Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchHow to Avoid Lying With Statistics (with Jeremy Weber)
Episode 935
There's often a gap between the textbook treatment of statistics and the cookbook treatment--how to cook up the numbers when you're in the kitchen of…
2 years, 5 months ago
The Secrets of Great Conversation (with Charles Duhigg)
Episode 934
When EconTalk's Russ Roberts sat down with Charles Duhigg to talk about his new book on the art of conversation, Supercommunicators, Roberts tried to…
2 years, 6 months ago
A Lively Debate on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (with Robert Wright)
Episode 933
Journalist and author Robert Wright invited EconTalk's Russ Roberts to his podcast, NonZero, to discuss the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, knowing tha…
2 years, 6 months ago
Year Zero of the Arab-Israeli Conflict (with Hillel Cohen)
Episode 932
How far back should you go to understand the current moment in the relationship between Israel and its Palestinian neighbors and the attack of Octobe…
2 years, 6 months ago
Should Israel Depend on the US? (with Michael Oren)
Episode 931
For decades, American aid to Israel has sent a strategic message: the greatest superpower in the world stands behind the Jewish state. But does it re…
2 years, 6 months ago
What Palestinians Are Thinking (with Dahlia Scheindlin)
Episode 930
Pollster and political scientist Dahlia Scheindlin has worked extensively with public opinion polls of both Palestinians and Israelis. Listen as she …
2 years, 7 months ago
If Life Is Random, Is It Meaningless? (with Brian Klaas)
Episode 929
How did a husband-and-wife vacation end up saving a city from the atomic bomb while destroying another? And how did a century-old murder of one famil…
2 years, 7 months ago
Can a Nation Plunder Its Way to Wealth (with Noah Smith)
Episode 928
Did nations get rich on the backs of other nations? Did the West get rich from imperialism? Noah Smith says no. But why not? If you can steal stuff, …
2 years, 7 months ago
The Challenge of Covering the Most Important Story on Earth (with Matti Friedman)
Episode 927
Journalist Matti Friedman worked for the Jerusalem Bureau of the Associated Press from 2006 to 2011. Looking back at that experience, Friedman argues…
2 years, 7 months ago
From the Second Intifada to October 7th (with Daniel Gordis)
Episode 926
Over the 25 years he's lived in Israel, author Daniel Gordis of Shalem College has seen many chapters of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, beginning …
2 years, 8 months ago