Golfing Alone (with Gary Belsky)
No rush, no noise, no one else on the golf course: solo golf is an entirely different game, offering physical, mental, and spiritual benefit...
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20 of 1,048 episodesClaude, War, and the State of the Republic (with Dean Ball)
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...
Adam Smith's Warning About Wealth, Fame, and Status (with Ross Levine)
What can Adam Smith teach us today? In this conversation between Ross Levine of Stanford's Hoover Institution and EconTalk's Russ Roberts, S...
The Man Who Built NVIDIA (with Stephen Witt)
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...
The Unseen Work: Stewart Brand on Maintenance and Civilization
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...
AI, Employment, and Education (with Tyler Cowen)
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...
The Match That Lit the Flame: Hannah Senesh and the Creation of Modern Israel (with Matti Friedman)
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...
The Economics of Scarcity and the UNC-Duke Basketball Game (with Michael Munger)
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...
How We Tamed Ourselves and Invented Good and Evil (with Hanno Sauer)
What if humanity's capacity for cruelty was actually one of our greatest moral achievements? That's just one of the provocative ideas philos...
The Power of Introverts (with Susan Cain)
Introverts are underrated. So says Susan Cain in her conversation with EconTalk's Russ Roberts about her book, Quiet . She explains why intr...
The Man Who Would Be King of Saudi Arabia (with Karen Elliott House)
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has been dragging Saudi Arabia into the modern world over the last decade. Journalist and author Karen Elli...
Seiko, Swatch, and the Swiss Watch Industry (with Aled Maclean-Jones)
How did an industry survive a technology that should have made it obsolete? Aled Maclean-Jones explains to EconTalk's Russ Roberts how Japan...
A Military Analysis of Israel's War in Gaza (with Andrew Fox)
What does war look like when fought under the harshest scrutiny? Veteran soldier and military researcher Andrew Fox talks about his first-ha...
How to Flourish (with Daniel Coyle)
Author Daniel Coyle talks with EconTalk's Russ Roberts on the art of flourishing: why it's a natural phenomenon rather than mechanical; how...
Zionism, the Melting Pot, and the Galveston Project (with Rachel Cockerell)
What happens when a writer discovers her "boring" great-grandfather was actually a household name across the Russian Empire who helped 10,00...
Nature, Nurture, and Identical Twins (with David Bessis)
Are your genes your destiny? Despite famous studies of identical twins that seem to answer in the affirmative, mathematician David Bessis sa...
The Mattering Instinct (with Rebecca Newberger Goldstein)
Philosopher and author Rebecca Newberger Goldstein discusses her new book, The Mattering Instinct , which argues that our lives are a quest...
Conversation, Interintellect, and Arcadia (with Anna Gat)
If technology is ruining the art of conversation, maybe it can save it, too. Anna Gat--poet, screenwriter, playwright, and founder of Interi...
In Defense of Intuition (with Gerd Gigerenzer)
Psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer explains the power of intuition, how intuition became gendered, what he thinks Kahneman and Tversky's research...
David Deutsch on the Pattern
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...