John McWhorter on Linguistics, Music, and Race (Live at Mason)
Who can you ask about the Great American Songbook, the finer Jell-O flavors, and peculiar languages like Saramaccan all while expecting the same kind of fast, thoughtful, and energetic response? Liste...
11 Mar 20201h 18min
Garett Jones on Democracy (More or Less)
Why is Garett Jones willing to write books about risky topics like the case for reducing democratic accountability? Is it the iconoclastic Mason econ culture? Supportive colleagues like Tyler? Those h...
26 Feb 202056min
Tim Harford on Persuasion and Popular Economics
To Tim Harford, mistakes are fascinating. "We often only understand how something works when it breaks," he says, explaining why there's such an emphasis on errors throughout his work. They also tend ...
12 Feb 202059min
Ezra Klein on Why We're Polarized
In his new book, Ezra Klein argues that polarization in America has become centered on partisan political identities, which has subsumed virtually every form of identity, be it where we live, what tea...
29 Jan 20201h 10min
Reid Hoffman on Systems, Levers, and Quixotic Quests
When Reid Hoffman creates a handle for some new network or system, his usual choice is "Quixotic." At an early age, his love of tabletop games inspired him to think of life as a heroic journey, where ...
15 Jan 20201h
Slavoj Žižek on His Stubborn Attachment to Communism
This bonus episode features audio from the Holberg Debate in Bergen, Norway between Tyler and Slavoj Žižek held on December 7, 2019. They discuss the reasons Slavoj (still) considers himself a Commun...
8 Jan 20201h 26min
Abhijit Banerjee on Theory, Practice, and India
Want to support future conversations? Visit conversationswithtyler.com/donate. Long before Abhijit Banerjee won the 2019 economics Nobel with Michael Kremer and Esther Duflo, he was a fellow graduate ...
30 Des 20191h 2min
Tyler Looks Back on 2019 (BONUS)
Want to support future conversations? Visit conversationswithtyler.com/donate. For this special retrospective episode, producer Jeff Holmes sat down with Tyler to discuss the past year in conversatio...
23 Des 201952min
