Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchSteven Pinker on Common Knowledge
Episode 1016
Why are Super Bowl ads so good for launching certain kinds of new products? Why do we all drive on the same side of the road? And why, despite laughing and crying together, do we often misread what o…
Published on 8 hours ago
How Did America Build the Arsenal of Democracy? (with Brian Potter)
Episode 1015
American manufacturing of aircraft during WWII dwarfed that of its enemies. By the end of the war, an American assembly line was producing a B-24 bomber in less than an hour. But that success was far…
Published on 1 week ago
How Teams Succeed (with Colin Fisher)
Episode 1014
What makes some groups thrive while others crash and burn? According to organizational-behavior scholar Colin Fisher, the real villains are rarely individuals, but dysfunctional teams and organizatio…
Published on 2 weeks ago
Humans Are Overrated (with Christine Webb)
Episode 1013
Are humans the most intelligent species, or just the most arrogant? NYU primatologist Christine Webb, author of The Arrogant Ape, believes that human exceptionalism is a myth that does more harm than…
Published on 3 weeks ago
Hemingway, Love, and War (with David Wyatt)
Episode 1012
What can Ernest Hemingway teach us today about the morality of war, the eternal and transient nature of love, and how to write a masterpiece? Listen as author and teacher David Wyatt talks with EconT…
Published on 4 weeks ago
Tim Ferriss on Tim Ferriss (and much much more)
Episode 1011
Cold plunges. Exogenous ketones. Pu-erh tea--but hold the breakfast: it's all par for the morning routine, at least if you're entrepreneur, self-experimenter, and king of the lifehacks, Tim Ferriss. …
Published on 1 month ago
Learning to Think Like Someone Else (with David Marquet)
Episode 1010
Former submarine commander David Marquet joins EconTalk's Russ Roberts to explore how distancing--thinking like someone else, somewhere else, or sometime else--can unlock better choices in business a…
Published on 1 month, 1 week ago
Let Me Be Forgotten (with Lowry Pressly)
Episode 1009
What do we lose when every moment is recorded, every action scrutinized, and every past mistake preserved? Philosopher and author Lowry Pressly joins EconTalk's Russ Roberts to discuss why privacy is…
Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Read Like a Champion (with Doug Lemov)
Episode 1008
Many students graduate high school today without having read a book cover to cover. Many students struggle to learn to read at all. How did this happen? Listen as educator and author Doug Lemov talks…
Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago
James Marriott on Reading
Episode 1007
Is long form reading a dying pastime? Journalist and cultural critic James Marriott joins EconTalk's Russ Roberts to defend the increasingly quaint act of reading a book in our scrolling-obsessed, AI…
Published on 2 months ago