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Paul Gillingham on Why Mexico Stays Together
Episode 273
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Paul Gillingham is a historian of Mexico at Northwestern. …
8 hours ago
Harvey Mansfield on Machiavelli, Straussianism, and the Character of Liberal Democracy
Episode 272
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Few living scholars can claim to have shaped how we read Mac…
1 week ago
Henry Oliver on Measure for Measure, Late Bloomers, and the Smartest Writers in English
Episode 271
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Henry Oliver is the preeminent literary critic for non-literary nerds. His Substack, The Common Reader,…
3 weeks ago
Joe Studwell on Africa, Asia, and What Development Actually Requires
Episode 270
When Tyler called Joe Studwell's How Asia Works "perhaps my favorite economics book of the year" back in 2013, he wasn't alone: it became one of the…
1 month, 1 week ago
Andrew Ross Sorkin on Market Bubbles, Banking Rules, and the Real Lessons of 1929
Episode 269
Andrew Ross Sorkin sees the crash of 1929 as a tale of excessive leverage and irrational speculation, but Tyler wonders: maybe those sky-high 1929 p…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Diarmaid MacCulloch on Christianity, Sex, and Unsettling Settled Facts
Episode 268
Tyler considers Diarmaid MacCulloch one of those rare historians whose entire body of work rewards reading. This work includes his award-winning Cra…
2 months ago
Brendan Foody on Teaching AI and the Future of Knowledge Work
Episode 267
At 22, Brendan Foody is both the youngest Conversations with Tyler guest ever and the youngest unicorn founder on record. His company Mercor hires th…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Conversations with Tyler 2025 Retrospective
Episode 266
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On this special year-in-review episode, Tyler and producer J…
3 months ago
Alison Gopnik on Childhood Learning, AI as a Cultural Technology, and Rethinking Nature vs. Nurture
Episode 265
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Alison Gopnik is both a psychologist and philosopher at Berk…
3 months, 1 week ago
Gaurav Kapadia on New York City, Investing, and Contemporary Art
Episode 264
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Gaurav Kapadia has deliberately avoided publicity throughout…
3 months, 2 weeks ago