All Episodes

Princeton Psychology Professor, Eldar Shafir: Why Having Too Little Makes People Perform Worse and Become More Impatient, Impulsive, and Careless (#24)

Harvard’s Chair of Astronomy, Avi Loeb: Why We Are Not Alone and Are Very Common Like Ants On A Sidewalk (#23)

Marshall Van Alstyne: Why Platform Companies (Facebook, Amazon, Airbnb and Uber) Are the Opposite of Traditional Companies, Why They Become So Enormous, and How They Can Be Regulated (#22)

Former Foreign Minister of Mexico, Jorge Castañeda: America Through Foreign Eyes (#21)

What the Good Life Actually Looks Like Based on Harvard’s 75 Year Study with the Director of the Study, Robert Waldinger (#20)

CEO of Marriott, Arne Sorenson: On the Future of Travel and, as a CEO of the Year, How To Be A Great Leader (#19)

Former Under Secretary of State, Nicholas Burns: On American Foreign Policy Under President Biden and What It Can Accomplish (#18)

Princeton Professor, Robert George: On Why Supreme Court Justices Are Unlike Umpires and Are Political (#17)

John Cleese of Monty Python: On Creativity and How Everyone Can Be More Creative (#16)

Head of Columbia University’s Creative Machines Lab, Hod Lipson: On the Future of Artificial Intelligence (#15)

President Obama’s Chief Pollster, Joel Benenson: On What He’s Watching Most Closely Now and What the Path Forward is for Republicans and Democrats (#14)

President of Pew Research Center, Michael Dimock: On the Attitudes and Trends Shaping America Today (#13)

Yale Professor, Amy Chua: On How Group Identity and a Failure to Realize Its Importance Has Caused the Rise of Partisanship and the Failure of U.S. Foreign Policy (#12)

Former Ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul: What Vladimir Putin Is Really Like and What He Wants Now (#11)

Harvard Professor, Alex Keyssar: On What Could Go Wrong With Voting in the 2020 U.S. Election and When Congress Picks the President (#10)

Former Ambassador to Israel and Egypt, Dan Kurtzer: An Inside Perspective on Israel and the Middle East (#9)

MIT Professor, Andrew McAfee: On Prospering From Fewer Resources & Getting More From Less (#8)

Former Google CEO, Eric Schmidt: On AI, Tech, COVID-19, and Making the World A Better Place (#7)

Former Secretary of Homeland Security, Michael Chertoff: On National Security Issues Today (#6)

Founder of Khan Academy, Sal Khan: On Scaling to One Billion Students (#5)

JetBlue Chairman, Joel Peterson: Leadership and Building a Winning Culture (#4)

Richard McGregor: China’s Secretive Ruling Chinese Communist Party (#3)

Harvard Law Professor, Richard Lazarus: The Century’s Biggest Environmental Law Case and What It Took to Win (#2)

Founder of the Innocence Project, Barry Scheck: Why People Are Wrongfully Convicted and What We Can Do About It (#1)

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