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Megan McArdle on Belonging, Home, and National Identity

Dec 27 2021

Deciding How to Decide

Dec 26 2021

Michael Munger on Constitutions

Dec 20 2021

Frank Rose on Internet Narratives

Dec 13 2021

Michael Faye and Paul Niehaus on GiveDirectly

Dec 6 2021

Nina Kraus on Hearing, Noise, and Of Sound Mind

Nov 29 2021

Violence, Our Brains, and Our Darkest Selves

Nov 26 2021

Eric Jacobus on the Art and Science of Violence

Nov 22 2021

Deliberate Parenting: Going Full Emily

Nov 19 2021

Emily Oster on the Family Firm

Nov 15 2021

Your Favorite Episodes of 2020

Nov 8 2021

Sandra Faber on the Future of the Earth

Nov 8 2021

Is the Examined Life REALLY Worth Living?

Nov 6 2021

Jennifer Frey on Education, Philosophy, and the University

Nov 1 2021

The Sequence of Suffering

Oct 28 2021

Paul Bloom on Happiness, Suffering, and the Sweet Spot

Oct 25 2021

How to Train Your Truffle Dog

Oct 22 2021

Rowan Jacobsen on Truffle Hound

Oct 18 2021

Sam Quinones on Meth, Fentanyl, and the Least of Us

Oct 11 2021

Bring Back Shame and Blame

Oct 10 2021

Arnold Kling on Reforming Government and Expertise

Oct 4 2021

Noreena Hertz on the Lonely Century

Sep 27 2021

"You tell me the rules and I'll tell you what outcomes to expect."

Sep 25 2021

David Henderson on the Essential UCLA School of Economics

Sep 20 2021

The OCTOPEST Oracle

Sep 18 2021

Glen Weyl on Antitrust, Capitalism, and Radical Reform

Sep 13 2021

An Epidemic of Loneliness

Sep 10 2021

Johann Hari on Lost Connections

Sep 6 2021

What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?

Sep 3 2021

Bret Devereaux on Ancient Greece and Rome

Aug 30 2021

Who Gets What and Why?

Aug 25 2021

Michael Heller and James Salzman on Mine!

Aug 23 2021

Friedman Samuelson: The Frenemies

Aug 20 2021

Nicholas Wapshott on Samuelson and Friedman

Aug 16 2021

Most of the People, Most of the Time

Aug 13 2021

Michael Munger on Free Markets

Aug 9 2021

Incentives, Institutions, and the Marketplace for Ideas

Aug 3 2021

Jonathan Rauch on the Constitution of Knowledge

Aug 2 2021

Skill Sets and Social Immobility

Jul 30 2021

James Heckman on Inequality and Economic Mobility

Jul 26 2021

Metaphorical Crouching Tigers

Jul 24 2021

Michael Easter on the Comfort Crisis

Jul 19 2021

A Perfect Storm

Jul 13 2021

Don Boudreaux on the Pandemic

Jul 12 2021

Claudia Hauer on War, Education, and Strategic Humanism

Jul 5 2021

Running, Fighting, and Thinking for Freedom

Jul 3 2021

Reading a Titan: Russ Roberts' Books

Jun 29 2021

Sebastian Junger on Freedom

Jun 28 2021

Anja Shortland on Lost Art

Jun 21 2021

Free Parking

Jun 18 2021

Donald Shoup on the Economics of Parking

Jun 14 2021

Ian Leslie on Conflicted

Jun 7 2021

Is the American Dream Dead? It's complicated.

Jun 4 2021

Bruce Meyer on Poverty

May 31 2021

There are no Solutions, only Trade-offs.

May 27 2021

Jason Riley on Race in America

May 24 2021

Hold Your Identity Loosely, Soldier

May 20 2021

Julia Galef on the Scout Mindset

May 17 2021

Is "provocative" a compliment?

May 12 2021

Agnes Callard on Anger

May 10 2021

How to Change: Just Do It?

May 6 2021

Katy Milkman on How to Change

May 3 2021

American Hazing

May 1 2021

Roya Hakakian on A Beginner's Guide to America

Apr 26 2021

Dignity Not Included

Apr 21 2021

Mark Rank on Poverty and Poorly Understood

Apr 19 2021

C'mon Get Happy!

Apr 18 2021

Emiliana Simon-Thomas on Happiness

Apr 12 2021

Spend More and Be Quick

Apr 8 2021

Tyler Cowen on the Pandemic, Revisited

Apr 5 2021

There's No Such Thing as a Free Education

Apr 3 2021

Max Kenner on Crime, Education, and the Bard Prison Initiative

Mar 29 2021

We're Always Fighting the Last War

Mar 27 2021

Megan McArdle on Catastrophes and the Pandemic

Mar 22 2021

Sherry Turkle on Family, Artificial Intelligence, and the Empathy Diaries

Mar 15 2021

Seeking True Happiness? Get to Work.

Mar 11 2021

Leon Kass on Human Flourishing, Living Well, and Aristotle

Mar 8 2021

What Ought You to Will?

Mar 4 2021

Michael Munger on Desires, Morality, and Self-Interest

Mar 1 2021

John Cochrane on the Pandemic

Feb 22 2021

What Literature Wants (to get in your kishkes)

Feb 17 2021

Dana Gioia on Learning, Poetry, and Studying with Miss Bishop

Feb 15 2021

Keep the gear wet, never miss a tow.

Feb 11 2021

Lamorna Ash on Dark, Salt, Clear

Feb 8 2021

Why Do We Do Unto Others?

Feb 4 2021

Michael McCullough on the Kindness of Strangers

Feb 1 2021

To Learn to Desire to Learn: On Shakespeare and Education

Jan 31 2021

Scott Newstok on How to Think Like Shakespeare

Jan 25 2021

Was Osama Bin Laden an Entrepreneur?

Jan 23 2021

Gary Shiffman on the Economics of Violence

Jan 18 2021

Economics and Freedom: Not a Math Problem

Jan 14 2021

Don Boudreaux on Buchanan

Jan 11 2021

Dispatch from the #BigTech Barricades

Jan 7 2021

Matthew Crawford on Why We Drive

Jan 4 2021

Are You Kidding???

Jan 3 2021