1010 Episodes

  1. The Power of Nuance: Lessons for Public Health (with Emily Oster)

    Published: 12/30/2024
  2. Fixing Sick Cities (with Alain Bertaud)

    Published: 12/23/2024
  3. Is This War With Lebanon Different? (with Matti Friedman)

    Published: 12/16/2024
  4. Why Industrial Policy Is (Almost) Always a Bad Idea (with Scott Sumner)

    Published: 12/9/2024
  5. Translating Life and Fate (with Robert Chandler)

    Published: 12/2/2024
  6. Tyler Cowen on Life and Fate

    Published: 11/25/2024
  7. Terrorism, Israel, and Dreams of Peace (with Haviv Rettig Gur)

    Published: 11/18/2024
  8. Who Needs Miracles? On Nature and the Miraculous (with Alan Lightman)

    Published: 11/11/2024
  9. Give Away a Kidney? Are You Crazy? (with filmmaker Penny Lane)

    Published: 11/4/2024
  10. Susan Cain on Bittersweet and the Happiness of Melancholy

    Published: 10/28/2024
  11. Why Housing Is Artificially Expensive and What Can Be Done About It (with Bryan Caplan)

    Published: 10/21/2024
  12. Misinformation and the Three Languages of Politics (with Arnold Kling)

    Published: 10/14/2024
  13. Reclaiming Tribalism (with Michael Morris)

    Published: 10/7/2024
  14. The Underrated Bruno Leoni (with Michael Munger)

    Published: 9/30/2024
  15. The Mysterious World of Owls (with Jennifer Ackerman)

    Published: 9/23/2024
  16. What Modern Medicine Gets Wrong (with Marty Makary)

    Published: 9/16/2024
  17. Is Israel Winning the War in Gaza? (with Andrew Fox)

    Published: 9/9/2024
  18. The Problems of Boys and Men in Today's America (with Richard Reeves)

    Published: 9/2/2024
  19. Chaos and Complexity Economics (with J. Doyne Farmer)

    Published: 8/26/2024
  20. What's Happening Inside Your Doctor's Head and Heart (with Adam Cifu)

    Published: 8/19/2024

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