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Podcast Profile: Conversations with Tyler

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226 episodes
2015 to 2024
Median: 57 minutes
Collection: SciPhi-Adjacent

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"Conversations with Tyler" features Tyler Cowen engaging with influential thinkers on a wide array of topics, offering listeners deep dives into the expertise, opinions, and personal experiences of his guests. The podcast's episodes encompass diverse subject matter, often delving into complex geopolitical scenarios, historical contexts, and modern technological advancements. Listeners can expect discussions that traverse the intricacies of global politics, as evidenced by insights into the future of China, Russia, and other geopolitical hotspots.

The podcast frequently explores intellectual and cultural themes, spanning from the nuances of Bach's music to the evolution of classical liberalism in today's political climate. Renowned writers and commentators share their views on art, literature, and how historical narratives shape contemporary society, while both celebrated and emerging voices in science and technology discuss their groundbreaking work and its broader implications.

In addition to thematic discussions, there are episodes that focus on the personal journeys and philosophies of notable individuals, including their formative experiences, challenges, and achievements. Conversations often touch on the intersections of personal identity, societal norms, and public policy, providing a rich tapestry of perspectives.

The podcast also addresses contemporary issues like the psychological impact of social media on youth, the dynamics of radical free thought, and the ongoing influence of political theology. These themes underscore the podcast's commitment to exploring how intellectual currents and technological advancements shape human experience.

Through these dialogues, "Conversations with Tyler" serves as a platform for serious and multifaceted conversations, featuring a mix of scholarly analysis, personal anecdotes, and speculative thought. Episodes provide not only a glimpse into the minds of today’s prominent figures but also an understanding of how diverse, interconnected ideas influence current and future societal trends.

Episodes:

Joseph Stiglitz on Pioneering Economic Theories, Policy Challenges, and His Intellectual Legacy 2024-Jun-26 49 minutes

Velina Tchakarova on China, Russia, and the Future of Geopolitics 2024-Jun-12 51 minutes

Michael Nielsen on Collaboration, Quantum Computing, and Civilization's Fragility 2024-May-29 62 minutes

Benjamin Moser on the Dutch Masters, Brazil, and Cultural Icons 2024-May-15 66 minutes

Coleman Hughes on Colorblindness, Jazz, and Identity 2024-May-01 56 minutes

Peter Thiel on Political Theology 2024-Apr-17 74 minutes

Jonathan Haidt on Adjusting to Smartphones and Social Media 2024-Apr-03 59 minutes

Fareed Zakaria on the Age of Revolutions, the Power of Ideas, and the Rewards of Intellectual Curiosity 2024-Mar-27 67 minutes

Marilynne Robinson on Biblical Interpretation, Calvinist Thought, and Religion in America 2024-Mar-20 49 minutes

Marc Andreessen on AI and Dynamism 2024-Mar-13 27 minutes

Marc Rowan on Financial Market Evolution and University Governance 2024-Mar-06 56 minutes

Masaaki Suzuki on Interpreting Bach 2024-Feb-21 56 minutes

Ami Vitale on Photojournalism and Wildlife Conservation 2024-Feb-07 54 minutes

Rebecca F. Kuang on National Literatures, Book Publishing, and History in Fiction 2024-Jan-24 63 minutes

Patrick McKenzie on Navigating Complex Systems 2024-Jan-10 54 minutes

Conversations with Tyler 2023 Retrospective 2023-Dec-27 67 minutes

Fuchsia Dunlop on the Story of Chinese Food 2023-Dec-13 102 minutes

John Gray on Pessimism, Liberalism, and Theism 2023-Nov-29 61 minutes

Jennifer Burns on Milton Friedman and Ayn Rand 2023-Nov-15 59 minutes

Brian Koppelman on TV, Movies, and Appreciating Art 2023-Nov-08 61 minutes

Githae Githinji on Life in Kenya 2023-Nov-02 45 minutes

Harriet Karimi Muriithi on Life in Kenya 2023-Nov-02 42 minutes

Stephen Jennings on Building New Cities 2023-Nov-01 53 minutes

Jacob Mikanowski on Eastern Europe 2023-Oct-18 60 minutes

Re-release: Claudia Goldin on the Economics of Inequality 2023-Oct-09 50 minutes

Ada Palmer on Viking Metaphysics, Contingent Moments, and Censorship 2023-Oct-04 64 minutes

Lazarus Lake on Endurance, Uncertainty, and Reaching One’s Potential 2023-Sep-20 51 minutes

Jerusalem Demsas on The Dispossessed, Gulliver's Travels, and Of Boys and Men 2023-Sep-06 63 minutes

Vishy Anand on Staying in the Game 2023-Aug-30 54 minutes

Celebrating Marginal Revolution's 20th Anniversary 2023-Aug-23 58 minutes

Paul Graham on Ambition, Art, and Evaluating Talent 2023-Aug-09 55 minutes

Noam Dworman on Stand-Up Comedy and Staying Open-Minded 2023-Jul-26 59 minutes

David Bentley Hart on Reason, Faith, and Diversity in Religious Thought 2023-Jul-12 55 minutes

Reid Hoffman on the Possibilities of AI 2023-Jun-28 61 minutes

Noam Chomsky on Language, Left Libertarianism, and Progress 2023-Jun-14 50 minutes

Peter Singer on Utilitarianism, Influence, and Controversial Ideas 2023-Jun-07 52 minutes

Seth Godin on Marketing, Meaning, and the Bibs We Wear 2023-May-31 54 minutes

Simon Johnson on Banking, Technology, and Prosperity 2023-May-17 52 minutes

Kevin Kelly on Advice, Travel, and Tech 2023-May-03 51 minutes

Anna Keay on Historic Architecture, Monarchy, and 17th Century Britain 2023-Apr-19 49 minutes

Jessica Wade on Chiral Materials, Open Knowledge, and Representation in STEM 2023-Apr-05 56 minutes

Jonathan GPT Swift on Jonathan Swift 2023-Mar-29 41 minutes

Tom Holland on History, Christianity, and the Value of the Countryside 2023-Mar-22 53 minutes

Yasheng Huang on the Development of the Chinese State 2023-Mar-08 54 minutes

Brad DeLong on Intellectual and Technical Progress 2023-Feb-22 47 minutes

Glenn Loury on the Cover Story and the Real Story 2023-Feb-08 48 minutes

Paul Salopek on Walking the World 2023-Jan-25 45 minutes

Rick Rubin on Listening, Taste, and the Act of Noticing 2023-Jan-18 55 minutes

Katherine Rundell on the Art of Words 2023-Jan-11 53 minutes

Conversations with Tyler 2022 Retrospective 2022-Dec-28 52 minutes

John Adams on Composing and Creative Freedom 2022-Dec-14 45 minutes

Jeremy Grantham on Investing in Green Tech 2022-Nov-30 40 minutes

Ken Burns on the Complications of History 2022-Nov-16 52 minutes

Mary Gaitskill on Subjects That Are Vexing Everybody 2022-Nov-02 45 minutes

Reza Aslan on Martyrdom, Islam, and Revolution 2022-Oct-19 53 minutes

Walter Russell Mead on the Past and Future of American Foreign Policy 2022-Oct-05 51 minutes

Byron Auguste On Rewiring the U.S. Labor Market 2022-Sep-21 54 minutes

Vaughn Smith on Life as a Hyperpolyglot 2022-Sep-07 49 minutes

Shruti Rajagopalan talks to Daniel Gross and Tyler about Identifying and Predicting Talent 2022-Sep-01 67 minutes

Cynthia L. Haven on René Girard, Czeslaw Milosz, and Joseph Brodsky 2022-Aug-24 44 minutes

William MacAskill on Effective Altruism, Moral Progress, and Cultural Innovation 2022-Aug-10 50 minutes

Leopoldo López on Activism Under Autocratic Regimes 2022-Jul-27 49 minutes

Matthew Ball on the Metaverse and Gaming 2022-Jul-13 55 minutes

Barkha Dutt on the Nuances of Indian Life 2022-Jun-29 51 minutes

Marc Andreessen on Learning to Love the Humanities 2022-Jun-15 51 minutes

Jamal Greene on Reconceiving Rights 2022-Jun-01 48 minutes

Tyler and Daniel Gross Talk Talent 2022-May-18 48 minutes

Chris Blattman on War and Centralized Power 2022-May-04 48 minutes

Thomas Piketty on the Politics of Equality 2022-Apr-20 53 minutes

Roy Foster on Ireland’s Many Unmade Futures 2022-Apr-06 59 minutes

Lydia Davis on Language and Literature 2022-Mar-23 40 minutes

Sam Bankman-Fried on Arbitrage and Altruism 2022-Mar-09 50 minutes

Chuck Klosterman on Writing the Past and Relishing the Present 2022-Feb-23 75 minutes

Sebastian Mallaby on Venture Capital 2022-Feb-09 56 minutes

Stewart Brand on Starting Things and Staying Curious 2022-Jan-26 57 minutes

Russ Roberts on Israel and Life as an Immigrant 2022-Jan-19 59 minutes

Ana Vidović on Prodigies, Performance, and Perseverance 2022-Jan-12 44 minutes

Conversations with Tyler 2021 Retrospective 2021-Dec-29 55 minutes

Ray Dalio on Investing, Management, and the Changing World Order 2021-Dec-15 58 minutes

Ruth Scurr on the Art of Biography 2021-Dec-01 51 minutes

David Rubenstein on Private Equity, Public Art, and Philanthropy 2021-Nov-17 56 minutes

David Salle on the Experience of Art 2021-Nov-03 46 minutes

Stanley McChrystal on the Military, Leadership, and Risk 2021-Oct-20 53 minutes

Claudia Goldin on the Economics of Inequality 2021-Oct-06 49 minutes

Amia Srinivasan on Utopian Feminism 2021-Sep-22 65 minutes

David Cutler and Ed Glaeser on the Health and Wealth of Cities 2021-Sep-08 79 minutes

Zeynep Tufekci on the Sociology of The Moment (Live) 2021-Aug-25 65 minutes

Andrew Sullivan on Braving New Intellectual Journeys 2021-Aug-11 55 minutes

Niall Ferguson on Why We Study History 2021-Jul-28 54 minutes

Alexander the Grate on Life as an NFA 2021-Jul-14 44 minutes

Richard Prum on Birds, Beauty, and Finding Your Own Way 2021-Jun-30 50 minutes

Elijah Millgram on the Philosophical Life 2021-Jun-16 68 minutes

David Deutsch on Multiple Worlds and Our Place in Them 2021-Jun-02 61 minutes

Mark Carney on Central Banking and Shared Values 2021-May-26 54 minutes

Pierpaolo Barbieri on Latin American FinTech 2021-May-19 56 minutes

Daniel Carpenter on Smart Regulation 2021-May-05 68 minutes

Shadi Bartsch on the Classics and China 2021-Apr-21 60 minutes

Dana Gioia on Becoming an Information Billionaire 2021-Apr-07 78 minutes

Sarah Parcak on Archaeology from Space 2021-Mar-24 64 minutes

John Cochrane on Economic Puzzles and Habits of Mind 2021-Mar-10 58 minutes

Patricia Fara on Newton, Scientific Progress, and the Benefits of Unhistoric Acts 2021-Feb-24 57 minutes

Brian Armstrong on the Crypto Economy 2021-Feb-10 54 minutes

Benjamin Friedman on the Origins of Economic Belief 2021-Jan-27 67 minutes

Noubar Afeyan on the Permission to Leap 2021-Jan-13 55 minutes

Conversations with Tyler 2020 Retrospective 2020-Dec-30 53 minutes

John O. Brennan on Life in the CIA 2020-Dec-16 58 minutes

Zach Carter on the Life and Legacy of John Maynard Keynes 2020-Dec-02 54 minutes

Jimmy Wales on Systems and Incentives 2020-Nov-18 57 minutes

Edwidge Danticat on Haitian Art and Literature 2020-Nov-04 51 minutes

Michael Kremer on Economists as Founders 2020-Oct-21 49 minutes

Audrey Tang on the Technology of Democracy 2020-Oct-07 53 minutes

Alex Ross on Music, Culture, and Criticism 2020-Sep-22 61 minutes

Matt Yglesias on Why the Population is Too Damn Low 2020-Sep-09 66 minutes

Jason Furman on Productivity, Competition, and Growth 2020-Aug-26 61 minutes

Nicholas Bloom on Management, Productivity, and Scientific Progress 2020-Aug-12 63 minutes

Nathan Nunn on the Paths to Development 2020-Jul-29 61 minutes

Melissa Dell on the Significance of Persistence 2020-Jul-15 63 minutes

Annie Duke on Poker, Probabilities, and How We Make Decisions 2020-Jul-01 54 minutes

Rachel Harmon on Policing 2020-Jun-17 57 minutes

Ashley Mears on Status and Beauty 2020-Jun-03 61 minutes

Paul Romer on a Culture of Science and Working Hard 2020-May-20 59 minutes

Adam Tooze on our Financial Past and Future 2020-May-06 65 minutes

Glen Weyl on Fighting COVID-19 and the Role of the Academic Expert 2020-Apr-29 55 minutes

Philip E. Tetlock on Forecasting and Foraging as a Fox 2020-Apr-22 54 minutes

Emily St. John Mandel on Fact, Fiction, and the Familiar 2020-Apr-08 55 minutes

Ross Douthat on Decadence and Dynamism 2020-Mar-25 67 minutes

Russ Roberts and Tyler on COVID-19 2020-Mar-19 79 minutes

John McWhorter on Linguistics, Music, and Race (Live at Mason) 2020-Mar-11 78 minutes

Garett Jones on Democracy (More or Less) 2020-Feb-26 56 minutes

Tim Harford on Persuasion and Popular Economics 2020-Feb-12 59 minutes

Ezra Klein on Why We’re Polarized 2020-Jan-29 70 minutes

Reid Hoffman on Systems, Levers, and Quixotic Quests 2020-Jan-15 60 minutes

Slavoj Žižek on His Stubborn Attachment to Communism 2020-Jan-08 86 minutes

Abhijit Banerjee on Theory, Practice, and India 2019-Dec-30 62 minutes

Tyler Looks Back on 2019 (BONUS) 2019-Dec-23 52 minutes

Esther Duflo on Management, Growth, and Research in Action 2019-Dec-18 61 minutes

Daron Acemoglu on the Struggle Between State and Society 2019-Dec-04 55 minutes

Mark Zuckerberg Interviews Patrick Collison and Tyler Cowen on the Nature and Causes of Progress (Bonus) 2019-Nov-27 68 minutes

Shaka Senghor on Incarceration, Identity, and the Gift of Literacy 2019-Nov-20 60 minutes

Lunch with Fuchsia Dunlop at Mama Chang (Bonus) 2019-Nov-13 76 minutes

Ted Gioia on Music as Cultural Cloud Storage 2019-Nov-06 63 minutes

Henry Farrell on Weaponized Interdependence, Big Tech, and Playing with Ideas 2019-Oct-23 71 minutes

Ben Westhoff on Synthetic Drugs, Dive Bars, and the Evolution of Rap 2019-Oct-09 60 minutes

Alain Bertaud on Cities, Markets, and People 2019-Sep-25 80 minutes

Samantha Power on Learning How to Make a Difference 2019-Sep-11 66 minutes

Hollis Robbins on 19th Century Life and Literature 2019-Aug-28 50 minutes

Masha Gessen on the Ins and Outs of Russia 2019-Aug-14 68 minutes

Kwame Anthony Appiah on Pictures of the World 2019-Jul-31 61 minutes

Neal Stephenson on Depictions of Reality 2019-Jul-17 54 minutes

Eric Kaufmann on Immigration, Identity, and the Limits of Individualism 2019-Jul-03 56 minutes

Hal Varian on Taking the Academic Approach to Business 2019-Jun-19 56 minutes

Russ Roberts on Life as an Economics Educator 2019-Jun-05 61 minutes

Ezekiel Emanuel on the Practice of Medicine, Policy, and Life 2019-May-22 62 minutes

Karl Ove Knausgård on Literary Freedom 2019-May-08 60 minutes

Margaret Atwood on Canada, Writing, and Invention (Live at Mason) 2019-Apr-24 74 minutes

Ed Boyden on Minding your Brain 2019-Apr-10 61 minutes

Emily Wilson on Translations and Language 2019-Mar-27 56 minutes

Raghuram Rajan on Understanding Community 2019-Mar-13 56 minutes

Sam Altman on Loving Community, Hating Coworking, and the Hunt for Talent 2019-Feb-27 68 minutes

Jordan Peterson on Mythology, Fame, and Reading People 2019-Feb-13 53 minutes

Noel Johnson and Mark Koyama on *Persecution and Toleration* 2019-Jan-30 76 minutes

Larissa MacFarquhar on Getting Inside Someone's Head 2019-Jan-16 60 minutes

Rebecca Kukla on Moving through and Responding to the World 2019-Jan-02 60 minutes

Daniel Kahneman on Cutting Through the Noise 2018-Dec-19 69 minutes

Paul Romer on the Unrivaled Joy of Scholarship 2018-Dec-05 52 minutes

John Nye on Revisionist Economic History and Having Too Many Hobbies 2018-Nov-21 58 minutes

Eric Schmidt on the Life-Changing Magic of Systematizing, Scaling, and Saying "Thanks" (Live) 2018-Nov-07 54 minutes

Ben Thompson on Business and Tech 2018-Oct-24 60 minutes

Rob Wiblin interviews Tyler on *Stubborn Attachments* 2018-Oct-16 150 minutes

Paul Krugman on Politics, Inequality, and Following Your Curiosity 2018-Oct-10 52 minutes

Bruno Maçães on the Spirit of Adventure 2018-Sep-26 57 minutes

Michele Gelfand on Tight and Loose Cultures 2018-Sep-12 56 minutes

Claire Lehmann on Speaking Freely 2018-Aug-29 47 minutes

Michael Pollan on the Science and Sublimity of Psychedelics 2018-Aug-15 59 minutes

Michelle Dawson on Autism and Atypicality 2018-Aug-01 53 minutes

Vitalik Buterin on Cryptoeconomics and Markets in Everything 2018-Jul-18 52 minutes

Juan Pablo Villarino on Travel and Trust 2018-Jul-03 61 minutes

Elisa New on Poetry in America and Beyond 2018-Jun-20 54 minutes

David Brooks on Youth, Morality, and Loneliness (Live at Mason) 2018-Jun-06 82 minutes

Nassim Nicholas Taleb on Self-Education and Doing the Math (Plus special guest Bryan Caplan) 2018-May-23 97 minutes

Bryan Caplan on Learning across Disciplines (Live at Mason Econ) 2018-May-09 71 minutes

Balaji Srinivasan on the Power and Promise of the Blockchain 2018-Apr-25 54 minutes

Agnes Callard on the Theory of Everything 2018-Apr-11 59 minutes

Martina Navratilova on Shaping Herself (Live at Mason) 2018-Mar-28 65 minutes

Chris Blattman on Development, Conflict, and Doing What’s Interesting 2018-Mar-14 60 minutes

Robin Hanson on Signaling and Self-Deception (Live at Mason Econ) 2018-Feb-28 65 minutes

Matt Levine Live at Bloomberg HQ 2018-Feb-14 66 minutes

Charles C. Mann on Shaping Tomorrow’s World and the Limits to Growth 2018-Jan-31 55 minutes

Ross Douthat on Narrative and Religion (Live at Mason) 2018-Jan-17 85 minutes

Andy Weir on the Economics of Sci-Fi and Space 2017-Dec-20 52 minutes

Doug Irwin on US Trade Policy 2017-Nov-29 57 minutes

Sujatha Gidla on Being an Ant Amongst the Elephants (Live) 2017-Nov-15 62 minutes

Steve Teles and Brink Lindsey on *The Captured Economy* 2017-Nov-01 52 minutes

Mary Roach on Disgust, Death, and Danger (Live at Mason) 2017-Oct-18 75 minutes

Larry Summers on Macroeconomics, Mentorship, and Avoiding Complacency (Live) 2017-Sep-20 73 minutes

Dave Barry on Humor, Writing, and Life as a Florida Man 2017-Aug-16 57 minutes

Dave Rubin on Digital Media, Crowdfunding, and Comedy (Live) 2017-Aug-02 32 minutes

Atul Gawande on Priorities, Big and Small 2017-Jul-19 57 minutes

Ben Sasse on the Space between Nebraska and Neverland (Live at Mason) 2017-Jun-28 81 minutes

Edward Luce on The Retreat of Western Liberalism (Live) 2017-Jun-21 54 minutes

Jill Lepore on Traveling through Time 2017-Jun-14 68 minutes

Tyler Cowen and Steve Davies talk Theresa May, Brexit, and Europe (Live) 2017-Jun-07 23 minutes

Raj Chetty on Teachers, Social Mobility, and How to Find Answers to Big Questions 2017-May-24 62 minutes

Garry Kasparov on AI, Chess, and the Future of Creativity 2017-May-10 67 minutes

Patrick Collison has a Few Questions for Tyler (Live at Stripe) 2017-Apr-12 93 minutes

Malcolm Gladwell Wants to Make the World Safe for Mediocrity (Live at Mason) 2017-Mar-15 92 minutes

*The Complacent Class* with Katherine Mangu-Ward (Live at Mason) 2017-Mar-13 56 minutes

Rabbi David Wolpe on Leadership, Religion, and Identity (Live at Sixth & I) 2017-Feb-15 80 minutes

Chef Mark Miller on Food as the Ultimate Intellectual Exploration 2017-Jan-25 75 minutes

Jhumpa Lahiri on Writing, Translation, and Crossing Between Cultures (Live at Mason) 2017-Jan-11 86 minutes

Joseph Henrich on WEIRD Societies and Life Among Two Strange Tribes (Live at Mason) 2016-Dec-14 85 minutes

Fuchsia Dunlop on Chinese Food, Culture, and Travel 2016-Nov-16 75 minutes

Steven Pinker on Language, Reason, and the Future of Violence (Live at Mason) 2016-Nov-02 86 minutes

Ezra Klein on Media, Politics, and Models of the World 2016-Oct-06 77 minutes

Margalit Fox on Life, Death, and the Best Job in Journalism 2016-Aug-24 47 minutes

Michael Orthofer on Why Fiction Matters 2016-Jul-27 56 minutes

Cass Sunstein on Judicial Minimalism, the Supreme Court, and Star Wars (Live at Mason) 2016-Jun-22 77 minutes

Camille Paglia on her Lifestyle of Observation (Live at Mason) 2016-Apr-25 86 minutes

Jonathan Haidt on Morality, Politics, and Intellectual Diversity on Campus 2016-Mar-24 69 minutes

Nate Silver on the Supreme Court and the Underrated Stat for Finding Good Food (Live at Mason) 2016-Feb-23 81 minutes

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on Fighting Bruce Lee, Growing Up in Harlem, and Basketball (Live at Mason) 2016-Feb-02 82 minutes

Cliff Asness on Comics and Why Never to Share a Gym with Cirque du Soleil (Live at Mason) 2015-Nov-18 82 minutes

Dani Rodrik on Premature Deindustrialization and Why the World is Second Best at Best 2015-Oct-01 84 minutes

Luigi Zingales on Italy, Google and Conglomeration, and Donald Trump (Live at Mason) 2015-Sep-16 76 minutes

Jeffrey Sachs on Charter Cities and How to Reform Graduate Economics Education (Live at Mason) 2015-Mar-31 92 minutes

Peter Thiel on Stagnation, Innovation, and What Not to Call your Company (Live at Mason) 2015-Mar-25 80 minutes