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Fuchsia Dunlop on the Story of Chinese Food from 2023-12-13T13:00
In her third appearance on the show, Chinese food expert Fuchsia Dunlop joins Tyler and a group of special guests to celebrate the release of Listen
John Gray on Pessimism, Liberalism, and Theism from 2023-11-29T13:00
John Gray is a philosopher and writer renowned for his critical examination of liberalism, atheism, and the human condition. His unique perspective is shaped over a decades-lon...
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Jennifer Burns on Milton Friedman and Ayn Rand from 2023-11-15T13:00
Jennifer Burns is a professor of history at Stanford who works at ...
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Brian Koppelman on TV, Movies, and Appreciating Art from 2023-11-08T13:00
Brian Koppelman is a writer, director, and producer known for his work on films like Rounders and Solitary Man, the hit TV show Billions, and his pod...
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Githae Githinji on Life in Kenya from 2023-11-02T12:15
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Harriet Karimi Muriithi on Life in Kenya from 2023-11-02T12:00
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Stephen Jennings on Building New Cities from 2023-11-01T12:19:58
Stephen and Tyler first met over thirty years ago while working on economic reforms in New Zealand. With a distinguished career that transitioned from the New Zealand Treasury ...
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Jacob Mikanowski on Eastern Europe from 2023-10-18T11:30
Jacob Mikanowski is the author of one of Tyler’s favorite books this year called Listen
Re-release: Claudia Goldin on the Economics of Inequality from 2023-10-09T17:43:21
Harvard professor Claudia Goldin has made a name for herself tackling difficult questions. What was the full economic cost of the American Civil War? Does education increase or lessen income ine...
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Ada Palmer on Viking Metaphysics, Contingent Moments, and Censorship from 2023-10-04T12:00
Ada Palmer is a Renaissance historian at the University of Chicago who studies radical free thought and censorship, composes music, consults on anime and manga, and is the auth...
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Lazarus Lake on Endurance, Uncertainty, and Reaching One’s Potential from 2023-09-20T12:00
Lazarus Lake is a renowned ultramarathon runner and designer. His most famous creation (along wit...
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Jerusalem Demsas on The Dispossessed, Gulliver's Travels, and Of Boys and Men from 2023-09-06T12:00
In this special episode, Tyler sat down with Jerusalem Demsas, staff writer at The Atlantic, to discuss three books: The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin, Gulliver's...
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Vishy Anand on Staying in the Game from 2023-08-30T12:00
A five-time World Chess Champion, Vishy became India's first grandmaster at age 18, spurring a chess revolution in the country. Now 53, he is still a world top ten pl...
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Celebrating Marginal Revolution's 20th Anniversary from 2023-08-23T12:00
When Alex Tabarrok and Tyler Cowen launched Marginal Revolution in August of 2003, they saw attracting a few thousand ac...
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Paul Graham on Ambition, Art, and Evaluating Talent from 2023-08-09T12:00
Tyler and Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham sat down at his home in the English countryside to discuss what areas of talent judgment his co-founder and wife Jessica...
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Noam Dworman on Stand-Up Comedy and Staying Open-Minded from 2023-07-26T12:00
Tyler sat down at Comedy Cellar with owner Noam Dworman to talk about the ever-changing stand-up comedy scene, including the perfect room temperature for stand-up, whether come...
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David Bentley Hart on Reason, Faith, and Diversity in Religious Thought from 2023-07-12T12:00
David Bentley Hart is an American writer, philosopher, religious scholar, critic, and theologian who has au...
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Reid Hoffman on the Possibilities of AI from 2023-06-28T12:02:49
In his second appearance, Reid Hoffman joined Tyler to talk everything AI: the optimal liability regime for LLMs, whether there’ll be autonomous money-making bots, which age...
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Noam Chomsky on Language, Left Libertarianism, and Progress from 2023-06-14T12:00
Noam Chomsky joins Tyler to discuss why Noam and Wilhelm von Humboldt have similar views on language and liberty, good and bad evolutionary approaches to language, what he thin...
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Peter Singer on Utilitarianism, Influence, and Controversial Ideas from 2023-06-07T12:30
Peter Singer is one of the world’s most influential living philosophers, whose ideas have motivated millions of people to change how they eat, how they give, and how they inter...
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Seth Godin on Marketing, Meaning, and the Bibs We Wear from 2023-05-31T12:00
On good days, Seth Godin thinks about all the progress we’re making on climate change. On bad days, he thinks about the problem of racing bibs. Though pieces of paper safety-pi...
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Simon Johnson on Banking, Technology, and Prosperity from 2023-05-17T12:00
What’s more intense than leading the IMF during a financial crisis? For Simon Johnson, it was co-authoring a book with fellow economist (and past guest) Daron Acemoglu. Written...
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Kevin Kelly on Advice, Travel, and Tech from 2023-05-03T12:00
As the founding executive editor of Wired magazine and the author of several acclaimed books on technology and culture, Kevin Kelly has long been known for his visiona...
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Anna Keay on Historic Architecture, Monarchy, and 17th Century Britain from 2023-04-19T12:00
Anna Keay is a historian who specializes in the cultural heritage...
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Jessica Wade on Chiral Materials, Open Knowledge, and Representation in STEM from 2023-04-05T12:00
Jessica Wade is a physicist at Imperial College London who, while spending her day working on special carbon-based materials that can be used as semiconductors, has spent her n...
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Jonathan GPT Swift on Jonathan Swift from 2023-03-29T12:00
In this conversation, Tyler uses ChatGPT to interview Jonathan Swift about his views on religion, politics, economics, and literature. GPT Swift discusses his support for the C...
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Tom Holland on History, Christianity, and the Value of the Countryside from 2023-03-22T12:30
Historian Tom Holland joined Tyler to discuss in what ways his Christianity is influenced by Lord Byron, how the Book of Revelation precipitated a revolutionary tradition, w...
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Yasheng Huang on the Development of the Chinese State from 2023-03-08T13:00
Yasheng Huang has written two of Tyler’s favorite books on China: Capitalism with...
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Brad DeLong on Intellectual and Technical Progress from 2023-02-22T09:07
Brad DeLong, professor of economics at UC Berkley, OG econ blogger, and Tyler’s Harvard classmate, joins the show to discuss Listen
Glenn Loury on the Cover Story and the Real Story from 2023-02-08T13:00
Economist and public intellectual Glenn Loury joined Tyler to discuss the soundtrack of Glenn’s life, Glenn's early career in theoretical economics, his favorite Thomas Schelling stor...
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Paul Salopek on Walking the World from 2023-01-25T13:00
Paul Salopek is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and National Geographic fellow who, at the age of 50, set out on foot to retrace the steps of the first human migrations out of Africa. The pr...
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Rick Rubin on Listening, Taste, and the Act of Noticing from 2023-01-18T13:05:08
Rick Rubin has been behind some of the most iconic and successful albums in music history, and his unique approach to production and artist development has made him one of the most respected fig...
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Katherine Rundell on the Art of Words from 2023-01-11T13:00
Katherine Rundell is, in a word, enthusiastic. She’s enthusiastic about John Donne. She’s enthusiastic about walking along rooftops. She’s enthusiastic about words, and stories, and food. She ha...
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Conversations with Tyler 2022 Retrospective from 2022-12-28T13:00
On this special year-in-review episode, Tyler and producer Jeff Holmes talk about the past year on the show, including which guests he’d like to have on in 2023, what stands out to him now about...
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John Adams on Composing and Creative Freedom from 2022-12-14T13:00
Is classical music dying? For John Adams the answer is an emphatic no. Considered by Tyler to be America’s greatest living composer, he may well be one of the people responsible for keeping it a...
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Jeremy Grantham on Investing in Green Tech from 2022-11-30T12:42
When it comes to fighting climate change Jeremy Grantham is optimistic about technology – but worried about timing. Known widely for his acuity in identifying bubbles, the British investor conte...
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Ken Burns on the Complications of History from 2022-11-16T13:00
When it comes to history—particularly American history—nothing is ever definitive, says documentarian Ken Burns. Much of his work has focused on capturing that history in film, but in his new bo...
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Mary Gaitskill on Subjects That Are Vexing Everybody from 2022-11-02T12:00
Mary Gaitskill’s knack for writing about the social and physical world with unapologetic clarity has led to her style being described both as "Listen
Reza Aslan on Martyrdom, Islam, and Revolution from 2022-10-19T12:00
Reza Aslan doesn’t mind being called a pantheist. In his own “roundabout spiritual journey” and study of the world’s religions, which has led him to write books on Listen
Walter Russell Mead on the Past and Future of American Foreign Policy from 2022-10-05T12:00:20
A leading expert in foreign policy, Walter Russell Mead believes his lack of a PhD—and interest in actually going places—has helped him avoid academic silos and institutional groupthink that’s r...
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Byron Auguste On Rewiring the U.S. Labor Market from 2022-09-21T12:00:08
When looking at the U.S. labor market, Byron Auguste sees too many job seekers screened out based on shallow signals like a bachelor’s degree, and too few ‘screened in’ by directly demonstrating...
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Vaughn Smith on Life as a Hyperpolyglot from 2022-09-07T12:00:02
Vaughn Smith is fluent in eight languages but with a beginner’s grasp of at least thirty-six (and counting). His talents are so remarkable that the Washington Post did a Listen
Shruti Rajagopalan talks to Daniel Gross and Tyler about Identifying and Predicting Talent from 2022-09-01T12:00:43
How can one identify and predict talent? On a search to answer this question and others like it, Tyler Cowen joined venture capitalist and entrepreneur Daniel Gross to explore the art and scienc...
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Cynthia L. Haven on René Girard, Czeslaw Milosz, and Joseph Brodsky from 2022-08-24T12:00:58
As a little girl, Cynthia Haven loved reading classic works of literature. At sixteen, she began her career as a reporter. And years later, those two interests converged as they led her to inter...
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William MacAskill on Effective Altruism, Moral Progress, and Cultural Innovation from 2022-08-10T12:00
When Tyler is reviewing grants for Emergent Ventures, ...
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Leopoldo López on Activism Under Autocratic Regimes from 2022-07-27T12:00:57
As an inquisitive reader, books were a cherished commodity for Leopoldo López when he was a political prisoner in his home country of Venezuela. His prison guards eventually observed the strengt...
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Matthew Ball on the Metaverse and Gaming from 2022-07-13T12:00:29
Fighting fires meant a lot of downtime for Matthew Ball. Stationed at a forward operating base in the woods for two weeks at a time, he spent long hours amongst fellow firefighters with whom he ...
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Barkha Dutt on the Nuances of Indian Life from 2022-06-29T11:00:29
Growing up, Barkha Dutt was totally rootless. She spoke English, not her parent’s Punjabi. She devoured Enid Blyton and studied English literature during college, but read few Indian novelists. ...
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Marc Andreessen on Learning to Love the Humanities from 2022-06-15T13:33:08
Like the frontier characters from Deadwood, his favorite TV show, Marc Andreessen has discovered that the real challenge to building in new territory is not in the practicalities of lea...
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Jamal Greene on Reconceiving Rights from 2022-06-01T12:00:29
What does it mean to uphold disability rights, or the right to economic liberty? What framework should be used when rights appear to conflict? Constitutional law expert Jamal Greene contends tha...
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Tyler and Daniel Gross Talk Talent from 2022-05-18T12:00:19
If Tyler and Daniel's latest book can be boiled down into a single message, it would be that the world is currently failing at iden...
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Chris Blattman on War and Centralized Power from 2022-05-04T12:00:47
What causes war? Many scholars have spent their careers attempting to study the psychology of leaders to understand what incentivizes them to undertake the human and financial costs of conflict,...
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Thomas Piketty on the Politics of Equality from 2022-04-20T12:00:10
When it comes to the enormous reduction of income inequality during the 20th century, Thomas Piketty sees politics everywhere. In his new book, Listen
Roy Foster on Ireland’s Many Unmade Futures from 2022-04-06T12:00:49
“The best history,” says Roy Foster, “is written when we realize that people acted in expectation of a future that was never going to happen.” While this is the case for many countries, it’s esp...
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Lydia Davis on Language and Literature from 2022-03-23T12:00:47
A prolific translator, author, and former professor of creative writing, Lydia Davis’s motivation for her life’s work is jarringly simple: she just loves language. She loves short, sparkling sen...
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Sam Bankman-Fried on Arbitrage and Altruism from 2022-03-09T13:00:01
Whether it’s scaling an arbitrage opportunity or launching an ambitious philanthropic project, Sam Bankman-Fried has set himself apart. In just a few years, he’s not only made billions trading c...
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Chuck Klosterman on Writing the Past and Relishing the Present from 2022-02-23T13:00:13
How do you go about writing a book on an era that is, for many, recent history? When Chuck Klosterman set out to write his new book, Listen
Sebastian Mallaby on Venture Capital from 2022-02-09T13:00:29
Venture capital powered the tech revolution, but what powers venture capital? With his in-depth knowledge and coverage of the sector you’d be forgiven for thinking Sebastian Mallaby is a veteran...
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Stewart Brand on Starting Things and Staying Curious from 2022-01-26T13:00
From psychedelics to cyberculture, hippie communes to commercial startups, and the Whole Earth Catalog to the Long Now Foundation, Stewart Brand has not only been a part of many movemen...
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Russ Roberts on Israel and Life as an Immigrant from 2022-01-19T13:00
In this special crossover special with EconTalk, Tyler interviews Russ Roberts about his new life in Israel as president of Shalem College. They discuss why there are so few new univers...
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Ana Vidović on Prodigies, Performance, and Perseverance from 2022-01-12T13:00
Is genius born or made? For Croatian-born classical guitarist Ana Vidović the answer is both. Born into a musical family, she began playing guitar at five and was quickly considered a prodigy. B...
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Conversations with Tyler 2021 Retrospective from 2021-12-29T13:00
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Ray Dalio on Investing, Management, and the Changing World Order from 2021-12-15T13:00
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Ruth Scurr on the Art of Biography from 2021-12-01T13:00
The most challenging part of being a biographer for Ruth Scurr is finding the best form to tell a life. “You can't go in there with a workmanlike attitude saying, ‘I'm going to do cradle to grav...
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David Rubenstein on Private Equity, Public Art, and Philanthropy from 2021-11-17T13:00
Baltimore native David Rubenstein is a founding figure in private equity, a prolific philanthropist, and author. From leveraged buyouts to his patriotic philanthropy to his leadership roles with...
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David Salle on the Experience of Art from 2021-11-03T12:00
When the audience for visual art expanded from small circles of artists and collectors into broader culture, the way art was experienced shifted from aesthetics to explanation. Art, it became th...
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Stanley McChrystal on the Military, Leadership, and Risk from 2021-10-20T12:00
Stan McChrystal has spent a long career considering questions of risk, leadership, and the role of America’s military, having risen through the Army’s ranks ultimately to take command of all US ...
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Claudia Goldin on the Economics of Inequality from 2021-10-06T12:00
Harvard professor Claudia Goldin has made a name for herself tackling difficult questions. What was the full economic cost of the American Civil War? Does education increase or lessen income ine...
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Amia Srinivasan on Utopian Feminism from 2021-09-22T12:00
What is our right to be desired? How are our sexual desires shaped by the society around us? Is consent sufficient for a sexual relationship? In the wake of the #MeToo movement, public debates a...
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David Cutler and Ed Glaeser on the Health and Wealth of Cities from 2021-09-08T12:00
With remote work becoming more common and cities competing for businesses it’s become easier than ever before for educated Americans to relocate, leaving cities more vulnerable than they’ve ever...
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Zeynep Tufekci on the Sociology of The Moment (Live) from 2021-08-25T12:00
When Zeynep Tufekci penned a New York Times op-ed at the onset of the pandemic challenging the pre...
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Andrew Sullivan on Braving New Intellectual Journeys from 2021-08-11T12:00
Upon learning he was HIV positive in 1993, Andrew Sullivan began writing more than he ever had before. Believing that he didn’t have long to live, he wanted to leave behind a book detailing his ...
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Niall Ferguson on Why We Study History from 2021-07-28T12:00
While the modern historical ethos can be obsessed with condescending to the past based on our current value system, Scottish-born historian Niall Ferguson has aimed to set himself apart with his...
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Alexander the Grate on Life as an NFA from 2021-07-14T12:00
Alexander the Grate has spent 40 years – more than half of his life – living on the streets (and heating grates) of Washington, DC. He prefers the label NFA (No Fixed Address) rather than “homel...
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Richard Prum on Birds, Beauty, and Finding Your Own Way from 2021-06-30T12:00
Richard Prum really cares about birds. Growing up in rural Vermont, he didn’t know anyone else interested in birding his own age. The experience taught him to rely on his ow...
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Elijah Millgram on the Philosophical Life from 2021-06-16T12:00
What can studying the lives of philosophers tell us about how to organize and interpret our own lives? Elijah Millgram is a professor of philosophy at the University of Utah whose research focus...
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David Deutsch on Multiple Worlds and Our Place in Them from 2021-06-02T12:00
Tyler describes Oxford professor and theoretical physicist David Deutsch as a “maximum philosopher of freedom” with no rival. A pioneer in the field of quantum computing, Deutsch subscribes to t...
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Mark Carney on Central Banking and Shared Values from 2021-05-26T12:00
As a Canadian economist who once served as the Governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney has had many occasions to reflect on the importance of values. Whether it’s ingratiating himself as a ...
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Pierpaolo Barbieri on Latin American FinTech from 2021-05-19T12:00
Gifted young Argentines tend to leave home to “make it in America” and never look back, but after earning a degree from Harvard, writing Listen
Daniel Carpenter on Smart Regulation from 2021-05-05T11:45:34
Daniel Carpenter is one of the world’s leading experts on regulation and the foremost expert on the US Food and Drug Administration. A professor of Government at Harvard University, he’s conduct...
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Shadi Bartsch on the Classics and China from 2021-04-21T11:38:34
A self-professed nerd, the young Shadi Bartsch could be found awake late at night, reading Latin under the covers of her bed by flashlight. Now a professor of Classics at the Univer...
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Dana Gioia on Becoming an Information Billionaire from 2021-04-07T11:56:46
Before he was California Poet Laureate or leading the National Endowment for the Arts, Dana Gioia marketed Jell-O. Possessing both a Stanford MBA and a Harvard MA, he combined his creativity and...
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Sarah Parcak on Archaeology from Space from 2021-03-24T11:54:31
What can new technology tell us about our ancient past? Archaeologist and remote sensing expert Sarah Parcak has used satellite imagery to discover over a dozen potential pyramids and thousands ...
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John Cochrane on Economic Puzzles and Habits of Mind from 2021-03-10T13:00
What unites John Cochrane the finance economist and “grumpy” policy blogger with John Cochrane the accomplished glider pilot? For John, the answer is that each derives from the same habit of min...
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Patricia Fara on Newton, Scientific Progress, and the Benefits of Unhistoric Acts from 2021-02-24T13:00
Patricia Fara is a historian of science at Cambridge University and well-known for her writings on women in science. Her forthcoming book, Listen
Brian Armstrong on the Crypto Economy from 2021-02-10T13:00
Brian Armstrong first recognized the potential of cryptocurrencies after witnessing firsthand the tragic consequences of hyperinflation in Argentina. Coinbase, the company he co-founded, aims to...
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Benjamin Friedman on the Origins of Economic Belief from 2021-01-27T13:00
Benjamin Friedman has been a leading macroeconomist since the 1970s, whose accomplishments include writing 150 papers, producing more than dozen books, and teaching Tyler Cowen graduate macroeco...
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Noubar Afeyan on the Permission to Leap from 2021-01-13T13:00
“The world of innovation is very much one of toggling between survival and then thriving,” says Noubar Afeyan. Co-founder of Moderna and CEO of Flagship Pioneering, the biomedical innovator, phi...
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Conversations with Tyler 2020 Retrospective from 2020-12-30T12:52:39
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John O. Brennan on Life in the CIA from 2020-12-16T13:32:54
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Zach Carter on the Life and Legacy of John Maynard Keynes from 2020-12-02T13:00:38
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Jimmy Wales on Systems and Incentives from 2020-11-18T13:00
Jimmy Wales used to joke that choosing to build Wikipedia on a non-profit, non-advertising model was either the best or worst decision he ever made—but he doesn’t joke about that anymore. “If yo...
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Edwidge Danticat on Haitian Art and Literature from 2020-11-04T13:00
Edwidge Danticat left Haiti when she was 12, she says, but Haiti never left her. At 14 she began writing stories about the people and culture she loved, and now is an internationally acclaimed n...
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Michael Kremer on Economists as Founders from 2020-10-21T12:00
Michael Kremer is best known for his academic work researching global poverty, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2019 along with Listen
Audrey Tang on the Technology of Democracy from 2020-10-07T12:00
Audrey Tang began reading classical works like the Shūjīng and Tao Te Ching at the age of 5 and learned the programming language Perl at the age of 12. Now, the autodidact and ...
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Alex Ross on Music, Culture, and Criticism from 2020-09-22T19:44:40
To Alex Ross, good music critics must be well-rounded and have command of neighboring cultural areas. “When you're writing about opera, you're writing about literature as well as music, you're w...
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Matt Yglesias on Why the Population is Too Damn Low from 2020-09-09T12:00
Matt Yglesias joined Tyler for a wide-ranging conversation on his vision for a bigger, less politically polarized America outlined in his new book Listen
Jason Furman on Productivity, Competition, and Growth from 2020-08-26T12:00
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Nicholas Bloom on Management, Productivity, and Scientific Progress from 2020-08-12T12:00
What might the electrification of factories teach us about how quickly we’ll adapt to remote work? What gives American companies an edge over their competitors on the international stage? What v...
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Nathan Nunn on the Paths to Development from 2020-07-29T12:00
Nathan Nunn’s work history includes automotive stores, a freight company, a paint factory, a ski hill, photography, book publishing, private tutoring, and more. Having grown up in a lower-income...
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Melissa Dell on the Significance of Persistence from 2020-07-15T12:00
Explaining 10 percent of something is not usually cause for celebration. And yet when it comes to economic development, where so many factors are in play—institutions, culture, geogra...
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Annie Duke on Poker, Probabilities, and How We Make Decisions from 2020-07-01T12:00
For Annie Duke, the poker table is a perfect laboratory to study human decision-making — including her own. “It really exposes you to the way that you’re thinking,” she says...
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Rachel Harmon on Policing from 2020-06-17T12:00
Long before becoming a legal scholar focused on police reform, Rachel Harmon studied engineering at MIT and graduate philosophy at LSE. “You could call it a random walk,” she says, “o...
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Ashley Mears on Status and Beauty from 2020-06-03T12:00
Ashley Mears is a former fashion model turned academic sociologist, and her book Listen
Paul Romer on a Culture of Science and Working Hard from 2020-05-20T12:30
Paul Romer makes his second appearance to discuss the failings of economics, how his mass testing plan for COVID-19 would work, what aspects of epidemiology concern him, how the FDA i...
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Adam Tooze on our Financial Past and Future from 2020-05-06T12:00
Adam Tooze is best known for his highly-regarded books on the economic history of Nazi Germany, the remaking of the global economic and political order starting in World War I, and hi...
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Glen Weyl on Fighting COVID-19 and the Role of the Academic Expert from 2020-04-29T12:00
Glen Weyl is an economist, researcher, and founder of RadicalXChange. He recently co-authored a paper t...
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Philip E. Tetlock on Forecasting and Foraging as a Fox from 2020-04-22T12:00
Accuracy is only one of the things we want from forecasters, says Philip Tetlock, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania and co-author of Listen
Emily St. John Mandel on Fact, Fiction, and the Familiar from 2020-04-08T12:00
When Tyler requested an interview with novelist Emily St. John Mandel, he didn’t expect that reality would have in some ways become an eerie mirror of her latest books. And Emily didn’t expect t...
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Ross Douthat on Decadence and Dynamism from 2020-03-25T12:00
For Ross Douthat, decadence isn’t necessarily a moral judgement, but a technical label for a state that societies tend to enter—and one that is perhaps much more normal than the dynamism America...
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Russ Roberts and Tyler on COVID-19 from 2020-03-19T12:00
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John McWhorter on Linguistics, Music, and Race (Live at Mason) from 2020-03-11T12:00
Who can you ask about the Great American Songbook, the finer Jell-O flavors, and peculiar languages like Saramaccan all while expecting the same kind of fast, thoughtful, and energetic response?...
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Garett Jones on Democracy (More or Less) from 2020-02-26T12:56:47
Tim Harford on Persuasion and Popular Economics from 2020-02-12T12:51:13
Ezra Klein on Why We’re Polarized from 2020-01-29T13:00
Reid Hoffman on Systems, Levers, and Quixotic Quests from 2020-01-15T12:55:28
Slavoj Žižek on His Stubborn Attachment to Communism from 2020-01-08T12:50:57
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Abhijit Banerjee on Theory, Practice, and India from 2019-12-30T13:04:03
Tyler Looks Back on 2019 (BONUS) from 2019-12-23T12:41:19
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Esther Duflo on Management, Growth, and Research in Action from 2019-12-18T12:37:03
Daron Acemoglu on the Struggle Between State and Society from 2019-12-04T12:54:30
What determines the economic, social, and political trajectories of nations? Why were settlers in colonies like Jamestown and Australia able to escape the extractive systems desired by their Bri...
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Mark Zuckerberg Interviews Patrick Collison and Tyler Cowen on the Nature and Causes of Progress (Bonus) from 2019-11-27T12:36:47
Over the past year Mark Zuckerberg has held a series of interviews themed around technology and society. This conversation wit...
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Shaka Senghor on Incarceration, Identity, and the Gift of Literacy from 2019-11-20T12:57:46
How do you survive seven years in solitary confinement? The gift of literacy is what saved Shaka Senghor. Reading, journaling, academic study, and writing books w...
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Lunch with Fuchsia Dunlop at Mama Chang (Bonus) from 2019-11-13T12:50:58
Three years after her first appearance, Chinese food expert Fuchsia Dunlop joins Tyler to celebrate the release of her...
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Ted Gioia on Music as Cultural Cloud Storage from 2019-11-06T12:47:09
To Ted Gioia, music is a form of cloud storage for preserving human culture. And the real cultural conflict, he insists, is not between “high brow” and “low brow” music, but between the innovati...
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Henry Farrell on Weaponized Interdependence, Big Tech, and Playing with Ideas from 2019-10-23T12:15
The one concept most valuable for understanding the news today might be Henry Farrell’s theory of weaponized interdependence. Whether it’s China’s influence over the NBA, th...
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Ben Westhoff on Synthetic Drugs, Dive Bars, and the Evolution of Rap from 2019-10-09T12:13:19
Ben Westhoff has written some of Tyler’s favorite books on everything from dive bars to the evolution of American rap music to how fentanyl is driving the opioid epidemic. S...
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Alain Bertaud on Cities, Markets, and People from 2019-09-25T11:58:47
Markets, Alain Bertaud likes to say, are like gravity: they exist everywhere. But while urban planners are quite good at taking gravity into account, they tend to ignore mar...
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Samantha Power on Learning How to Make a Difference from 2019-09-11T11:53:11
A former war correspondent and UN ambassador, Samantha Power has had her share of tough assignments. But writing a memoir about it all is also a daunting prospect. The forma...
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Hollis Robbins on 19th Century Life and Literature from 2019-08-28T11:56:05
As a graduate student, Hollis Robbins helped Henry Louis Gates, Jr. unravel a mystery about the provenance of a mid-19th century book. Robbins helped date the book by discov...
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Masha Gessen on the Ins and Outs of Russia from 2019-08-14T12:20:30
What sort of country would compel you to flee it, draw you back ten years later, then force you away yet again after two decades? Masha Gessen knows the answer all too well,...
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Kwame Anthony Appiah on Pictures of the World from 2019-07-31T12:25:33
Born to a Ghanaian father and British mother, Kwame Anthony Appiah grew up splitting time between both countries — and lecturing in many more — before eventually settling in...
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Neal Stephenson on Depictions of Reality from 2019-07-17T12:00
If you want to speculate on the development of tech, no one has a better brain to pick than Neal Stephenson. Across more than a dozen books, he’s created vast story worlds d...
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Eric Kaufmann on Immigration, Identity, and the Limits of Individualism from 2019-07-03T11:52:13
Going back and forth between Canada and Japan during his childhood sparked Eric Kaufmann’s interest in the question of identity. As a foreigner in an international school, h...
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Hal Varian on Taking the Academic Approach to Business from 2019-06-19T12:02:44
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Russ Roberts on Life as an Economics Educator from 2019-06-05T12:17:37
What are the virtues of forgiveness? Are we subject to being manipulated by data? Why do people struggle with prayer? What really motivates us? How has the volunteer army sy...
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Ezekiel Emanuel on the Practice of Medicine, Policy, and Life from 2019-05-22T11:58:54
Ezekiel Emanuel is a reflection of his upbringing: a doctor for a father who loved to travel, a mother interested in policy and community activism, and all th...
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Karl Ove Knausgård on Literary Freedom from 2019-05-08T13:05:52
What is Karl Ove Knausgård’s struggle, exactly? The answer is simple: achieving total freedom in his writing. “It’s a space where I...
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Margaret Atwood on Canada, Writing, and Invention (Live at Mason) from 2019-04-24T11:55:18
Margaret Atwood defines the Canadian sense of humor as “a bit Scottish,” and in this live conversation with Tyler, she loves to let her own comedic sensibilities shine. In a...
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Ed Boyden on Minding your Brain from 2019-04-10T12:04:21
Ed Boyden builds the tools and technologies that help researchers think about and treat the brain, an organ we still know surprisingly little about. When it comes to how our...
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Emily Wilson on Translations and Language from 2019-03-27T12:00
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Raghuram Rajan on Understanding Community from 2019-03-13T11:45:51
Raghuram Rajan thinks a lot about how to empower individuals, both at the community and international level. In his new book, Rajan draws upon experience both as an academic...
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Sam Altman on Loving Community, Hating Coworking, and the Hunt for Talent from 2019-02-27T12:56:22
Founders aren’t superheroes, says Sam Altman.They may play extreme sports, respond to emails within seconds, and start billion-dollar companies, but they are rarely the prod...
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Jordan Peterson on Mythology, Fame, and Reading People from 2019-02-13T13:03:51
Jordan Peterson joins Tyler to discuss collecting Soviet propaganda, why he’s so drawn to Jung, what the Exodus story can teach us about current events, his marriage and fam...
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Noel Johnson and Mark Koyama on *Persecution and Toleration* from 2019-01-30T12:43:48
How did religious freedom emerge — and why did it arrive so late? In their forthcoming book, fellow Mason economists Noel Johnson and Mark Koyama argue that while most focus...
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Larissa MacFarquhar on Getting Inside Someone's Head from 2019-01-16T12:48:46
As a writer of profiles, Larissa MacFarquhar is granted the privilege of listening to, learning from, and sharing the stories of extraordinary thinkers like Derik Parfit, No...
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Rebecca Kukla on Moving through and Responding to the World from 2019-01-02T13:15:40
Before she ever studied them as an academic, Rebecca Kukla was fascinated by cities. Growing up in the middle of Toronto, she spent her days walking the city and noticing th...
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Daniel Kahneman on Cutting Through the Noise from 2018-12-19T12:55:54
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Paul Romer on the Unrivaled Joy of Scholarship from 2018-12-05T13:19:59
Throughout his career, Paul Romer has enjoyed sampling and sifting through an ever-growing body of knowledge. He sometimes jokingly refers to himself as a random idea genera...
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John Nye on Revisionist Economic History and Having Too Many Hobbies from 2018-11-21T12:58:24
Is John Nye the finest polymath in the George Mason economics department?
Raised in the Philippines and taught to be a well-rounded Catholic gent...
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Eric Schmidt on the Life-Changing Magic of Systematizing, Scaling, and Saying "Thanks" (Live) from 2018-11-07T12:51:39
The son of an economist, Eric Schmidt eschewed his father’s profession, first studying architecture before settling on computer science and eventually earning a PhD. Now one of the most influent...
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Ben Thompson on Business and Tech from 2018-10-24T12:20:53
Not only is Ben Thompson's Stratechery frequently mentioned on MR, but such is Tyler's fandom that the newsletter even made its way onto the reading list for one of his PhD courses. Ben's based ...
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Rob Wiblin interviews Tyler on *Stubborn Attachments* from 2018-10-16T12:23:15
In this special episode, Rob Wiblin of 80,000 Hours has the super-sized conversation he wants to have with Tyler about Stubborn Attachments. In addition to a deep examination of the ideas in the...
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Paul Krugman on Politics, Inequality, and Following Your Curiosity from 2018-10-10T11:55:52
After winning the Nobel, Paul Krugman found himself at the "end of ambition," with no more achievements left to unlock. That could be a depressing place, but Krugman avoids complacency by doing ...
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Bruno Maçães on the Spirit of Adventure from 2018-09-26T11:59
Political scientist Bruno Maçães has built a career out of crossing the globe teaching, advising, writing, and talking to people. His recent book, born out of a six-month journey across Eurasia,...
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Michele Gelfand on Tight and Loose Cultures from 2018-09-12T12:05:27
Michele Gelfand is professor of psychology at the University of Maryland and author of the just-released Rule Makers, Rule Breakers: How Tight and Loose Cultures Wire Our World. In her conversat...
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Claire Lehmann on Speaking Freely from 2018-08-29T11:56:32
Claire Lehmann is the founding editor of Quillette, an online magazine dedicated to free thought and open inquiry. Founded in 2015, the magazine has already developed a large and growing readers...
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Michael Pollan on the Science and Sublimity of Psychedelics from 2018-08-15T13:14:55
Michael Pollan has long been fascinated by nature and the ways we connect and clash with it, with decades of writing covering food, farming, cooking, and architecture. Pollan's latest fascinatio...
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Michelle Dawson on Autism and Atypicality from 2018-08-01T11:37:45
Perhaps no one else in the world more appreciates the challenges facing a better understanding of autism than Michelle Dawson. An autistic herself, she began researching her condition after expe...
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Vitalik Buterin on Cryptoeconomics and Markets in Everything from 2018-07-18T13:59:42
At the intersection of programming, economics, cryptography, distributed systems, information theory, and math, you will find Vitalik Buterin, who has managed to synthesize insights across those...
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Juan Pablo Villarino on Travel and Trust from 2018-07-03T11:54:42
Travel writer Juan Pablo Villarino had visited 90 countries before making the trek to exotic Arlington, Virginia for this chat with Tyler. Amazingly enough, this recording marked his first trip ...
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Elisa New on Poetry in America and Beyond from 2018-06-20T11:59:15
Elisa New believes anyone can have fun reading a poem. And that if you really want to have a blast, you shouldn't limit poetry to silent, solitary reading - why not sing, recite, or perform it ...
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David Brooks on Youth, Morality, and Loneliness (Live at Mason) from 2018-06-06T11:57:08
For two hours every morning, David Brooks crawls around his living room floor, organizing piles of research. Then, the piles become paragraphs, the paragraphs become columns or chapters, and the...
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Nassim Nicholas Taleb on Self-Education and Doing the Math (Plus special guest Bryan Caplan) from 2018-05-23T12:37:37
Though what Taleb was really after was a discussion with Bryan Caplan (which starts at 51:50), the philosopher, mathematician, and author most recently of *Skin in the Game* also generously agre...
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Bryan Caplan on Learning across Disciplines (Live at Mason Econ) from 2018-05-09T11:56:35
"No single paper is that good", says Bryan Caplan. To really understand a topic, you need to read the entire literature in the field. And to do the kind of scholarship Bryan's work requires, you...
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Balaji Srinivasan on the Power and Promise of the Blockchain from 2018-04-25T21:08:28
When Balaji Srinivasan sat down for his conversation with Tyler he was the CEO of Earn.com. Today he is the CTO at Coinbase, which acquired his company in the intervening weeks (congrats Balaji!...
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Agnes Callard on the Theory of Everything from 2018-04-11T11:59:12
Is a written dialogue the best way to learn from philosopher Agnes Callard?
If so, what does that say about philosophy? Is Plato’s Symposium about love or mere intoxication? If good peopl...
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Martina Navratilova on Shaping Herself (Live at Mason) from 2018-03-28T12:14:05
Martina Navratilova is one of the greatest tennis players of all time. No one has won more matches than her thanks to an astonishing 87 percent win rate in a long and dominant career.
In ...
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Chris Blattman on Development, Conflict, and Doing What’s Interesting from 2018-03-14T12:18:39
Chris Blattman’s made his career as a development economist by finding a place he likes and finding a reason to live there. Not a bad strategy considering the impact of the work he’s done in Lib...
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Robin Hanson on Signaling and Self-Deception (Live at Mason Econ) from 2018-02-28T12:54:43
If intros aren’t about introductions, then what’s this here for? Is not including one a countersignal? Either way, you’ll enjoy this conversation — and that says a lot about you.
This epi...
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Matt Levine Live at Bloomberg HQ from 2018-02-14T13:04:26
Is Matt Levine a modern-day Horace? Like Matt, Horace has a preoccupation with wealth and the law. There’s a playful humor as he segues from topic to topic. An ability to read Latin. And many of...
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Charles C. Mann on Shaping Tomorrow’s World and the Limits to Growth from 2018-01-31T12:37:10
At the beginning of their conversation, Tyler dubs Charles C. Mann a tlamatini, or ‘he who knows things.’ And oh, the things he knows, effortlessly weaving together, history, anthropology, econo...
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Ross Douthat on Narrative and Religion (Live at Mason) from 2018-01-17T13:06:11
Last year, Tyler asked his readers “What Is the Strongest Argument for the Existence of God?” and followed up a few days later with a post outlining why he doesn’t believe in God. New York Times...
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Andy Weir on the Economics of Sci-Fi and Space from 2017-12-20T13:00:13
Before writing a single word of his new book Artemis, Andy Weir worked out the economics of a lunar colony. Without the economics, how could the story hew to the hard sci-fi style Weir cornered ...
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Doug Irwin on US Trade Policy from 2017-11-29T12:53:04
Tyler thinks Douglas Irwin has just released the best history of American trade policy ever written. So for this conversation Tyler went easy on Doug, asking softball questions like: Have tariff...
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Sujatha Gidla on being an Ant amongst the Elephants (Live) from 2017-11-15T12:58:40
Sujatha Gidla was an untouchable in India, but moved to the United States at the age of 26 and is now the first Indian woman to be employed as a conductor on the New York City Subway. In her mem...
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Steve Teles and Brink Lindsey on *The Captured Economy* from 2017-11-01T11:56:19
What happens when a liberal and a libertarian get together? In the case of Steve Teles and Brink Lindsey, they write a book. And then Tyler separates them for a podcast interview about that boo...
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Mary Roach on Disgust, Death, and Danger (Live at Mason) from 2017-10-18T12:05:37
Legal writing was never Mary Roach’s thing. She describes that short-lived stint as an inscrutable “bringing forth of multisyllabic words.” Instead, she’s forged a career by letting curiosity le...
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Larry Summers on Macroeconomics, Mentorship, and Avoiding Complacency (Live) from 2017-09-20T12:14:58
The economist, President Emeritus at Harvard University, and former Treasury Secretary joins Tyler to discuss innovation in higher education, Herman Melville, the Fed, Mexico, Russia, China, the...
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Dave Barry on Humor, Writing, and Life as a Florida Man from 2017-08-16T12:14:08
Though most know him first as a humor columnist, Dave Barry’s career has spanned many forms of media, including books, movies, TV, and music. Driving this relentless output, says Barry, is the c...
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Dave Rubin on Digital Media, Crowdfunding, and Comedy (Live) from 2017-08-02T12:14:52
Today many YouTube channels have more influence than traditional TV shows. This fact is not lost on Dave Rubin, who started his talk show career in traditional media, but soon decided to strike ...
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Atul Gawande on Priorities, Big and Small from 2017-07-19T11:52:15
The surgeon, researcher, and celebrated writer joined Tyler for a conversation on why Watson will never diagnose your illness, what George Church’s narcolepsy teaches us about CRISPR, what’s mis...
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Ben Sasse on the Space between Nebraska and Neverland (Live at Mason) from 2017-06-28T12:13:46
The US senator and former college president joined Tyler for a conversation on adolescence, adulthood, driving for Uber, loving Luther, hate-reading Rousseau, the decline of small towns, backpac...
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Edward Luce on The Retreat of Western Liberalism (Live) from 2017-06-21T12:00:18
Edward Luce has a new book out about the rising crisis in Western liberalism, so naturally Tyler’s first question to him dealt with James II and William of Orange. Listen
Jill Lepore on Traveling through Time from 2017-06-14T11:45:51
Is time like a line, a stretched out accordion, buried silos, or a flat circle? We concoct many ways to think about the relationship between the present and the past, but according to Jill Lepor...
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Tyler Cowen and Steve Davies talk Theresa May, Brexit, and Europe (Live) from 2017-06-07T12:13:25
The UK is holding a big election on June 8, so today we’re bringing you some bonus audio on that topic featuring Tyler and Steve Davies of the London-based Institute of Economic Affairs.
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Raj Chetty on Teachers, Social Mobility, and How to Find Answers to Big Questions from 2017-05-24T11:52:24
A high school teacher once told Raj Chetty he’d some day serve on the Federal Reserve Board. At the the time Raj thought the comment was silly, since he was busy working in the laboratory on sta...
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Garry Kasparov on AI, Chess, and the Future of Creativity from 2017-05-10T12:26:29
The chess grandmaster, political activist, and author joins Tyler for a conversation on artificial intelligence, Russia, Putin, how education must change, favorite cities for chess, the most lik...
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Patrick Collison has a Few Questions for Tyler (Live at Stripe) from 2017-04-12T10:32:32
A few months ago, Tyler asked Patrick Collison, CEO of Stripe, to be on the show. Patrick agreed, but only under the condition that the be the one to do the interviewing. Thus, what follows is t...
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Malcolm Gladwell Wants to Make the World Safe for Mediocrity (Live at Mason) from 2017-03-15T11:40:48
Journalist, author, and podcaster Malcolm Gladwell joins Tyler for a conversation on Joyce Gladwell, Caribbean identity, satire as a weapon, Daniel Ellsberg and Edward Snowden, Harvard’s under-t...
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*The Complacent Class* with Katherine Mangu-Ward (Live at Mason) from 2017-03-13T11:26:11
In this bonus episode, Editor-in-chief of Reason Katherine Mangu-Ward interviews Tyler about *The Complacent Class.* Make sure to listen all the way to the end for an answer Katherine describes ...
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Rabbi David Wolpe on Leadership, Religion, and Identity (Live at Sixth&I) from 2017-02-15T12:18:30
Named one of the most influential Jewish thinkers of our time, Rabbi David Wolpe joins Tyler in a conversation on flawed leaders, Jewish identity in the modern world, the many portrayals of Davi...
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Chef Mark Miller on Food as the Ultimate Intellectual Exploration from 2017-01-25T07:40:49
Mark Miller is often called the founder of modern southwestern cuisine, but his unique anthropological approach to food has led him to explore cuisines in over 100 countries around the world. He...
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Jhumpa Lahiri on Writing, Translation, and Crossing Between Cultures (Live at Mason) from 2017-01-11T13:24:52
Author, teacher, and translator Jhumpa Lahiri joins Tyler for a conversation on identity, Rhode Island, writing as problem solving, reading across languages, the badness of book covers, Elena Fe...
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Joseph Henrich on WEIRD Societies and Life Among Two Strange Tribes (Live at Mason) from 2016-12-14T12:31:59
To anthropologist Joseph Henrich, intelligence is overrated. Social learning, and its ability to influence biological evolution over time, is what really sets our species apart. He joined Tyler ...
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Fuchsia Dunlop on Chinese Food, Culture, and Travel from 2016-11-16T13:54:16
For centuries, China has treated its cuisine with a reverence and delight that is only just starting to emerge with Western “foodie” culture. No one understands this better than Fuchsia Dunlop, ...
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Steven Pinker on Language, Reason, and the Future of Violence (Live at Mason) from 2016-11-02T12:33:55
Steven Pinker has spent an entire academic career thinking deeply about language, cognition, and human nature. Driving it all, he says, is an Enlightenment belief that the world is intelligible,...
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Ezra Klein on Media, Politics, and Models of the World from 2016-10-06T12:23:06
Ezra Klein, editor-in-chief of Vox.com, joins Tyler Cowen for a conversation on biases in digital media, the morality of meat-eating, how working for large organizations has changed his worldvie...
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Margalit Fox on Life, Death, and the Best Job in Journalism from 2016-08-24T12:32:13
The stereotypical obituary is a formulaic recitation of facts — dry, boring, and without craft. But Margalit Fox has shown the genre can produce some of the most memorable and moving stories in ...
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Michael Orthofer on Why Fiction Matters from 2016-07-27T12:57:22
Michael Orthofer, one of the world’s most prolific book reviewers, joins Tyler Cowen for a conversation on — what else? — books. Read to discover why Michael believes everyone should read more f...
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Cass Sunstein on Judicial Minimalism, the Supreme Court, and Star Wars (Live at Mason) from 2016-06-22T11:04:37
Cass Sunstein joins Tyler Cowen for a conversation on judicial minimalism, Bob Dylan’s best album, the metaphysics of nudging, Byatt's Possession, the ideal size of the Supreme Court, Hayek, why...
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Camille Paglia on her Lifestyle of Observation (Live at Mason) from 2016-04-25T10:19:40
Camille Paglia joins Tyler Cowen for a conversation on the brilliance of Bowie, lamb vindaloo, her lifestyle of observation, why writers need real jobs, Star Wars, Harold Bloom, Amelia Earhart, ...
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Jonathan Haidt on Morality, Politics, Disgust, and Intellectual Diversity on Campus from 2016-03-24T00:00
Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt joins Tyler Cowen for a conversation on morality, politics, disgust, how to maintain free speech on campus, the enriching effects of LSD, antiparsimonialism, a...
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Nate Silver on the Supreme Court and the Underrated Stat for Finding Good Food (Live at Mason) from 2016-02-23T13:38:50
Nate Silver joins Tyler Cowen for a conversation on data, forecasting, My Bloody Valentine, the social value of gambling, Donald Trump and the presidential field, vacation advice, Supreme Court ...
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on Fighting Bruce Lee, Growing Up in Harlem, and Basketball (Live at Mason) from 2016-02-02T12:34:08
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar joins Tyler Cowen for a conversation on segregation, Islam, Harlem vs. LA, Earl Manigault, jazz, fighting Bruce Lee, Kareem’s conservatism, dancing with Thelonious Monk, and ...
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Cliff Asness on Comics and Why Never to Share a Gym with Cirque du Soleil (Live at Mason) from 2015-11-18T13:26:33
Tyler and investment strategist Cliff Asness discuss momentum and value investing strategies, disagreeing with Eugene Fama, Marvel vs. DC, the inscrutability of risk, high frequency trading, the...
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Dani Rodrik on Premature Deindustrialization and Why the World is Second Best at Best from 2015-10-01T12:11:14
Tyler and Dani Rodrik discuss premature deindustrialization, the world’s trilemmas, the political economy of John le Carré, what’s so special about manufacturing, Orhan Pamuk, RCTs, and why the ...
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Luigi Zingales on Italy, Google and Conglomeration, and Donald Trump (Live at Mason) from 2015-09-16T04:10:33
In the third event of this series, Tyler and Luigi Zingales discuss Italy, Donald Trump, Antonio Gramsci, Google and conglomeration, Luchino Visconti, Starbucks, and the surprisingly high produc...
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Jeffrey Sachs on Charter Cities and How to Reform Graduate Economics Education (Live at Mason) from 2015-03-31T00:00
Tyler Cowen and Jeffrey Sachs discuss the resource curse, why Russia failed and Poland succeeded, charter cities, Sach's China optimism, JFK, Paul Rosenstein-Rodan, whether Africa will be able t...
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Peter Thiel on Stagnation, Innovation, and What Not to Call your Company (Live at Mason) from 2015-03-25T00:00
Peter Thiel and Tyler Cowen, both New York Times bestselling authors, are among today’s top global thought leaders and influential innovators. Listen as these two engage in a serious dialogue on...
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