Stewart Brand on Starting Things and Staying Curious
From psychedelics to cyberculture, hippie communes to commercial startups, and the Whole Earth Catalog to the Long Now Foundation, Stewart Brand has not only been a part of many movements—he was there...
26 Jan 202257min
Russ Roberts on Israel and Life as an Immigrant
In this special crossover special with EconTalk, Tyler interviews Russ Roberts about his new life in Israel as president of Shalem College. They discuss why there are so few new universities, managing...
19 Jan 202259min
Ana Vidović on Prodigies, Performance, and Perseverance
Is genius born or made? For Croatian-born classical guitarist Ana Vidović the answer is both. Born into a musical family, she began playing guitar at five and was quickly considered a prodigy. But she...
12 Jan 202244min
Conversations with Tyler 2021 Retrospective
Want to support the show? Visit donate.mercatus.org/podcasts. On this special year-in-review episode, Tyler and producer Jeff Holmes talk about the past year on the show, including one episode's appe...
29 Dec 202155min
Ray Dalio on Investing, Management, and the Changing World Order
Want to support the show? Visit donate.mercatus.org/podcasts When Ray Dalio was 23, President Nixon announced that the United States would no longer be adhering to the gold standard for American curr...
15 Dec 202158min
Ruth Scurr on the Art of Biography
The most challenging part of being a biographer for Ruth Scurr is finding the best form to tell a life. "You can't go in there with a workmanlike attitude saying, 'I'm going to do cradle to grave.' Yo...
1 Dec 202151min
David Rubenstein on Private Equity, Public Art, and Philanthropy
Baltimore native David Rubenstein is a founding figure in private equity, a prolific philanthropist, and author. From leveraged buyouts to his patriotic philanthropy to his leadership roles within ins...
17 Nov 202156min
David Salle on the Experience of Art
When the audience for visual art expanded from small circles of artists and collectors into broader culture, the way art was experienced shifted from aesthetics to explanation. Art, it became thought,...
3 Nov 202146min
