Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThe Underrated Bruno Leoni (with Michael Munger)
Episode 965
Friedrich Hayek credited Bruno Leoni with shaping his ideas on laws and legislation. James Buchanan said that Leoni identified problems that led to h…
1 year, 11 months ago
The Mysterious World of Owls (with Jennifer Ackerman)
Episode 964
An owl will eat a rabbit whole, but owls can't digest the fur or the bones. So how do they survive? Why do their eyes face forward rather than to the…
1 year, 11 months ago
What Modern Medicine Gets Wrong (with Marty Makary)
Episode 963
Johns Hopkins surgeon Dr. Marty Makary talks about his book Blind Spots with EconTalk's Russ Roberts. Makary argues that the medical establishment to…
1 year, 11 months ago
Is Israel Winning the War in Gaza? (with Andrew Fox)
Episode 962
British Army major and Sandhurst lecturer Andrew Fox recently spent a week with the Israel Defense Forces including a day inside Gaza. He was struck …
1 year, 11 months ago
The Problems of Boys and Men in Today's America (with Richard Reeves)
Episode 961
Many boys and men in America are doing worse than girls and women in education while struggling with a culture that struggles to define what masculin…
2 years ago
Chaos and Complexity Economics (with J. Doyne Farmer)
Episode 960
Physicist J. Doyne Farmer wants a new kind of economics that takes account of what we've learned from chaos theory and that builds more accurate mode…
2 years ago
What's Happening Inside Your Doctor's Head and Heart (with Adam Cifu)
Episode 959
Physician Adam Cifu keeps a binder of every patient of his who has passed away. Every once in a while, he opens it and remembers the lives of his pas…
2 years ago
How Do You Capture the Tragedy of War? (with Sabin Howard)
Episode 958
A soldier goes off to war. Damaged in combat, he returns home, forever changed. Master sculptor Sabin Howard captures this tragic and powerful journe…
2 years ago
The Ever-Present Challenge of Escaping Poverty (with Noah Smith)
Episode 957
The universe, points out economist Noah Smith, is always trying to kill us, whether through asteroids hurtling through space or our every-few-hours h…
2 years ago
Sam Harris on Jew-Hatred, Radical Islam, and the West
Episode 956
Neuroscientist and author Sam Harris of the podcast Making Sense talks with EconTalk's Russ Roberts about rising Jew-hatred in the West and what Harr…
2 years, 1 month ago