David McRaney on How Minds Change
To the Founding Fathers it was free libraries. To the 19th century rationalist philosophers it...
01:28:17
David McRaney on How Minds Change
To the Founding Fathers it was free libraries. To the 19th century rationalist philosophers it...
01:28:17
Will MacAskill on Longtermism and What We Owe the Future
Philosopher William MacAskill of the University of Oxford and a founder of the effective altruism...
01:16:22
Amor Towles on A Gentleman in Moscow and the Writer's Craft
Author Amor Towles talks about his book, A Gentleman in Moscow, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts....
01:19:46
Raj Chetty on Economic Mobility
Economist Raj Chetty of Harvard University talks about his work on economic mobility with...
01:19:14
How do you hone your craft on an everyday basis? It could be writing, meeting with experts, even...
01:01:40
Russ Roberts and Mike Munger on Wild Problems
Waze and Google Maps tell us the best way to get to where we're going. But no app or algorithm...
01:17:20
Gerd Gigerenzer on How to Stay Smart in a Smart World
IBM's super-computer Watson was a runaway success on Jeopardy! But it wasn't nearly as good at...
01:08:32
John List on Scale, Uber, and the Voltage Effect
Economist John List of the University of Chicago talks about his book, The Voltage Effect, with...
01:00:52
When it comes to the COVID-19 vaccination, is the risk of myocarditis greater than the benefit to...
01:27:17
Nassim Nicholas Taleb on the Nations, States, and Scale
A language, a flag, a national anthem and shared history—like a heart that has to pump harder to...
01:05:16
Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan on Immigration Then and Now
Immigration to the United States, say Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan, is more novel than short...
01:13:54
A.J. Jacobs on Solving Life's Puzzles
How much of life can be solved by algorithms, and how much just can't be solved? Listen as A.J....
01:08:39
Roosevelt Montás on Rescuing Socrates
How do books change our lives? Educator and author Roosevelt Montás of Columbia University talks...
01:20:23
Sridhar Ramaswamy on Google, Search, and Neeva
Former Google ads boss Sridhar Ramaswamy says that we live in a world that seems to give out free...
01:01:04
Matti Friedman on Leonard Cohen and the Yom Kippur War
In October 1973, an unhappy Leonard Cohen was listening to the radio on his Greek island home...
01:09:02
Why are some people incurious? Is curiosity a teachable thing? And why, if all knowledge can be...
01:07:05
Diane Coyle on Cogs, Monsters, and Better Economics
Mainstream economics, says author Diane Coyle, keeps treating people like cogs: self-interested,...
01:02:49
Marc Andreessen on Software, Immortality, and Bitcoin
What's the single best thing happening in technology right now? According to entrepreneur and...
01:13:48
Chris Blattman on Why We Fight
It's tempting to explain Russia's invasion of Ukraine with Putin's megalomania. Economist Chris...
01:08:35
Dwayne Betts on Ellison, Levi, and Human Suffering
In his memoir of his time in Auschwitz, Primo Levi describes Jewish prisoners bathing in freezing...
01:23:39
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