1022 Episodes

  1. Jessica Riskin on Life, Machinery, and the Restless Clock

    Published: 2/11/2019

  2. Gary Greenberg on the Placebo Effect

    Published: 2/4/2019

  3. Patrick Collison on Innovation and Scientific Progress

    Published: 1/28/2019

  4. Jennifer Doleac on Crime

    Published: 1/21/2019

  5. Stephen Kotkin on Solzhenitsyn

    Published: 1/14/2019

  6. Ed Dolan on Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance

    Published: 1/7/2019

  7. Sebastian Junger on Tribe

    Published: 12/31/2018

  8. Mariana Mazzucato on the Value of Everything

    Published: 12/24/2018

  9. John Horgan on Mind-Body Problems

    Published: 12/17/2018

  10. Maeve Cohen on Rethinking Economics

    Published: 12/3/2018

  11. Anat Admati on the Financial Crisis of 2008

    Published: 11/26/2018

  12. A.J. Jacobs on Thanks a Thousand

    Published: 11/19/2018

  13. Julia Belluz on Epidemiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism

    Published: 11/12/2018

  14. Alan Lightman on Science, Spirituality, and Searching for Stars on an Island in Maine

    Published: 11/5/2018

  15. Michael Munger on Sharing, Transaction Costs, and Tomorrow 3.0

    Published: 10/29/2018

  16. Ran Abramitzky on the Mystery of the Kibbutz

    Published: 10/22/2018

  17. Kevin McKenna on Characters, Plot, and Themes of In the First Circle

    Published: 10/18/2018

  18. John Gray on the Seven Kinds of Atheism

    Published: 10/15/2018

  19. Neil Monnery on Hong Kong and the Architect of Prosperity

    Published: 10/8/2018

  20. Noah Smith on Worker Compensation, Co-determination, and Market Power

    Published: 10/1/2018

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