Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchHamas and the Future of Gaza (with Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib)
Episode 1065
He lost his childhood homes, dozens of family members, and most of his hearing in his left ear to Israeli bombs, yet Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib insists tha…
21 hours ago
Are We Alone? Cosmic Loneliness and the Longing to Believe (with Adam Kirsch)
Episode 1064
Has the earth been visited by extraterrestrials? Are we alone? Despite no formal evidence for conscious life outside of earth, the belief that we are…
1 week ago
The Hidden Cause of the Industrial Revolution (with Ben Southwood)
Episode 1063
What if the Industrial Revolution wasn't sparked by the steam engine, but by a quiet legal revolution in how England handled property rights? Ben Sou…
2 weeks ago
Ben Sasse on Faith, Family, and Facing Death
Episode 1062
Six months into a stage-four pancreatic cancer diagnosis that gave him 90 days to live, Ben Sasse sits down with EconTalk's Russ Roberts for a conver…
3 weeks ago
The Political Economy of Palestine (with Hussein Aboubakr Mansour)
Episode 1061
Most discourses about Israel or Palestine are morality plays of good guys vs bad guys. Egyptian-born Hussein Aboubakr Mansour takes a different appro…
4 weeks ago
Savage Landscapes (with Cal Flyn)
Episode 1060
What is wilderness when seven billion people share the planet and nowhere remains truly untouched? Author and journalist Cal Flyn discusses her book …
1 month ago
Dwayne Betts on the Iliad
Episode 1059
What happens when a poet who survived prison sits down with the world's oldest war story--and reads it in three sleepless, wandering days? In this se…
1 month, 1 week ago
From Sawdust to Paw Patrol: The Spin Master Story (with Ronnen Harary)
Episode 1058
A nylon stocking filled with sawdust that grows grass for hair launched one of the most successful toy companies in the world. Ronnen Harary, co-foun…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
EconTalk Book Club on the Iliad (with Ido Hevroni)
Episode 1057
Ego, pride, wrath, fear, gods, superheroes, mortals, and lots of killing. Welcome to Homer's Iliad, which reads at times like a script for a Tarantin…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Do Less, Heal More: The Case for Medical Conservatism (with John Mandrola)
Episode 1056
What if the surgery that fixed your knee did no better than fake surgery? EconTalk host Russ Roberts speaks with Dr. John Mandrola about a striking c…
2 months ago