1020 Episodes

  1. Free Will Is Real (with Kevin Mitchell)

    Published: 12/15/2025

  2. Colonialism, Slavery, and Foreign Aid (with William Easterly)

    Published: 12/8/2025

  3. The Perfect Tuba: How Band, Grit, and Community Build a Better Life (with Sam Quinones)

    Published: 12/1/2025

  4. The Status Game (with Will Storr)

    Published: 11/24/2025

  5. The Wonder of the Emergent Mind (with Gaurav Suri)

    Published: 11/17/2025

  6. Shampoo, Property Rights, and Civilization (with Anthony Gill)

    Published: 11/10/2025

  7. Primal Intelligence (with Angus Fletcher)

    Published: 11/3/2025

  8. A Mind-Blowing Way of Looking at Math (with David Bessis)

    Published: 10/27/2025

  9. Twenty Years of Freakonomics (with Stephen Dubner)

    Published: 10/20/2025

  10. The Magic of Tokyo (with Joe McReynolds)

    Published: 10/13/2025

  11. The Invisible Hierarchies that Rule Our World (with Toby Stuart)

    Published: 10/6/2025

  12. Eating with Intelligence (with Julia Belluz)

    Published: 9/29/2025

  13. Steven Pinker on Common Knowledge

    Published: 9/22/2025

  14. How Did America Build the Arsenal of Democracy? (with Brian Potter)

    Published: 9/15/2025

  15. How Teams Succeed (with Colin Fisher)

    Published: 9/8/2025

  16. Humans Are Overrated (with Christine Webb)

    Published: 9/1/2025

  17. Hemingway, Love, and War (with David Wyatt)

    Published: 8/25/2025

  18. Tim Ferriss on Tim Ferriss (and much much more)

    Published: 8/18/2025

  19. Learning to Think Like Someone Else (with David Marquet)

    Published: 8/11/2025

  20. Let Me Be Forgotten (with Lowry Pressly)

    Published: 8/4/2025

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