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Conversations with Tyler 2020 Retrospective

John O. Brennan on Life in the CIA

Jimmy Wales on Systems and Incentives

Zach Carter on the Life and Legacy of John Maynard Keynes

Edwidge Danticat on Haitian Art and Literature

Michael Kremer on Economists as Founders

Audrey Tang on the Technology of Democracy

Alex Ross on Music, Culture, and Criticism

Matt Yglesias on Why the Population is Too Damn Low

Jason Furman on Productivity, Competition, and Growth

Nicholas Bloom on Management, Productivity, and Scientific Progress

Nathan Nunn on the Paths to Development

Melissa Dell on the Significance of Persistence

Annie Duke on Poker, Probabilities, and How We Make Decisions

Rachel Harmon on Policing

Ashley Mears on Status and Beauty

Paul Romer on a Culture of Science and Working Hard

Emily St. John Mandel on Fact, Fiction, and the Familiar

Ezra Klein on Why We’re Polarized

Slavoj Žižek on His Stubborn Attachment to Communism

Emily Wilson on Translations and Language

Adam Tooze on our Financial Past and Future

Glen Weyl on Fighting COVID-19 and the Role of the Academic Expert

Philip E. Tetlock on Forecasting and Foraging as a Fox

Ross Douthat on Decadence and Dynamism

Russ Roberts and Tyler on COVID-19

John McWhorter on Linguistics, Music, and Race (Live at Mason)

Garett Jones on Democracy (More or Less)

Tim Harford on Persuasion and Popular Economics

Reid Hoffman on Systems, Levers, and Quixotic Quests

Abhijit Banerjee on Theory, Practice, and India

Tyler Looks Back on 2019 (BONUS)

Esther Duflo on Management, Growth, and Research in Action

Daron Acemoglu on the Struggle Between State and Society

Mark Zuckerberg Interviews Patrick Collison and Tyler Cowen on the Nature and Causes of Progress (Bonus)

Shaka Senghor on Incarceration, Identity, and the Gift of Literacy

Lunch with Fuchsia Dunlop at Mama Chang (Bonus)

Ted Gioia on Music as Cultural Cloud Storage

Henry Farrell on Weaponized Interdependence, Big Tech, and Playing with Ideas

Ben Westhoff on Synthetic Drugs, Dive Bars, and the Evolution of Rap

Alain Bertaud on Cities, Markets, and People

Samantha Power on Learning How to Make a Difference

Hollis Robbins on 19th Century Life and Literature

Masha Gessen on the Ins and Outs of Russia

Kwame Anthony Appiah on Pictures of the World

Neal Stephenson on Depictions of Reality

Eric Kaufmann on Immigration, Identity, and the Limits of Individualism

Hal Varian on Taking the Academic Approach to Business

Russ Roberts on Life as an Economics Educator

Ezekiel Emanuel on the Practice of Medicine, Policy, and Life

Karl Ove Knausgård on Literary Freedom

Margaret Atwood on Canada, Writing, and Invention (Live at Mason)

Ed Boyden on Minding your Brain

Raghuram Rajan on Understanding Community

Sam Altman on Loving Community, Hating Coworking, and the Hunt for Talent

Jordan Peterson on Mythology, Fame, and Reading People

Noel Johnson and Mark Koyama on *Persecution and Toleration*

Larissa MacFarquhar on Getting Inside Someone's Head

Rebecca Kukla on Moving through and Responding to the World

Daniel Kahneman on Cutting Through the Noise

Paul Romer on the Unrivaled Joy of Scholarship

John Nye on Revisionist Economic History and Having Too Many Hobbies

Ben Thompson on Business and Tech

Rob Wiblin interviews Tyler on *Stubborn Attachments*

Michael Pollan on the Science and Sublimity of Psychedelics

Michelle Dawson on Autism and Atypicality

Agnes Callard on the Theory of Everything

Martina Navratilova on Shaping Herself (Live at Mason)

Matt Levine Live at Bloomberg HQ

Eric Schmidt on the Life-Changing Magic of Systematizing, Scaling, and Saying "Thanks" (Live)

Paul Krugman on Politics, Inequality, and Following Your Curiosity

Bruno Maçães on the Spirit of Adventure

Michele Gelfand on Tight and Loose Cultures

Claire Lehmann on Speaking Freely

Vitalik Buterin on Cryptoeconomics and Markets in Everything

Juan Pablo Villarino on Travel and Trust

Elisa New on Poetry in America and Beyond

David Brooks on Youth, Morality, and Loneliness (Live at Mason)

Nassim Nicholas Taleb on Self-Education and Doing the Math (Plus special guest Bryan Caplan)

Bryan Caplan on Learning across Disciplines (Live at Mason Econ)

Balaji Srinivasan on the Power and Promise of the Blockchain

Chris Blattman on Development, Conflict, and Doing What’s Interesting

Robin Hanson on Signaling and Self-Deception (Live at Mason Econ)

Ross Douthat on Narrative and Religion (Live at Mason)

Andy Weir on the Economics of Sci-Fi and Space

Sujatha Gidla on being an Ant amongst the Elephants (Live)

Charles C. Mann on Shaping Tomorrow’s World and the Limits to Growth

Doug Irwin on US Trade Policy

Steve Teles and Brink Lindsey on *The Captured Economy*

Mary Roach on Disgust, Death, and Danger (Live at Mason)

Larry Summers on Macroeconomics, Mentorship, and Avoiding Complacency (Live)

Dave Barry on Humor, Writing, and Life as a Florida Man

Dave Rubin on Digital Media, Crowdfunding, and Comedy (Live)

Atul Gawande on Priorities, Big and Small

Ben Sasse on the Space between Nebraska and Neverland (Live at Mason)

Edward Luce on The Retreat of Western Liberalism (Live)

Jill Lepore on Traveling through Time

Tyler Cowen and Steve Davies talk Theresa May, Brexit, and Europe (Live)

Raj Chetty on Teachers, Social Mobility, and How to Find Answers to Big Questions

Garry Kasparov on AI, Chess, and the Future of Creativity