Vladimir Putin’s Number One Enemy With Bill Browder
University of Chicago alumnus Bill Browder’s story sounds like the plot of a Hollywood thriller—except it’s all true. He just wanted to be a businessman, but his experience as a foreign investor in Ru...
27 Jan 202025min
How Google and Facebook Are Ruining Capitalism, with Luigi Zingales
University of Chicago economist Luigi Zingales often says that only an immigrant like himself can really appreciate American capitalism. In his native Italy, Zingales says what you know and what you d...
13 Jan 202026min
How Quantum Technology Could Change Our Future With David Awschalom
In October of 2019, Google announced their supercomputer had reached quantum supremacy. With that announcement, and as we take a short break for the holidays, we thought we should replay a prior Big B...
30 Dec 201919min
The Myths Of Millennial Voters With Cathy Cohen
Every election year, poll after poll tries to predict where millennials stand politically. As we head into 2020, we'd like to replay this episode with Prof. Cathy Cohen who says some of our assumption...
16 Dec 201920min
Why Some Nations Prosper and Others Fail, with James Robinson
It’s a simple question to ask, but seems impossible to answer: What causes one nation to succeed and another to fail? What exactly are the origins of global inequality? There are few people who have s...
2 Dec 201927min
The Hunt for Alien Life and Exoplanets, with David Charbonneau
Since the beginning of human history, we’ve looked up at the stars and wondered: Are we alone? No other generation has been able to find an answer, but David Charbonneau thinks we may be the first. He...
18 Nov 201921min
Why Chasing The Good Life Is Holding Us Back With Lauren Berlant
For most Americans, the driving force in their personal and public life is a desire to attain the “good life”. But what if our attachment to that desire is the very thing holding us back? Lauren Berla...
4 Nov 201924min
Saving Our Cities By Studying A Million Neighborhoods With Luis Bettencourt
In the last decade, there has been a mass migration of people into urban areas across the globe. This rapid urbanization has been increasingly unsustainable for our cities and it’s projected to get wo...
23 Okt 201923min
