Conversations with Tyler

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

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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

Founders aren’t superheroes, says Sam Altman.They may play extreme sports, respond to emails within

Jordan Peterson joins Tyler to discuss collecting Soviet propaganda, why he’s so drawn to Jung, what

How did religious freedom emerge — and why did it arrive so late? In their forthcoming book, fellow

As a writer of profiles, Larissa MacFarquhar is granted the privilege of listening to, learning from

Before she ever studied them as an academic, Rebecca Kukla was fascinated by cities. Growing up in t

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