Neal Stephenson on Depictions of Reality
If you want to speculate on the development of tech, no one has a better brain to pick than Neal Stephenson. Across more than a dozen books, he's created vast story worlds driven by futuristic technol...
17 Jul 201954min
Eric Kaufmann on Immigration, Identity, and the Limits of Individualism
Going back and forth between Canada and Japan during his childhood sparked Eric Kaufmann's interest in the question of identity. As a foreigner in an international school, he encountered young individ...
3 Jul 201956min
Hal Varian on Taking the Academic Approach to Business
Before he became the Adam Smith of Googlenomics, Hal Varian spent decades as an academic economist, writing influential papers, a popular book about the information economy, and several textbooks tha...
19 Jun 201956min
Russ Roberts on Life as an Economics Educator
What are the virtues of forgiveness? Are we subject to being manipulated by data? Why do people struggle with prayer? What really motivates us? How has the volunteer army system changed the incentives...
5 Jun 20191h 1min
Ezekiel Emanuel on the Practice of Medicine, Policy, and Life
Ezekiel Emanuel is a reflection of his upbringing: a doctor for a father who loved to travel, a mother interested in policy and community activism, and all the competition and friendship that comes wi...
22 Mai 20191h 2min
Karl Ove Knausgård on Literary Freedom
What is Karl Ove Knausgård's struggle, exactly? The answer is simple: achieving total freedom in his writing. "It's a space where I can be free in every sense, where I can say whatever, go wherever I ...
8 Mai 20191h
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
