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Why are refugees more likely to be entrepreneurs?
China's Economy is Broken | Logan Wright
The One Word That Explains Progress
Matthew Sweet: The Great Dictator
Is it bad to want to be rich?
The Bitter Rivalries Behind the Race to Build Superintelligence
Vanilla: a far from ordinary history
How Do Humans Fit into the Story of Life? ~ Jonathan Loh
Inside DOGE: Reforming US Government Spending From The Inside With Tyler Hassen| Hoover Institution
Did World War II Actually Make the U.S. Economy More Productive? | Alexander J. Field with Javier Mejia
Willpower Expert: The Secret To Effortless Discipline - Angela Duckworth - #1158
Addiction, Faith, and the Limits of Willpower (with Meghan O'Gieblyn)
Bernie’s Journey
Brian Harrison - Yesterday: The United Kingdom from Thatcher to Covid ...with TRE's Giles Brown
Incentives Always Beat Intentions
John Sellars: Stoicism Is Not What You Think
Mehran Gul, "The New Geography of Innovation: The Global Contest for Breakthrough Technologies" (Simon and Schuster, 2026)
Joshua Specht, "Property Values: The Rise and Fall of the American Homeowner" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Episode 72: Anand Gopal
TIP846: Stock Picker: How to Live Off Your Portfolio w/ Ian Cassel
1453: The Catastrophe That Ended Rome
631: How Elon Musk Thinks (with Charles Steel)
Why Congress Protects Car Dealers More Than Elon Musk - ft. Eric Zwick
Why Self-Worth Predicts Your Income More Than Your SAT Score Does, with Marisa Franco
Arthur der Weduwen, "The Last Invasion of England: 1688 and the Dutch Armada" (Princeton UP, 2026)
Tim Marshall | 'Despite It All... We Remain Prisoners Of Geography'
683. A Woman’s Economic Toolkit for a Happier Life with Corinne Low
The cultural evolution of your face
Michael Moritz - Lessons From 40 Years of Investing and Writing - [Invest Like the Best, EP.491]
Dr. Christopher Choukalas Interview Episode 725
Anand Gopal: Days of Love and Rage
The End of the Nation State?
Jared Diamond on Leaders, Luck, and Irreplaceability
The Steppe Origins of Russian Imperialism - with Michael Khodarkovsky
The New Book That Scares Big Tech
Fuchsia Dunlop: Five Tastes, Chinese Cooking, Flavour and Balance
How French Philosophy Wired Modern Thinking
Nicholas Boggs on BALDWIN: A LOVE STORY
The downside of safe havens for drug users
Why Freedom Failed in Syria
Andy Burnham’s theory of power
Episode 158 - Gloria Steinem
A short history of the innovations that have shaped human progress
161 | W. Brian Arthur on Complexity Economics
Michael Khodarkovsky, "Russia's 20th Century: A Journey in 100 Histories" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)
Shelly Lundberg "How Economics Discovered Women: Bringing Gender Economics into the Twenty-First Century" (U California Press, 2026)
After Words: A Woman's-Eye View of the Revolutionary Era
This Is Why People Hate the Government
What Can We Learn from Estonia?
Claudia Kreklau, "The Making of Modern Eating: How the German Middle Class Forged the Way We Eat, 1780–1910" (Berghahn, 2026)
The Book Club: Simon Sebag Montefiore – The Cauldron
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
Spain vs Portugal: The Spice Race