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- Lives Wasted and Well-Lived: David Wolpe on The Death of Ivan Ilyich
- The Great Fertility Collapse with Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde
- Addiction, Faith, and the Limits of Willpower with Meghan O'Gieblyn
- Public Choice and Politics Without Romance with Mike Munger
- The Death of Reading with James Marriott
- Incentives Are for Losers with Adam Mastroianni
- Meritocracy, Exams, and the Knowledge That Matters with Daisy Christodoulou
- Hamas and the Future of Gaza with Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib
- Are We Alone? Cosmic Loneliness and the Longing to Believe with Adam Kirsch
- The Hidden Cause of the Industrial Revolution with Ben Southwood
- Ben Sasse on Faith, Family, and Facing Death
- The Political Economy of Palestine with Hussein Aboubakr Mansour
- Savage Landscapes with Cal Flyn
- Dwayne Betts on the Iliad
- From Sawdust to Paw Patrol: The Spin Master Story with Ronnen Harary
- EconTalk Book Club on the Iliad with Ido Hevroni
- Do Less, Heal More: The Case for Medical Conservatism with John Mandrola
- Can a Phone Be a Cow? with Philip Auerswald
- The Case for Sunshine with Rowan Jacobsen
- The Self, the Crowd, and Social Contagion with Luke Burgis
- Making Your 80,000 Hours Count with Benjamin Todd
- Facing Death with Sebastian Junger
- Tom Cruise's Body of Work with Aled Maclean-Jones
- Thinking Inside the Box with David Epstein
- Golfing Alone with Gary Belsky
- Claude, War, and the State of the Republic with Dean Ball
- Adam Smith's Warning About Wealth, Fame, and Status with Ross Levine
- The Man Who Built NVIDIA with Stephen Witt
- The Unseen Work: Stewart Brand on Maintenance and Civilization with The Unseen Work: Stewart Brand
- AI, Employment, and Education with Tyler Cowen
- The Match That Lit the Flame: Hannah Senesh and the Creation of Modern Israel with Matti Friedman
- The Economics of Scarcity and the UNC-Duke Basketball Game with Michael Munger
- How We Tamed Ourselves and Invented Good and Evil with Hanno Sauer
- The Power of Introverts with Susan Cain
- The Man Who Would Be King of Saudi Arabia with Karen Elliott House
- Seiko, Swatch, and the Swiss Watch Industry with Aled Maclean-Jones
- A Military Analysis of Israel's War in Gaza with Andrew Fox
- How to Flourish with Daniel Coyle
- Zionism, the Melting Pot, and the Galveston Project with Rachel Cockerell
- Nature, Nurture, and Identical Twins with David Bessis
- The Mattering Instinct with Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
- Conversation, Interintellect, and Arcadia with Anna Gát
- In Defense of Intuition with Gerd Gigerenzer
- David Deutsch on the Pattern with David Deutsch
- Free Will Is Real with Kevin Mitchell
- Colonialism, Slavery, and Foreign Aid with William Easterly
- The Perfect Tuba: How Band, Grit, and Community Build a Better Life with Sam Quinones
- The Status Game with Will Storr
- The Wonder of the Emergent Mind with Gaurav Suri
- Shampoo, Property Rights, and Civilization with Anthony Gill
- Primal Intelligence with Angus Fletcher
- A Mind-Blowing Way of Looking at Math with David Bessis
- Twenty Years of Freakonomics with Stephen Dubner
- The Magic of Tokyo with Joe McReynolds
- The Invisible Hierarchies that Rule Our World with Toby Stuart
- Eating with Intelligence with Julia Belluz
- Steven Pinker on Common Knowledge with Steven Pinker
- How Did America Build the Arsenal of Democracy? with Brian Potter
- How Teams Succeed with Colin Fisher
- Humans Are Overrated with Christine Webb
- Hemingway, Love, and War with David Wyatt
- Tim Ferriss on Tim Ferriss (and much much more) with Tim Ferriss
- Learning to Think Like Someone Else with David Marquet
- Let Me Be Forgotten with Lowry Pressly
- Read Like a Champion with Doug Lemov
- James Marriott on Reading with James Marriott
- How to Walk the World with Chris Arnade
- What Is Capitalism? with Mike Munger
- The Deceptive Power of Maps with Paulina Rowinska
- How to Be a Super Ager with Eric Topol
- Leon Kass on the Wisdom of Rousseau with Leon Kass
- Two Cheers for Libertarianism and Econ 101 with Noah Smith
- EconTalk #1000 with Russ Roberts
- Nature vs. Nurture with Paul Bloom
- Inside the Mysterious World of Credit Cards with Patrick McKenzie
- The Past and Present of Privacy and Public Life with Tiffany Jenkins
- The Economics of Tariffs and Trade with Doug Irwin
- The Past and Future of AI with Dwarkesh Patel
- Why Christianity Needs to Help Save Democracy with Jonathan Rauch
- Rational and Religious with Ross Douthat
- The Music and Magic of John and Paul with Ian Leslie
- Do All Creatures, Great and Small, and Made From Silicon, Have Rights? with Jeff Sebo
- Bird Brains, Bird Sex, and All Kinds of Beauty with Matt Ridley
- How Better Feedback Can Revolutionize Education with Daisy Christodoulou
- Will Guidara on Unreasonable Hospitality with Will Guidara
- The Unusual World of Israeli Democracy with Rachel Gur
- The Struggle That Shaped the Middle East with James Barr
- Who Won the Socialist Calculation Debate with Peter Boettke
- Minimalists and Hoarders with Michael Easter
- Coase, the Rules of the Game, and the Costs of Perfection with Daisy Christodoulou
- Why AI Is Good for Humans with Reid Hoffman
- Weep, Shudder, Die: The Secret of Opera Revealed with Dana Gioia
- Will DOGE and Musk Make a Difference? with Michael Munger
- Understanding the Settler Colonialism Movement with Adam Kirsch
- The Power of Nuance: Lessons for Public Health with Emily Oster
- Fixing Sick Cities with Alain Bertaud
- Is This War With Lebanon Different? with Matti Friedman
- Why Industrial Policy Is (Almost) Always a Bad Idea with Scott Sumner
- Translating Life and Fate with Robert Chandler
- Tyler Cowen on Life and Fate with Tyler Cowen