Margaret Atwood on Canada, Writing, and Invention (Live at Mason)
Margaret Atwood defines the Canadian sense of humor as "a bit Scottish," and in this live conversation with Tyler, she loves to let her own comedic sensibilities shine. In addition to many other thoug...
24 Apr 20191h 14min
Ed Boyden on Minding your Brain
Ed Boyden builds the tools and technologies that help researchers think about and treat the brain, an organ we still know surprisingly little about. When it comes to how our brains make decisions, for...
10 Apr 20191h 1min
Emily Wilson on Translations and Language
In a recent Twitter thread, Emily Wilson listed some of the difficulties of translating Homer into English. Among them: "There aren't enough onomatopoeic words for very loud chaotic noises" (#2 on the...
27 Mar 201956min
Raghuram Rajan on Understanding Community
Raghuram Rajan thinks a lot about how to empower individuals, both at the community and international level. In his new book, Rajan draws upon experience both as an academic and policymaker to break d...
13 Mar 201956min
Sam Altman on Loving Community, Hating Coworking, and the Hunt for Talent
Founders aren't superheroes, says Sam Altman.They may play extreme sports, respond to emails within seconds, and start billion-dollar companies, but they are rarely the product of extraordinary circum...
27 Feb 20191h 8min
Jordan Peterson on Mythology, Fame, and Reading People
Jordan Peterson joins Tyler to discuss collecting Soviet propaganda, why he's so drawn to Jung, what the Exodus story can teach us about current events, his marriage and fame, what the Intellectual Da...
13 Feb 201953min
Noel Johnson and Mark Koyama on *Persecution and Toleration*
How did religious freedom emerge — and why did it arrive so late? In their forthcoming book, fellow Mason economists Noel Johnson and Mark Koyama argue that while most focus on the role of liberal ide...
30 Jan 20191h 16min
Larissa MacFarquhar on Getting Inside Someone's Head
As a writer of profiles, Larissa MacFarquhar is granted the privilege of listening to, learning from, and sharing the stories of extraordinary thinkers like Derik Parfit, Noam Chomsky, Hilary Mantel, ...
16 Jan 20191h
