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