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Conversations with Tyler
Tyler Cowen engages today’s deepest thinkers in wide-ranging explorations of their work, the world, and everything in between. New conversations every other Wednesday. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.
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George Selgin on the New Deal, Regime Uncertainty, and What Really Ended the Great Depression
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's...
John Amaechi on Leadership, the NBA, and Being Gay in Professional Sports
John Amaechi is a former NBA forward/center who became a chartered scientist, professor of leadership at Exeter Business School, and New York Times be...
Steven Pinker on Coordination, Common Knowledge, and the Retreat of Liberal Enlightenment
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"—is...
David Commins on Saudi Arabia, Wahhabism, and the Future of the Gulf States
David Commins, author of the new book Saudi Arabia: A Modern History, brings decades of scholarship and firsthand experience to explain the kingdom's...
Seamus Murphy on Photographing Patterns Across Cultures
Seamus Murphy is an Irish photographer and filmmaker who has spent decades documenting life in some of the world's most challenging places—from Taliba...
David Brooks on Audacity, AI, and the American Psyche (Live at 92NY)
David Brooks returns to the show with a stark diagnosis of American culture. Having evolved from a Democratic socialist to a neoconservative to what h...
Nate Silver on Life’s Mixed Strategies
In his third appearance on Conversations with Tyler, Nate Silver looks back at past predictions, weighs how academic ideas such as expected utility th...
Annie Jacobsen on Nuclear War, Intelligence Operations, and Conspiracy Realities
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...
Helen Castor on Medieval Power and Personalities
Helen Castor is a British historian and BBC broadcaster who left Cambridge because she wanted to write narrative history focused on individuals rather...
David Robertson on Conducting, Pierre Boulez, and Musical Interpretation
David Robertson is a rare conductor who unites avant-garde complexity with accessibility. After serving as music director of the Ensemble Intercontemp...
Austan Goolsbee on Central Banking as a Data Dog
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 a...
Chris Arnade on Walking Cities
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 citi...
Any Austin on the Hermeneutics of Video Games
Any Austin has carved a unique niche for himself on YouTube: analyzing seemingly mundane or otherwise overlooked details in video games with the serio...
John Arnold on Trading, Energy, and Evidence-Based Philanthropy
John Arnold built his fortune in energy trading by surrounding himself with smart people, maintaining emotional detachment, sensing market imbalances...
Theodore Schwartz on Neurosurgery, Consciousness, and Brain-Computer Interfaces
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Theodore Schwartz stands at the pinnacle of neurosurgical expertise. With over 500 p...
Jack Clark on AI's Uneven Impact
Few understand both the promise and limitations of artificial general intelligence better than Jack Clark, co-founder of Anthropic. With a background...
Kenneth Rogoff on Monetary Moves, Fiscal Gambits, and Classical Chess
Harvard economist Kenneth Rogoff approaches global finance with the same strategic foresight that made him a chess grandmaster. Author of the new book...
Chris Dixon on Blockchains, AI, and the Future of the Internet
Chris Dixon believes we're at a pivotal inflection point in the internet's evolution. As a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz and author of Read W...
Ian Leslie on McCartney, Lennon, and the Greatest Creative Partnership of All Time
It’s Beatles day! In this deep dive into one of music's most legendary partnerships, Ian Leslie and Tyler unpack the complex relationship between John...
Jennifer Pahlka on Reforming Government
Jennifer Pahlka believes America's bureaucratic dysfunction is deeply rooted in outdated processes and misaligned incentives. As the founder of Code f...
Sheilagh Ogilvie on Epidemics, Guilds, and the Persistence of Bad Institutions
Sheilagh Ogilvie has spent decades examining the institutional structures that shaped European economic history, challenging conventional wisdom about...
Ezra Klein on the Abundance Agenda
What happens when a liberal thinker shifts his attention from polarization to economic abundance? Ezra Klein’s new book with Derek Thompson, Abundanc...
Carl Zimmer on the Hidden Life in the Air We Breathe
Carl Zimmer is one of the finest science communicators of our time, having spent decades writing about biology, evolution, and heredity. His latest (a...
Gregory Clark on Social Mobility, Migration, and Assortative Mating (Live at Mercatus)
How much of your life’s trajectory was set in motion centuries ago? Gregory Clark has spent decades studying social mobility, and his findings suggest...
Ross Douthat on Why Religion Makes More Sense Than You Think
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For Ross Douthat, phenomena like UFO sightings and the simulation hypothesis don't challenge religious b...
Joe Boyd on the Birth of Rock, World Music, and Being There for Everything
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Joe Boyd was there when Dylan went electric, when Pink Floyd was born, and when Paul Simon brought Grace...
Scott Sumner on Monetary Rules, Blooming Late, and the Death of Cinema
Scott Sumner didn't follow the typical path to economic influence. He nearly lost his teaching job before tenure, did his best research after most aca...
Conversations with Tyler 2024 Retrospective
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On this special year-in-review episode, Tyler and producer Jef...
Paula Byrne on Thomas Hardy’s Women, Jane Austen’s Humor, and Evelyn Waugh’s Warmth
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What can Thomas Hardy’s tortured marriages teach us about love, o...
Stephen Kotkin on Stalin, Power, and the Art of Biography
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In his landmark multi-volume biography of Stalin, Stephen Kotkin...
Russ Roberts on Vasily Grossman’s Life and Fate
In this crossover episode with EconTalk, Tyler joins Russ Roberts for an in-depth exploration of Vasily Grossman’s Life and Fate, a monumental novel o...
Neal Stephenson on History, Spycraft, and American-Soviet Parallels
Neal Stephenson’s ability to illuminate complex, future-focused ideas in ways that both provoke thought and spark wonder has established him as one of...
Christopher Kirchhoff on Military Innovation and the Future of War
Christopher Kirchhoff is an expert in emerging technology who founded the Pentagon’s Silicon Valley office. He’s led teams for President Obama, the Ch...
Musa al-Gharbi on Elite Wokeness, Islam, and Social Movements
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Musa al-Gharbi is a sociologist and assistant professor at Stony Brook Uni...
Tom Tugendhat on Modernizing the UK and Political Reform
Tom Tugendhat has served as a Member of Parliament since 2015, holding roles such as Security Minister and chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committ...
Kyla Scanlon on Communicating Economic Ideas through Social Media
Kyla Scanlon has made it her personal mission to bring economics education to a larger audience through social media. She publishes daily content acro...
Tobi Lütke on Creating Shopify for Americans as a German in Canada
Tobi Lütke is the CEO and co-founder of Shopify. 20 years ago, he was just a German coder who emigrated to Canada to launch some ecommerce platform w...
Philip Ball on the Interplay of Science, Society, and the Quest for Understanding
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Philip Ball is an award-winning science writer who has penned over 30 books on a dizzying variety of subject...
Nate Silver on Risk-takers, Politicians, and Poker Players
In his second appearance, Nate Silver joins the show to cover the intersections of predictions, politics, and poker with Tyler. They tackle how coin f...
Paul Bloom on the Psychology of Children, and the Morality of Empathy and Disgust
Paul Bloom is a renowned psychologist and writer specializing in moral psychology, particularly how moral thoughts and actions develop in children. Bu...