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Conversations with Tyler

Conversations with Tyler

127 episodes

Tyler Cowen engages today’s deepest thinkers in wide-ranging explorations of their work, the world, and everything in between. New conversations every other Wednesday. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.

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Patrick McKenzie on Navigating Complex Systems

Published: Jan. 10, 2024, 1 p.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 18 seconds

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Conversations with Tyler 2023 Retrospective

Published: Dec. 27, 2023, 1 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 52 seconds

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Fuchsia Dunlop on the Story of Chinese Food

Published: Dec. 13, 2023, 1 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 42 minutes 22 seconds

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John Gray on Pessimism, Liberalism, and Theism

Published: Nov. 29, 2023, 1 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 54 seconds

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Jennifer Burns on Milton Friedman and Ayn Rand

Published: Nov. 15, 2023, 1 p.m.
Duration: 59 minutes 44 seconds

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Brian Koppelman on TV, Movies, and Appreciating Art

Published: Nov. 8, 2023, 1 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 18 seconds

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Githae Githinji on Life in Kenya

Published: Nov. 2, 2023, 12:15 p.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 25 seconds

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Harriet Karimi Muriithi on Life in Kenya

Published: Nov. 2, 2023, noon
Duration: 42 minutes 37 seconds

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Stephen Jennings on Building New Cities

Published: Nov. 1, 2023, 12:19 p.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 42 seconds

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Jacob Mikanowski on Eastern Europe

Published: Oct. 18, 2023, 11:30 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 12 seconds

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Re-release: Claudia Goldin on the Economics of Inequality

Published: Oct. 9, 2023, 5:43 p.m.
Duration: 50 minutes

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Ada Palmer on Viking Metaphysics, Contingent Moments, and Censorship

Published: Oct. 4, 2023, noon
Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 46 seconds

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Lazarus Lake on Endurance, Uncertainty, and Reaching Ones Potential

Published: Sept. 20, 2023, noon
Duration: 51 minutes 44 seconds

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Jerusalem Demsas on The Dispossessed, Gulliver's Travels, and Of Boys and Men

Published: Sept. 6, 2023, noon
Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 8 seconds

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Vishy Anand on Staying in the Game

Published: Aug. 30, 2023, noon
Duration: 54 minutes 36 seconds

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Celebrating Marginal Revolution's 20th Anniversary

Published: Aug. 23, 2023, noon
Duration: 58 minutes 56 seconds

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Paul Graham on Ambition, Art, and Evaluating Talent

Published: Aug. 9, 2023, noon
Duration: 55 minutes 11 seconds

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Noam Dworman on Stand-Up Comedy and Staying Open-Minded

Published: July 26, 2023, noon
Duration: 59 minutes 27 seconds

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David Bentley Hart on Reason, Faith, and Diversity in Religious Thought

Published: July 12, 2023, noon
Duration: 55 minutes 58 seconds

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Reid Hoffman on the Possibilities of AI

Published: June 28, 2023, 12:02 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 57 seconds

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Noam Chomsky on Language, Left Libertarianism, and Progress

Published: June 14, 2023, noon
Duration: 50 minutes 38 seconds

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Peter Singer on Utilitarianism, Influence, and Controversial Ideas

Published: June 7, 2023, 12:30 p.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 24 seconds

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Seth Godin on Marketing, Meaning, and the Bibs We Wear

Published: May 31, 2023, noon
Duration: 54 minutes 36 seconds

Seth joined Tyler to discuss why direct marketing works at all, the marketing success of Trader Joe\\u2019s vs Whole Foods, why you can\\u2019t reverse engineer Taylor Swift\\u2019s success, how Seth would fix baseball, the brilliant marketing in ChatGPT\\u2019s design, the most underrated American visual artist, the problem with online education, approaching public talks as a team process, what makes him a good cook, his updated advice for aspiring young authors, how growing up in Buffalo shaped him, what he\\u2019ll work on next, and more.

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Recorded May 23rd, 2023

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Simon Johnson on Banking, Technology, and Prosperity

Published: May 17, 2023, noon
Duration: 52 minutes 56 seconds

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Kevin Kelly on Advice, Travel, and Tech

Published: May 3, 2023, noon
Duration: 51 minutes 30 seconds

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Anna Keay on Historic Architecture, Monarchy, and 17th Century Britain

Published: April 19, 2023, noon
Duration: 49 minutes 56 seconds

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Jessica Wade on Chiral Materials, Open Knowledge, and Representation in STEM

Published: April 5, 2023, noon
Duration: 56 minutes 2 seconds

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Jonathan GPT Swift on Jonathan Swift

Published: March 29, 2023, noon
Duration: 41 minutes 36 seconds

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Tom Holland on History, Christianity, and the Value of the Countryside

Published: March 22, 2023, 12:30 p.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 7 seconds

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Yasheng Huang on the Development of the Chinese State

Published: March 8, 2023, 1 p.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 22 seconds

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Brad DeLong on Intellectual and Technical Progress

Published: Feb. 22, 2023, 9:07 a.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 26 seconds

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Glenn Loury on the Cover Story and the Real Story

Published: Feb. 8, 2023, 1 p.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 18 seconds

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Paul Salopek on Walking the World

Published: Jan. 25, 2023, 1 p.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 41 seconds

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Rick Rubin on Listening, Taste, and the Act of Noticing

Published: Jan. 18, 2023, 1:05 p.m.
Duration: 55 minutes 16 seconds

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Katherine Rundell on the Art of Words

Published: Jan. 11, 2023, 1 p.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 42 seconds

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Conversations with Tyler 2022 Retrospective

Published: Dec. 28, 2022, 1 p.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 56 seconds

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John Adams on Composing and Creative Freedom

Published: Dec. 14, 2022, 1 p.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 59 seconds

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Jeremy Grantham on Investing in Green Tech

Published: Nov. 30, 2022, 12:42 p.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 1 second

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Ken Burns on the Complications of History

Published: Nov. 16, 2022, 1 p.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 57 seconds

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Mary Gaitskill on Subjects That Are Vexing Everybody

Published: Nov. 2, 2022, noon
Duration: 45 minutes 32 seconds

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Reza Aslan on Martyrdom, Islam, and Revolution

Published: Oct. 19, 2022, noon
Duration: 53 minutes 13 seconds

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Walter Russell Mead on the Past and Future of American Foreign Policy

Published: Oct. 5, 2022, noon
Duration: 51 minutes 59 seconds

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Byron Auguste On Rewiring the U.S. Labor Market

Published: Sept. 21, 2022, noon
Duration: 54 minutes 12 seconds

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Vaughn Smith on Life as a Hyperpolyglot

Published: Sept. 7, 2022, noon
Duration: 49 minutes 54 seconds

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Shruti Rajagopalan talks to Daniel Gross and Tyler about Identifying and Predicting Talent

Published: Sept. 1, 2022, noon
Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 45 seconds

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Cynthia L. Haven on Rene Girard, Czeslaw Milosz, and Joseph Brodsky

Published: Aug. 24, 2022, noon
Duration: 44 minutes 58 seconds

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William MacAskill on Effective Altruism, Moral Progress, and Cultural Innovation

Published: Aug. 10, 2022, noon
Duration: 50 minutes 44 seconds

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Leopoldo Lopez on Activism Under Autocratic Regimes

Published: July 27, 2022, noon
Duration: 49 minutes 2 seconds

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Matthew Ball on the Metaverse and Gaming

Published: July 13, 2022, noon
Duration: 55 minutes 34 seconds

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Barkha Dutt on the Nuances of Indian Life

Published: June 29, 2022, 11 a.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 36 seconds

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Marc Andreessen on Learning to Love the Humanities

Published: June 15, 2022, 1:33 p.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 29 seconds

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Jamal Greene on Reconceiving Rights

Published: June 1, 2022, noon
Duration: 48 minutes 7 seconds

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Tyler and Daniel Gross Talk Talent

Published: May 18, 2022, noon
Duration: 48 minutes 31 seconds

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Chris Blattman on War and Centralized Power

Published: May 4, 2022, noon
Duration: 48 minutes 5 seconds

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Thomas Piketty on the Politics of Equality

Published: April 20, 2022, noon
Duration: 53 minutes 25 seconds

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Roy Foster on Irelands Many Unmade Futures

Published: April 6, 2022, noon
Duration: 59 minutes 22 seconds

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Lydia Davis on Language and Literature

Published: March 23, 2022, noon
Duration: 40 minutes 45 seconds

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Sam Bankman-Fried on Arbitrage and Altruism

Published: March 9, 2022, 1 p.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 2 seconds

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Chuck Klosterman on Writing the Past and Relishing the Present

Published: Feb. 23, 2022, 1 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes 12 seconds

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Sebastian Mallaby on Venture Capital

Published: Feb. 9, 2022, 1 p.m.
Duration: 56 minutes 10 seconds

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Stewart Brand on Starting Things and Staying Curious

Published: Jan. 26, 2022, 1 p.m.
Duration: 57 minutes 17 seconds

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Russ Roberts on Israel and Life as an Immigrant

Published: Jan. 19, 2022, 1 p.m.
Duration: 59 minutes 12 seconds

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Ana Vidovic on Prodigies, Performance, and Perseverance

Published: Jan. 12, 2022, 1 p.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 52 seconds

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Conversations with Tyler 2021 Retrospective

Published: Dec. 29, 2021, 1 p.m.
Duration: 55 minutes 52 seconds

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Ray Dalio on Investing, Management, and the Changing World Order

Published: Dec. 15, 2021, 1 p.m.
Duration: 58 minutes 59 seconds

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Ruth Scurr on the Art of Biography

Published: Dec. 1, 2021, 1 p.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 1 second

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David Rubenstein on Private Equity, Public Art, and Philanthropy

Published: Nov. 17, 2021, 1 p.m.
Duration: 56 minutes 25 seconds

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David Salle on the Experience of Art

Published: Nov. 3, 2021, noon
Duration: 46 minutes 34 seconds

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Stanley McChrystal on the Military, Leadership, and Risk

Published: Oct. 20, 2021, noon
Duration: 53 minutes 57 seconds

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Claudia Goldin on the Economics of Inequality

Published: Oct. 6, 2021, noon
Duration: 49 minutes 6 seconds

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Amia Srinivasan on Utopian Feminism

Published: Sept. 22, 2021, noon
Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 2 seconds

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David Cutler and Ed Glaeser on the Health and Wealth of Cities

Published: Sept. 8, 2021, noon
Duration: 1 hour 19 minutes 5 seconds

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Zeynep Tufekci on the Sociology of The Moment (Live)

Published: Aug. 25, 2021, noon
Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 57 seconds

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Andrew Sullivan on Braving New Intellectual Journeys

Published: Aug. 11, 2021, noon
Duration: 55 minutes 17 seconds

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Niall Ferguson on Why We Study History

Published: July 28, 2021, noon
Duration: 54 minutes 7 seconds

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Alexander the Grate on Life as an NFA

Published: July 14, 2021, noon
Duration: 44 minutes 47 seconds

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Richard Prum on Birds, Beauty, and Finding Your Own Way

Published: June 30, 2021, noon
Duration: 50 minutes 1 second

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Elijah Millgram on the Philosophical Life

Published: June 16, 2021, noon
Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes 10 seconds

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David Deutsch on Multiple Worlds and Our Place in Them

Published: June 2, 2021, noon
Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 24 seconds

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Mark Carney on Central Banking and Shared Values

Published: May 26, 2021, noon
Duration: 54 minutes 57 seconds

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Pierpaolo Barbieri on Latin American FinTech

Published: May 19, 2021, noon
Duration: 56 minutes 16 seconds

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Daniel Carpenter on Smart Regulation

Published: May 5, 2021, 11:45 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes 28 seconds

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Shadi Bartsch on the Classics and China

Published: April 21, 2021, 11:38 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 27 seconds

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Dana Gioia on Becoming an Information Billionaire

Published: April 7, 2021, 11:56 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 18 minutes 29 seconds

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Sarah Parcak on Archaeology from Space

Published: March 24, 2021, 11:54 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 12 seconds

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John Cochrane on Economic Puzzles and Habits of Mind

Published: March 10, 2021, 1 p.m.
Duration: 58 minutes 32 seconds

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Patricia Fara on Newton, Scientific Progress, and the Benefits of Unhistoric Acts

Published: Feb. 24, 2021, 1 p.m.
Duration: 57 minutes 58 seconds

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Brian Armstrong on the Crypto Economy

Published: Feb. 10, 2021, 1 p.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 55 seconds

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Benjamin Friedman on the Origins of Economic Belief

Published: Jan. 27, 2021, 1 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 15 seconds

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Noubar Afeyan on the Permission to Leap

Published: Jan. 13, 2021, 1 p.m.
Duration: 55 minutes 56 seconds

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Conversations with Tyler 2020 Retrospective

Published: Dec. 30, 2020, 12:52 p.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 59 seconds

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John O. Brennan on Life in the CIA

Published: Dec. 16, 2020, 1:32 p.m.
Duration: 58 minutes 8 seconds

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Zach Carter on the Life and Legacy of John Maynard Keynes

Published: Dec. 2, 2020, 1 p.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 58 seconds

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Jimmy Wales on Systems and Incentives

Published: Nov. 18, 2020, 1 p.m.
Duration: 57 minutes 7 seconds

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Edwidge Danticat on Haitian Art and Literature

Published: Nov. 4, 2020, 1 p.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 40 seconds

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Michael Kremer on Economists as Founders

Published: Oct. 21, 2020, noon
Duration: 49 minutes 38 seconds

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Audrey Tang on the Technology of Democracy

Published: Oct. 7, 2020, noon
Duration: 53 minutes 26 seconds

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Alex Ross on Music, Culture, and Criticism

Published: Sept. 22, 2020, 7:44 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 20 seconds

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Matt Yglesias on Why the Population is Too Damn Low

Published: Sept. 9, 2020, noon
Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 3 seconds

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Jason Furman on Productivity, Competition, and Growth

Published: Aug. 26, 2020, noon
Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 11 seconds

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Nicholas Bloom on Management, Productivity, and Scientific Progress

Published: Aug. 12, 2020, noon
Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 37 seconds

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Nathan Nunn on the Paths to Development

Published: July 29, 2020, noon
Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 47 seconds

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Melissa Dell on the Significance of Persistence

Published: July 15, 2020, noon
Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 27 seconds

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Annie Duke on Poker, Probabilities, and How We Make Decisions

Published: July 1, 2020, noon
Duration: 54 minutes 38 seconds

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Rachel Harmon on Policing

Published: June 17, 2020, noon
Duration: 57 minutes 42 seconds

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Ashley Mears on Status and Beauty

Published: June 3, 2020, noon
Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 55 seconds

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Paul Romer on a Culture of Science and Working Hard

Published: May 20, 2020, 12:30 p.m.
Duration: 59 minutes 59 seconds

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Adam Tooze on our Financial Past and Future

Published: May 6, 2020, noon
Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 39 seconds

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Glen Weyl on Fighting COVID-19 and the Role of the Academic Expert

Published: April 29, 2020, noon
Duration: 55 minutes 50 seconds

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Philip E. Tetlock on Forecasting and Foraging as a Fox

Published: April 22, 2020, noon
Duration: 54 minutes 19 seconds

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Emily St. John Mandel on Fact, Fiction, and the Familiar

Published: April 8, 2020, noon
Duration: 55 minutes 41 seconds

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Ross Douthat on Decadence and Dynamism

Published: March 25, 2020, noon
Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 16 seconds

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Russ Roberts and Tyler on COVID-19

Published: March 19, 2020, noon
Duration: 1 hour 19 minutes 15 seconds

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John McWhorter on Linguistics, Music, and Race (Live at Mason)

Published: March 11, 2020, noon
Duration: 1 hour 18 minutes 52 seconds

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Garett Jones on Democracy (More or Less)

Published: Feb. 26, 2020, 12:56 p.m.
Duration: 56 minutes 26 seconds

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Tim Harford on Persuasion and Popular Economics

Published: Feb. 12, 2020, 12:51 p.m.
Duration: 59 minutes 15 seconds

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Ezra Klein on Why Were Polarized

Published: Jan. 29, 2020, 1 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 10 minutes 1 second

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Reid Hoffman on Systems, Levers, and Quixotic Quests

Published: Jan. 15, 2020, 12:55 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 56 seconds

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Slavoj Zizek on His Stubborn Attachment to Communism

Published: Jan. 8, 2020, 12:50 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 26 minutes 49 seconds

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Abhijit Banerjee on Theory, Practice, and India

Published: Dec. 30, 2019, 1:04 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 6 seconds

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Tyler Looks Back on 2019 (BONUS)

Published: Dec. 23, 2019, 12:41 p.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 48 seconds

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Esther Duflo on Management, Growth, and Research in Action

Published: Dec. 18, 2019, 12:37 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 39 seconds

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Daron Acemoglu on the Struggle Between State and Society

Published: Dec. 4, 2019, 12:54 p.m.
Duration: 55 minutes 19 seconds

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Mark Zuckerberg Interviews Patrick Collison and Tyler Cowen on the Nature and Causes of Progress (Bonus)

Published: Nov. 27, 2019, 12:36 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes 5 seconds

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Shaka Senghor on Incarceration, Identity, and the Gift of Literacy

Published: Nov. 20, 2019, 12:57 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 24 seconds

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Lunch with Fuchsia Dunlop at Mama Chang (Bonus)

Published: Nov. 13, 2019, 12:50 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 16 minutes 48 seconds

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Ted Gioia on Music as Cultural Cloud Storage

Published: Nov. 6, 2019, 12:47 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 19 seconds

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Henry Farrell on Weaponized Interdependence, Big Tech, and Playing with Ideas

Published: Oct. 23, 2019, 12:15 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 11 minutes 6 seconds

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Ben Westhoff on Synthetic Drugs, Dive Bars, and the Evolution of Rap

Published: Oct. 9, 2019, 12:13 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 44 seconds

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Alain Bertaud on Cities, Markets, and People

Published: Sept. 25, 2019, 11:58 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes 26 seconds

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Samantha Power on Learning How to Make a Difference

Published: Sept. 11, 2019, 11:53 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 34 seconds

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Hollis Robbins on 19th Century Life and Literature

Published: Aug. 28, 2019, 11:56 a.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 23 seconds

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Masha Gessen on the Ins and Outs of Russia

Published: Aug. 14, 2019, 12:20 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes 25 seconds

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Kwame Anthony Appiah on Pictures of the World

Published: July 31, 2019, 12:25 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 51 seconds

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Neal Stephenson on Depictions of Reality

Published: July 17, 2019, noon
Duration: 54 minutes 55 seconds

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Eric Kaufmann on Immigration, Identity, and the Limits of Individualism

Published: July 3, 2019, 11:52 a.m.
Duration: 56 minutes 27 seconds

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Hal Varian on Taking the Academic Approach to Business

Published: June 19, 2019, 12:02 p.m.
Duration: 56 minutes 33 seconds

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Russ Roberts on Life as an Economics Educator

Published: June 5, 2019, 12:17 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 23 seconds

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Ezekiel Emanuel on the Practice of Medicine, Policy, and Life

Published: May 22, 2019, 11:58 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 12 seconds

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Karl Ove Knausgard on Literary Freedom

Published: May 8, 2019, 1:05 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 5 seconds

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Margaret Atwood on Canada, Writing, and Invention (Live at Mason)

Published: April 24, 2019, 11:55 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 14 minutes 39 seconds

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Ed Boyden on Minding your Brain

Published: April 10, 2019, 12:04 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 35 seconds

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Emily Wilson on Translations and Language

Published: March 27, 2019, noon
Duration: 56 minutes 22 seconds

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Raghuram Rajan on Understanding Community

Published: March 13, 2019, 11:45 a.m.
Duration: 56 minutes 17 seconds

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Sam Altman on Loving Community, Hating Coworking, and the Hunt for Talent

Published: Feb. 27, 2019, 12:56 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes 12 seconds

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Jordan Peterson on Mythology, Fame, and Reading People

Published: Feb. 13, 2019, 1:03 p.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 6 seconds

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Noel Johnson and Mark Koyama on *Persecution and Toleration*

Published: Jan. 30, 2019, 12:43 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 16 minutes 11 seconds

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Larissa MacFarquhar on Getting Inside Someone's Head

Published: Jan. 16, 2019, 12:48 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 5 seconds

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Rebecca Kukla on Moving through and Responding to the World

Published: Jan. 2, 2019, 1:15 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 57 seconds

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Daniel Kahneman on Cutting Through the Noise

Published: Dec. 19, 2018, 12:55 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 17 seconds

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Paul Romer on the Unrivaled Joy of Scholarship

Published: Dec. 5, 2018, 1:19 p.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 39 seconds

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John Nye on Revisionist Economic History and Having Too Many Hobbies

Published: Nov. 21, 2018, 12:58 p.m.
Duration: 58 minutes 30 seconds

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Eric Schmidt on the Life-Changing Magic of Systematizing, Scaling, and Saying "Thanks" (Live)

Published: Nov. 7, 2018, 12:51 p.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 51 seconds

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Ben Thompson on Business and Tech

Published: Oct. 24, 2018, 12:20 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 8 seconds

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Rob Wiblin interviews Tyler on *Stubborn Attachments*

Published: Oct. 16, 2018, 12:23 p.m.
Duration: 2 hours 30 minutes 23 seconds

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Paul Krugman on Politics, Inequality, and Following Your Curiosity

Published: Oct. 10, 2018, 11:55 a.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 56 seconds

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Bruno Macaes on the Spirit of Adventure

Published: Sept. 26, 2018, 11:59 a.m.
Duration: 57 minutes 45 seconds

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Michele Gelfand on Tight and Loose Cultures

Published: Sept. 12, 2018, 12:05 p.m.
Duration: 56 minutes 5 seconds

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Claire Lehmann on Speaking Freely

Published: Aug. 29, 2018, 11:56 a.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 5 seconds

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Michael Pollan on the Science and Sublimity of Psychedelics

Published: Aug. 15, 2018, 1:14 p.m.
Duration: 59 minutes 15 seconds

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Michelle Dawson on Autism and Atypicality

Published: Aug. 1, 2018, 11:37 a.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 36 seconds

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Vitalik Buterin on Cryptoeconomics and Markets in Everything

Published: July 18, 2018, 1:59 p.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 34 seconds

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Juan Pablo Villarino on Travel and Trust

Published: July 3, 2018, 11:54 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 27 seconds

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Elisa New on Poetry in America and Beyond

Published: June 20, 2018, 11:59 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 10 seconds

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David Brooks on Youth, Morality, and Loneliness (Live at Mason)

Published: June 6, 2018, 11:57 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 22 minutes 31 seconds

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb on Self-Education and Doing the Math (Plus special guest Bryan Caplan)

Published: May 23, 2018, 12:37 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 37 minutes 20 seconds

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Bryan Caplan on Learning across Disciplines (Live at Mason Econ)

Published: May 9, 2018, 11:56 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 11 minutes 57 seconds

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Balaji Srinivasan on the Power and Promise of the Blockchain

Published: April 25, 2018, 9:08 p.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 54 seconds

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Agnes Callard on the Theory of Everything

Published: April 11, 2018, 11:59 a.m.
Duration: 59 minutes 47 seconds

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Martina Navratilova on Shaping Herself (Live at Mason)

Published: March 28, 2018, 12:14 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 48 seconds

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Chris Blattman on Development, Conflict, and Doing Whats Interesting

Published: March 14, 2018, 12:18 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 48 seconds

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Robin Hanson on Signaling and Self-Deception (Live at Mason Econ)

Published: Feb. 28, 2018, 12:54 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 47 seconds

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Matt Levine Live at Bloomberg HQ

Published: Feb. 14, 2018, 1:04 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 2 seconds

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Charles C. Mann on Shaping Tomorrows World and the Limits to Growth

Published: Jan. 31, 2018, 12:37 p.m.
Duration: 55 minutes 42 seconds

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Ross Douthat on Narrative and Religion (Live at Mason)

Published: Jan. 17, 2018, 1:06 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 25 minutes 17 seconds

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Andy Weir on the Economics of Sci-Fi and Space

Published: Dec. 20, 2017, 1 p.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 39 seconds

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Doug Irwin on US Trade Policy

Published: Nov. 29, 2017, 12:53 p.m.
Duration: 57 minutes 6 seconds

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Sujatha Gidla on Being an Ant Amongst the Elephants (Live)

Published: Nov. 15, 2017, 12:58 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 44 seconds

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Steve Teles and Brink Lindsey on *The Captured Economy*

Published: Nov. 1, 2017, 11:56 a.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 43 seconds

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Mary Roach on Disgust, Death, and Danger (Live at Mason)

Published: Oct. 18, 2017, 12:05 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes 52 seconds

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Larry Summers on Macroeconomics, Mentorship, and Avoiding Complacency (Live)

Published: Sept. 20, 2017, 12:14 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 13 minutes 31 seconds

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Dave Barry on Humor, Writing, and Life as a Florida Man

Published: Aug. 16, 2017, 12:14 p.m.
Duration: 57 minutes 56 seconds

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Dave Rubin on Digital Media, Crowdfunding, and Comedy (Live)

Published: Aug. 2, 2017, 12:14 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 45 seconds

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Atul Gawande on Priorities, Big and Small

Published: July 19, 2017, 11:52 a.m.
Duration: 57 minutes 33 seconds

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Ben Sasse on the Space between Nebraska and Neverland (Live at Mason)

Published: June 28, 2017, 12:13 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 21 minutes 28 seconds

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Edward Luce on The Retreat of Western Liberalism (Live)

Published: June 21, 2017, noon
Duration: 54 minutes 23 seconds

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Jill Lepore on Traveling through Time

Published: June 14, 2017, 11:45 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes 51 seconds

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Tyler Cowen and Steve Davies talk Theresa May, Brexit, and Europe (Live)

Published: June 7, 2017, 12:13 p.m.
Duration: 23 minutes 59 seconds

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Raj Chetty on Teachers, Social Mobility, and How to Find Answers to Big Questions

Published: May 24, 2017, 11:52 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 30 seconds

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Garry Kasparov on AI, Chess, and the Future of Creativity

Published: May 10, 2017, 12:26 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 33 seconds

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Patrick Collison has a Few Questions for Tyler (Live at Stripe)

Published: April 12, 2017, 10:32 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 33 minutes 37 seconds

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Malcolm Gladwell Wants to Make the World Safe for Mediocrity (Live at Mason)

Published: March 15, 2017, 11:40 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 32 minutes 3 seconds

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*The Complacent Class* with Katherine Mangu-Ward (Live at Mason)

Published: March 13, 2017, 11:26 a.m.
Duration: 56 minutes 14 seconds

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Rabbi David Wolpe on Leadership, Religion, and Identity (Live at Sixth & I)

Published: Feb. 15, 2017, 12:18 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes 20 seconds

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Chef Mark Miller on Food as the Ultimate Intellectual Exploration

Published: Jan. 25, 2017, 7:40 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes 57 seconds

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Jhumpa Lahiri on Writing, Translation, and Crossing Between Cultures (Live at Mason)

Published: Jan. 11, 2017, 1:24 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 26 minutes 37 seconds

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Joseph Henrich on WEIRD Societies and Life Among Two Strange Tribes (Live at Mason)

Published: Dec. 14, 2016, 12:31 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 25 minutes 13 seconds

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Fuchsia Dunlop on Chinese Food, Culture, and Travel

Published: Nov. 16, 2016, 1:54 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 15 minutes 4 seconds

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Steven Pinker on Language, Reason, and the Future of Violence (Live at Mason)

Published: Nov. 2, 2016, 12:33 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 26 minutes 46 seconds

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Ezra Klein on Media, Politics, and Models of the World

Published: Oct. 6, 2016, 12:23 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 17 minutes 5 seconds

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Margalit Fox on Life, Death, and the Best Job in Journalism

Published: Aug. 24, 2016, 12:32 p.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 54 seconds

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Michael Orthofer on Why Fiction Matters

Published: July 27, 2016, 12:57 p.m.
Duration: 56 minutes 51 seconds

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Cass Sunstein on Judicial Minimalism, the Supreme Court, and Star Wars (Live at Mason)

Published: June 22, 2016, 11:04 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 17 minutes 21 seconds

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Camille Paglia on her Lifestyle of Observation (Live at Mason)

Published: April 25, 2016, 10:19 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 26 minutes 46 seconds

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Jonathan Haidt on Morality, Politics, and Intellectual Diversity on Campus

Published: March 24, 2016, midnight
Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 14 seconds

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Jonathan Haidt on Morality, Politics, Disgust, and Intellectual Diversity on Campus

Published: March 24, 2016, midnight
Duration: 1 hour 9 minutes 14 seconds

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Nate Silver on the Supreme Court and the Underrated Stat for Finding Good Food (Live at Mason)

Published: Feb. 23, 2016, 1:38 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 21 minutes 20 seconds

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

Published: Feb. 2, 2016, 12:34 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 22 minutes 15 seconds

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Cliff Asness on Comics and Why Never to Share a Gym with Cirque du Soleil (Live at Mason)

Published: Nov. 18, 2015, 1:26 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 22 minutes 31 seconds

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Dani Rodrik on Premature Deindustrialization and Why the World is Second Best at Best

Published: Oct. 1, 2015, 12:11 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 24 minutes 47 seconds

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Luigi Zingales on Italy, Google and Conglomeration, and Donald Trump (Live at Mason)

Published: Sept. 16, 2015, 4:10 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 16 minutes 42 seconds

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Jeffrey Sachs on Charter Cities and How to Reform Graduate Economics Education (Live at Mason)

Published: March 31, 2015, midnight
Duration: 1 hour 32 minutes 17 seconds

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Peter Thiel on Stagnation, Innovation, and What Not to Call your Company (Live at Mason)

Published: March 25, 2015, midnight
Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes 33 seconds

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