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conversations-with-tyler

169 pages

Episodes (119)

Abhijit Banerjee on Theory, Practice, and India

Ada Palmer on Viking Metaphysics, Contingent Moments, and Censorship

Adam Tooze on our Financial Past and Future

Agnes Callard on the Theory of Everything

Alan Taylor on Revolutionary Ironies and the Continental Civil War

Alison Gopnik on Childhood Learning, AI as a Cultural Technology, and Rethinking Nature vs. Nurture

Ami Vitale on Photojournalism and Wildlife Conservation

Andrew Ross Sorkin on Market Bubbles, Banking Rules, and the Real Lessons of 1929

Annie Duke on Poker, Probabilities, and How We Make Decisions

Annie Jacobsen on Nuclear War, Intelligence Operations, and Conspiracy Realities

Any Austin on the Hermeneutics of Video Games

Arthur Brooks on Reinvention, Religion, and the Science of Happiness

Atul Gawande on Priorities, Big and Small

Austan Goolsbee on Central Banking as a Data Dog

Benjamin Moser on the Dutch Masters, Brazil, and Cultural Icons

Blake Scholl on Supersonic Flight and Fixing Broken Infrastructure

Bob Spitz on the Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen, and the Art of Biography

Brad DeLong on Intellectual and Technical Progress

Brendan Foody on Teaching AI and the Future of Knowledge Work

Brian Winter on Brazil, Argentina, and the Future of Latin America

Bryan Caplan on Learning Across Disciplines

Carl Zimmer on the Hidden Life in the Air We Breathe

Cass Sunstein on Liberalism and Rights in the Age of AI

Charles C. Mann on Shaping Tomorrow’s World and the Limits to Growth

Chase Koch on Principles, Music, and Overcoming Entropy

Chris Arnade on Walking Cities

Chris Dixon on Blockchains, AI, and the Future of the Internet

Christopher Kirchhoff on Military Innovation and the Future of War

Claudia Goldin on the Economics of Inequality

Cliff Asness on Momentum, Value Investing, and Market Efficiency

Coleman Hughes on Colorblindness, Jazz, and Identity

Craig Newmark on Institutional Maintenance, Giving Away Control, and the Internet We Were Promised

Dan Wang on What China and America Can Learn from Each Other

Dani Rodrik on Premature Deindustrialization and Why the World is Second Best, at Best

Daniel Kahneman on Cutting Through the Noise

Daron Acemoglu on the Struggle Between State and Society

Dave Baszucki on Roblox, Teen Entrepreneurs, and the Future of Play

David Brooks on Audacity, AI, and the American Psyche

David Brooks on Youth, Morality, and Loneliness

David Commins on Saudi Arabia, Wahhabism, and the Future of the Gulf States

David Deutsch on Multiple Worlds and Our Place in Them

David Robertson on Conducting, Pierre Boulez, and Musical Interpretation

Diarmaid MacCulloch on Christianity, Sex, and Unsettling Settled Facts

Donald S. Lopez Jr. on Buddhism

Ed Boyden on Minding your Brain

Ezekiel Emanuel on the Practice of Medicine, Policy, and Life

Ezra Klein on the Abundance Agenda

Fareed Zakaria on the Age of Revolutions, the Power of Ideas, and the Rewards of Intellectual Curiosity

Gaurav Kapadia on New York City, Investing, and Contemporary Art

George Selgin on the New Deal, Regime Uncertainty, and What Really Ended the Great Depression

Gregory Clark on Social Mobility, Migration, and Assortative Mating

Harvey Mansfield on Machiavelli, Straussianism, and the Character of Liberal Democracy

Helen Castor on Medieval Power and Personalities

Henry Oliver on Measure for Measure, Late Bloomers, and the Smartest Writers in English

Ian Leslie on McCartney, Lennon, and the Greatest Creative Partnership of All Time

Jack Clark on AI's Uneven Impact

Jason Furman on Productivity, Competition, and Growth

Jennifer Pahlka on Reforming Government

Jill Lepore on Traveling through Time

Joanne Paul on Thomas More and the Tudor World

Joe Boyd on the Birth of Rock, World Music, and Being There for Everything

Joe Studwell on Africa, Asia, and What Development Actually Requires

Joel Mokyr on Clans, Corporations, and a Culture of Growth

John Amaechi on Leadership, the NBA, and Being Gay in Professional Sports

John Arnold on Trading, Energy, and Evidence-Based Philanthropy

John Cochrane on Economic Puzzles and Habits of Mind

John Gray on Pessimism, Liberalism, and Theism

Jonathan Haidt on Adjusting to Smartphones and Social Media

Jonathan Haidt on Morality, Politics, Disgust, and Intellectual Diversity on Campus

Jonny Steinberg on South African Crime and Punishment, the Mandelas' Marriage, and the Post-Apartheid Era

Joseph Henrich on Cultural Evolution, WEIRD Societies, and Life Among Two Strange Tribes

Joseph Stiglitz on Pioneering Economic Theories, Policy Challenges, and His Intellectual Legacy

Katja Hoyer on Weimar, the GDR, and the German Character

Kenneth Rogoff on Monetary Moves, Fiscal Gambits, and Classical Chess

Kim Bowes on the Economic Lives of Rome's Ninety Percent

Kwame Anthony Appiah on Pictures of the World

Kyla Scanlon on Communicating Economic Ideas through Social Media

Larry Summers on Macroeconomics, Mentorship, and Avoiding Complacency

M. Gessen on the Ins and Outs of Russia

Marc Andreessen on AI and Dynamism

Marc Rowan on Financial Market Evolution and University Governance

Marilynne Robinson on Biblical Interpretation, Calvinist Thought, and Religion in America

Masaaki Suzuki on Interpreting Bach

Matt Levine on Finance, Markets, and Financial Writing

Michael Nielsen on Collaboration, Quantum Computing, and Civilization's Fragility

Musa al-Gharbi on Elite Wokeness, Islam, and Social Movements

Nate Silver on Life's Mixed Strategies

Nate Silver on Risk-takers, Politicians, and Poker Players

Neal Stephenson on History, Spycraft, and American-Soviet Parallels

Niall Ferguson on Why We Study History

Patrick McKenzie on Navigating Complex Systems

Paul Bloom on the Psychology of Children, and the Morality of Empathy and Disgust

Paul Gillingham on Why Mexico Stays Together

Paula Byrne on Thomas Hardy’s Women, Jane Austen’s Humor, and Evelyn Waugh’s Warmth

Peter Singer on Utilitarianism, Influence, and Controversial Ideas

Peter Thiel on Political Theology

Philip Ball on the Interplay of Science, Society, and the Quest for Understanding

Philip E. Tetlock on Forecasting and Foraging as a Fox

Raj Chetty on Teachers, Social Mobility, and How to Find Answers to Big Questions

Ray Dalio on Investing, Management, and the Changing World Order

Rebecca F. Kuang on National Literatures, Book Publishing, and History in Fiction

Richard Prum on Birds, Beauty, and Finding Your Own Way

Robin Hanson on Signaling and Self-Deception

Ross Douthat on Why Religion Makes More Sense Than You Think

Russ Roberts on Vasily Grossman’s Life and Fate

Sam Altman on Trust, Persuasion, and the Future of Intelligence

Samantha Power on Learning How to Make a Difference

Scott Sumner on Monetary Rules, Blooming Late, and the Death of Cinema

Seamus Murphy on Photographing Patterns Across Cultures

Sheilagh Ogilvie on Epidemics, Guilds, and the Persistence of Bad Institutions

Stephen Kotkin on Stalin, Power, and the Art of Biography

Theodore Schwartz on Neurosurgery, Consciousness, and Brain-Computer Interfaces

Tobi Lütke on Creating Shopify for Americans as a German in Canada

Toby Wilkinson on Ptolemaic Egypt and the First Great Commercial Civilization

Tom Tugendhat on Modernizing the UK and Political Reform

Velina Tchakarova on China, Russia, and the Future of Geopolitics

Walter Russell Mead on the Past and Future of American Foreign Policy

William MacAskill on Effective Altruism, Moral Progress, and Cultural Innovation

Yasheng Huang on the Development of the Chinese State

Notes (50)

Alan Taylor on Revolutionary Ironies and the Continental Civil War

Ami Vitale on Photojournalism and Wildlife Conservation

Annie Jacobsen on Nuclear War, Intelligence Operations, and Conspiracy Realities

Any Austin on the Hermeneutics of Video Games

Arthur Brooks on Reinvention, Religion, and the Science of Happiness

Austan Goolsbee on Central Banking as a Data Dog

Benjamin Moser on the Dutch Masters, Brazil, and Cultural Icons

Bob Spitz on the Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen, and the Art of Biography

Brian Winter on Brazil, Argentina, and the Future of Latin America

Chris Arnade on Walking Cities

Christopher Kirchhoff on Military Innovation and the Future of War

Coleman Hughes on Colorblindness, Jazz, and Identity

David Brooks on Audacity, AI, and the American Psyche

David Commins on Saudi Arabia, Wahhabism, and the Future of the Gulf States

David Robertson on Conducting, Pierre Boulez, and Musical Interpretation

Ezra Klein on the Abundance Agenda

Gaurav Kapadia on New York City, Investing, and Contemporary Art

Gregory Clark on Social Mobility, Migration, and Assortative Mating

Helen Castor on Medieval Power and Personalities

Henry Oliver on Measure for Measure, Late Bloomers, and the Smartest Writers in English

Ian Leslie on McCartney, Lennon, and the Greatest Creative Partnership of All Time

Jack Clark on AI's Uneven Impact

Jennifer Pahlka on Reforming Government

Joanne Paul on Thomas More and the Tudor World

Joe Boyd on the Birth of Rock, World Music, and Being There for Everything

John Amaechi on Leadership, the NBA, and Being Gay in Professional Sports

John Arnold on Trading, Energy, and Evidence-Based Philanthropy

Jonathan Haidt on Adjusting to Smartphones and Social Media

Jonny Steinberg on South African Crime and Punishment, the Mandelas' Marriage, and the Post-Apartheid Era

Joseph Stiglitz on Pioneering Economic Theories, Policy Challenges, and His Intellectual Legacy

Kyla Scanlon on Communicating Economic Ideas through Social Media

Marc Andreessen on AI and Dynamism

Marc Rowan on Financial Market Evolution and University Governance

Marilynne Robinson on Biblical Interpretation, Calvinist Thought, and Religion in America

Masaaki Suzuki on Interpreting Bach

Musa al-Gharbi on Elite Wokeness, Islam, and Social Movements

Nate Silver on Life's Mixed Strategies

Nate Silver on Risk-takers, Politicians, and Poker Players

Neal Stephenson on History, Spycraft, and American-Soviet Parallels

Paula Byrne on Thomas Hardy’s Women, Jane Austen’s Humor, and Evelyn Waugh’s Warmth

Peter Thiel on Political Theology

Philip Ball on the Interplay of Science, Society, and the Quest for Understanding

Rebecca F. Kuang on National Literatures, Book Publishing, and History in Fiction

Ross Douthat on Why Religion Makes More Sense Than You Think

Russ Roberts on Vasily Grossman’s Life and Fate

Scott Sumner on Monetary Rules, Blooming Late, and the Death of Cinema

Seamus Murphy on Photographing Patterns Across Cultures

Sheilagh Ogilvie on Epidemics, Guilds, and the Persistence of Bad Institutions

Tobi Lütke on Creating Shopify for Americans as a German in Canada

Tom Tugendhat on Modernizing the UK and Political Reform