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Glen Weyl on Fighting COVID-19 and the Role of the Academic Expert
Episode 94
Glen Weyl is an economist, researcher, and founder of RadicalXChange. He recently co-authored a paper that sets forth an ambitious strategy to respon…
5 years, 10 months ago
Philip E. Tetlock on Forecasting and Foraging as a Fox
Episode 93
Accuracy is only one of the things we want from forecasters, says Philip Tetlock, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania and co-author of Sup…
5 years, 11 months ago
Emily St. John Mandel on Fact, Fiction, and the Familiar
Episode 92
When Tyler requested an interview with novelist Emily St. John Mandel, he didn't expect that reality would have in some ways become an eerie mirror o…
5 years, 11 months ago
Ross Douthat on Decadence and Dynamism
Episode 91
For Ross Douthat, decadence isn't necessarily a moral judgement, but a technical label for a state that societies tend to enter—and one that is perha…
6 years ago
Russ Roberts and Tyler on COVID-19
Episode 90
Tyler and Russ Roberts joined forces for a special livestreamed conversation on COVID-19, including how both are adjusting to social isolation, priva…
6 years ago
John McWhorter on Linguistics, Music, and Race (Live at Mason)
Episode 89
Who can you ask about the Great American Songbook, the finer Jell-O flavors, and peculiar languages like Saramaccan all while expecting the same kind…
6 years ago
Garett Jones on Democracy (More or Less)
Episode 88
Why is Garett Jones willing to write books about risky topics like the case for reducing democratic accountability? Is it the iconoclastic Mason econ…
6 years ago
Tim Harford on Persuasion and Popular Economics
Episode 87
To Tim Harford, mistakes are fascinating. "We often only understand how something works when it breaks," he says, explaining why there's such an emph…
6 years, 1 month ago
Ezra Klein on Why We're Polarized
Episode 86
In his new book, Ezra Klein argues that polarization in America has become centered on partisan political identities, which has subsumed virtually ev…
6 years, 1 month ago
Reid Hoffman on Systems, Levers, and Quixotic Quests
Episode 85
When Reid Hoffman creates a handle for some new network or system, his usual choice is "Quixotic." At an early age, his love of tabletop games inspi…
6 years, 2 months ago