Can a Nation Plunder Its Way to Wealth (with Noah Smith)
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Niall Ferguson on Free Speech and Kissinger’s Role in the Middle East
How can we create a radically different atmosphere at American universities? Easy, says historian Niall…
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Yossi Klein Halevi on the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
In 2018, author Yossi Klein Halevi wanted Palestinians to understand his story of how Israel…
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Bret Devereaux on Ancient Greece and Rome
Historian Bret Devereaux of the University of North Carolina talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts…
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Andrew Roberts on Churchill and the Craft of Biography
Historian Andrew Roberts talks about the life of Winston Churchill and the art of biography…
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Jessica Riskin on Life, Machinery, and the Restless Clock
Historian Jessica Riskin of Stanford University talks about her book The Restless Clock with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. What is…
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Stephen Kotkin on Solzhenitsyn
Historian and author Stephen Kotkin of Princeton University and Stanford University’s Hoover Institution talks with EconTalk host Russ…
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Kevin McKenna on Characters, Plot, and Themes of In the First Circle
Russian Literature Professor Kevin McKenna of the University of Vermont talks with EconTalk host Russ…
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Russian Literature Professor Kevin McKenna of the University of Vermont talks with EconTalk host Russ…
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Yoram Hazony discusses his book, The Virtue of Nationalism, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Hazony…
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