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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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 9 days 10 hours 41 minutes
episode 161: Walter Russell Mead on the Past and Future of American Foreign Policy
Why the American academy is a terrible place for understanding world politics.
episode 160: Byron Auguste On Rewiring the U.S. Labor Market
Why do so many employers rely on shallow signals of applicant quality?
episode 158: Shruti Rajagopalan talks to Daniel Gross and Tyler about Identifying and Predicting Talent
What characteristics indicate human creativity and capacity?
episode 157: Cynthia L. Haven on René Girard, Czeslaw Milosz, and Joseph Brodsky
Her biography of Girard drew critical praise — why did it have to be written outside academia?
episode 156: William MacAskill on Effective Altruism, Moral Progress, and Cultural Innovation
If moral philosophy is a train to crazy town, at what stop should we disembark?
episode 155: Leopoldo López on Activism Under Autocratic Regimes
What Venezuela teaches us about democratic collapse.
episode 154: Matthew Ball on the Metaverse and Gaming
Why reintroducing the third dimension is crucial to building out technology.
episode 153: Barkha Dutt on the Nuances of Indian Life
Why a more peaceful India requires its people to become more like khichri than a thali.
episode 152: Marc Andreessen on Learning to Love the Humanities
The real challenge to building on the frontier? Figuring out human behavior.