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Who Needs Miracles? On Nature and the Miraculous (with Alan Lightman)
Give Away a Kidney? Are You Crazy? (with filmmaker Penny Lane)
Susan Cain on Bittersweet and the Happiness of Melancholy
Why Housing Is Artificially Expensive and What Can Be Done About It (with Bryan Caplan)
Misinformation and the Three Languages of Politics (with Arnold Kling)
Reclaiming Tribalism (with Michael Morris)
The Underrated Bruno Leoni (with Michael Munger)
The Mysterious World of Owls (with Jennifer Ackerman)
What Modern Medicine Gets Wrong (with Marty Makary)
Is Israel Winning the War in Gaza? (with Andrew Fox)
The Problems of Boys and Men in Today's America (with Richard Reeves)
Chaos and Complexity Economics (with J. Doyne Farmer)
What's Happening Inside Your Doctor's Head and Heart (with Adam Cifu)
How Do You Capture the Tragedy of War? (with Sabin Howard)
The Ever-Present Challenge of Escaping Poverty (with Noah Smith)
Sam Harris on Jew-Hatred, Radical Islam, and the West
Does Parenting Make You a Better Person? (with Erik Hoel)
Lessons from Lincoln, Then and Now (with Diana Schaub)
Reading, Writing, and Fighting (with Mark Helprin)
Is Israel Occupying the West Bank? (with Eugene Kontorovich)
René Girard, Mimesis, and Conflict (with Cynthia Haven)
Does Market Failure Justify Government Intervention? (with Michael Munger)
How the Constitution Can Bring Us Together (with Yuval Levin)
Injustice and the "Letter from Birmingham Jail" (with Dwayne Betts)
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of the Covid Vaccine (with Vinay Prasad)
Purpose, Pleasure, and Meaning in a World Without Work (with Nicholas Bostrom)
Glenn Loury Tells All
Living with the Constitution (with A.J. Jacobs)
The Top EconTalk Conversations of 2023 (with Russ Roberts)
Seeking Immortality (with Paul Bloom)
When Prediction Is Not Enough (with Teppo Felin)
Rituals Without Religion (with Michael Norton)
A User's Guide to Our Emotional Thermostat (with Adam Mastroianni)
What Does "Unbiased" Mean in the Digital World? (with Megan McArdle)
Voices from Gaza (with Ahmed Alkhatib)
Living with Exponential Change (with Azeem Azhar)
How to Avoid Lying With Statistics (with Jeremy Weber)
The Secrets of Great Conversation (with Charles Duhigg)
A Lively Debate on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (with Robert Wright)
Year Zero of the Arab-Israeli Conflict (with Hillel Cohen)
Should Israel Depend on the US? (with Michael Oren)
What Palestinians Are Thinking (with Dahlia Scheindlin)
If Life Is Random, Is It Meaningless? (with Brian Klaas)
Can a Nation Plunder Its Way to Wealth (with Noah Smith)
The Challenge of Covering the Most Important Story on Earth (with Matti Friedman)
From the Second Intifada to October 7th (with Daniel Gordis)
Can Artificial Intelligence Be Moral? (with Paul Bloom)
An Extraordinary Introduction to the Birth of Israel and the Arab-Israeli Conflict (with Haviv Rettig Gur)
Niall Ferguson on Free Speech and Kissinger's Role in the Middle East
Yossi Klein Halevi on the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
Tyler Cowen on the GOAT of Economics
Andrew McAfee on the Geek Way
Jennifer Burns on Milton Friedman
Zach Weinersmith on Space Settlement and A City on Mars
Michael Easter on Excess, Moderation, and the Scarcity Brain
Robert Sapolsky on Determinism, Free Will, and Responsibility
Alexandra Hudson on the Soul of Civility
Adam Mastroianni on Learning and Mostly Forgetting
Elie Hassenfeld on GiveWell
Peter Attia on Lifespan, Healthspan, and Outlive
Michael Munger on How Adam Smith Solved the Trolley Problem
Anupam Bapu Jena on Random Acts of Medicine
Roland Fryer on Race, Diversity, and Affirmative Action
Vinay Prasad on Cancer Screening
Walter Russell Mead on Innovation, Religion, and the State of the World
Adam Mastroianni on the Brain, the Ears, and How We Learn
Zvi Mowshowitz on AI and the Dial of Progress
Daron Acemoglu on Innovation and Shared Prosperity
Erik Hoel on Consciousness, Free Will, and the Limits of Science
Lydia Dugdale on the Lost Art of Dying
Marc Andreessen on Why AI Will Save the World
James Rebanks on the Shepherd's Life
Jacob Howland on the Hidden Human Costs of AI
Michael Munger on Obedience to the Unenforceable
Rebecca Struthers on Watches, Watchmaking, and the Hands of Time
Les Snead on Risk, Decisions, and Football
Luca Dellanna on Risk, Ruin, and Ergodicity
Casey Mulligan on Vaccines, the Pandemic, and the FDA
Tyler Cowen on the Risks and Impact of Artificial Intelligence
Eliezer Yudkowsky on the Dangers of AI
Patrick House and Itzhak Fried on the Brain's Mysteries
Michael Munger on the Perfect vs. the Good
Dana Gioia on Poetry, Death and Mortality
Daniel Gordis on Israel and Impossible Takes Longer
Erik Hoel on the Threat to Humanity from AI
Kevin Kelly on Advice, AI, and Technology
Megan McArdle on the Oedipus Trap
Zach Weinersmith on Beowulf and Bea Wolf
Omer Moav on the Emergence of the State
Paul Bloom on Psych, Psychology, and the Human Mind
Marco Ramos on Misunderstanding Mental Illness
Adam Mastroianni on Peer Review and the Academic Kitchen
Sam Harris on Meditation, Mindfulness, and Morality
Vinay Prasad on Pharmaceuticals, the FDA, and the Death of Duty
Dwayne Betts on Beauty, Prison, and Redaction
Tiffany Jenkins on Plunder, Museums, and Marbles
Ian Leslie on Being Human in the Age of AI
Hannah Ritchie on Eating Local
Judge Glock on Zoning and Local Government
Arnold Kling on Twitter, FTX, and ChatGPT