Elisa New on Poetry in America and Beyond
Elisa New believes anyone can have fun reading a poem. And that if you really want to have a blast, you shouldn't limit poetry to silent, solitary reading - why not sing, recite, or perform it as has...
20 Jun 201854min
David Brooks on Youth, Morality, and Loneliness (Live at Mason)
For two hours every morning, David Brooks crawls around his living room floor, organizing piles of research. Then, the piles become paragraphs, the paragraphs become columns or chapters, and the proce...
6 Jun 20181h 22min
Nassim Nicholas Taleb on Self-Education and Doing the Math (Plus special guest Bryan Caplan)
Though what Taleb was really after was a discussion with Bryan Caplan (which starts at 51:50), the philosopher, mathematician, and author most recently of *Skin in the Game* also generously agreed to ...
23 Mai 20181h 37min
Bryan Caplan on Learning across Disciplines (Live at Mason Econ)
"No single paper is that good", says Bryan Caplan. To really understand a topic, you need to read the entire literature in the field. And to do the kind of scholarship Bryan's work requires, you need ...
9 Mai 20181h 11min
Balaji Srinivasan on the Power and Promise of the Blockchain
When Balaji Srinivasan sat down for his conversation with Tyler he was the CEO of Earn.com. Today he is the CTO at Coinbase, which acquired his company in the intervening weeks (congrats Balaji!). But...
25 Apr 201854min
Agnes Callard on the Theory of Everything
Is a written dialogue the best way to learn from philosopher Agnes Callard? If so, what does that say about philosophy? Is Plato's Symposium about love or mere intoxication? If good people lived forev...
11 Apr 201859min
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
