All Episodes

Alex Wright - Empire of Ink

The Smead Book List - Summer 2026

The Long View: Defining Intelligence

Howard Gardner - Frames of Mind

Justin Baer - House of Fidelity

Andrew Seth Meyer: To Rule All Under Heaven

Gaurav Suri - The Emergent Mind: How Intelligence Arises in People and Machines

Jason Bardi - The Great Math War: How Three Brilliant Minds Fought for the Foundations of Mathematics

The Smead Book List - Spring Book List

Kathryn Paige Harden - Original Sin: On The Genetics of Vice, The Problem of Blame, And the Future of Forgiveness

Tom Griffiths - Laws of Thought: The Quest for a Mathematical Theory of the Mind

Amy Gamerman - The Crazies

Tim Wu - The Age of Extraction

Kenneth R. Rosen - Polar War

Trent Preszler - Evergreen

The Smead Book List - Winter 2025

David McWilliams - The History of Money: A Story of Humanity

Charles Murray - Taking Religion Seriously

James Grant - Friends Until The End

Brian Potter - The Origins of Efficiency

Mark Blyth and Nicolò Fraccaroli - Inflation

Amitav Acharya - The Once and Future World Order: Why Global Civilization Will Survive the Decline of the West

The Smead Book List - Fall 2025

Toby Stuart - Anointed

Alok Sama - The Money Trap

James Romm - Plato and the Tyrant

Graham Taylor - Imperial Standard

Duncan Mavin - Meltdown: Greed, Scandal, and the Collapse of Credit Suisse

Stephen Clapham - The Smart Money Method

The Smead Book List - Summer 2025

Jill Eicher - Mellon vs. Churchill: The Untold Story of Treasury Titans at War

Enda Kenny - Exclusive Interview

Padraic Scanlan - Rot: An Imperial History of the Irish Famine

Russell Shorto - Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events that Created New York and Shaped America

Kyle Paoletta - American Oasis

Amar Bhide - Uncertainty and Enterprise: Venturing Beyond the Known

Mary Flannery - Geoffrey Chaucer: Unveiling the Merry Bard

The Smead Book List - Spring 2025

Eric Metaxas - Bonhoeffer

Lucy Santos - Chain Reactions

Max Frumes - The Caesars Palace Coup

Doug Terreson - Can't Deny It

Vaudine England - Fortune's Bazaar

Adrian Tinniswood - The Power and The Glory

The Smead Book List - Winter 2024

John Oller - White Shoe

Brad Klontz - Start Thinking Rich

Brett Gardner - Buffett's Early Investments

Wilbur Ross - Risks and Returns

Michael Craig - The Professor, The Banker, and the Suicide King

Megan Gorman - All The Presidents' Money

The Smead Book List - Fall 2024

Dan Slater - The Incorruptibles

Anne Murphy - Virtuous Bankers

Richard Blakemore - Enemies of All

Steve Green - This Beautiful Book

Eric Weiner - Ben & Me

Nicky Hayes - A Little History of Psychology

The Smead Book List - Summer 2024

Martin Goodman - Herod the Great: Jewish King in a Roman World

David Bellos - Who Owns This Sentence

Bryan Burrough - Barbarians at the Gate

Rob Copeland - The Fund

Benji Backer - The Conservative Environmentalist

Jennifer Burns - Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative

The Smead Book List - Spring 2024

Ekaterina Pravilova - The Ruble

Harold James - Seven Crashes

Chris Roush - The Future of Business Journalism

George Gilder - Life After Capitalism

Andrew Pettegree - Book At War

General David Petraeus - Conflict

The Smead Book List - Winter 2023

Vikash Yadav - Liberalism's Last Man

Senator Phil Gramm - The Myth of American Inequality

Daniel Schulman - The Money Kings

Lori Garver - Escaping Gravity

Randall Sullivan - Graveyard of the Pacific

David Zaslav - Exclusive Interview

Chris Yogerst - The Warner Brothers

The Smead Book List - Fall 2023

Diana B. Henriques - Taming the Street

Peter Stark - Gallop Toward the Sun

Matt Lindland - Exclusive Interview

Michael Thomsen - Cage Kings

Greg Steinmetz - The Richest Man Who Ever Lived

Brett Scott - Cloudmoney

Barry Strauss - The War That Made the Roman Empire

The Smead Book List - Summer 2023

Dror Goldberg - Easy Money

Henry Sanderson - Volt Rush

Robert Pickering - Blue Bood

Mark Mills - The Cloud Revolution

Margaret O'Mara - The Code - Part 2

Margaret O'Mara - The Code - Part 1

The Smead Book List - Spring 2023

Shannon K. O'Neil - The Globalization Myth: Why Regions Matter

Perry Mehrling - Money and Empire

Bob Pisani – Shut Up and Keep Talking

Amity Shlaes - Great Society - Live from Smead Investor Oasis

Gale Pooley - Superabundance

Robert Hagstrom - Warren Buffett: Inside the Ultimate Money Mind

The Smead Book List - Winter 2022

Father Robert Sirico - The Economics of the Parables

Richard Oldfield - Simple But Not Easy

Spencer Jakab - The Revolution That Wasn't

Greg Steinmetz - American Rascal

Jeff Nussbaum - Undelivered

Sir Howard Davies - The Chancellors

Helen Rappaport – After the Romanovs

Peter Doran - Breaking Rockefeller

The Smead Book List - Fall 2022

Matthew Bernstein - George Hearst: Silver King of the Gilded Age

Scott McNealy on 'High Noon' authored by Karen Southwick

Mary Childs - The Bond King

Ed Larson - To the Edges of the Earth

William Quinn and John D. Turner – Boom and Bust

George Gilder – Life After Google

The Smead Book List - Summer 2022

Lauren Templeton – Investing the Templeton Way

Thomas Morris - The Matter of the Heart

Robert Hagstrom - Investing: The Last Liberal Art

Kevin Coldiron – The Rise of Carry

Peter Stark - Astoria

Mark Mills – The Bottomless Well

Amity Shlaes – The Forgotten Man

Lisa Napoli – Up All Night

Dinny McMahon – China’s Great Wall of Debt

Greg Zuckerman – The Frackers