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The JSP is a weekly exploration of questions that are both important and overlooked. Joe Walker, a former political speechwriter helping to build a Y Combinator-backed startup, hosts refresh...
In this special end-of-year episode, the tables are turned: I'm the guest, and I'm interviewed by Zac Gross — an Australian macroecono...
Glyn Davis and Terry Moran are two of the very small number of Australians who have literally sat in the Cabinet Room, week after week, watc...
2,500 years of strategic history, 11 books, one afternoon. Hugh White is Australia's foremost strategic thinker: former senior adviser to De...
Peter Costello is the longest-serving Treasurer of Australia (1996–2007). He led the most complex overhaul of Australia's tax system i...
One bacterium causes roughly 1 in 20 cancer cases worldwide. It's the most cancer-causing pathogen we've found—and the main cause of p...
Stagnation! The 2010s witnessed Australia's weakest productivity growth in six decades. How much of the slowdown is homegrown? How much refl...
Francis Fukuyama is a Stanford political scientist and the author of (among many other works) The End of History and the Last Man —arg...
Laura Deming is a technologist and venture capitalist focused on anti-ageing and life extension. At 17, she founded The Longevity Fund (foll...
I share the 8 biggest things I learned from my Australian policy series. The conversations totaled more than 12 hours of discussion. Gratefu...
This episode is the seventh instalment of my Australian policy series, recorded live in Sydney on April 29, 2025. I speak with Ken Henry&mda...
This episode is the sixth instalment of my Australian policy series, recorded live in Sydney on February 26, 2025. I speak with Sam Roggevee...
This episode is the fifth instalment of my Australian policy series, recorded live in Sydney on February 12, 2025. I speak with Peter Tulip&...
Australia stands alone among English-speaking democracies with its compulsory, preferential voting system. But why? This episode is the four...
This episode is the third of my live policy salons. It was recorded in Sydney on February 5, 2025. We explore the concept of state capacity&...
This episode is the second of my live policy salons. It was recorded in Sydney on January 29, 2025. What is the relationship between economi...
This episode is the first of my live policy salons. It was recorded in Melbourne on January 23, 2025. In this salon, we go deep into Austral...
This episode is a little different: I'm the one being interviewed—and my interlocutor is Andy Matuschak , an independent applied resea...
Eugene Fama is a 2013 Nobel laureate in economic sciences, and is widely recognised as the "father of modern finance." He is currently the R...
Richard Butler AC is a retired Australian diplomat. He served as Australia's first Ambassador for Disarmament (1983-1988), Australian Ambass...
Larry Summers is a former US Treasury Secretary (1999-2001), Chief Economist at the World Bank (1991-1993), and Director of the National Eco...
Nassim Taleb is trader, researcher and essayist. He is the author of the Incerto , a multi-volume philosophical and practical meditation on...
Robert Boyd and Peter Richerson are anthropologists based in America. Their partnership was central to the development of Dual-Inheritance T...
Lucy Turnbull is an urbanist, businesswoman and philanthropist. She was the first female Lord Mayor of Sydney, from 2003-4. From 2015-20, sh...
Bryan Caplan is Professor of Economics at George Mason University. A bestselling author, his books include The Case Against Education , Open...
In this special episode, the tables are turned as I'm interviewed by a listener of the show, DJ Thornton from Sydney. We reflect on the prog...
At a time when the Enlightenment is under attack from without and within, I bring together two of the most thoughtful defenders of progress...
Shruti Rajagopalan is an Indian-American economist. She leads the Indian political economy research program and Emergent Ventures India at t...
What were the deep causes of the global financial crisis and great recession? Has unconventional monetary policy in the wake of the crisis d...
Peter Singer is the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University. He is widely regarded as the world's most influential livi...
Peter Turchin is a complexity scientist and one of the founders of cliodynamics — a new, cross-disciplinary field that applies mathematics a...
Stephen Wolfram is a physicist, computer scientist and businessman. He is the founder and CEO of Wolfram Research, the creator of Mathematic...
Katalin Karikó is a Hungarian-American biochemist. She is one of the inventors of mRNA technology. Full transcript available at: thejspod.co...
Richard Rhodes is an American historian and the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb . Full transcript available a...
Dr Ken Henry is an Australian economist who served as Secretary of Australia's Treasury from 2001 to 2011. He was instrumental in helping Au...
Palmer Luckey is an American tech entrepreneur and billionaire. He has founded two companies: Oculus VR (acquired by Facebook for $2 billion...
Daniel Kahneman is widely regarded as the most influential psychologist alive. He won the Nobel Prize in Economics (2002) for his work on ju...
In the long run, talent allocation is almost everything. But as a society, we're not actually very good at it. The question of how to reliab...
From language and writing to the Hindu-Arabic numeral system, computers and Adobe Photoshop, our species has a history of inventing tools fo...
How rational are we? How can a species smart enough to set foot on the moon also be prone to conspiracy theories that the moon landing was f...
Bayesianism, the doctrine that it's always rational to represent our beliefs in terms of probabilities, dominates the intellectual world, fr...
William Dalrymple is an acclaimed historian and writer. Show notes available at: josephnoelwalker.com/138-afghanistan See omnystudio.com/lis...
Richard Holden is Professor of Economics at UNSW. Steven Hamilton is an Assistant Professor of Economics at The George Washington University...
Ole Peters is a physicist and a Fellow at the London Mathematical Laboratory. Show notes available at: josephnoelwalker.com/136-ergodicity S...
Michael Sandel teaches political philosophy at Harvard University, where he is the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government Theory...
Graham Allison is an American political scientist and the Douglas Dillon Professor of Government Harvard University. Full transcript availab...
Niall Ferguson is one of the world's most renowned historians. He is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford Un...
John Hewson is a former Australian politician and was leader of the Liberal Party from 1990 to 1994. Full transcript available at: josephnoe...
John Kay is one of Britain's leading economists. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
John Horgan is a science journalist and Director of the Center for Science Writings at the Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, New Jer...
Graeme Davison is Australia's most eminent urban historian. Full transcript available at: josephnoelwalker.com/graeme-davison See omnystudio...