Martina Navratilova on Shaping Herself (Live at Mason)
Martina Navratilova is one of the greatest tennis players of all time. No one has won more matches than her thanks to an astonishing 87 percent win rate in a long and dominant career. In their convers...
28 Mar 20181h 5min
Chris Blattman on Development, Conflict, and Doing What's Interesting
Chris Blattman's made his career as a development economist by finding a place he likes and finding a reason to live there. Not a bad strategy considering the impact of the work he's done in Liberia, ...
14 Mar 20181h
Robin Hanson on Signaling and Self-Deception (Live at Mason Econ)
If intros aren't about introductions, then what's this here for? Is not including one a countersignal? Either way, you'll enjoy this conversation — and that says a lot about you. This episode was reco...
28 Feb 20181h 5min
Matt Levine Live at Bloomberg HQ
Is Matt Levine a modern-day Horace? Like Matt, Horace has a preoccupation with wealth and the law. There's a playful humor as he segues from topic to topic. An ability to read Latin. And many of Horac...
14 Feb 20181h 6min
Charles C. Mann on Shaping Tomorrow's World and the Limits to Growth
At the beginning of their conversation, Tyler dubs Charles C. Mann a tlamatini, or 'he who knows things.' And oh, the things he knows, effortlessly weaving together, history, anthropology, economics, ...
31 Jan 201855min
Ross Douthat on Narrative and Religion (Live at Mason)
Last year, Tyler asked his readers "What Is the Strongest Argument for the Existence of God?" and followed up a few days later with a post outlining why he doesn't believe in God. New York Times colum...
17 Jan 20181h 25min
Andy Weir on the Economics of Sci-Fi and Space
Before writing a single word of his new book Artemis, Andy Weir worked out the economics of a lunar colony. Without the economics, how could the story hew to the hard sci-fi style Weir cornered the ma...
20 Des 201752min
Doug Irwin on US Trade Policy
Tyler thinks Douglas Irwin has just released the best history of American trade policy ever written. So for this conversation Tyler went easy on Doug, asking softball questions like: Have tariffs ever...
29 Nov 201757min
