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Conversations with Tyler

ByMercatus Center at George Mason University

Tyler Cowen engages today's deepest thinkers in wide-ranging explorations of their work, the world, and everything in between. New conversations every other Wednesday. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.

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Episode Playlist

50 episodes

Jun 26, 2024•—

Joseph Stiglitz on Pioneering Economic Theories, Policy Challenges, and His Intellectual Legacy

Jul 10, 2024•—

Brian Winter on Brazil, Argentina, and the Future of Latin America

Jul 24, 2024•—

Alan Taylor on Revolutionary Ironies and the Continental Civil War

Aug 7, 2024•—

Paul Bloom on the Psychology of Children, and the Morality of Empathy and Disgust

Aug 21, 2024•—

Nate Silver on Risk-takers, Politicians, and Poker Players

Sep 4, 2024•—

Philip Ball on the Interplay of Science, Society, and the Quest for Understanding

Sep 18, 2024•—

Tobi Lütke on Creating Shopify for Americans as a German in Canada

Oct 2, 2024•—

Kyla Scanlon on Communicating Economic Ideas through Social Media

Oct 9, 2024•—

Tom Tugendhat on Modernizing the UK and Political Reform

Oct 16, 2024•—

Musa al-Gharbi on Elite Wokeness, Islam, and Social Movements

Oct 30, 2024•—

Christopher Kirchhoff on Military Innovation and the Future of War

Nov 13, 2024•—

Neal Stephenson on History, Spycraft, and American-Soviet Parallels

Nov 25, 2024•—

Russ Roberts on Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate

Dec 4, 2024•—

Stephen Kotkin on Stalin, Power, and the Art of Biography

Dec 11, 2024•—

Paula Byrne on Thomas Hardy's Women, Jane Austen's Humor, and Evelyn Waugh's Warmth

Dec 25, 2024•—

Conversations with Tyler 2024 Retrospective

Jan 8, 2025•—

Scott Sumner on Monetary Rules, Blooming Late, and the Death of Cinema

Jan 22, 2025•—

Joe Boyd on the Birth of Rock, World Music, and Being There for Everything

Feb 5, 2025•—

Ross Douthat on Why Religion Makes More Sense Than You Think

Feb 19, 2025•—

Gregory Clark on Social Mobility, Migration, and Assortative Mating (Live at Mercatus)

Mar 5, 2025•—

Carl Zimmer on the Hidden Life in the Air We Breathe

Mar 19, 2025•—

Ezra Klein on the Abundance Agenda

Apr 2, 2025•—

Sheilagh Ogilvie on Epidemics, Guilds, and the Persistence of Bad Institutions

Apr 9, 2025•—

Jennifer Pahlka on Reforming Government

Apr 16, 2025•—

Ian Leslie on McCartney, Lennon, and the Greatest Creative Partnership of All Time

Apr 23, 2025•—

Chris Dixon on Blockchains, AI, and the Future of the Internet

Apr 30, 2025•—

Kenneth Rogoff on Monetary Moves, Fiscal Gambits, and Classical Chess

May 7, 2025•—

Jack Clark on AI's Uneven Impact

May 21, 2025•—

Theodore Schwartz on Neurosurgery, Consciousness, and Brain-Computer Interfaces

Jun 4, 2025•—

John Arnold on Trading, Energy, and Evidence-Based Philanthropy

Jun 11, 2025•—

Any Austin on the Hermeneutics of Video Games

Jun 18, 2025•—

Chris Arnade on Walking Cities

Jun 25, 2025•—

Austan Goolsbee on Central Banking as a Data Dog

Jul 9, 2025•—

David Robertson on Conducting, Pierre Boulez, and Musical Interpretation

Jul 23, 2025•—

Helen Castor on Medieval Power and Personalities

Aug 6, 2025•—

Annie Jacobsen on Nuclear War, Intelligence Operations, and Conspiracy Realities

Aug 13, 2025•—

Nate Silver on Life's Mixed Strategies

Aug 20, 2025•—

David Brooks on Audacity, AI, and the American Psyche (Live at 92NY)

Sep 3, 2025•—

Seamus Murphy on Photographing Patterns Across Cultures

Sep 17, 2025•—

David Commins on Saudi Arabia, Wahhabism, and the Future of the Gulf States

Sep 24, 2025•—

Steven Pinker on Coordination, Common Knowledge, and the Retreat of Liberal Enlightenment

Oct 1, 2025•—

John Amaechi on Leadership, the NBA, and Being Gay in Professional Sports

Oct 15, 2025•—

George Selgin on the New Deal, Regime Uncertainty, and What Really Ended the Great Depression

Oct 28, 2025•—

Jonny Steinberg on South African Crime and Punishment, the Mandelas' Marriage, and the Post-Apartheid Era

Nov 5, 2025•—

Sam Altman on Trust, Persuasion, and the Future of Intelligence - Live at the Progress Conference

Nov 12, 2025•—

Donald S. Lopez Jr. on Buddhism

Nov 19, 2025•—

Blake Scholl on Supersonic Flight and Fixing Broken Infrastructure - Live at the Progress Conference

Nov 26, 2025•—

Cass Sunstein on Liberalism and Rights in the Age of AI

Dec 3, 2025•—

Dan Wang on What China and America Can Learn from Each Other

Dec 10, 2025•—

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