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Dan Wang on What China and America Can Learn from Each Other
Episode 263
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Dan Wang argues that China is a nation of engineers while Am…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Cass Sunstein on Liberalism and Rights in the Age of AI
Episode 262
Cass Sunstein is one of the most widely cited legal scholars of all time and among the most prolific writers working today. This year alone he has f…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Blake Scholl on Supersonic Flight and Fixing Broken Infrastructure - Live at the Progress Conference
Episode 261
Blake Scholl is one of the leading figures working to bring back civilian supersonic flight. As the founder and CEO of Boom Supersonic, he's buildin…
4 months ago
Donald S. Lopez Jr. on Buddhism
Episode 260
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Donald S. Lopez Jr. is among the foremost scholars of Buddhism, whose work consistently distinguishes Buddhi…
4 months, 1 week ago
Sam Altman on Trust, Persuasion, and the Future of Intelligence - Live at the Progress Conference
Episode 259
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Sam Altman makes his second appearance on the show to discuss how he's managing OpenAI's explosive growth, wh…
4 months, 2 weeks ago
Jonny Steinberg on South African Crime and Punishment, the Mandelas' Marriage, and the Post-Apartheid Era
Episode 258
Tyler considers Winnie and Nelson: Portrait of a Marriage one of the best books of the last decade, and its author Jonny Steinberg one of the most u…
4 months, 3 weeks ago
George Selgin on the New Deal, Regime Uncertainty, and What Really Ended the Great Depression
Episode 257
George Selgin has spent over four decades thinking about money, banking, and economic history, and Tyler has known him for nearly all of it. Selgin'…
5 months, 1 week ago
John Amaechi on Leadership, the NBA, and Being Gay in Professional Sports
Episode 256
John Amaechi is a former NBA forward/center who became a chartered scientist, professor of leadership at Exeter Business School, and New York Times…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Steven Pinker on Coordination, Common Knowledge, and the Retreat of Liberal Enlightenment
Episode 255
Steven Pinker returns to Conversations with Tyler with an argument that common knowledge—those infinite loops of "I know that you know that I know"…
6 months ago
David Commins on Saudi Arabia, Wahhabism, and the Future of the Gulf States
Episode 254
David Commins, author of the new book Saudi Arabia: A Modern History, brings decades of scholarship and firsthand experience to explain the kingdom'…
6 months, 1 week ago