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The Great Fertility Collapse (with Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde)
Addiction, Faith, and the Limits of Willpower (with Meghan O'Gieblyn)
Public Choice and Politics Without Romance (with Mike Munger)
The Death of Reading (with James Marriott)
Incentives Are for Losers (with Adam Mastroianni)
Meritocracy, Exams, and the Knowledge That Matters (with Daisy Christodoulou)
Hamas and the Future of Gaza (with Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib)
Are We Alone? Cosmic Loneliness and the Longing to Believe (with Adam Kirsch)
The Hidden Cause of the Industrial Revolution (with Ben Southwood)
Ben Sasse on Faith, Family, and Facing Death
The Political Economy of Palestine (with Hussein Aboubakr Mansour)
Savage Landscapes (with Cal Flyn)
Dwayne Betts on the Iliad
From Sawdust to Paw Patrol: The Spin Master Story (with Ronnen Harary)
EconTalk Book Club on the Iliad (with Ido Hevroni)
Do Less, Heal More: The Case for Medical Conservatism (with John Mandrola)
Can a Phone Be a Cow? (with Philip Auerswald)
The Case for Sunshine (with Rowan Jacobsen)
The Self, the Crowd, and Social Contagion (with Luke Burgis)
Making Your 80,000 Hours Count (with Benjamin Todd)
Facing Death (with Sebastian Junger)
Tom Cruise's Body of Work (with Aled Maclean-Jones)
Thinking Inside the Box (with David Epstein)
Golfing Alone (with Gary Belsky)
Claude, War, and the State of the Republic (with Dean Ball)
Adam Smith's Warning About Wealth, Fame, and Status (with Ross Levine)
The Man Who Built NVIDIA (with Stephen Witt)
The Unseen Work: Stewart Brand on Maintenance and Civilization
AI, Employment, and Education (with Tyler Cowen)
The Match That Lit the Flame: Hannah Senesh and the Creation of Modern Israel (with Matti Friedman)
The Economics of Scarcity and the UNC-Duke Basketball Game (with Michael Munger)
How We Tamed Ourselves and Invented Good and Evil (with Hanno Sauer)
The Power of Introverts (with Susan Cain)
The Man Who Would Be King of Saudi Arabia (with Karen Elliott House)
Seiko, Swatch, and the Swiss Watch Industry (with Aled Maclean-Jones)
A Military Analysis of Israel's War in Gaza (with Andrew Fox)
How to Flourish (with Daniel Coyle)
Zionism, the Melting Pot, and the Galveston Project (with Rachel Cockerell)
Nature, Nurture, and Identical Twins (with David Bessis)
The Mattering Instinct (with Rebecca Newberger Goldstein)
Conversation, Interintellect, and Arcadia (with Anna Gat)
In Defense of Intuition (with Gerd Gigerenzer)
David Deutsch on the Pattern
Free Will Is Real (with Kevin Mitchell)
Colonialism, Slavery, and Foreign Aid (with William Easterly)
The Perfect Tuba: How Band, Grit, and Community Build a Better Life (with Sam Quinones)
The Status Game (with Will Storr)
The Wonder of the Emergent Mind (with Gaurav Suri)
Shampoo, Property Rights, and Civilization (with Anthony Gill)
Primal Intelligence (with Angus Fletcher)
A Mind-Blowing Way of Looking at Math (with David Bessis)
Twenty Years of Freakonomics (with Stephen Dubner)
The Magic of Tokyo (with Joe McReynolds)
The Invisible Hierarchies that Rule Our World (with Toby Stuart)
Eating with Intelligence (with Julia Belluz)
Steven Pinker on Common Knowledge
How Did America Build the Arsenal of Democracy? (with Brian Potter)
How Teams Succeed (with Colin Fisher)
Humans Are Overrated (with Christine Webb)
Hemingway, Love, and War (with David Wyatt)
Tim Ferriss on Tim Ferriss (and much much more)
Learning to Think Like Someone Else (with David Marquet)
Let Me Be Forgotten (with Lowry Pressly)
Read Like a Champion (with Doug Lemov)
James Marriott on Reading
How to Walk the World (with Chris Arnade)
What Is Capitalism? (with Mike Munger)
The Deceptive Power of Maps (with Paulina Rowinska)
How to Be a Super Ager (with Eric Topol)
Leon Kass on the Wisdom of Rousseau
Two Cheers for Libertarianism and Econ 101 (with Noah Smith)
EconTalk #1000 (with Russ Roberts)
Nature vs. Nurture (with Paul Bloom)
Inside the Mysterious World of Credit Cards (with Patrick McKenzie)
The Past and Present of Privacy and Public Life (with Tiffany Jenkins)
The Economics of Tariffs and Trade (with Doug Irwin)
The Past and Future of AI (with Dwarkesh Patel)
Why Christianity Needs to Help Save Democracy (with Jonathan Rauch)
Rational and Religious (with Ross Douthat)
The Music and Magic of John and Paul (with Ian Leslie)
Do All Creatures, Great and Small, and Made From Silicon, Have Rights? (with Jeff Sebo)
Bird Brains, Bird Sex, and All Kinds of Beauty (with Matt Ridley)
How Better Feedback Can Revolutionize Education (with Daisy Christodoulou)
Will Guidara on Unreasonable Hospitality
The Unusual World of Israeli Democracy (with Rachel Gur)
The Struggle That Shaped the Middle East (with James Barr)
Who Won the Socialist Calculation Debate (with Peter Boettke)
Minimalists and Hoarders (with Michael Easter)
Coase, the Rules of the Game, and the Costs of Perfection (with Daisy Christodoulou)
Why AI Is Good for Humans (with Reid Hoffman)
Weep, Shudder, Die: The Secret of Opera Revealed (with Dana Gioia)
Will DOGE and Musk Make a Difference? (with Michael Munger)
Understanding the Settler Colonialism Movement (with Adam Kirsch)
The Power of Nuance: Lessons for Public Health (with Emily Oster)
Fixing Sick Cities (with Alain Bertaud)
Is This War With Lebanon Different? (with Matti Friedman)
Why Industrial Policy Is (Almost) Always a Bad Idea (with Scott Sumner)
Translating Life and Fate (with Robert Chandler)
Tyler Cowen on Life and Fate
Terrorism, Israel, and Dreams of Peace (with Haviv Rettig Gur)