Highlights of 2025
Some insights change how you see the world.
From the White House to the frontiers of AI drug discovery, we’ve gathered the most powerful moments from a year of extraordinary conversations.
This 2025 highlights episode brings you the thinkers and leaders who challenged assumptions, revealed hidden patterns, and reframed the biggest questions of our time.
The 2025 HIghlights episode includes excerpts from:
- Cass Sunstein (Harvard Law Professor): What Facebook’s emotional manipulation experiment revealed
- Susan Magsamen (Johns Hopkins): How your everyday environment is quietly reshaping your brain
- Jake Sullivan (U.S. National Security Advisor): What surprised him most about Xi and Putin
- Admiral James Stavridis (Former NATO Supreme Allied Commander): Navigating the China challenge
- Jon Gray (President, Blackstone): The real key to career success (it’s not what you think)
- Bonnie Hammer (Former Vice Chair, NBCUniversal): Redefining what “having it all” really means
- Christine Rosen (American Enterprise Institute): The hidden costs of a screen-mediated life
- Zanny Minton-Beddoes (Editor-in-Chief, The Economist): American polarization through foreign eyes
- David Brooks (New York Times columnist): The mistake people make when they turn to politics
- Craig Mundie (Former Microsoft Chief Strategist): AI’s biggest unsolved problem
- Dr. David Agus (Founding CEO Ellison Medical Institute): How AI is changing drug discovery
- Laura Carstensen (Stanford Center on Longevity): What she wishes people understood about aging
- Thomas Chatterton Williams (Author): Moving beyond racial identity
These are the conversations that expanded minds in 2025.
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