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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
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
TOP RATED | 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