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Seamus Murphy on Photographing Patterns Across Cultures
Episode 253
Seamus Murphy is an Irish photographer and filmmaker who has spent decades documenting life in some of the world's most challenging places—from Tal…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
David Brooks on Audacity, AI, and the American Psyche (Live at 92NY)
Episode 252
David Brooks returns to the show with a stark diagnosis of American culture. Having evolved from a Democratic socialist to a neoconservative to what …
7 months ago
Nate Silver on Life's Mixed Strategies
Episode 251
In his third appearance on Conversations with Tyler, Nate Silver looks back at past predictions, weighs how academic ideas such as expected utility t…
7 months, 1 week ago
Annie Jacobsen on Nuclear War, Intelligence Operations, and Conspiracy Realities
Episode 250
Annie Jacobsen has a favorite word for America's nuclear doctrine: madness. It's madness that any single person has six minutes to decide the fate of…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Helen Castor on Medieval Power and Personalities
Episode 249
Helen Castor is a British historian and BBC broadcaster who left Cambridge because she wanted to write narrative history focused on individuals rathe…
8 months ago
David Robertson on Conducting, Pierre Boulez, and Musical Interpretation
Episode 248
David Robertson is a rare conductor who unites avant-garde complexity with accessibility. After serving as music director of the Ensemble Intercontem…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
Austan Goolsbee on Central Banking as a Data Dog
Episode 247
Austan Goolsbee is one of Tyler Cowen's favorite economists—not because they always agree, but because Goolsbee embodies what it means to think like…
9 months ago
Chris Arnade on Walking Cities
Episode 246
Most people who leave Wall Street after twenty years either retire or find another way to make a lot of money. Chris Arnade chose to walk through cit…
9 months, 1 week ago
Any Austin on the Hermeneutics of Video Games
Episode 245
Any Austin has carved a unique niche for himself on YouTube: analyzing seemingly mundane or otherwise overlooked details in video games with the seri…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
John Arnold on Trading, Energy, and Evidence-Based Philanthropy
Episode 244
John Arnold built his fortune in energy trading by surrounding himself with smart people, maintaining emotional detachment, sensing market imbalances…
9 months, 3 weeks ago