Themes and summary (AI-generated based on podcaster-provided show and episode descriptions):
➤ Intellectual conversations • Deep thinkers • Social mobility • Religion • Economics • Literature • Science • Philosophy • History • Music • Geopolitics • Technology • Society • Culture
This podcast, "Conversations with Tyler," is hosted by Tyler Cowen and features deep explorations across a wide array of subjects with prominent thinkers and experts. The show delves into disciplines such as economics, history, literature, philosophy, music, and science, providing listeners with insightful discussions on both timeless and current societal issues. The episodes frequently explore complex topics like social mobility, economic theories, the influence of religion in modern society, geopolitical strategies, and the future of technology, including artificial intelligence.
In addition to these broad themes, the podcast often involves in-depth discussions on the arts, including the examination of literary and artistic contributions and their impacts on society. Conversations with authors and historians frequently touch upon significant historical events, movements, and figures, offering listeners a rich understanding of their contexts and legacies.
The episodes highlight interdisciplinary dialogues that bridge different fields of knowledge. For instance, the intersection of art and science or the interplay between politics and technology is commonly examined. The podcast also features personal experiences of guests, providing narratives that illustrate the human element within professional and intellectual pursuits.
Overall, "Conversations with Tyler" represents a pursuit of understanding and knowledge across various subjects, fostering a platform where contemporary ideas and historical perspectives meet. This range of content aims to engage listeners with both the depth of academic rigor and the breadth of global cultural phenomena, reflecting Tyler Cowen’s broad intellectual curiosity and critical engagement with the world’s most pressing issues and intriguing questions.
Episodes:
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Ezra Klein on the Abundance Agenda
2025-Mar-19
68 minutes
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Carl Zimmer on the Hidden Life in the Air We Breathe
2025-Mar-05
51 minutes
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Gregory Clark on Social Mobility, Migration, and Assortative Mating (Live at Mercatus)
2025-Feb-19
83 minutes
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Ross Douthat on Why Religion Makes More Sense Than You Think
2025-Feb-05
73 minutes
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Joe Boyd on the Birth of Rock, World Music, and Being There for Everything
2025-Jan-22
60 minutes
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Scott Sumner on Monetary Rules, Blooming Late, and the Death of Cinema
2025-Jan-08
68 minutes
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Conversations with Tyler 2024 Retrospective
2024-Dec-25
58 minutes
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Paula Byrne on Thomas Hardy’s Women, Jane Austen’s Humor, and Evelyn Waugh’s Warmth
2024-Dec-11
54 minutes
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Stephen Kotkin on Stalin, Power, and the Art of Biography
2024-Dec-04
86 minutes
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Russ Roberts on Vasily Grossman’s Life and Fate
2024-Nov-25
61 minutes
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Neal Stephenson on History, Spycraft, and American-Soviet Parallels
2024-Nov-13
47 minutes
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Christopher Kirchhoff on Military Innovation and the Future of War
2024-Oct-30
56 minutes
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Musa al-Gharbi on Elite Wokeness, Islam, and Social Movements
2024-Oct-16
49 minutes
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Tom Tugendhat on Modernizing the UK and Political Reform
2024-Oct-09
50 minutes
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Kyla Scanlon on Communicating Economic Ideas through Social Media
2024-Oct-02
65 minutes
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Tobi Lütke on Creating Shopify for Americans as a German in Canada
2024-Sep-18
54 minutes
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Philip Ball on the Interplay of Science, Society, and the Quest for Understanding
2024-Sep-04
71 minutes
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Nate Silver on Risk-takers, Politicians, and Poker Players
2024-Aug-21
59 minutes
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Paul Bloom on the Psychology of Children, and the Morality of Empathy and Disgust
2024-Aug-07
59 minutes
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Alan Taylor on Revolutionary Ironies and the Continental Civil War
2024-Jul-24
57 minutes
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Brian Winter on Brazil, Argentina, and the Future of Latin America
2024-Jul-10
58 minutes
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Joseph Stiglitz on Pioneering Economic Theories, Policy Challenges, and His Intellectual Legacy
2024-Jun-26
49 minutes
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Velina Tchakarova on China, Russia, and the Future of Geopolitics
2024-Jun-12
51 minutes
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Michael Nielsen on Collaboration, Quantum Computing, and Civilization's Fragility
2024-May-29
62 minutes
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Benjamin Moser on the Dutch Masters, Brazil, and Cultural Icons
2024-May-15
66 minutes
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Coleman Hughes on Colorblindness, Jazz, and Identity
2024-May-01
56 minutes
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Peter Thiel on Political Theology
2024-Apr-17
74 minutes
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Jonathan Haidt on Adjusting to Smartphones and Social Media
2024-Apr-03
59 minutes
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Fareed Zakaria on the Age of Revolutions, the Power of Ideas, and the Rewards of Intellectual Curiosity
2024-Mar-27
67 minutes
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Marilynne Robinson on Biblical Interpretation, Calvinist Thought, and Religion in America
2024-Mar-20
49 minutes
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Marc Andreessen on AI and Dynamism
2024-Mar-13
27 minutes
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Marc Rowan on Financial Market Evolution and University Governance
2024-Mar-06
56 minutes
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Masaaki Suzuki on Interpreting Bach
2024-Feb-21
56 minutes
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Ami Vitale on Photojournalism and Wildlife Conservation
2024-Feb-07
54 minutes
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Rebecca F. Kuang on National Literatures, Book Publishing, and History in Fiction
2024-Jan-24
63 minutes
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Patrick McKenzie on Navigating Complex Systems
2024-Jan-10
54 minutes
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Conversations with Tyler 2023 Retrospective
2023-Dec-27
67 minutes
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Fuchsia Dunlop on the Story of Chinese Food
2023-Dec-13
102 minutes
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John Gray on Pessimism, Liberalism, and Theism
2023-Nov-29
61 minutes
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Jennifer Burns on Milton Friedman and Ayn Rand
2023-Nov-15
59 minutes
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Brian Koppelman on TV, Movies, and Appreciating Art
2023-Nov-08
61 minutes
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Githae Githinji on Life in Kenya
2023-Nov-02
45 minutes
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Harriet Karimi Muriithi on Life in Kenya
2023-Nov-02
42 minutes
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Stephen Jennings on Building New Cities
2023-Nov-01
53 minutes
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Jacob Mikanowski on Eastern Europe
2023-Oct-18
60 minutes
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Re-release: Claudia Goldin on the Economics of Inequality
2023-Oct-09
50 minutes
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Ada Palmer on Viking Metaphysics, Contingent Moments, and Censorship
2023-Oct-04
64 minutes
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Lazarus Lake on Endurance, Uncertainty, and Reaching One’s Potential
2023-Sep-20
51 minutes
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Jerusalem Demsas on The Dispossessed, Gulliver's Travels, and Of Boys and Men
2023-Sep-06
63 minutes
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Vishy Anand on Staying in the Game
2023-Aug-30
54 minutes
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Celebrating Marginal Revolution's 20th Anniversary
2023-Aug-23
58 minutes
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Paul Graham on Ambition, Art, and Evaluating Talent
2023-Aug-09
55 minutes
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Noam Dworman on Stand-Up Comedy and Staying Open-Minded
2023-Jul-26
59 minutes
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David Bentley Hart on Reason, Faith, and Diversity in Religious Thought
2023-Jul-12
55 minutes
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Reid Hoffman on the Possibilities of AI
2023-Jun-28
61 minutes
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Noam Chomsky on Language, Left Libertarianism, and Progress
2023-Jun-14
50 minutes
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Peter Singer on Utilitarianism, Influence, and Controversial Ideas
2023-Jun-07
52 minutes
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Seth Godin on Marketing, Meaning, and the Bibs We Wear
2023-May-31
54 minutes
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Simon Johnson on Banking, Technology, and Prosperity
2023-May-17
52 minutes
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Kevin Kelly on Advice, Travel, and Tech
2023-May-03
51 minutes
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Anna Keay on Historic Architecture, Monarchy, and 17th Century Britain
2023-Apr-19
49 minutes
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Jessica Wade on Chiral Materials, Open Knowledge, and Representation in STEM
2023-Apr-05
56 minutes
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Jonathan GPT Swift on Jonathan Swift
2023-Mar-29
41 minutes
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Tom Holland on History, Christianity, and the Value of the Countryside
2023-Mar-22
53 minutes
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Yasheng Huang on the Development of the Chinese State
2023-Mar-08
54 minutes
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Brad DeLong on Intellectual and Technical Progress
2023-Feb-22
47 minutes
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Glenn Loury on the Cover Story and the Real Story
2023-Feb-08
48 minutes
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Paul Salopek on Walking the World
2023-Jan-25
45 minutes
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Rick Rubin on Listening, Taste, and the Act of Noticing
2023-Jan-18
55 minutes
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Katherine Rundell on the Art of Words
2023-Jan-11
53 minutes
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Conversations with Tyler 2022 Retrospective
2022-Dec-28
52 minutes
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John Adams on Composing and Creative Freedom
2022-Dec-14
45 minutes
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Jeremy Grantham on Investing in Green Tech
2022-Nov-30
40 minutes
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Ken Burns on the Complications of History
2022-Nov-16
52 minutes
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Mary Gaitskill on Subjects That Are Vexing Everybody
2022-Nov-02
45 minutes
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Reza Aslan on Martyrdom, Islam, and Revolution
2022-Oct-19
53 minutes
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Walter Russell Mead on the Past and Future of American Foreign Policy
2022-Oct-05
51 minutes
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Byron Auguste On Rewiring the U.S. Labor Market
2022-Sep-21
54 minutes
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Vaughn Smith on Life as a Hyperpolyglot
2022-Sep-07
49 minutes
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Shruti Rajagopalan talks to Daniel Gross and Tyler about Identifying and Predicting Talent
2022-Sep-01
67 minutes
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Cynthia L. Haven on René Girard, Czeslaw Milosz, and Joseph Brodsky
2022-Aug-24
44 minutes
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William MacAskill on Effective Altruism, Moral Progress, and Cultural Innovation
2022-Aug-10
50 minutes
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Leopoldo López on Activism Under Autocratic Regimes
2022-Jul-27
49 minutes
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Matthew Ball on the Metaverse and Gaming
2022-Jul-13
55 minutes
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Barkha Dutt on the Nuances of Indian Life
2022-Jun-29
51 minutes
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Marc Andreessen on Learning to Love the Humanities
2022-Jun-15
51 minutes
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Jamal Greene on Reconceiving Rights
2022-Jun-01
48 minutes
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Tyler and Daniel Gross Talk Talent
2022-May-18
48 minutes
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Chris Blattman on War and Centralized Power
2022-May-04
48 minutes
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Thomas Piketty on the Politics of Equality
2022-Apr-20
53 minutes
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Roy Foster on Ireland’s Many Unmade Futures
2022-Apr-06
59 minutes
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Lydia Davis on Language and Literature
2022-Mar-23
40 minutes
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Sam Bankman-Fried on Arbitrage and Altruism
2022-Mar-09
50 minutes
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Chuck Klosterman on Writing the Past and Relishing the Present
2022-Feb-23
75 minutes
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Sebastian Mallaby on Venture Capital
2022-Feb-09
56 minutes
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Stewart Brand on Starting Things and Staying Curious
2022-Jan-26
57 minutes
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Russ Roberts on Israel and Life as an Immigrant
2022-Jan-19
59 minutes
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Ana Vidović on Prodigies, Performance, and Perseverance
2022-Jan-12
44 minutes
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Conversations with Tyler 2021 Retrospective
2021-Dec-29
55 minutes
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Ray Dalio on Investing, Management, and the Changing World Order
2021-Dec-15
58 minutes
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Ruth Scurr on the Art of Biography
2021-Dec-01
51 minutes
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David Rubenstein on Private Equity, Public Art, and Philanthropy
2021-Nov-17
56 minutes
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David Salle on the Experience of Art
2021-Nov-03
46 minutes
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Stanley McChrystal on the Military, Leadership, and Risk
2021-Oct-20
53 minutes
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Claudia Goldin on the Economics of Inequality
2021-Oct-06
49 minutes
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Amia Srinivasan on Utopian Feminism
2021-Sep-22
65 minutes
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David Cutler and Ed Glaeser on the Health and Wealth of Cities
2021-Sep-08
79 minutes
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Zeynep Tufekci on the Sociology of The Moment (Live)
2021-Aug-25
65 minutes
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Andrew Sullivan on Braving New Intellectual Journeys
2021-Aug-11
55 minutes
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Niall Ferguson on Why We Study History
2021-Jul-28
54 minutes
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Alexander the Grate on Life as an NFA
2021-Jul-14
44 minutes
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Richard Prum on Birds, Beauty, and Finding Your Own Way
2021-Jun-30
50 minutes
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Elijah Millgram on the Philosophical Life
2021-Jun-16
68 minutes
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David Deutsch on Multiple Worlds and Our Place in Them
2021-Jun-02
61 minutes
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Mark Carney on Central Banking and Shared Values
2021-May-26
54 minutes
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Pierpaolo Barbieri on Latin American FinTech
2021-May-19
56 minutes
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Daniel Carpenter on Smart Regulation
2021-May-05
68 minutes
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Shadi Bartsch on the Classics and China
2021-Apr-21
60 minutes
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Dana Gioia on Becoming an Information Billionaire
2021-Apr-07
78 minutes
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Sarah Parcak on Archaeology from Space
2021-Mar-24
64 minutes
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John Cochrane on Economic Puzzles and Habits of Mind
2021-Mar-10
58 minutes
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Patricia Fara on Newton, Scientific Progress, and the Benefits of Unhistoric Acts
2021-Feb-24
57 minutes
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Brian Armstrong on the Crypto Economy
2021-Feb-10
54 minutes
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Benjamin Friedman on the Origins of Economic Belief
2021-Jan-27
67 minutes
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Noubar Afeyan on the Permission to Leap
2021-Jan-13
55 minutes
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Conversations with Tyler 2020 Retrospective
2020-Dec-30
53 minutes
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John O. Brennan on Life in the CIA
2020-Dec-16
58 minutes
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Zach Carter on the Life and Legacy of John Maynard Keynes
2020-Dec-02
54 minutes
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Jimmy Wales on Systems and Incentives
2020-Nov-18
57 minutes
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Edwidge Danticat on Haitian Art and Literature
2020-Nov-04
51 minutes
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Michael Kremer on Economists as Founders
2020-Oct-21
49 minutes
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Audrey Tang on the Technology of Democracy
2020-Oct-07
53 minutes
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Alex Ross on Music, Culture, and Criticism
2020-Sep-22
61 minutes
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Matt Yglesias on Why the Population is Too Damn Low
2020-Sep-09
66 minutes
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Jason Furman on Productivity, Competition, and Growth
2020-Aug-26
61 minutes
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Nicholas Bloom on Management, Productivity, and Scientific Progress
2020-Aug-12
63 minutes
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Nathan Nunn on the Paths to Development
2020-Jul-29
61 minutes
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Melissa Dell on the Significance of Persistence
2020-Jul-15
63 minutes
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Annie Duke on Poker, Probabilities, and How We Make Decisions
2020-Jul-01
54 minutes
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Rachel Harmon on Policing
2020-Jun-17
57 minutes
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Ashley Mears on Status and Beauty
2020-Jun-03
61 minutes
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Paul Romer on a Culture of Science and Working Hard
2020-May-20
59 minutes
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Adam Tooze on our Financial Past and Future
2020-May-06
65 minutes
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Glen Weyl on Fighting COVID-19 and the Role of the Academic Expert
2020-Apr-29
55 minutes
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Philip E. Tetlock on Forecasting and Foraging as a Fox
2020-Apr-22
54 minutes
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Emily St. John Mandel on Fact, Fiction, and the Familiar
2020-Apr-08
55 minutes
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Ross Douthat on Decadence and Dynamism
2020-Mar-25
67 minutes
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Russ Roberts and Tyler on COVID-19
2020-Mar-19
79 minutes
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John McWhorter on Linguistics, Music, and Race (Live at Mason)
2020-Mar-11
78 minutes
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Garett Jones on Democracy (More or Less)
2020-Feb-26
56 minutes
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Tim Harford on Persuasion and Popular Economics
2020-Feb-12
59 minutes
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Ezra Klein on Why We’re Polarized
2020-Jan-29
70 minutes
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Reid Hoffman on Systems, Levers, and Quixotic Quests
2020-Jan-15
60 minutes
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Slavoj Žižek on His Stubborn Attachment to Communism
2020-Jan-08
86 minutes
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Abhijit Banerjee on Theory, Practice, and India
2019-Dec-30
62 minutes
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Tyler Looks Back on 2019 (BONUS)
2019-Dec-23
52 minutes
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Esther Duflo on Management, Growth, and Research in Action
2019-Dec-18
61 minutes
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Daron Acemoglu on the Struggle Between State and Society
2019-Dec-04
55 minutes
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Mark Zuckerberg Interviews Patrick Collison and Tyler Cowen on the Nature and Causes of Progress (Bonus)
2019-Nov-27
68 minutes
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Shaka Senghor on Incarceration, Identity, and the Gift of Literacy
2019-Nov-20
60 minutes
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Lunch with Fuchsia Dunlop at Mama Chang (Bonus)
2019-Nov-13
76 minutes
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Ted Gioia on Music as Cultural Cloud Storage
2019-Nov-06
63 minutes
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Henry Farrell on Weaponized Interdependence, Big Tech, and Playing with Ideas
2019-Oct-23
71 minutes
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Ben Westhoff on Synthetic Drugs, Dive Bars, and the Evolution of Rap
2019-Oct-09
60 minutes
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Alain Bertaud on Cities, Markets, and People
2019-Sep-25
80 minutes
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Samantha Power on Learning How to Make a Difference
2019-Sep-11
66 minutes
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Hollis Robbins on 19th Century Life and Literature
2019-Aug-28
50 minutes
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Masha Gessen on the Ins and Outs of Russia
2019-Aug-14
68 minutes
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Kwame Anthony Appiah on Pictures of the World
2019-Jul-31
61 minutes
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Neal Stephenson on Depictions of Reality
2019-Jul-17
54 minutes
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Eric Kaufmann on Immigration, Identity, and the Limits of Individualism
2019-Jul-03
56 minutes
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Hal Varian on Taking the Academic Approach to Business
2019-Jun-19
56 minutes
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Russ Roberts on Life as an Economics Educator
2019-Jun-05
61 minutes
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Ezekiel Emanuel on the Practice of Medicine, Policy, and Life
2019-May-22
62 minutes
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Karl Ove Knausgård on Literary Freedom
2019-May-08
60 minutes
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Margaret Atwood on Canada, Writing, and Invention (Live at Mason)
2019-Apr-24
74 minutes
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Ed Boyden on Minding your Brain
2019-Apr-10
61 minutes
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Emily Wilson on Translations and Language
2019-Mar-27
56 minutes
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Raghuram Rajan on Understanding Community
2019-Mar-13
56 minutes
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Sam Altman on Loving Community, Hating Coworking, and the Hunt for Talent
2019-Feb-27
68 minutes
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Jordan Peterson on Mythology, Fame, and Reading People
2019-Feb-13
53 minutes
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Noel Johnson and Mark Koyama on *Persecution and Toleration*
2019-Jan-30
76 minutes
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Larissa MacFarquhar on Getting Inside Someone's Head
2019-Jan-16
60 minutes
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Rebecca Kukla on Moving through and Responding to the World
2019-Jan-02
60 minutes
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Daniel Kahneman on Cutting Through the Noise
2018-Dec-19
69 minutes
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Paul Romer on the Unrivaled Joy of Scholarship
2018-Dec-05
52 minutes
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John Nye on Revisionist Economic History and Having Too Many Hobbies
2018-Nov-21
58 minutes
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Eric Schmidt on the Life-Changing Magic of Systematizing, Scaling, and Saying "Thanks" (Live)
2018-Nov-07
54 minutes
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Ben Thompson on Business and Tech
2018-Oct-24
60 minutes
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Rob Wiblin interviews Tyler on *Stubborn Attachments*
2018-Oct-16
150 minutes
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Paul Krugman on Politics, Inequality, and Following Your Curiosity
2018-Oct-10
52 minutes
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Bruno Maçães on the Spirit of Adventure
2018-Sep-26
57 minutes
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Michele Gelfand on Tight and Loose Cultures
2018-Sep-12
56 minutes
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Claire Lehmann on Speaking Freely
2018-Aug-29
47 minutes
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Michael Pollan on the Science and Sublimity of Psychedelics
2018-Aug-15
59 minutes
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Michelle Dawson on Autism and Atypicality
2018-Aug-01
53 minutes
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Vitalik Buterin on Cryptoeconomics and Markets in Everything
2018-Jul-18
52 minutes
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Juan Pablo Villarino on Travel and Trust
2018-Jul-03
61 minutes
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Elisa New on Poetry in America and Beyond
2018-Jun-20
54 minutes
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David Brooks on Youth, Morality, and Loneliness (Live at Mason)
2018-Jun-06
82 minutes
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb on Self-Education and Doing the Math (Plus special guest Bryan Caplan)
2018-May-23
97 minutes
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Bryan Caplan on Learning across Disciplines (Live at Mason Econ)
2018-May-09
71 minutes
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Balaji Srinivasan on the Power and Promise of the Blockchain
2018-Apr-25
54 minutes
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Agnes Callard on the Theory of Everything
2018-Apr-11
59 minutes
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Martina Navratilova on Shaping Herself (Live at Mason)
2018-Mar-28
65 minutes
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Chris Blattman on Development, Conflict, and Doing What’s Interesting
2018-Mar-14
60 minutes
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Robin Hanson on Signaling and Self-Deception (Live at Mason Econ)
2018-Feb-28
65 minutes
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Matt Levine Live at Bloomberg HQ
2018-Feb-14
66 minutes
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Charles C. Mann on Shaping Tomorrow’s World and the Limits to Growth
2018-Jan-31
55 minutes
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Ross Douthat on Narrative and Religion (Live at Mason)
2018-Jan-17
85 minutes
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Andy Weir on the Economics of Sci-Fi and Space
2017-Dec-20
52 minutes
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Doug Irwin on US Trade Policy
2017-Nov-29
57 minutes
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Sujatha Gidla on Being an Ant Amongst the Elephants (Live)
2017-Nov-15
62 minutes
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Steve Teles and Brink Lindsey on *The Captured Economy*
2017-Nov-01
52 minutes
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Mary Roach on Disgust, Death, and Danger (Live at Mason)
2017-Oct-18
75 minutes
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Larry Summers on Macroeconomics, Mentorship, and Avoiding Complacency (Live)
2017-Sep-20
73 minutes
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Dave Barry on Humor, Writing, and Life as a Florida Man
2017-Aug-16
57 minutes
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Dave Rubin on Digital Media, Crowdfunding, and Comedy (Live)
2017-Aug-02
32 minutes
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Atul Gawande on Priorities, Big and Small
2017-Jul-19
57 minutes
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Ben Sasse on the Space between Nebraska and Neverland (Live at Mason)
2017-Jun-28
81 minutes
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Edward Luce on The Retreat of Western Liberalism (Live)
2017-Jun-21
54 minutes
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Jill Lepore on Traveling through Time
2017-Jun-14
68 minutes
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Tyler Cowen and Steve Davies talk Theresa May, Brexit, and Europe (Live)
2017-Jun-07
23 minutes
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Raj Chetty on Teachers, Social Mobility, and How to Find Answers to Big Questions
2017-May-24
62 minutes
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Garry Kasparov on AI, Chess, and the Future of Creativity
2017-May-10
67 minutes
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Patrick Collison has a Few Questions for Tyler (Live at Stripe)
2017-Apr-12
93 minutes
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Malcolm Gladwell Wants to Make the World Safe for Mediocrity (Live at Mason)
2017-Mar-15
92 minutes
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*The Complacent Class* with Katherine Mangu-Ward (Live at Mason)
2017-Mar-13
56 minutes
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Rabbi David Wolpe on Leadership, Religion, and Identity (Live at Sixth & I)
2017-Feb-15
80 minutes
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Chef Mark Miller on Food as the Ultimate Intellectual Exploration
2017-Jan-25
75 minutes
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Jhumpa Lahiri on Writing, Translation, and Crossing Between Cultures (Live at Mason)
2017-Jan-11
86 minutes
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Joseph Henrich on WEIRD Societies and Life Among Two Strange Tribes (Live at Mason)
2016-Dec-14
85 minutes
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Fuchsia Dunlop on Chinese Food, Culture, and Travel
2016-Nov-16
75 minutes
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Steven Pinker on Language, Reason, and the Future of Violence (Live at Mason)
2016-Nov-02
86 minutes
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Ezra Klein on Media, Politics, and Models of the World
2016-Oct-06
77 minutes
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Margalit Fox on Life, Death, and the Best Job in Journalism
2016-Aug-24
47 minutes
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Michael Orthofer on Why Fiction Matters
2016-Jul-27
56 minutes
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Cass Sunstein on Judicial Minimalism, the Supreme Court, and Star Wars (Live at Mason)
2016-Jun-22
77 minutes
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Camille Paglia on her Lifestyle of Observation (Live at Mason)
2016-Apr-25
86 minutes
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Jonathan Haidt on Morality, Politics, and Intellectual Diversity on Campus
2016-Mar-24
69 minutes
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Nate Silver on the Supreme Court and the Underrated Stat for Finding Good Food (Live at Mason)
2016-Feb-23
81 minutes
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on Fighting Bruce Lee, Growing Up in Harlem, and Basketball (Live at Mason)
2016-Feb-02
82 minutes
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Cliff Asness on Comics and Why Never to Share a Gym with Cirque du Soleil (Live at Mason)
2015-Nov-18
82 minutes
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Dani Rodrik on Premature Deindustrialization and Why the World is Second Best at Best
2015-Oct-01
84 minutes
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Luigi Zingales on Italy, Google and Conglomeration, and Donald Trump (Live at Mason)
2015-Sep-16
76 minutes
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Jeffrey Sachs on Charter Cities and How to Reform Graduate Economics Education (Live at Mason)
2015-Mar-31
92 minutes
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Peter Thiel on Stagnation, Innovation, and What Not to Call your Company (Live at Mason)
2015-Mar-25
80 minutes
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