The Next Big Idea
The Next Big Idea is a weekly series of in-depth interviews with the world’s leading thinkers. Join hosts Rufus Griscom and Caleb Bissinger — along with our curators, Malcolm Gladwell, Adam Grant, Susan Cain, and Daniel Pink — for conversations that might just change the way you see the world. New episodes every Thursday.
Latest Episode
‘It’s a Real Company Run by Fake People’ (15.01.2026)
Previous Episodes
- CRYPTO: Is It Quietly Transforming the Global Economy?
- Why the Blockchain Is Still Critical to Our Future
- Reading Rewired the Human Brain. What Happens If We Stop Doing It?
- How to Make Your Holiday Gatherings Memorable
- FLOURISH: Daniel Coyle on the Art and Science of Feeling Alive
- Kari Leibowitz Loves Winter (And You Can Too)
- Best Of: How Successful Groups Work
- AI and the Future of the University
- Best Of: David Brooks on the Art of Seeing Others Deeply
- STRONG GROUND: Brené Brown on the Daring Leadership the World Needs Now
- Brené Brown on courageous leadership (from ReThinking with Adam Grant)
- Walter Isaacson on The Greatest Sentence Ever Written
- Best Of: Decoding Elon Musk
- Andrew Ross Sorkin: What the Crash of 1929 Says About Today
- Atlantic CEO Nick Thompson on What Running Can Teach Us
- COMMON KNOWLEDGE: Steven Pinker on Awkward Dates, Cancel Culture and the Necessity of Norms
- A Food Crisis Is Brewing. Are We Ready?
- The Future Is Going to Be Great
- PRIMAL INTELLIGENCE: You’re Smarter Than You Realize
- STEVEN PINKER: How Common Knowledge and Rationality Make the World Go Round
Other podcasts
-
Today's Top Tune
-
Armchair Explorer: Travel and Adventure Inspiration
-
In The Beginning: A Bible Story for the Girlies
-
KQED's Perspectives
-
Love to See It with Emma and Claire
-
Not Another D&D Podcast
-
The Cabin
-
Japanese podcast for beginners (Nihongo con Teppei)
-
DeGrads
-
CBS Mornings on the Go
-
The Prince Mixtape
-
60 Minutes
-
Suze Orman's Women & Money (And Everyone Smart Enough To Listen)
-
The Martin Garrix Show
-
Eye on Travel with Peter Greenberg
-
Decoder Ring
-
The Gangster Chronicles
-
Women at Work
