Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThe Man Who Built NVIDIA (with Stephen Witt)
Episode 1045
He arrived in America as a child with no English. He was mistakenly sent to a school for juvenile delinquents. He faced rampant prejudice--yet Jensen…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
The Unseen Work: Stewart Brand on Maintenance and Civilization
Episode 1044
What does a lone sailor circling the globe have to do with the fall of empires, the Model T, and the rise of AI? Everything--because maintenance, the…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
AI, Employment, and Education (with Tyler Cowen)
Episode 1043
Tyler Cowen is bullish on the integration of AI into higher education. He's also not worried about its effects on the future workplace. Listen as Cow…
5 months ago
The Match That Lit the Flame: Hannah Senesh and the Creation of Modern Israel (with Matti Friedman)
Episode 1042
Why would a group of young Jews who escaped the Holocaust choose to parachute back into Nazi-occupied Europe? How did they become heroes despite the …
5 months, 1 week ago
The Economics of Scarcity and the UNC-Duke Basketball Game (with Michael Munger)
Episode 1041
Duke University leaves millions of dollars on the table every year by giving away free tickets to the most sought-after game in college basketball. T…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
How We Tamed Ourselves and Invented Good and Evil (with Hanno Sauer)
Episode 1040
What if humanity's capacity for cruelty was actually one of our greatest moral achievements? That's just one of the provocative ideas philosopher Han…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
The Power of Introverts (with Susan Cain)
Episode 1039
Introverts are underrated. So says Susan Cain in her conversation with EconTalk's Russ Roberts about her book, Quiet. She explains why introversion i…
5 months, 4 weeks ago
The Man Who Would Be King of Saudi Arabia (with Karen Elliott House)
Episode 1038
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has been dragging Saudi Arabia into the modern world over the last decade. Journalist and author Karen Elliott House…
6 months, 1 week ago
Seiko, Swatch, and the Swiss Watch Industry (with Aled Maclean-Jones)
Episode 1037
How did an industry survive a technology that should have made it obsolete? Aled Maclean-Jones explains to EconTalk's Russ Roberts how Japanese quart…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
A Military Analysis of Israel's War in Gaza (with Andrew Fox)
Episode 1036
What does war look like when fought under the harshest scrutiny? Veteran soldier and military researcher Andrew Fox talks about his first-hand experi…
6 months, 3 weeks ago