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
Rebecca Kukla on Moving through and Responding to the World
Before she ever studied them as an academic, Rebecca Kukla was fascinated by cities. Growing up in the middle of Toronto, she spent her days walking the city and noticing the way people and place inte...
2 Jan 20191h
Daniel Kahneman on Cutting Through the Noise
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19 Des 20181h 9min
Paul Romer on the Unrivaled Joy of Scholarship
Throughout his career, Paul Romer has enjoyed sampling and sifting through an ever-growing body of knowledge. He sometimes jokingly refers to himself as a random idea generator, relying on others to f...
5 Des 201852min
John Nye on Revisionist Economic History and Having Too Many Hobbies
Is John Nye the finest polymath in the George Mason economics department? Raised in the Philippines and taught to be a well-rounded Catholic gentleman, John Nye learned the importance of a rigorous ed...
21 Nov 201858min
