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Slavoj Žižek on His Stubborn Attachment to Communism
Episode 84
This bonus episode features audio from the Holberg Debate in Bergen, Norway between Tyler and Slavoj Žižek held on December 7, 2019. They discuss t…
6 years, 2 months ago
Abhijit Banerjee on Theory, Practice, and India
Episode 83
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Long before Abhijit Banerjee won the 2019 economics Nobel with Michael…
6 years, 2 months ago
Tyler Looks Back on 2019 (BONUS)
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For this special retrospective episode, producer Jeff Holmes sat down…
6 years, 3 months ago
Esther Duflo on Management, Growth, and Research in Action
Episode 82
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Esther Duflo's advice to students? Spend time in the field. "It's o…
6 years, 3 months ago
Daron Acemoglu on the Struggle Between State and Society
Episode 81
What determines the economic, social, and political trajectories of nations? Why were settlers in colonies like Jamestown and Australia able to escap…
6 years, 3 months ago
Mark Zuckerberg Interviews Patrick Collison and Tyler Cowen on the Nature and Causes of Progress (Bonus)
Over the past year Mark Zuckerberg has held a series of interviews themed around technology and society. This conversation with Tyler and Patrick is …
6 years, 3 months ago
Shaka Senghor on Incarceration, Identity, and the Gift of Literacy
Episode 80
How do you survive seven years in solitary confinement? The gift of literacy is what saved Shaka Senghor. Reading, journaling, academic study, and wr…
6 years, 4 months ago
Lunch with Fuchsia Dunlop at Mama Chang (Bonus)
Three years after her first appearance, Chinese food expert Fuchsia Dunlop joins Tyler to celebrate the release of her latest cookbook and talk all t…
6 years, 4 months ago
Ted Gioia on Music as Cultural Cloud Storage
Episode 79
To Ted Gioia, music is a form of cloud storage for preserving human culture. And the real cultural conflict, he insists, is not between "high brow" a…
6 years, 4 months ago
Henry Farrell on Weaponized Interdependence, Big Tech, and Playing with Ideas
Episode 78
The one concept most valuable for understanding the news today might be Henry Farrell's theory of weaponized interdependence. Whether it's China's in…
6 years, 5 months ago