Conversations with Tyler

Education Podcasts

Tyler Cowen engages today's deepest thinkers in wide-ranging explorations of their work, the world, and everything in between. New conversations every other Wednesday. Subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.

Episodes

Jared Diamond on Leaders, Luck, and Irreplaceability

Michael Moritz on Origin Stories, Exile, and Obsessive Curiosity

Luke Burgis on Mimetic Desire, Catholicism, and the Age of Social Contagion

Daron Acemoglu on Liberalism, Automation, and the Educated Elite

Julia Ioffe on Russian Women, Missing Men, and the Roots of Autocracy

Andrew Graham-Dixon on Vermeer, a Forgotten Sect, and Underrated Artists

Chase Koch on Principles, Music, and Overcoming Entropy

Joel Mokyr on Clans, Corporations, and a Culture of Growth

Joanne Paul on Thomas More and the Tudor World

Dave Baszucki on Roblox, Teen Entrepreneurs, and the Future of Play

Katja Hoyer on Weimar, the GDR, and the German Character

Toby Wilkinson on Ptolemaic Egypt and the First Great Commercial Civilization

Bob Spitz on the Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen, and the Art of Biography

Craig Newmark on Institutional Maintenance, Giving Away Control, and the Internet We Were Promised (Live at 92NY)

Kim Bowes on the Economic Lives of Rome's Ninety Percent

Arthur Brooks on Reinvention, Religion, and the Science of Happiness

Paul Gillingham on Why Mexico Stays Together

Harvey Mansfield on Machiavelli, Straussianism, and the Character of Liberal Democracy

Henry Oliver on Measure for Measure, Late Bloomers, and the Smartest Writers in English

Joe Studwell on Africa, Asia, and What Development Actually Requires