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Conversations with Tyler

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.

Luke Burgis on Mimetic Desire, Catholicism, and the Age of Social Contagion
Aug 2026
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Daron Acemoglu on Liberalism, Automation, and the Educated Elite
Aug 2026
0:00 / 55:38
Julia Ioffe on Russian Women, Missing Men, and the Roots of Autocracy
Aug 2026
0:00 / 55:14
Andrew Graham-Dixon on Vermeer, a Forgotten Sect, and Underrated Artists
Jul 2026
0:00 / 56:46
Chase Koch on Principles, Music, and Overcoming Entropy
Jul 2026
0:00 / 54:06
Joel Mokyr on Clans, Corporations, and a Culture of Growth
Jul 2026
0:00 / 46:00
Joanne Paul on Thomas More and the Tudor World
Jun 2026
0:00 / 50:04
Dave Baszucki on Roblox, Teen Entrepreneurs, and the Future of Play
Jun 2026
0:00 / 53:05
Katja Hoyer on Weimar, the GDR, and the German Character
Jun 2026
0:00 / 61:20
Toby Wilkinson on Ptolemaic Egypt and the First Great Commercial Civilization
May 2026
0:00 / 45:57
Bob Spitz on the Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen, and the Art of Biography
May 2026
0:00 / 55:30
Craig Newmark on Institutional Maintenance, Giving Away Control, and the Internet We Were Promised
Apr 2026
0:00 / 46:54
Kim Bowes on the Economic Lives of Rome's Ninety Percent
Apr 2026
0:00 / 61:15
Arthur Brooks on Reinvention, Religion, and the Science of Happiness
Apr 2026
0:00 / 59:44
Paul Gillingham on Why Mexico Stays Together
Mar 2026
0:00 / 64:36
Harvey Mansfield on Machiavelli, Straussianism, and the Character of Liberal Democracy
Mar 2026
0:00 / 49:27
Henry Oliver on Measure for Measure, Late Bloomers, and the Smartest Writers in English
Mar 2026
0:00 / 59:07
Joe Studwell on Africa, Asia, and What Development Actually Requires
Feb 2026
0:00 / 53:24
Andrew Ross Sorkin on Market Bubbles, Banking Rules, and the Real Lessons of 1929
Feb 2026
0:00 / 56:20
Diarmaid MacCulloch on Christianity, Sex, and Unsettling Settled Facts
Jan 2026
0:00 / 59:42
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