Tyler Cowen engages today’s deepest thinkers in wide-ranging explorations of their work, the world,
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
A former war correspondent and UN ambassador, Samantha Power has had her share of tough assignments.
As a graduate student, Hollis Robbins helped Henry Louis Gates, Jr. unravel a mystery about the prov
What sort of country would compel you to flee it, draw you back ten years later, then force you away
Born to a Ghanaian father and British mother, Kwame Anthony Appiah grew up splitting time between bo
If you want to speculate on the development of tech, no one has a better brain to pick than Neal Ste
Going back and forth between Canada and Japan during his childhood sparked Eric Kaufmann’s interest
Before he became the Adam Smith of Googlenomics, Hal Varian spent decades as an academic economist,
What are the virtues of forgiveness? Are we subject to being manipulated by data? Why do people stru
Ezekiel Emanuel is a reflection of his upbringing: a doctor for a father who loved to travel, a moth
What is Karl Ove Knausgård’s struggle, exactly? The answer is simple: achieving total freedom in his
Margaret Atwood defines the Canadian sense of humor as “a bit Scottish,” and in this live conversati
Ed Boyden builds the tools and technologies that help researchers think about and treat the brain, a
In a recent Twitter thread, Emily Wilson listed some of the difficulties of translating Homer into E
Raghuram Rajan thinks a lot about how to empower individuals, both at the community and internationa
