Conversations with Tyler

Tyler Cowen engages today’s deepest thinkers in wide-ranging explorations of their work, the world,

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When Tyler requested an interview with novelist Emily St. John Mandel, he didn’t expect that reality

For Ross Douthat, decadence isn’t necessarily a moral judgement, but a technical label for a state t

Tyler and Russ Roberts joined forces for a special livestreamed conversation on COVID-19, including

Who can you ask about the Great American Songbook, the finer Jell-O flavors, and peculiar languages

Why is Garett Jones willing to write books about risky topics like the case for reducing democratic

To Tim Harford, mistakes are fascinating. “We often only understand how something works when it brea

In his new book, Ezra Klein argues that polarization in America has become centered on partisan poli

When Reid Hoffman creates a handle for some new network or system, his usual choice is “Quixotic.”

This bonus episode features audio from the Holberg Debate in Bergen, Norway between Tyler and Slav

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What determines the economic, social, and political trajectories of nations? Why were settlers in co

Over the past year Mark Zuckerberg has held a series of interviews themed around technology and soci

How do you survive seven years in solitary confinement? The gift of literacy is what saved Shaka Sen

Three years after her first appearance, Chinese food expert Fuchsia Dunlop joins Tyler to celebrate

To Ted Gioia, music is a form of cloud storage for preserving human culture. And the real cultural c

The one concept most valuable for understanding the news today might be Henry Farrell’s theory of we

Ben Westhoff has written some of Tyler’s favorite books on everything from dive bars to the evolutio

Markets, Alain Bertaud likes to say, are like gravity: they exist everywhere. But while urban planne