Jhumpa Lahiri on Writing, Translation, and Crossing Between Cultures (Live at Mason)
Author, teacher, and translator Jhumpa Lahiri joins Tyler for a conversation on identity, Rhode Island, writing as problem solving, reading across languages, the badness of book covers, Elena Ferrante...
11 Jan 20171h 26min
Joseph Henrich on WEIRD Societies and Life Among Two Strange Tribes (Live at Mason)
To anthropologist Joseph Henrich, intelligence is overrated. Social learning, and its ability to influence biological evolution over time, is what really sets our species apart. He joined Tyler for a ...
14 Des 20161h 25min
Fuchsia Dunlop on Chinese Food, Culture, and Travel
For centuries, China has treated its cuisine with a reverence and delight that is only just starting to emerge with Western "foodie" culture. No one understands this better than Fuchsia Dunlop, who ha...
16 Nov 20161h 15min
Steven Pinker on Language, Reason, and the Future of Violence (Live at Mason)
Steven Pinker has spent an entire academic career thinking deeply about language, cognition, and human nature. Driving it all, he says, is an Enlightenment belief that the world is intelligible, scien...
2 Nov 20161h 26min
Ezra Klein on Media, Politics, and Models of the World
Ezra Klein, editor-in-chief of Vox.com, joins Tyler Cowen for a conversation on biases in digital media, the morality of meat-eating, how working for large organizations has changed his worldview, the...
6 Okt 20161h 17min
Margalit Fox on Life, Death, and the Best Job in Journalism
The stereotypical obituary is a formulaic recitation of facts — dry, boring, and without craft. But Margalit Fox has shown the genre can produce some of the most memorable and moving stories in journa...
24 Aug 201647min
Michael Orthofer on Why Fiction Matters
Michael Orthofer, one of the world's most prolific book reviewers, joins Tyler Cowen for a conversation on — what else? — books. Read to discover why Michael believes everyone should read more fiction...
27 Jul 201656min
Cass Sunstein on Judicial Minimalism, the Supreme Court, and Star Wars (Live at Mason)
Cass Sunstein joins Tyler Cowen for a conversation on judicial minimalism, Bob Dylan's best album, the metaphysics of nudging, Byatt's Possession, the ideal size of the Supreme Court, Hayek, why peopl...
22 Jun 20161h 17min
