Conversations with Tyler

Mercatus Center at George Mason University

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.

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Luke Burgis on Mimetic Desire, Catholicism, and the Age of Social Contagion 2026-08-19 · 52m
Daron Acemoglu on Liberalism, Automation, and the Educated Elite 2026-08-12 · 56m
Julia Ioffe on Russian Women, Missing Men, and the Roots of Autocracy 2026-08-05 · 55m
Andrew Graham-Dixon on Vermeer, a Forgotten Sect, and Underrated Artists 2026-07-22 · 57m
Chase Koch on Principles, Music, and Overcoming Entropy 2026-07-15 · 54m
Joel Mokyr on Clans, Corporations, and a Culture of Growth 2026-07-08 · 46m
Joanne Paul on Thomas More and the Tudor World 2026-06-24 · 50m
Dave Baszucki on Roblox, Teen Entrepreneurs, and the Future of Play 2026-06-17 · 53m
Katja Hoyer on Weimar, the GDR, and the German Character 2026-06-10 · 61m
Toby Wilkinson on Ptolemaic Egypt and the First Great Commercial Civilization 2026-05-27 · 46m
Bob Spitz on the Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen, and the Art of Biography 2026-05-13 · 56m
Craig Newmark on Institutional Maintenance, Giving Away Control, and the Internet We Were Promised 2026-04-29 · 47m
Kim Bowes on the Economic Lives of Rome's Ninety Percent 2026-04-15 · 61m
Arthur Brooks on Reinvention, Religion, and the Science of Happiness 2026-04-01 · 60m
Paul Gillingham on Why Mexico Stays Together 2026-03-25 · 65m
Harvey Mansfield on Machiavelli, Straussianism, and the Character of Liberal Democracy 2026-03-18 · 49m
Henry Oliver on Measure for Measure, Late Bloomers, and the Smartest Writers in English 2026-03-04 · 59m
Joe Studwell on Africa, Asia, and What Development Actually Requires 2026-02-18 · 53m
Andrew Ross Sorkin on Market Bubbles, Banking Rules, and the Real Lessons of 1929 2026-02-04 · 56m
Diarmaid MacCulloch on Christianity, Sex, and Unsettling Settled Facts 2026-01-21 · 60m
Brendan Foody on Teaching AI and the Future of Knowledge Work 2026-01-07 · 61m
Conversations with Tyler 2025 Retrospective 2025-12-23 · 60m
Alison Gopnik on Childhood Learning, AI as a Cultural Technology, and Rethinking Nature vs. Nurture 2025-12-17 · 61m
Gaurav Kapadia on New York City, Investing, and Contemporary Art 2025-12-10 · 60m
Dan Wang on What China and America Can Learn from Each Other 2025-12-03 · 93m
Cass Sunstein on Liberalism and Rights in the Age of AI 2025-11-26 · 80m
Blake Scholl on Supersonic Flight and Fixing Broken Infrastructure - Live at the Progress Conference 2025-11-19 · 38m
Donald S. Lopez Jr. on Buddhism 2025-11-12 · 57m
Sam Altman on Trust, Persuasion, and the Future of Intelligence - Live at the Progress Conference 2025-11-05 · 55m
Jonny Steinberg on South African Crime and Punishment, the Mandelas' Marriage, and the Post-Apartheid Era 2025-10-28 · 52m
George Selgin on the New Deal, Regime Uncertainty, and What Really Ended the Great Depression 2025-10-15 · 69m
John Amaechi on Leadership, the NBA, and Being Gay in Professional Sports 2025-10-01 · 60m
Steven Pinker on Coordination, Common Knowledge, and the Retreat of Liberal Enlightenment 2025-09-24 · 46m
David Commins on Saudi Arabia, Wahhabism, and the Future of the Gulf States 2025-09-17 · 51m
Seamus Murphy on Photographing Patterns Across Cultures 2025-09-03 · 55m
David Brooks on Audacity, AI, and the American Psyche (Live at 92NY) 2025-08-20 · 70m
Nate Silver on Life's Mixed Strategies 2025-08-13 · 64m
Annie Jacobsen on Nuclear War, Intelligence Operations, and Conspiracy Realities 2025-08-06 · 58m
Helen Castor on Medieval Power and Personalities 2025-07-23 · 67m
David Robertson on Conducting, Pierre Boulez, and Musical Interpretation 2025-07-09 · 60m
Austan Goolsbee on Central Banking as a Data Dog 2025-06-25 · 59m
Chris Arnade on Walking Cities 2025-06-18 · 59m
Any Austin on the Hermeneutics of Video Games 2025-06-11 · 66m
John Arnold on Trading, Energy, and Evidence-Based Philanthropy 2025-06-04 · 65m
Theodore Schwartz on Neurosurgery, Consciousness, and Brain-Computer Interfaces 2025-05-21 · 58m
Jack Clark on AI's Uneven Impact 2025-05-07 · 63m
Kenneth Rogoff on Monetary Moves, Fiscal Gambits, and Classical Chess 2025-04-30 · 61m
Chris Dixon on Blockchains, AI, and the Future of the Internet 2025-04-23 · 63m
Ian Leslie on McCartney, Lennon, and the Greatest Creative Partnership of All Time 2025-04-16 · 59m
Jennifer Pahlka on Reforming Government 2025-04-09 · 54m
Sheilagh Ogilvie on Epidemics, Guilds, and the Persistence of Bad Institutions 2025-04-02 · 59m
Ezra Klein on the Abundance Agenda 2025-03-19 · 69m
Carl Zimmer on the Hidden Life in the Air We Breathe 2025-03-05 · 52m
Gregory Clark on Social Mobility, Migration, and Assortative Mating (Live at Mercatus) 2025-02-19 · 83m
Ross Douthat on Why Religion Makes More Sense Than You Think 2025-02-05 · 74m
Joe Boyd on the Birth of Rock, World Music, and Being There for Everything 2025-01-22 · 61m
Scott Sumner on Monetary Rules, Blooming Late, and the Death of Cinema 2025-01-08 · 68m
Conversations with Tyler 2024 Retrospective 2024-12-25 · 58m
Paula Byrne on Thomas Hardy's Women, Jane Austen's Humor, and Evelyn Waugh's Warmth 2024-12-11 · 55m
Stephen Kotkin on Stalin, Power, and the Art of Biography 2024-12-04 · 86m
Russ Roberts on Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate 2024-11-25 · 62m
Neal Stephenson on History, Spycraft, and American-Soviet Parallels 2024-11-13 · 47m
Christopher Kirchhoff on Military Innovation and the Future of WarChristopher Kirchhoff on Military Innovation and the Future of War 2024-10-30 · 57m
Musa al-Gharbi on Elite Wokeness, Islam, and Social Movements 2024-10-16 · 49m
Tom Tugendhat on Modernizing the UK and Political Reform 2024-10-09 · 50m
Kyla Scanlon on Communicating Economic Ideas through Social Media 2024-10-02 · 65m
Tobi Lütke on Creating Shopify for Americans as a German in Canada 2024-09-18 · 54m
Philip Ball on the Interplay of Science, Society, and the Quest for Understanding 2024-09-04 · 72m
Nate Silver on Risk-takers, Politicians, and Poker Players 2024-08-21 · 60m
Paul Bloom on the Psychology of Children, and the Morality of Empathy and Disgust 2024-08-07 · 59m
Alan Taylor on Revolutionary Ironies and the Continental Civil War 2024-07-24 · 57m
Brian Winter on Brazil, Argentina, and the Future of Latin America 2024-07-10 · 58m
Joseph Stiglitz on Pioneering Economic Theories, Policy Challenges, and His Intellectual Legacy 2024-06-26 · 50m
Velina Tchakarova on China, Russia, and the Future of Geopolitics 2024-06-12 · 52m
Michael Nielsen on Collaboration, Quantum Computing, and Civilization's Fragility 2024-05-29 · 62m
Benjamin Moser on the Dutch Masters, Brazil, and Cultural Icons 2024-05-15 · 66m
Coleman Hughes on Colorblindness, Jazz, and Identity 2024-05-01 · 57m
Peter Thiel on Political Theology 2024-04-17 · 75m
Jonathan Haidt on Adjusting to Smartphones and Social Media 2024-04-03 · 60m
Fareed Zakaria on the Age of Revolutions, the Power of Ideas, and the Rewards of Intellectual Curiosity 2024-03-27 · 67m
Marilynne Robinson on Biblical Interpretation, Calvinist Thought, and Religion in America 2024-03-20 · 49m
Marc Andreessen on AI and Dynamism 2024-03-13 · 28m
Marc Rowan on Financial Market Evolution and University Governance 2024-03-06 · 56m
Masaaki Suzuki on Interpreting Bach 2024-02-21 · 57m
Ami Vitale on Photojournalism and Wildlife Conservation 2024-02-07 · 54m
Rebecca F. Kuang on National Literatures, Book Publishing, and History in Fiction 2024-01-24 · 64m
Patrick McKenzie on Navigating Complex Systems 2024-01-10 · 54m
Conversations with Tyler 2023 Retrospective 2023-12-27 · 68m
Fuchsia Dunlop on the Story of Chinese Food 2023-12-13 · 102m
John Gray on Pessimism, Liberalism, and Theism 2023-11-29 · 62m
Jennifer Burns on Milton Friedman and Ayn Rand 2023-11-15 · 60m
Brian Koppelman on TV, Movies, and Appreciating Art 2023-11-08 · 61m
Githae Githinji on Life in Kenya 2023-11-02 · 45m
Harriet Karimi Muriithi on Life in Kenya 2023-11-02 · 43m
Stephen Jennings on Building New Cities 2023-11-01 · 54m
Jacob Mikanowski on Eastern Europe 2023-10-18 · 60m
Re-release: Claudia Goldin on the Economics of Inequality 2023-10-09 · 50m
Ada Palmer on Viking Metaphysics, Contingent Moments, and Censorship 2023-10-04 · 65m
Lazarus Lake on Endurance, Uncertainty, and Reaching One's Potential 2023-09-20 · 52m
Jerusalem Demsas on The Dispossessed, Gulliver's Travels, and Of Boys and Men 2023-09-06 · 63m
Vishy Anand on Staying in the Game 2023-08-30 · 55m
Celebrating Marginal Revolution's 20th Anniversary 2023-08-23 · 59m
Paul Graham on Ambition, Art, and Evaluating Talent 2023-08-09 · 55m
Noam Dworman on Stand-Up Comedy and Staying Open-Minded 2023-07-26 · 59m
David Bentley Hart on Reason, Faith, and Diversity in Religious Thought 2023-07-12 · 56m
Reid Hoffman on the Possibilities of AI 2023-06-28 · 62m
Noam Chomsky on Language, Left Libertarianism, and Progress 2023-06-14 · 51m
Peter Singer on Utilitarianism, Influence, and Controversial Ideas 2023-06-07 · 52m
Seth Godin on Marketing, Meaning, and the Bibs We Wear 2023-05-31 · 55m
Simon Johnson on Banking, Technology, and Prosperity 2023-05-17 · 53m
Kevin Kelly on Advice, Travel, and Tech 2023-05-03 · 52m
Anna Keay on Historic Architecture, Monarchy, and 17th Century Britain 2023-04-19 · 50m
Jessica Wade on Chiral Materials, Open Knowledge, and Representation in STEM 2023-04-05 · 56m
Jonathan GPT Swift on Jonathan Swift 2023-03-29 · 42m
Tom Holland on History, Christianity, and the Value of the Countryside 2023-03-22 · 53m
Yasheng Huang on the Development of the Chinese State 2023-03-08 · 54m
Brad DeLong on Intellectual and Technical Progress 2023-02-22 · 47m
Glenn Loury on the Cover Story and the Real Story 2023-02-08 · 48m
Paul Salopek on Walking the World 2023-01-25 · 46m
Rick Rubin on Listening, Taste, and the Act of Noticing 2023-01-18 · 55m
Katherine Rundell on the Art of Words 2023-01-11 · 54m
Conversations with Tyler 2022 Retrospective 2022-12-28 · 53m
John Adams on Composing and Creative Freedom 2022-12-14 · 46m
Jeremy Grantham on Investing in Green Tech 2022-11-30 · 40m
Ken Burns on the Complications of History 2022-11-16 · 53m
Mary Gaitskill on Subjects That Are Vexing Everybody 2022-11-02 · 46m
Reza Aslan on Martyrdom, Islam, and Revolution 2022-10-19 · 53m
Walter Russell Mead on the Past and Future of American Foreign Policy 2022-10-05 · 52m
Byron Auguste On Rewiring the U.S. Labor Market 2022-09-21 · 54m
Vaughn Smith on Life as a Hyperpolyglot 2022-09-07 · 50m
Shruti Rajagopalan talks to Daniel Gross and Tyler about Identifying and Predicting Talent 2022-09-01 · 68m
Cynthia L. Haven on René Girard, Czeslaw Milosz, and Joseph Brodsky 2022-08-24 · 45m
William MacAskill on Effective Altruism, Moral Progress, and Cultural Innovation 2022-08-10 · 51m
Leopoldo López on Activism Under Autocratic Regimes 2022-07-27 · 49m
Matthew Ball on the Metaverse and Gaming 2022-07-13 · 56m
Barkha Dutt on the Nuances of Indian Life 2022-06-29 · 52m
Marc Andreessen on Learning to Love the Humanities 2022-06-15 · 51m
Jamal Greene on Reconceiving Rights 2022-06-01 · 48m
Tyler and Daniel Gross Talk Talent 2022-05-18 · 49m
Chris Blattman on War and Centralized Power 2022-05-04 · 48m
Thomas Piketty on the Politics of Equality 2022-04-20 · 53m
Roy Foster on Ireland's Many Unmade Futures 2022-04-06 · 59m
Lydia Davis on Language and Literature 2022-03-23 · 41m
Sam Bankman-Fried on Arbitrage and Altruism 2022-03-09 · 50m
Chuck Klosterman on Writing the Past and Relishing the Present 2022-02-23 · 75m
Sebastian Mallaby on Venture Capital 2022-02-09 · 56m
Stewart Brand on Starting Things and Staying Curious 2022-01-26 · 57m
Russ Roberts on Israel and Life as an Immigrant 2022-01-19 · 59m
Ana Vidović on Prodigies, Performance, and Perseverance 2022-01-12 · 45m
Conversations with Tyler 2021 Retrospective 2021-12-29 · 56m
Ray Dalio on Investing, Management, and the Changing World Order 2021-12-15 · 59m
Ruth Scurr on the Art of Biography 2021-12-01 · 51m
David Rubenstein on Private Equity, Public Art, and Philanthropy 2021-11-17 · 56m
David Salle on the Experience of Art 2021-11-03 · 47m
Stanley McChrystal on the Military, Leadership, and Risk 2021-10-20 · 54m
Claudia Goldin on the Economics of Inequality 2021-10-06 · 49m
Amia Srinivasan on Utopian Feminism 2021-09-22 · 65m
David Cutler and Ed Glaeser on the Health and Wealth of Cities 2021-09-08 · 79m
Zeynep Tufekci on the Sociology of The Moment (Live) 2021-08-25 · 66m
Andrew Sullivan on Braving New Intellectual Journeys 2021-08-11 · 55m
Niall Ferguson on Why We Study History 2021-07-28 · 54m
Alexander the Grate on Life as an NFA 2021-07-14 · 45m
Richard Prum on Birds, Beauty, and Finding Your Own Way 2021-06-30 · 50m
Elijah Millgram on the Philosophical Life 2021-06-16 · 68m
David Deutsch on Multiple Worlds and Our Place in Them 2021-06-02 · 61m
Mark Carney on Central Banking and Shared Values 2021-05-26 · 55m
Pierpaolo Barbieri on Latin American FinTech 2021-05-19 · 56m
Daniel Carpenter on Smart Regulation 2021-05-05 · 68m
Shadi Bartsch on the Classics and China 2021-04-21 · 60m
Dana Gioia on Becoming an Information Billionaire 2021-04-07 · 78m
Sarah Parcak on Archaeology from Space 2021-03-24 · 64m
John Cochrane on Economic Puzzles and Habits of Mind 2021-03-10 · 59m
Patricia Fara on Newton, Scientific Progress, and the Benefits of Unhistoric Acts 2021-02-24 · 58m
Brian Armstrong on the Crypto Economy 2021-02-10 · 55m
Benjamin Friedman on the Origins of Economic Belief 2021-01-27 · 67m
Noubar Afeyan on the Permission to Leap 2021-01-13 · 56m
Conversations with Tyler 2020 Retrospective 2020-12-30 · 54m
John O. Brennan on Life in the CIA 2020-12-16 · 58m
Zach Carter on the Life and Legacy of John Maynard Keynes 2020-12-02 · 55m
Jimmy Wales on Systems and Incentives 2020-11-18 · 57m
Edwidge Danticat on Haitian Art and Literature 2020-11-04 · 52m
Michael Kremer on Economists as Founders 2020-10-21 · 50m
Audrey Tang on the Technology of Democracy 2020-10-07 · 53m
Alex Ross on Music, Culture, and Criticism 2020-09-22 · 61m
Matt Yglesias on Why the Population is Too Damn Low 2020-09-09 · 66m
Jason Furman on Productivity, Competition, and Growth 2020-08-26 · 61m
Nicholas Bloom on Management, Productivity, and Scientific Progress 2020-08-12 · 64m
Nathan Nunn on the Paths to Development 2020-07-29 · 62m
Melissa Dell on the Significance of Persistence 2020-07-15 · 63m
Annie Duke on Poker, Probabilities, and How We Make Decisions 2020-07-01 · 55m
Rachel Harmon on Policing 2020-06-17 · 58m
Ashley Mears on Status and Beauty 2020-06-03 · 62m
Paul Romer on a Culture of Science and Working Hard 2020-05-20 · 60m
Adam Tooze on our Financial Past and Future 2020-05-06 · 66m
Glen Weyl on Fighting COVID-19 and the Role of the Academic Expert 2020-04-29 · 56m
Philip E. Tetlock on Forecasting and Foraging as a Fox 2020-04-22 · 54m
Emily St. John Mandel on Fact, Fiction, and the Familiar 2020-04-08 · 56m
Ross Douthat on Decadence and Dynamism 2020-03-25 · 67m
Russ Roberts and Tyler on COVID-19 2020-03-19 · 79m
John McWhorter on Linguistics, Music, and Race (Live at Mason) 2020-03-11 · 79m
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