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EconTalk is an award-winning weekly talk show about economics in daily life. Featured guests include renowned economics professors, Nobel Prize winners, and exciting speakers on all kinds of...
No rush, no noise, no one else on the golf course: solo golf is an entirely different game, offering physical, mental, and spiritual benefit...
The Department of War wanted to deploy Anthropic's Claude for "all lawful use." What begins as a policy dispute between a tech company and t...
What can Adam Smith teach us today? In this conversation between Ross Levine of Stanford's Hoover Institution and EconTalk's Russ Roberts, S...
He arrived in America as a child with no English. He was mistakenly sent to a school for juvenile delinquents. He faced rampant prejudice--y...
What does a lone sailor circling the globe have to do with the fall of empires, the Model T, and the rise of AI? Everything--because mainten...
Tyler Cowen is bullish on the integration of AI into higher education. He's also not worried about its effects on the future workplace. List...
Why would a group of young Jews who escaped the Holocaust choose to parachute back into Nazi-occupied Europe? How did they become heroes des...
Duke University leaves millions of dollars on the table every year by giving away free tickets to the most sought-after game in college bask...
What if humanity's capacity for cruelty was actually one of our greatest moral achievements? That's just one of the provocative ideas philos...
Introverts are underrated. So says Susan Cain in her conversation with EconTalk's Russ Roberts about her book, Quiet . She explains why intr...
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has been dragging Saudi Arabia into the modern world over the last decade. Journalist and author Karen Elli...
How did an industry survive a technology that should have made it obsolete? Aled Maclean-Jones explains to EconTalk's Russ Roberts how Japan...
What does war look like when fought under the harshest scrutiny? Veteran soldier and military researcher Andrew Fox talks about his first-ha...
Author Daniel Coyle talks with EconTalk's Russ Roberts on the art of flourishing: why it's a natural phenomenon rather than mechanical; how...
What happens when a writer discovers her "boring" great-grandfather was actually a household name across the Russian Empire who helped 10,00...
Are your genes your destiny? Despite famous studies of identical twins that seem to answer in the affirmative, mathematician David Bessis sa...
Philosopher and author Rebecca Newberger Goldstein discusses her new book, The Mattering Instinct , which argues that our lives are a quest...
If technology is ruining the art of conversation, maybe it can save it, too. Anna Gat--poet, screenwriter, playwright, and founder of Interi...
Psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer explains the power of intuition, how intuition became gendered, what he thinks Kahneman and Tversky's research...
A world-class physicist makes a shocking claim: across 2,500 years and every kind of society, there has been a recurring moral exception car...
Are we truly characters with agency, or are we just playing out our programming in the great video game of life? Contrary to those in his fi...
Can the promise of economic progress ever justify conquest, coercion, and control over other people’s lives? Economist William Easterly join...
Journalist and author Sam Quinones talks about his newest book, The Perfect Tuba: Forging Fulfillment from the Brass Horn, Band, and Hard Wo...
Will Storr talks about his book The Status Game with EconTalk host Russ Roberts, exploring how our deep need for respect and recognition sha...
How is your brain like an ant colony? They both use simple parts following simple rules which allows the whole to be so much more than the s...
Why is it okay to take the little shampoo bottles in hotels home with you but not the towels? And what stops people from taking the towels?...
What do Shakespeare, Hollywood storytelling, and military special operations have in common? They all excel at inventing new plans, or impro...
What if math isn't about grinding through equations, but about training your intuition and changing how your brain works? Mathematician and...
Quantitative, contrarian, and nuanced: these are the hallmarks of the Freakonomics approach. Hear journalist and podcaster Stephen Dubner sp...
What drives the seeming relentless dynamism of Tokyo? Is there something special about Japanese culture? Joe McReynolds, co-author of Emerge...
Status isn't fixed; it's transferred and "bestowed," shaping who gets resources, attention, and opportunity. So argues author Toby Stuart of...
Losing weight should be simple: eat less, exercise more. But according to author and health journalist Julia Belluz, it's complicated. Liste...
Why are Super Bowl ads so good for launching certain kinds of new products? Why do we all drive on the same side of the road? And why, despi...
American manufacturing of aircraft during WWII dwarfed that of its enemies. By the end of the war, an American assembly line was producing a...
What makes some groups thrive while others crash and burn? According to organizational-behavior scholar Colin Fisher, the real villains are...
Are humans the most intelligent species, or just the most arrogant? NYU primatologist Christine Webb, author of The Arrogant Ape , believes...
What can Ernest Hemingway teach us today about the morality of war, the eternal and transient nature of love, and how to write a masterpiece...
Cold plunges. Exogenous ketones. Pu-erh tea--but hold the breakfast: it's all par for the morning routine, at least if you're entrepreneur,...
Former submarine commander David Marquet joins EconTalk's Russ Roberts to explore how distancing--thinking like someone else, somewhere else...
What do we lose when every moment is recorded, every action scrutinized, and every past mistake preserved? Philosopher and author Lowry Pres...
Many students graduate high school today without having read a book cover to cover. Many students struggle to learn to read at all. How did...
Is long form reading a dying pastime? Journalist and cultural critic James Marriott joins EconTalk's Russ Roberts to defend the increasingly...
Skip the Mona Lisa when you visit Paris. Don't tour the Coliseum in Rome. Walk, don’t hurry. Chris Arnade speaks with EconTalk's Russ Robert...
What is capitalism, really? Drawing on Adam Smith, Douglass North, and his own experience as a teacher and economist, economist Michael Mung...
How can the state of Colorado have nearly 700 sides? Why is a country's coastline as long as you want it to be? And how is it that your UPS...
What if we could delay--or even prevent--Alzheimer's, cancer, and heart disease? What if much of what you know about aging is wrong? Listen...
Does technology liberate us or enslave us? How do our social interactions affect our sense of self and our emotional health? Listen as autho...
Economist Noah Smith was so focused on libertarianism's theoretical flaws, he overlooked its political importance. Trump's tariff policy ope...
In honor of EconTalk's 1,000th episode, host Russ Roberts reflects on his long, strange journey from pioneer of the podcast format to weekly...
How much of our success or failure is written in our genes? How much is under our control? Is it nature or nurture or is that dichotomy too...