineb Riboua(@zriboua):A sign of the uniformization and homogenization of the human spirit. People are so horrified of offending, transgressing and challenging common wisdom that they’re forcing themselves to just swallow it. Podcasts are very quick and easy for that.

2026.05.19 00:22

A sign of the uniformization and homogenization of the human spirit. People are so horrified of offending, transgressing and challenging common wisdom that they’re forcing themselves to just swallow it. Podcasts are very quick and easy for that.

Derek Thompson@DKThomp

2026.05.18 15:28

"Dad books" — which this article, and some publishing insiders, use to describe "serious nonfiction" books across biography, current affairs and business and economics — are reportedly in a free fall, with sales declining every year for the last few years “The trend couldn’t be clearer,” said Jonathan Karp, the former chief executive of Simon & Schuster and publisher of the new Simon Six imprint. “When we have internal meetings to talk about this problem, it always comes around to podcasts,” said Jonathan Burnham, president and publisher of the Harper Group at HarperCollins Publishers.