Podcast Episodes

The Tipping Point Revisited: Georgetown Massacre Part 1

Season 12 Episode 2

In the ‘Varsity Blues’ college admissions scandal, the government indicted more than 50 people. Business leaders. Celebrities. Actors. Rich people accused of paying millions of dollars to get their c…

Published on 1 year, 2 months ago

The Tipping Point Revisited: An Excerpt

Season 12 Episode 1

Today, we’re sharing an exclusive preview of the audiobook of Revenge of the Tipping Point. All about bank robbers and doctors. Find Revenge of the Tipping Point wherever you get audiobooks. 

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Published on 1 year, 2 months ago

Tim's Tolkien Obsession & Amazon Prime's The Rings of Power

Season 5 Episode 18

Tim Harford's life has been building up to this moment. In this Cautionary Conversation, he discusses the works of his favorite author J.R.R. Tolkien and the social science at play in Amazon Prime's …

Published on 1 year, 3 months ago

Hitler’s Olympics, Part 9: A Plague on Both Your Houses.

Season 11 Episode 9

In the season finale, we turn back the clock four years, take a side trip to Alabama, meet an extraordinary man named Billy Garland, and ask: What is the right way to reconcile something pure with th…

Published on 1 year, 3 months ago

Hitler’s Olympics, Part 8: “Vater, It is to be Fayetteville”

Season 11 Episode 8

In the early 1930s, a young German law student spent a year in Arkansas, studying American “race law.” The fight over the 1936 Games provided Americans with a chance to study Nazi Germany. But it tur…

Published on 1 year, 4 months ago

Hitler’s Olympics, Part 7: Long Jump, Tall Tale

Season 11 Episode 7

Jesse Owens spent the rest of his life retelling the story of the 1936 games and his encounter with Luz Long. We trace the evolution of a tall tale, discovering the hidden life of one of America’s ic…

Published on 1 year, 4 months ago

Hitler’s Olympics, Part 6: The Jiggle & the Giddy Up

Season 11 Episode 6

The most famous athlete in Berlin was the American sprinter Jesse Owens, and one of the most famous stories from those Games was the unexpected, heartwarming encounter Owens had with the German long …

Published on 1 year, 4 months ago

Pushkin Goes to the Olympics

Season 11

Legends are made at the Olympics and this summer shows across the Pushkin network are bringing their unique takes to Olympic stories. This special episode includes excerpts from a few: a Cautionary T…

Published on 1 year, 4 months ago

Hitler’s Olympics, Part 5: The Amateur’s Hour

Season 11 Episode 5

A German Jewish high-jumper is determined to get her shot at Olympic greatness. And an idealist faces an existential choice. In the fifth episode of Hilter’s Olympics, Avery Brundage faces the realit…

Published on 1 year, 4 months ago

Hitler’s Olympics, Part 4: Outcast in Olympia

Season 11 Episode 4

The cheerleader-in-chief for the American Olympic movement was a brilliant, self-made Chicago tycoon named Avery Brundage. Brundage did more to ensure the success of the Berlin Games than anyone exce…

Published on 1 year, 4 months ago