Simon Johnson on Banking, Technology, and Prosperity
What's more intense than leading the IMF during a financial crisis? For Simon Johnson, it was co-authoring a book with fellow economist (and past guest) Daron Acemoglu. Written in six months, their bo...
17 Maj 202352min
Kevin Kelly on Advice, Travel, and Tech
As the founding executive editor of Wired magazine and the author of several acclaimed books on technology and culture, Kevin Kelly has long been known for his visionary ideas and insights. But his la...
3 Maj 202351min
Anna Keay on Historic Architecture, Monarchy, and 17th Century Britain
Anna Keay is a historian who specializes in the cultural heritage of Great Britain. As the director of the Landmark Trust, she has overseen the restoration of numerous historical buildings and monumen...
19 Apr 202349min
Jessica Wade on Chiral Materials, Open Knowledge, and Representation in STEM
Jessica Wade is a physicist at Imperial College London who, while spending her day working on special carbon-based materials that can be used as semiconductors, has spent her nights writing nearly 2,0...
5 Apr 202356min
Jonathan GPT Swift on Jonathan Swift
In this conversation, Tyler uses ChatGPT to interview Jonathan Swift about his views on religion, politics, economics, and literature. GPT Swift discusses his support for the Church of Ireland, his sh...
29 Mars 202341min
Tom Holland on History, Christianity, and the Value of the Countryside
Historian Tom Holland joined Tyler to discuss in what ways his Christianity is influenced by Lord Byron, how the Book of Revelation precipitated a revolutionary tradition, which book of the Bible is m...
22 Mars 202353min
Yasheng Huang on the Development of the Chinese State
Yasheng Huang has written two of Tyler's favorite books on China: Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics, which contrasts an entrepreneurial rural China and a state-controlled urban China, and The ...
8 Mars 202354min
Brad DeLong on Intellectual and Technical Progress
Brad DeLong, professor of economics at UC Berkley, OG econ blogger, and Tyler's Harvard classmate, joins the show to discuss Slouching Towards Utopia, an economic history of the 20th century that's b...
22 Feb 202347min
