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Russ Roberts

EconTalk: Conversations for the Curious is an award-winning weekly podcast hosted by Russ Roberts of Shalem College in Jerusalem and Stanford's Hoover Institution. The eclectic guest list includes authors, doctors, psychologists,…

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Are We Alone? Cosmic Loneliness and the Longing to Believe (with Adam Kirsch) 2026-08-24 · 72m Read →
The Hidden Cause of the Industrial Revolution (with Ben Southwood) 2026-08-17 · 74m
Ben Sasse on Faith, Family, and Facing Death 2026-08-10 · 81m
The Political Economy of Palestine (with Hussein Aboubakr Mansour) 2026-08-03 · 88m
Savage Landscapes (with Cal Flyn) 2026-07-27 · 62m
Dwayne Betts on the Iliad 2026-07-20 · 89m
From Sawdust to Paw Patrol: The Spin Master Story (with Ronnen Harary) 2026-07-13 · 69m
EconTalk Book Club on the Iliad (with Ido Hevroni) 2026-07-06 · 70m
Do Less, Heal More: The Case for Medical Conservatism (with John Mandrola) 2026-06-29 · 60m
Can a Phone Be a Cow? (with Philip Auerswald) 2026-06-22 · 80m
The Case for Sunshine (with Rowan Jacobsen) 2026-06-15 · 66m
The Self, the Crowd, and Social Contagion (with Luke Burgis) 2026-06-08 · 71m
Making Your 80,000 Hours Count (with Benjamin Todd) 2026-06-01 · 67m
Facing Death (with Sebastian Junger) 2026-05-25 · 67m
Tom Cruise's Body of Work (with Aled Maclean-Jones) 2026-05-18 · 68m
Thinking Inside the Box (with David Epstein) 2026-05-11 · 71m
Golfing Alone (with Gary Belsky) 2026-05-04 · 60m
Claude, War, and the State of the Republic (with Dean Ball) 2026-04-27 · 77m
Adam Smith's Warning About Wealth, Fame, and Status (with Ross Levine) 2026-04-20 · 64m
The Man Who Built NVIDIA (with Stephen Witt) 2026-04-13 · 64m
The Unseen Work: Stewart Brand on Maintenance and Civilization 2026-04-06 · 87m
AI, Employment, and Education (with Tyler Cowen) 2026-03-30 · 62m
The Match That Lit the Flame: Hannah Senesh and the Creation of Modern Israel (with Matti Friedman) 2026-03-23 · 70m
The Economics of Scarcity and the UNC-Duke Basketball Game (with Michael Munger) 2026-03-16 · 66m
How We Tamed Ourselves and Invented Good and Evil (with Hanno Sauer) 2026-03-09 · 74m
The Power of Introverts (with Susan Cain) 2026-03-02 · 68m
The Man Who Would Be King of Saudi Arabia (with Karen Elliott House) 2026-02-23 · 77m
Seiko, Swatch, and the Swiss Watch Industry (with Aled Maclean-Jones) 2026-02-16 · 61m
A Military Analysis of Israel's War in Gaza (with Andrew Fox) 2026-02-09 · 68m
How to Flourish (with Daniel Coyle) 2026-02-02 · 75m
Zionism, the Melting Pot, and the Galveston Project (with Rachel Cockerell) 2026-01-26 · 67m
Nature, Nurture, and Identical Twins (with David Bessis) 2026-01-19 · 65m
The Mattering Instinct (with Rebecca Newberger Goldstein) 2026-01-12 · 65m
Conversation, Interintellect, and Arcadia (with Anna Gat) 2026-01-05 · 82m
In Defense of Intuition (with Gerd Gigerenzer) 2025-12-29 · 58m
David Deutsch on the Pattern 2025-12-22 · 86m
Free Will Is Real (with Kevin Mitchell) 2025-12-15 · 92m
Colonialism, Slavery, and Foreign Aid (with William Easterly) 2025-12-08 · 64m
The Perfect Tuba: How Band, Grit, and Community Build a Better Life (with Sam Quinones) 2025-12-01 · 61m
The Status Game (with Will Storr) 2025-11-24 · 61m
The Wonder of the Emergent Mind (with Gaurav Suri) 2025-11-17 · 100m
Shampoo, Property Rights, and Civilization (with Anthony Gill) 2025-11-10 · 68m
Primal Intelligence (with Angus Fletcher) 2025-11-03 · 81m
A Mind-Blowing Way of Looking at Math (with David Bessis) 2025-10-27 · 82m
Twenty Years of Freakonomics (with Stephen Dubner) 2025-10-20 · 103m
The Magic of Tokyo (with Joe McReynolds) 2025-10-13 · 69m
The Invisible Hierarchies that Rule Our World (with Toby Stuart) 2025-10-06 · 73m
Eating with Intelligence (with Julia Belluz) 2025-09-29 · 66m
Steven Pinker on Common Knowledge 2025-09-22 · 83m
How Did America Build the Arsenal of Democracy? (with Brian Potter) 2025-09-15 · 65m
How Teams Succeed (with Colin Fisher) 2025-09-08 · 63m
Humans Are Overrated (with Christine Webb) 2025-09-01 · 71m
Hemingway, Love, and War (with David Wyatt) 2025-08-25 · 66m
Tim Ferriss on Tim Ferriss (and much much more) 2025-08-18 · 127m
Learning to Think Like Someone Else (with David Marquet) 2025-08-11 · 64m
Let Me Be Forgotten (with Lowry Pressly) 2025-08-04 · 81m
Read Like a Champion (with Doug Lemov) 2025-07-28 · 64m
James Marriott on Reading 2025-07-21 · 85m
How to Walk the World (with Chris Arnade) 2025-07-14 · 75m
What Is Capitalism? (with Mike Munger) 2025-07-07 · 80m
The Deceptive Power of Maps (with Paulina Rowinska) 2025-06-30 · 69m
How to Be a Super Ager (with Eric Topol) 2025-06-23 · 61m
Leon Kass on the Wisdom of Rousseau 2025-06-16 · 77m
Two Cheers for Libertarianism and Econ 101 (with Noah Smith) 2025-06-09 · 82m
EconTalk #1000 (with Russ Roberts) 2025-06-02 · 69m
Nature vs. Nurture (with Paul Bloom) 2025-05-26 · 68m
Inside the Mysterious World of Credit Cards (with Patrick McKenzie) 2025-05-19 · 75m
The Past and Present of Privacy and Public Life (with Tiffany Jenkins) 2025-05-12 · 83m
The Economics of Tariffs and Trade (with Doug Irwin) 2025-05-05 · 93m
The Past and Future of AI (with Dwarkesh Patel) 2025-04-28 · 97m
Why Christianity Needs to Help Save Democracy (with Jonathan Rauch) 2025-04-21 · 80m
Rational and Religious (with Ross Douthat) 2025-04-14 · 78m
The Music and Magic of John and Paul (with Ian Leslie) 2025-04-07 · 78m
Do All Creatures, Great and Small, and Made From Silicon, Have Rights? (with Jeff Sebo) 2025-03-31 · 76m
Bird Brains, Bird Sex, and All Kinds of Beauty (with Matt Ridley) 2025-03-24 · 77m
How Better Feedback Can Revolutionize Education (with Daisy Christodoulou) 2025-03-17 · 88m
Will Guidara on Unreasonable Hospitality 2025-03-10 · 58m
The Unusual World of Israeli Democracy (with Rachel Gur) 2025-03-03 · 69m
The Struggle That Shaped the Middle East (with James Barr) 2025-02-24 · 78m
Who Won the Socialist Calculation Debate (with Peter Boettke) 2025-02-17 · 81m
Minimalists and Hoarders (with Michael Easter) 2025-02-10 · 55m
Coase, the Rules of the Game, and the Costs of Perfection (with Daisy Christodoulou) 2025-02-03 · 70m
Why AI Is Good for Humans (with Reid Hoffman) 2025-01-27 · 81m
Weep, Shudder, Die: The Secret of Opera Revealed (with Dana Gioia) 2025-01-20 · 79m
Will DOGE and Musk Make a Difference? (with Michael Munger) 2025-01-13 · 64m
Understanding the Settler Colonialism Movement (with Adam Kirsch) 2025-01-06 · 59m
The Power of Nuance: Lessons for Public Health (with Emily Oster) 2024-12-30 · 56m
Fixing Sick Cities (with Alain Bertaud) 2024-12-23 · 71m
Is This War With Lebanon Different? (with Matti Friedman) 2024-12-16 · 70m
Why Industrial Policy Is (Almost) Always a Bad Idea (with Scott Sumner) 2024-12-09 · 89m
Translating Life and Fate (with Robert Chandler) 2024-12-02 · 78m
Tyler Cowen on Life and Fate 2024-11-25 · 68m
Terrorism, Israel, and Dreams of Peace (with Haviv Rettig Gur) 2024-11-18 · 126m
Who Needs Miracles? On Nature and the Miraculous (with Alan Lightman) 2024-11-11 · 70m
Give Away a Kidney? Are You Crazy? (with filmmaker Penny Lane) 2024-11-04 · 82m
Susan Cain on Bittersweet and the Happiness of Melancholy 2024-10-28 · 65m
Why Housing Is Artificially Expensive and What Can Be Done About It (with Bryan Caplan) 2024-10-21 · 66m
Misinformation and the Three Languages of Politics (with Arnold Kling) 2024-10-14 · 62m
Reclaiming Tribalism (with Michael Morris) 2024-10-07 · 82m
The Underrated Bruno Leoni (with Michael Munger) 2024-09-30 · 78m
The Mysterious World of Owls (with Jennifer Ackerman) 2024-09-23 · 66m
What Modern Medicine Gets Wrong (with Marty Makary) 2024-09-16 · 74m
Is Israel Winning the War in Gaza? (with Andrew Fox) 2024-09-09 · 71m
The Problems of Boys and Men in Today's America (with Richard Reeves) 2024-09-02 · 73m
Chaos and Complexity Economics (with J. Doyne Farmer) 2024-08-26 · 65m
What's Happening Inside Your Doctor's Head and Heart (with Adam Cifu) 2024-08-19 · 63m
How Do You Capture the Tragedy of War? (with Sabin Howard) 2024-08-12 · 69m
The Ever-Present Challenge of Escaping Poverty (with Noah Smith) 2024-08-05 · 63m
Sam Harris on Jew-Hatred, Radical Islam, and the West 2024-07-29 · 118m
Does Parenting Make You a Better Person? (with Erik Hoel) 2024-07-22 · 84m
Lessons from Lincoln, Then and Now (with Diana Schaub) 2024-07-15 · 94m
Reading, Writing, and Fighting (with Mark Helprin) 2024-07-08 · 94m
Is Israel Occupying the West Bank? (with Eugene Kontorovich) 2024-07-01 · 66m
René Girard, Mimesis, and Conflict (with Cynthia Haven) 2024-06-24 · 54m
Does Market Failure Justify Government Intervention? (with Michael Munger) 2024-06-17 · 68m
How the Constitution Can Bring Us Together (with Yuval Levin) 2024-06-10 · 63m
Injustice and the "Letter from Birmingham Jail" (with Dwayne Betts) 2024-06-03 · 64m
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of the Covid Vaccine (with Vinay Prasad) 2024-05-27 · 88m
Purpose, Pleasure, and Meaning in a World Without Work (with Nicholas Bostrom) 2024-05-20 · 77m
Glenn Loury Tells All 2024-05-13 · 90m
Living with the Constitution (with A.J. Jacobs) 2024-05-06 · 69m
The Top EconTalk Conversations of 2023 (with Russ Roberts) 2024-04-29 · 42m
Seeking Immortality (with Paul Bloom) 2024-04-22 · 74m
When Prediction Is Not Enough (with Teppo Felin) 2024-04-15 · 67m
Rituals Without Religion (with Michael Norton) 2024-04-08 · 61m
A User's Guide to Our Emotional Thermostat (with Adam Mastroianni) 2024-04-01 · 63m
What Does "Unbiased" Mean in the Digital World? (with Megan McArdle) 2024-03-25 · 72m
Voices from Gaza (with Ahmed Alkhatib) 2024-03-18 · 73m
Living with Exponential Change (with Azeem Azhar) 2024-03-11 · 74m
How to Avoid Lying With Statistics (with Jeremy Weber) 2024-03-04 · 73m
The Secrets of Great Conversation (with Charles Duhigg) 2024-02-26 · 83m
A Lively Debate on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (with Robert Wright) 2024-02-19 · 107m
Year Zero of the Arab-Israeli Conflict (with Hillel Cohen) 2024-02-12 · 68m
Should Israel Depend on the US? (with Michael Oren) 2024-02-05 · 74m
What Palestinians Are Thinking (with Dahlia Scheindlin) 2024-01-29 · 66m
If Life Is Random, Is It Meaningless? (with Brian Klaas) 2024-01-22 · 60m
Can a Nation Plunder Its Way to Wealth (with Noah Smith) 2024-01-15 · 70m
The Challenge of Covering the Most Important Story on Earth (with Matti Friedman) 2024-01-08 · 75m
From the Second Intifada to October 7th (with Daniel Gordis) 2024-01-01 · 65m
Can Artificial Intelligence Be Moral? (with Paul Bloom) 2023-12-25 · 63m
An Extraordinary Introduction to the Birth of Israel and the Arab-Israeli Conflict (with Haviv Rettig Gur) 2023-12-18 · 101m
Niall Ferguson on Free Speech and Kissinger's Role in the Middle East 2023-12-11 · 66m
Yossi Klein Halevi on the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict 2023-12-04 · 68m
Tyler Cowen on the GOAT of Economics 2023-11-27 · 95m
Andrew McAfee on the Geek Way 2023-11-20 · 73m
Jennifer Burns on Milton Friedman 2023-11-13 · 64m
Zach Weinersmith on Space Settlement and A City on Mars 2023-11-06 · 63m
Michael Easter on Excess, Moderation, and the Scarcity Brain 2023-10-30 · 68m
Robert Sapolsky on Determinism, Free Will, and Responsibility 2023-10-23 · 74m
Alexandra Hudson on the Soul of Civility 2023-10-16 · 65m
Adam Mastroianni on Learning and Mostly Forgetting 2023-10-09 · 76m
Elie Hassenfeld on GiveWell 2023-10-02 · 72m
Peter Attia on Lifespan, Healthspan, and Outlive 2023-09-25 · 99m
Michael Munger on How Adam Smith Solved the Trolley Problem 2023-09-18 · 71m
Anupam Bapu Jena on Random Acts of Medicine 2023-09-11 · 72m
Roland Fryer on Race, Diversity, and Affirmative Action 2023-09-04 · 67m
Vinay Prasad on Cancer Screening 2023-08-28 · 74m
Walter Russell Mead on Innovation, Religion, and the State of the World 2023-08-21 · 85m
Adam Mastroianni on the Brain, the Ears, and How We Learn 2023-08-14 · 66m
Zvi Mowshowitz on AI and the Dial of Progress 2023-08-07 · 97m
Daron Acemoglu on Innovation and Shared Prosperity 2023-07-31 · 66m
Erik Hoel on Consciousness, Free Will, and the Limits of Science 2023-07-24 · 68m
Lydia Dugdale on the Lost Art of Dying 2023-07-17 · 78m
Marc Andreessen on Why AI Will Save the World 2023-07-10 · 80m
James Rebanks on the Shepherd's Life 2023-07-03 · 74m
Jacob Howland on the Hidden Human Costs of AI 2023-06-26 · 82m
Michael Munger on Obedience to the Unenforceable 2023-06-19 · 71m
Rebecca Struthers on Watches, Watchmaking, and the Hands of Time 2023-06-12 · 71m
Les Snead on Risk, Decisions, and Football 2023-06-05 · 78m
Luca Dellanna on Risk, Ruin, and Ergodicity 2023-05-29 · 68m
Casey Mulligan on Vaccines, the Pandemic, and the FDA 2023-05-22 · 68m
Tyler Cowen on the Risks and Impact of Artificial Intelligence 2023-05-15 · 61m
Eliezer Yudkowsky on the Dangers of AI 2023-05-08 · 78m
Patrick House and Itzhak Fried on the Brain's Mysteries 2023-05-01 · 68m
Michael Munger on the Perfect vs. the Good 2023-04-24 · 75m
Dana Gioia on Poetry, Death and Mortality 2023-04-17 · 59m
Daniel Gordis on Israel and Impossible Takes Longer 2023-04-10 · 87m
Erik Hoel on the Threat to Humanity from AI 2023-04-03 · 85m
Kevin Kelly on Advice, AI, and Technology 2023-03-27 · 87m
Megan McArdle on the Oedipus Trap 2023-03-20 · 75m
Zach Weinersmith on Beowulf and Bea Wolf 2023-03-13 · 63m
Omer Moav on the Emergence of the State 2023-03-06 · 62m
Paul Bloom on Psych, Psychology, and the Human Mind 2023-02-27 · 74m
Marco Ramos on Misunderstanding Mental Illness 2023-02-20 · 89m
Adam Mastroianni on Peer Review and the Academic Kitchen 2023-02-13 · 67m
Sam Harris on Meditation, Mindfulness, and Morality 2023-02-06 · 111m
Vinay Prasad on Pharmaceuticals, the FDA, and the Death of Duty 2023-01-30 · 69m
Dwayne Betts on Beauty, Prison, and Redaction 2023-01-23 · 83m
Tiffany Jenkins on Plunder, Museums, and Marbles 2023-01-16 · 73m
Ian Leslie on Being Human in the Age of AI 2023-01-09 · 57m
Hannah Ritchie on Eating Local 2023-01-02 · 61m
Judge Glock on Zoning and Local Government 2022-12-26 · 61m
Arnold Kling on Twitter, FTX, and ChatGPT 2022-12-19 · 60m
Monica Guzman on Curiosity and Conversation in Contentious Times 2022-12-12 · 70m
Patrick House on Consciousness 2022-12-05 · 88m
Annie Duke on the Power of Quitting 2022-11-28 · 82m
Johnathan Bi on Mimesis and René Girard 2022-11-21 · 72m
Agnes Callard on Meaning, the Human Quest, and the Aims of Education 2022-11-14 · 81m
Jessica Todd Harper on Beauty, Family, and Photography 2022-11-07 · 82m
Michael Munger on Industrial Policy 2022-10-31 · 70m
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