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Mustafa Aksakal on World War I and the end of the Ottoman Empire
Nature & Nurture #164: Dr. Matt Zwolinski - The History of Libertarianism
#1294 Harry Reis - How to Feel Loved: The Five Mindsets That Get You More of What Matters Most
America’s Orwell
#140: Drew McKevitt: "Gun Country"
How Washington Privatized The Capital Market - ft. Renée Jones
364 | Stuart Firestein on How Science Relies on Ignorance and Failure
Higher Education’s Age of ‘Insufferable Hypocrisy’
Your Mind Is a Propagandist
Kiri Allan: former Labour Minister talks memoir Go Hard or Go Home
The Hidden Cause of the Industrial Revolution (with Ben Southwood)
#1293 Amy McPhie Allebest: Breaking Down Patriarchy
"The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel" with Douglas Brunt
The Dawn of a Post-Literate Society, with James Marriott
The Story Of Rapa Nui: AMSEcast with Mike Pitts
Stolen Revolution: Behind Iran's Protest Movements (feat. Bozorgmehr Sharafedin)
Solving the Metacrisis with a Theory of Everyone | Michael Muthukrishna
Marine Le Pen's bid for power and the history of France's far right
Bernd Roeck, "The World at First Light: A New History of the Renaissance" (Princeton UP, 2025)
He Repaired My Marriage And Then We Lost Him Forever - Mike Maimone
The Reign Of Keynes, Part II — Lord Robert Skidelsky
Julia Ioffe on Russian Women, Missing Men, and the Roots of Autocracy
The Political Economy of Palestine (with Hussein Aboubakr Mansour)
Catharine Edwards - The Life of Cicero and the Fall of the Roman Republic
Tim Whitmarsh: Augustus, Empire and the Making of Christianity
The James C. Scott Memorial Episode
Jordan Schneider Thinks the Real AI Race Is About Compute, Not Models
Liaquat Ahamed on the Railroad Bubble That Crashed the World | #642
The Scramble for America with Clement Knox
Olivier Hein, "Borneo: The History of an Enigma" (Hurst, 2026)
362 | Luis Bettencourt on the Universal Properties of Self-Organizing Cities
How populists turn distrust into power
Lana Swartz on Digital Money and Digital Cultures of Money
#136 - Katharine Birbalsingh - Why Britain Stopped Believing Children Need Discipline
Dr. Jared Horvath: "The Digital Delusion"
How AI Could Actually Make the World Better
669. Liberalism and Discontent: Exploring Modern Democracy with Francis Fukuyama
Rationally Speaking #165 - Robert Frank on "Success and Luck"
How Life Works: AMSEcast with Philip Ball
Matt Ridley Knows How to Stop the AI Apocalypse
Carl R. Trueman, "The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to Sexual Revolution" (Crossway, 2020)
Tom Feiling on Japan’s warning for the future
Inside the Rise of France’s Far Right
Jan Morris, Traveler, Author, Enigma: A Conversation With Biographer Sara Wheeler
Joel Mokyr on Clans, Corporations, and a Culture of Growth
What Xi Jinping Wants
Our Personal Finance Mistakes Are The Industry's Profits - ft. John Campbell & Tarun Ramadorai
How warhorses transformed medieval England
A Surprising Theory About the Future of War
Ciruce A. Movahedi-Lankarani, "Accelerant: Energy Infrastructures and the Natural World in Making Modern Iran" (Stanford UP, 2026)
Team Jefferson or Team Hamilton? Their debate rages on
The origins of Darwin's ideas
#131 - Gregory Clark - Why Everything The West Believes About Social Mobility Is Wrong
Olivier Hein, "Mother of the World: The Remarkable History of Turkmenistan" (Hurst, 2026)
Do Less, Heal More: The Case for Medical Conservatism (with John Mandrola)
Harald Hardrada
THE GOD TEST (Part 2): Can Humanity Pass the Cosmic Reckoning?
THE GOD TEST (Part 1): Are You Ready for Superintelligence?
#1273 Helen Pearson - Beyond Belief: How Evidence Shows What Really Works
Frank Cottrell-Boyce: How Our Children Live Now
Malala Yousafzai - Finding My Way
Danielle Crittenden - Dispatches from Grief (Ep. 313)
Can a Phone Be a Cow? (with Philip Auerswald)
How to Repair and Nourish Your Gut | Dr. Giulia Enders
Anna Funder on telling untold stories – and the blowback it sometimes brings
Steven Nadler, "Spinoza, Atheist" (Princeton UP, 2026)
AI Shock vs the China Shock
Arrested for a Facebook Post: Ben Jones on Britain's Free Speech Collapse
Old-igarchy: How the Elderly Conquered American Power
Podcast Exclusive: Ben Crowe
David Cohen on Different Matters, Jacinda and The Untold Stories
The Case for Sunshine (with Rowan Jacobsen)
Suzy Hansen on Turkey and an Istanbul neighborhood in the age of Erdoğan
Discontent in the Age of Plenty | Brink Lindsey | Ep. 75
The Viral Chess Cheating Scandal with Anal Beads: Ben Mezrich Reveals the Full Story
Aziz Abu Sarah and Maoz Inon: Reconciliation over revenge
#1264 Steve Stewart-Williams: A Billion Years of Sex Differences
Andrea Wulf: George Forster and the Search for Humanity
Trevor Jackson, "The Insatiable Machine: How Capitalism Conquered the World" (Norton, 2026)
AW: "Poisoned Ivies" with R-NY Rep. Elise Stefanik
How “Muskism” Is Changing American Capitalism - ft. Quinn Slobodian
Exploding the myths of immigration
Is Man the Hunter just a myth?
The Black Death: A Global Apocalypse?
AGI Is BS | Jamie Metzl's AI Prediction
Gad Saad: When Empathy Becomes Dangerous
How AI is transforming warfare and the US military with Katrina Manson
Episode 63: "Advance Britannia" - Bomber Command & Britain's War 1942-1945, with Professor Alan Allport
#244 – Benjamin Todd on how we’re updating our career advice for the strangest time in history
622. The Critical Art of Manufacturing & Why We Can’t Lose It with Tim Minshall
Is Inequality the Problem?
The olds are in charge, and it’s not good
The Secrets of Gravity: AMSEcast with James Riordon
"Bigger and Different": The Six Decades That Remade Australia — Mark Cully [Immigration Series]
Babylon, a City for the Ages: Interview with Professor Lloyd Llewelyn-Jones
Alexander the Great: God, King, Man.
The Rise and Fall of Venice
Dennis Rasmussen on Hume and Smith and The Infidel and the Professor
Hugo Drochon, "Elites and Democracy" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Wrong numbers and why they survive, with Aaron Brown
"We've built an economy that requires 2 million temporary migrants" — Martin Parkinson [Immigration Series]
Siri Hustvedt's tribute to her late husband Paul Auster
The Case Against the AI Job Apocalypse
A View From the East: China, Japan, and the Other Paths to Prosperity ~ Debin Ma (Great Divergence #4)
353 | Alvin Roth on the Economics of Morally Contested Markets
Thinking Inside the Box (with David Epstein)
David Reich – Why the Bronze Age was an inflection point in human evolution
Franklin's Curiosity Unpacked with Richard Munson
Russ Greene: the rise of Total Boomer Luxury Communism
How Rasputin helped doom the Romanovs
The inner life of the hand
Why Did the Industrial Revolution Happen in Britain? ~ Robert Allen (Great Divergence #3)
Stephen B. Young ed., "Adam Smith and Modern Economics: Reclaiming the Moral High Ground" (de Gruyter, 2026)
Q&A: Historian & Biographer Robert Caro
The Secret to Out-Innovating the Competition: Inside the Tesla Playbook
Saloni Dattani - The Hidden Bottleneck Holding Back the Future of Medicine (Ep. 312)
Why Too Much Freedom Is the Enemy of Success
Peter Diamandis Warns of the Emotional Pandemic — The 5 Forks That Will Split Humanity
America's Turn Against Markets | Samuel Gregg | Ep. 77
Why Did So Many Inventions Come from Europe? ~ Joel Mokyr (Great Divergence #2)
The Black Prince
Boris Becker: Surviving Prison, My Truth & Rebuilding Life (E371)
How to poop better, according to a gastroenterologist
Lewis and Clark, the Corps of Discovery, and Writing Collective History: Interview with Author Craig Fehrman
Ladder or Lottery? Gary Hoover on the Consequences of Broken Economic Promises
Nicholas Walton: The End of the Dutch Empire (1950)
Adam Smith's Warning About Wealth, Fame, and Status (with Ross Levine)
Why the West? Colonies, Fossil Fuels, and Lessons from China ~ Kenneth Pomeranz (Great Divergence #1)
#1242 Serene Khader - Faux Feminism: Why We Fall for White Feminism and How We Can Stop
What Really Prevents Cognitive Decline
Jason Bardi - The Great Math War: How Three Brilliant Minds Fought for the Foundations of Mathematics
Squeeze the Juice and Just Sit with Elephants: Lessons in Humility from the African Bush with Business Professor Dr. Ron Dulek
Bonus episode 16: Jennifer Doleac and Kathryn Paige Harden in conversation about their new books
622: Ishmael Beah | Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
Rationally Speaking #176 - Jason Brennan on "Against democracy"
Gladiators and the Roman Psyche: Interview with Dr. Harry Sidebottom
The Roots of our Zero-Sum Moment
Patrick Radden Keefe on a Double Life, a Gilded City and a Mysterious Death
BN+: Josh Ireland, "The Death of Trotsky"
Kathryn Paige Harden - Original Sin: On The Genetics of Vice, The Problem of Blame, And the Future of Forgiveness
#1222 Teresa Baron: The Artificial Womb on Trial
Douglas H. Erwin, "The Origins of the New: Novelty and Innovation in the History of Life, Culture, and Technology" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Inside The Infinity Machine ft Sebastian Mallaby
Ideas for a Post-YIMBY Housing Future
The anguish of girls | Maiden Mother Matriarch 183
Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble
Arthur Brooks on Reinvention, Religion, and the Science of Happiness
Rationally Speaking #144 - Bryan Caplan on "Does parenting matter?"
Back the Future? – What is Europe for in the 21st Century?
Mark L. Clifford, "The Troublemaker: How Jimmy Lai Became a Billionaire, Hong Kong's Greatest Dissident, and China's Most Feared Critic" (Free Press, 2024)
Russia and Feminism
The Book of Elon with Eric Jorgenson
What You Know About Recessions Could Be All Wrong
348 | Jessica Riskin on Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and Life as Creative Agency
Inside Palantir: Building Software That Matters with Shyam Sankar
Is this the end of the gay rights revolution?
Ep. 45 – Rob Dunn on what the laws of biology predict about our future
Gentle parenting is rough for moms and dads
Alain Bertaud on what planners control — and what they don't
299 - Berlin, 1939-45
The Pill That Works Even When You Know It's Fake
666. This Is How Progress Happens
Heretics: The Scientists Who Were Mocked But Later Proven Right
Bob Carr on grief and 'the left-over life' after his wife's death
Mutualisms all the way down
The Invention of Uncertainty: How Probability Led to Artificial Intelligence
The Lie That Built Modern China - Frank Dikötter
“Wild Horse Country” by David Philipps
FAMILY DYNAMICS: Unraveling the Mystery of Sibling Success
The Power of Introverts (with Susan Cain)
614. Understanding the Great Divergence: Europe vs China from 1000 to 2000 feat. Guido Tabellini
Jonathan Tepper - Growing Up in the Heroin Capital of Europe (Ep. 303)
How AI Could Change Everything in the Next 1,000 Days
What Would You Do Alone in a Cage with Nothing but Cocaine?
“They’re Not Like Us”: Michael McFaul on Autocrats vs. Democrats and the Fight for the Twenty-First Century | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
The party is over: Is this the end for Labour and the Tories?
A Brief History of Biological and Artificial Intelligence with Max Bennett
Churchill and de Gaulle: a strange relationship
602. Books: The Original Hardware for Knowledge feat. Joel J. Miller
#1214 Paul Eastwick: The Science of Love and Connection
The Man Who Would Be King of Saudi Arabia (with Karen Elliott House)
Michael Pollan on the Mystery of Consciousness
Everything you wanted to know about Driverless Cars with Andrew Miller
A Sixth of Humanity and the Dreams of a Nation
Joe Studwell on Africa, Asia, and What Development Actually Requires
#1197 Mark Wicclair: Conscientious Objection in Medicine
200 Years of Markets in 60 Minutes (Deutsche Bank’s Jim Reid) | #618
Francisco Franco: life of the week
Episode 123: Ezra Golberstein on school-based mental health services
A Military Analysis of Israel's War in Gaza (with Andrew Fox)
Origins of the kiss
EP 51: The Business of History (with Tom Levitt)
Great Depression Myths with Price Fishback
Stevan Harrell, "An Ecological History of Modern China" (U Washington Press, 2023)
Resisting the post-truth society
Casey Handmer of Terraform Industries on solar maximalism, hard tech, and reclaiming the Salton Sea
Tragedy and triumph: a 500-year history of Mexico
Can We Build a Middle Class Without Factories? - ft. Dani Rodrik
RWH065: Joyful Excellence w/ Brad Stulberg
Mitchell: Father of the Spitfire with Paul Beaver
Zionism, the Melting Pot, and the Galveston Project (with Rachel Cockerell)
660. The Wellness Industry Is Gigantic — and Mostly Wrong
Seth Berkley & Eric Topol - Discuss Fair Doses Book
How we built a government that can’t build anything
Morgan Housel: Wealth is What You Have Minus What You Want
Nature & Nurture #163: Nicholas Wade - The Origin of Politics
Ray Dalio on Economic Trends, Investing, and Making Decisions Amid Uncertainty
Data Scientist Hannah Ritchie – How to Solve Climate Change in 50 Questions and Answers
Ben & Marc: Why Everything Is About to Get 10x Bigger
Steve Richards – Tony Blair: The Prime Minsters Series
Dr. Christopher Browning- "Ordinary Men" of the Holocaust
The Multidisciplinary Approach to Thinking | Peter D. Kaufman [Outliers]
Diarmaid MacCulloch on Christianity, Sex, and Unsettling Settled Facts
Nature, Nurture, and Identical Twins (with David Bessis)
BN+: Ben Freeman, "The Trillion Dollar War Machine"
How to Bounce Back from Life’s Curveballs (with Dr. Maya Shankar)
Brendan Coates: Ending the bans on housing
Crime, Leniency, and the Science of Second Chances
Prague: The Heart of Europe
Sean Mathews, "The New Byzantines: The Rise of Greece and Return of the Near East" (Hurst, 2025)
David McRaney || How Minds Change
Jill Eicher - Mellon vs. Churchill: The Untold Story of Treasury Titans at War
The Collapse of Open Inquiry: Sacred Victims and Forbidden Questions
The Future of the Taliban: A Discussion with Ahmed Rashid
The value of animal cultures
The sins of the cognitive elite | Maiden Mother Matriarch 177
1. The Iranian Revolution with Scott Anderson
They: What Muslims and Non-Muslims Get Wrong About Each Other, Sarfraz Manzoor and Ros Urwin
Sara Byala, "Bottled: How Coca-Cola Became African" (Oxford UP, 2023)
Live with Nicolle Wallace
Daniel Immerwahr, "How to Hide an Empire: The History of the Greater United States" (FSG, 2019)
Steve Tibble, "Assassins and Templars: A Battle in Myth and Blood" (Yale UP, 2025)
Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff, "HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business: Think Big, Buy Small, Own Your Own Company" (HBR Press, 2017)
Codie Sanchez: "Main Street Millionaire"
The Story of Francis Crick, a new masterpiece biography by Matthew Cobb
606. The Great Myth of The New Deal & Its Lingering Economic Impact feat. George Selgin
Margaret Beaufort: life of the week
#1113 Vicky Oelze: The Diets of Great Apes, and the Evolution of Human Diets
Simon Avenell, "A History of Postwar Japan: Recovery, Prosperity, and Transformation" (U Hawaii Press, 2025)
David McWilliams - The History of Money: A Story of Humanity
The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge
The Genius of Jane Austen
Why the Hundred Years War Actually Lasted Two Hundred Years: Interview with Professor Michael Livingston
542. The Modern Challenges of Aerospace, Automation, and Enlightenment feat. David A. Mindell
The long and winding road to Brexit | Tom McTague interview
Russ Roberts on the Price of Everything
Living Dangerously with Katherine Mansfield
Dan Wang on What China and America Can Learn from Each Other
The Primal Screams of Identity Politics: A Conversation with Mary Eberstadt
Feminism and the English Language with Wordslut
Interview with Meir Kohn: Wealth of Nations Redux
The Arrival of AGI with Shane Legg (co-founder of DeepMind)
Colonialism, Slavery, and Foreign Aid (with William Easterly)
Lawfare Daily: Why We Fall for Charlatans, with Quico Toro
Why Eastbound Flights Are Faster, and Other Strange Things About Wind (Simon Winchester)
Path Dependence in Financial/Monetary Systems
The Licensing Racket
SHERMIN KRUSE on surviving the Iranian Revolution through the power of empathy
Carl Benedikt Frey, "How Progress Ends: Technology, Innovation, and the Fate of Nations" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Wisdom Takes Work: Ryan Holiday on What AI Can’t Teach You
Jonny Steinberg on South African Crime and Punishment, the Mandelas' Marriage, and the Post-Apartheid Era
Ludovic Orlando, "Horses: A 4,000-Year Genetic Journey Across the World" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Charlie Munger: The Psychology of Human Misjudgment [Outliers]
BRIAN HARE & VANESSA WOODS: kindness will prevail over aggression
On Democracy and Bullshit with Hélène Landemore
The surprising economics of the world’s most valuable asset
Lyse Doucet on The Finest Hotel in Kabul: Freedom and Frontline Journalism
Episode 121: Peter Blair on occupational licenses as information about criminal records
The Wonder of the Emergent Mind (with Gaurav Suri)
Ep. 26: Chris Horton on Taiwan’s History and Present
596. The Rules of Life’s Everyday Markets & How to Get Them to Work in Your Favor feat. Judd Kessler
Ian Mortimer - The Time Traveller's Guide to England
#1013 - Scott Galloway - How to Fix a Culture of Emasculated Men
Why Q needs U and how hieroglyphics created our alphabet, with Danny Bate
Alec Nevala-Lee on Luis Alvarez
Why Some Highly Educated Women Choose to Have Many Children | Steven Davis, Catherine Pakaluk | Hoover Institution
What Are The Rules Of Economic Growth? With Joe Studwell
Attention and the Possibility of Persuasion
The Age of Hitler, and How We Shall Survive It
Graham Robb: The Discovery of Britain
Nobel Economist Reveals Why Economic Models Keep Failing Us, ft. Richard Thaler
A Mind-Blowing Way of Looking at Math (with David Bessis)
Edmond Smith, "Ruthless: A New History of Britain’s Rise to Wealth and Power, 1660-1800" (Yale UP, 2025)
DANIEL GILBERT thinks our brains are wired for misery
Eiko Maruko Siniawer, "Ten Moments that Shaped Tokyo" (Cambridge UP, 2024)
Atlantic CEO Nick Thompson on What Running Can Teach Us
How Liberty Made Progress Possible | Peter Boettke | Ep. 68
579. Dissecting Capitalism's Critics From the Industrial Revolution to AI feat. John Cassidy
The 2025 Shortlist: Justin Marozzi
Twenty Years of Freakonomics (with Stephen Dubner)
David Singerman, "Unrefined: How Capitalism Reinvented Sugar" (U Chicago Press, 2025)
The Story of Carbon Dioxide is the Story of Everything: Interview with Journalist Peter Brannen
Dan Wang - The US vs China In The 21st Century - [Invest Like the Best, EP.444]
Hannah Ritchie On Climate Honesty, Hope, And The Future. Discussing her book Clearing The Air.
The 2025 Shortlist: Adam Weymouth
BN+: Inside McNamara at War: Philip and William Taubman on Vietnam and U.S. Power
Deborah Gordon, "No Standard Oil: Managing Abundant Petroleum in a Warming World" (Oxford UP, 2021)
A Question-Asker Becomes a Question-Answerer
Ben Schott: An Unexpectedly Essential Guide to Language
America in Korea: a failed occupation?
The Magic of Tokyo (with Joe McReynolds)
#1160 Edward Watts - The Romans: A 2,000-Year History
622. Brian Potter, Author of The Origins of Efficiency
Focus: The ASML Way by Marc Hijink
Mark Blake – Shine On – The Definitive Oral History Of Pink Floyd
How Afraid of the A.I. Apocalypse Should We Be?
Allen B. Downey, "Probably Overthinking It: How to Use Data to Answer Questions, Avoid Statistical Traps, and Make Better Decisions" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
In Praise of Commercial Culture
Nick Lane – Life as we know it is chemically inevitable
Why Money Doesn't Buy Happiness in America
Mark Vellend, "Everything Evolves: Why Evolution Explains More than We Think, from Proteins to Politics" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Christopher Caldwell & the age of entitlement
David J. Lynch, "The World's Worst Bet: How the Globalization Gamble Went Wrong (And What Would Make It Right)" (PublicAffairs, 2025)
Episode 172: Phillip and William Taubman on McNamara at War
The Power of Common Knowledge: Steven Pinker on Language, Norms, and Punishment
The Roman Economy: The lives of the 90% | Kimberly Bowes with Javier Mejia
Joanna Pocock: Greyhound
(re-release) How JANE GOODALL defied experts and changed our view on animals forever!
The Greatest Knight That Ever Lived: William the Marshal
Thucydides, the Greatest Historian of All Time: Interview with Robin Waterfield and Professor Polly Low
581. The Power of Status: Examining the Matthew Effect feat. Toby E. Stuart
Ep. 13: Peter Hessler on 'Other Rivers'
Mark Gilbert, "Italy Reborn: From Fascism to Democracy" (Norton, 2024)
#093 - George Owers - Britain's 350-Year Culture War: The Birth Of Party Politics
David Commins on Saudi Arabia, Wahhabism, and the Future of the Gulf States
647. China Is Run by Engineers. America Is Run by Lawyers.
Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI (Including You) | Benedict Evans
David Edmonds, "Death in a Shallow Pond: A Philosopher, a Drowning Child, and Strangers in Need" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Why So Few Births? | Steven Davis, Claudia Goldin | Hoover Institution
56. Foucault was ALWAYS a Libertarian - Mark Pennington
#443 - A Concise History of Islam: A Dialogue with John Tolan
How Did America Build the Arsenal of Democracy? (with Brian Potter)
#1149 Sean McMeekin: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism
Andrew Bayliss: Sparta – The Rise and Fall of An Ancient Superpower
#992 - Dr Sarah Hill - The Period Brain: How Hormones Change Women’s Behaviour
Globalization's Backlash: Echoes of the Interwar Era in Today’s World
Why feminism worked best in the West with Alice Evans
America in the Age of Diagnosis
Read Like a Champion (with Doug Lemov)
Sam Dalrymple, "Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Making of Modern Asia" (William Collins, 2025)
Cordelia Fine, "Patriarchy Inc.: What We Get Wrong About Gender Equality – and Why Men Still Win at Work" (W.W. Norton, 2025)
BN+: Jay Winik, "1861"
Dan Wang on Modern China
Sole survivor: Eight days in the jungle after my plane crashed
How algorithms are changing the way we speak
Joe Liemandt - Building Alpha School, and The Future of Education - [Invest Like the Best, EP.439]
Audrey Truschke, "India: 5,000 Years of History on the Subcontinent" (Princeton UP, 2025)
Dreaming of Iran: A Conversation with Writer Roya Hakakian
Plain History: How the Transcontinental Railroads Built the Modern World
Yong-Shik Lee, "Law and Development: Theory and Practice, 2nd edition" (Routledge, 2021)
How Christianity came to dominate the Roman world
How Foreign Governments Influence U.S. Universities
How to become President of China with Dan Wang
RWH060: What Buffett, Munger & Bill Miller Taught Me w/ Robert Hagstrom
#1140 Will Storr: How to Use the Science of Storytelling to Lead, Motivate and Persuade
#980 - David Pinsof - This is Your Brain on Bullsh*t
Nicholas P. Roberts, "A Sea of Wealth: The Omani Empire and the Making of an Oceanic Marketplace" (U California Press, 2025)
Is Nuclear Energy Our Best Shot at Saving the Planet?
What Does China's Seismic Economic Progress Mean for the USA? With Dan Wang
The Modern World Is Changing America’s Personality For the Worse
Keeping America's Auto Industry Running ft. Adam Ozimek
306. Walk a Viking battlefield and discover a forgotten turning point in English history - with Rupert Gavin
Edward Berenson, "Perfect Communities: Levitt, Levittown, and the Dream of White Suburbia" (Yale UP, 2025)
Annie Jacobsen on Nuclear War, Intelligence Operations, and Conspiracy Realities
Herman Pontzer – The Surprising Science of Human Diversity and Evolution
China is killing the US on energy. Does that mean they’ll win AGI? — Casey Handmer
Liz Truss (Former UK Prime Minister) on Politics and the Economy in the United Kingdom | Hoover Institution
Learning to Think Like Someone Else (with David Marquet)
America is losing big on sports betting
"Africa Is Not A Country" By Dipo Faloyin (Part II)
"Africa Is Not A Country" By Dipo Faloyin
The Light Withdrawn: Christopher Cox On How Woodrow Wilson Shaped—And Undermined—American Democracy | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
The Real-Life Russian Spies Who Inspired 'The Americans'
Power & terror: a history of the nuclear age
Dr Grace Spence Green - On Recovery, Disability, and Radical Acceptance
GENIUS MYTH: The Dangerous Allure of Rule-Breakers
Are Men & Women Scrolling Apart? John Burn-Murdoch
"The Achilles Trap" by Steve Coll
#960 - Dr Jerry Coyne - The Spiciest Ideas Of Evolutionary Biology
Thomas Sowell: Facts Against Rhetoric, Capitalism, Culture—and, Yes, the Tariffs | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
Emperor Titus
Helen Castor on Medieval Power and Personalities
Climate, Water, and the Origins of Colonialism ~ Tirthankar Roy
James Marriott on Reading
Revealing the Secret Architects of Capitalism, with Chris Hughes
Quico Toro on How to Save the Climate
David Engerman, "Apostles of Development: Six Economists and the World They Made" (Oxford UP and Penguin RandomHouse South Asia, 2025)
Xi Zhongxun's Second Act: 1949-1989
The False History of American Capitalism | Donald Boudreaux | Ep. 64
Barbara Demick with Jessica Bruder: Daughters of the Bamboo Grove
DEAN SPEARS thinks the depopulation of humanity will change the world forever
Tomas Pueyo - Uncharted Territories: From Physical Geography to AI
David Litt: "It's Only Drowning"
Talking War-onomics
Stephen Kotkin — How Stalin became the most powerful dictator in history
Mike Jay – Free Radicals – How A Group of Romantic Experimenters Gave Birth to Psychedelic Science
Episode 167: Joan C. Williams on How the Left Lost the Working Class
Xi Zhongxun: The Party's Interests Come First
On Ancient History and Our Shared Heritage: Interview with Professor Walter Scheidel
Manvir Singh: the shamanic roots of all religion
We're nearing 'peak population.' These economists are worried.
#962 - Lyman Stone - The Real Reason Birth Rates Are Falling
How the English took Manhattan
How Groupthink Protected Biden and Re-elected Trump
Stuart Ward, "Untied Kingdom: A Global History of the End of Britain" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
305: David Goodhart: Why the family matters
The Deceptive Power of Maps (with Paulina Rowinska)
Nicholas Borst, "The Bird and the Cage: China’s Economic Contradictions" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2025)