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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"
Confucius and Women, with Erin Cline
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
Terence Tao – Kepler, Newton, and the true nature of mathematical discovery
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
Why Leonardo was a saboteur, Gutenberg went broke, and Florence was weird – Ada Palmer
“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)
“Everybody Loses” by Danny Funt
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
Ruixue Jia et al., "The Highest Exam: How the Gaokao Shapes China" (Harvard UP, 2025)
#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
On Liberty
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
How do you solve a problem like Napoleon?
Jill Eicher - Mellon vs. Churchill: The Untold Story of Treasury Titans at War