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Why Industrial Policy Is (Almost) Always a Bad Idea (with Scott Sumner)

Dec 9 2024

Translating Life and Fate (with Robert Chandler)

Dec 2 2024

Puzzling About Prices (and Popcorn)

Nov 27 2024

Tyler Cowen on Life and Fate

Nov 25 2024

Terrorism, Israel, and Dreams of Peace (with Haviv Rettig Gur)

Nov 18 2024

Who Needs Miracles? On Nature and the Miraculous (with Alan Lightman)

Nov 11 2024

Give Away a Kidney? Are You Crazy? (with filmmaker Penny Lane)

Nov 4 2024

Bearing Witness to War

Nov 1 2024

Susan Cain on Bittersweet and the Happiness of Melancholy

Oct 28 2024

The Good Old Days Weren't So Great

Oct 26 2024

Why Housing Is Artificially Expensive and What Can Be Done About It (with Bryan Caplan)

Oct 21 2024

Why DON'T We Talk About Bruno?

Oct 17 2024

Misinformation and the Three Languages of Politics (with Arnold Kling)

Oct 14 2024

Reclaiming Tribalism (with Michael Morris)

Oct 7 2024

Real-Life Economics: Rational or Complex?

Oct 4 2024

The Underrated Bruno Leoni (with Michael Munger)

Sep 30 2024

The Mysterious World of Owls (with Jennifer Ackerman)

Sep 23 2024

Be AWED by Childhood

Sep 20 2024

What Modern Medicine Gets Wrong (with Marty Makary)

Sep 16 2024

Is Israel Winning the War in Gaza? (with Andrew Fox)

Sep 9 2024

The Problems of Boys and Men in Today's America (with Richard Reeves)

Sep 2 2024

Chaos and Complexity Economics (with J. Doyne Farmer)

Aug 26 2024

Algorithmic Education

Aug 21 2024

What's Happening Inside Your Doctor's Head and Heart (with Adam Cifu)

Aug 19 2024

Think Different, Act Together

Aug 14 2024

How Do You Capture the Tragedy of War? (with Sabin Howard)

Aug 12 2024

Reading a Love Letter to Justice

Aug 7 2024

The Ever-Present Challenge of Escaping Poverty (with Noah Smith)

Aug 5 2024

Artificial Intelligence and the Man of System

Jul 31 2024

Sam Harris on Jew-Hatred, Radical Islam, and the West

Jul 29 2024

Bureaucracy Without Romance

Jul 24 2024

Does Parenting Make You a Better Person? (with Erik Hoel)

Jul 22 2024

Lessons from Lincoln, Then and Now (with Diana Schaub)

Jul 15 2024

Reading, Writing, and Fighting (with Mark Helprin)

Jul 8 2024

Thinking About Thinking

Jul 2 2024

Is Israel Occupying the West Bank? (with Eugene Kontorovich)

Jul 1 2024

René Girard, Mimesis, and Conflict (with Cynthia Haven)

Jun 24 2024

Does Market Failure Justify Government Intervention? (with Michael Munger)

Jun 17 2024

Let the Poems Out of the House

Jun 13 2024

Gemini, We Have a Bias

Jun 12 2024

How the Constitution Can Bring Us Together (with Yuval Levin)

Jun 10 2024

Injustice and the "Letter from Birmingham Jail" (with Dwayne Betts)

Jun 3 2024

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of the Covid Vaccine (with Vinay Prasad)

May 27 2024

Space Age Utopianism

May 22 2024

Purpose, Pleasure, and Meaning in a World Without Work (with Nicholas Bostrom)

May 20 2024

Slow Down and THINK

May 16 2024

Glenn Loury Tells All

May 13 2024

Living with the Constitution (with A.J. Jacobs)

May 6 2024

The Top EconTalk Conversations of 2023 (with Russ Roberts)

Apr 29 2024

Would you automate your conscience if you could?

Apr 23 2024

Seeking Immortality (with Paul Bloom)

Apr 22 2024

When Prediction Is Not Enough (with Teppo Felin)

Apr 15 2024

Rituals Without Religion (with Michael Norton)

Apr 8 2024

A User's Guide to Our Emotional Thermostat (with Adam Mastroianni)

Apr 1 2024

What Does "Unbiased" Mean in the Digital World? (with Megan McArdle)

Mar 25 2024

Listening, Looping, Learning

Mar 22 2024

Voices from Gaza (with Ahmed Alkhatib)

Mar 18 2024

Industrialization > Imperialism

Mar 13 2024

Living with Exponential Change (with Azeem Azhar)

Mar 11 2024

How to Avoid Lying With Statistics (with Jeremy Weber)

Mar 4 2024

The Secrets of Great Conversation (with Charles Duhigg)

Feb 26 2024

A Lively Debate on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (with Robert Wright)

Feb 19 2024

Lessons from a Zero Sum Game

Feb 15 2024

Year Zero of the Arab-Israeli Conflict (with Hillel Cohen)

Feb 12 2024

Should Israel Depend on the US? (with Michael Oren)

Feb 5 2024

What Palestinians Are Thinking (with Dahlia Scheindlin)

Jan 29 2024

Tales of a Heterodox Conservative

Jan 24 2024

If Life Is Random, Is It Meaningless? (with Brian Klaas)

Jan 22 2024

Can a Nation Plunder Its Way to Wealth (with Noah Smith)

Jan 15 2024

Capitalism, Cartels, and Unintended Consequences

Jan 10 2024

The Challenge of Covering the Most Important Story on Earth (with Matti Friedman)

Jan 8 2024

Snacks, Social Media, and Slot Machines

Jan 5 2024

Flourishing in the Future

Jan 3 2024

From the Second Intifada to October 7th (with Daniel Gordis)

Jan 1 2024