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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, historians, philosophers, economists, and more. Learn how the health care system really works, the serenity that comes from humility, the challenge of interpreting data, how potato chips are
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Are We Alone? Cosmic Loneliness and the Longing to Believe (with Adam Kirsch)
Aug 2026
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The Hidden Cause of the Industrial Revolution (with Ben Southwood)
Aug 2026
0:00 / 73:36
Ben Sasse on Faith, Family, and Facing Death
Aug 2026
0:00 / 81:11
The Political Economy of Palestine (with Hussein Aboubakr Mansour)
Aug 2026
0:00 / 87:41
Savage Landscapes (with Cal Flyn)
Jul 2026
0:00 / 62:25
Dwayne Betts on the Iliad
Jul 2026
0:00 / 88:50
From Sawdust to Paw Patrol: The Spin Master Story (with Ronnen Harary)
Jul 2026
0:00 / 69:20
EconTalk Book Club on the Iliad (with Ido Hevroni)
Jul 2026
0:00 / 70:02
Do Less, Heal More: The Case for Medical Conservatism (with John Mandrola)
Jun 2026
0:00 / 59:44
Can a Phone Be a Cow? (with Philip Auerswald)
Jun 2026
0:00 / 79:35
The Case for Sunshine (with Rowan Jacobsen)
Jun 2026
0:00 / 65:58
The Self, the Crowd, and Social Contagion (with Luke Burgis)
Jun 2026
0:00 / 71:06
Making Your 80,000 Hours Count (with Benjamin Todd)
Jun 2026
0:00 / 67:02
Facing Death (with Sebastian Junger)
May 2026
0:00 / 66:33
Tom Cruise's Body of Work (with Aled Maclean-Jones)
May 2026
0:00 / 68:28
Thinking Inside the Box (with David Epstein)
May 2026
0:00 / 70:49
Golfing Alone (with Gary Belsky)
May 2026
0:00 / 59:45
Claude, War, and the State of the Republic (with Dean Ball)
Apr 2026
0:00 / 77:23
Adam Smith's Warning About Wealth, Fame, and Status (with Ross Levine)
Apr 2026
0:00 / 63:46
The Man Who Built NVIDIA (with Stephen Witt)
Apr 2026
0:00 / 64:25
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