Fmr Goldman Sachs CEO: What Surviving The 2008 Financial Crisis Taught Me — Lloyd Blankfein
Lloyd Blankfein is one of the most consequential figures in the history of American finance — a kid from the Brooklyn projects who climbed to the top of Goldman Sachs and steered the firm through the ...
23 Apr 54min
Historian: America's Origin Story Is A Lie - Craig Fehrman - Craig Fehrman
Today's guest spent five years digging through archives to uncover the real story of Lewis and Clark — and what he found will completely change the way you think about America's origin. Craig Fehrman ...
21 Apr 28min
April 2026 Q&A: What Trump is Really Like, Repeal Citizens United, Declining US Dollar
We are back with another Open Book Q&A — the episode where you ask, I answer, and nobody's feelings are guaranteed to survive intact. From repealing Citizens United to what Trump is really like behind...
16 Apr 28min
World's #1 Thriller Writer: "STOP SCROLLING and BE HUMAN AGAIN" - David Baldacci
David Baldacci has sold 150 million books, and when I picked up his first novel — Absolute Power — I was a 32-year-old lawyer who thought he had life figured out. What I didn't expect was to walk away...
14 Apr 28min
The Anthropologist Predicting Society's Collapse - Jitske Kramer
My guest today is Jitske Kramer — corporate anthropologist, bestselling author, and one of the most original thinkers I've had on this show. We're getting into tricksters, liminality, and why the mess...
9 Apr 27min
The Truth About AI They Don't Want You To Know - Sebastian Mallaby
Sebastian Mallaby is back as a repeat guest on Open Book, with a brilliant new book. He spent 30 hours inside the mind of the man building superintelligence, and what he found should wake all of us up...
7 Apr 31min
American Recession Watch, Extreme Wealth Gap, & Crypto Stalemate
Markets are flashing warning signs, and the U.S. consumer is taking the hit. Mike Novogratz and I break down why traders have shifted from buying the dip to selling the rally, what the wealth gap mean...
1 Apr 36min
The Strategic Genius Behind Trump's Chaos - Jeffrey Sonnenfeld
This episode is about understanding something most people get wrong about Donald Trump: what looks like chaos is often very deliberate. I sat down with Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, who’s studied Trump for deca...
31 Mars 33min
