Article Club

About Article Club

They're like books, but shorter. Every week we pick a zeitgeisty article and talk about it. It's an excuse for us to spend time together and learn a little something that we can un-scientifically dissect while mostly just talking about our feelings. It's a club for people who have too many 30% read books on their kindle, are sick of doom scrolling, and love a good chuckle.

Publisher

Allison Grant and Carly Leahy

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

26 Mar 2025

Latest episode

28 Jul 2026

Latest episodes

26 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   28 Jul 2026

   Article Club: Did the iphone lower fertility rates?

   Spoiler alert... no. This week, we're reading Jenn Dowd's surgical tear down of a click-baity new study that claimed the iphone is directly responsible for the decline of fertility rates in the US. Follow (and swoon) along with us as she has her way with the data. You can see her Substack piece here: https://jenndowd.substack.com/p/did-the-iphone-cause-the-baby-bust

2. 

   30 Jun 2026

   Article Club: Is life insurance your new side hustle?

   In her piece "Rise, Grind, and Die," Julia Kopstein is trying to understand why Influencers are hawking life insurance policies left and right. And so are we. End of life rituals go back thousands of years and today, they cost thousands of dollars. But why is paying for them becoming the latest ponzi scheme?

3. 

   23 Jun 2026

   Article Club: Are we in a gambling epidemic?

   Nearly half of all American men between 18 and 49 have an online sports betting account. Betting thousands of dollars is as easy as tapping twice on your phone. What is that doing to us?! Jasper Craven places a bet or 5 in Vegas to confront the epicenter of America’s gambling addiction. https://harpers.org/archive/2026/02/on-tilt-america-gambling-epidemic-jasper-craven/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email (https://harpers.org/archive/2026/02/on-tilt-america-gambling-epidemic-jasper-craven/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email)

Who has been a guest on Article Club

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Alex Abad-Santos
• Rebecca Jennings
• Sarah Miller

Reach and audience

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YouTube views

416

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Spotify

5.0 / 5

24 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 45 / 100

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Quality

63

Social presence

0

YouTube

66

Engagement

0

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Books guests

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