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Conversations with Tyler

by 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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Brendan Foody on Teaching AI and the Future of Knowledge Work
Jan 7, 2026
01:01:18
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Conversations with Tyler 2025 Retrospective
Dec 23, 2025
59:32
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Alison Gopnik on Childhood Learning, AI as a Cultural Technology, and Rethinking Nature vs. Nurture
Dec 17, 2025
01:01:18
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Gaurav Kapadia on New York City, Investing, and Contemporary Art
Dec 10, 2025
59:56
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Dan Wang on What China and America Can Learn from Each Other
Dec 3, 2025
01:32:58
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Cass Sunstein on Liberalism and Rights in the Age of AI
Nov 26, 2025
01:19:46
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Blake Scholl on Supersonic Flight and Fixing Broken Infrastructure - Live at the Progress Conference
Nov 19, 2025
37:46
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Donald S. Lopez Jr. on Buddhism
Nov 12, 2025
57:04
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Sam Altman on Trust, Persuasion, and the Future of Intelligence - Live at the Progress Conference
Nov 5, 2025
54:53
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Jonny Steinberg on South African Crime and Punishment, the Mandelas' Marriage, and the Post-Apartheid Era
Oct 28, 2025
52:04
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George Selgin on the New Deal, Regime Uncertainty, and What Really Ended the Great Depression
Oct 15, 2025
01:08:42
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John Amaechi on Leadership, the NBA, and Being Gay in Professional Sports
Oct 1, 2025
59:32
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Steven Pinker on Coordination, Common Knowledge, and the Retreat of Liberal Enlightenment
Sep 24, 2025
45:58
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David Commins on Saudi Arabia, Wahhabism, and the Future of the Gulf States
Sep 17, 2025
51:07
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Seamus Murphy on Photographing Patterns Across Cultures
Sep 3, 2025
54:41
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David Brooks on Audacity, AI, and the American Psyche (Live at 92NY)
Aug 20, 2025
01:10:18
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Nate Silver on Life's Mixed Strategies
Aug 13, 2025
01:03:43
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Annie Jacobsen on Nuclear War, Intelligence Operations, and Conspiracy Realities
Aug 6, 2025
57:38
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Helen Castor on Medieval Power and Personalities
Jul 23, 2025
01:07:18
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David Robertson on Conducting, Pierre Boulez, and Musical Interpretation
Jul 9, 2025
59:34
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Austan Goolsbee on Central Banking as a Data Dog
Jun 25, 2025
58:40
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Chris Arnade on Walking Cities
Jun 18, 2025
58:55
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Any Austin on the Hermeneutics of Video Games
Jun 11, 2025
01:05:48
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John Arnold on Trading, Energy, and Evidence-Based Philanthropy
Jun 4, 2025
01:04:45
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Theodore Schwartz on Neurosurgery, Consciousness, and Brain-Computer Interfaces
May 21, 2025
57:34
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Jack Clark on AI's Uneven Impact
May 7, 2025
01:02:40
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Kenneth Rogoff on Monetary Moves, Fiscal Gambits, and Classical Chess
Apr 30, 2025
01:00:34
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Chris Dixon on Blockchains, AI, and the Future of the Internet
Apr 23, 2025
01:02:51
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Ian Leslie on McCartney, Lennon, and the Greatest Creative Partnership of All Time
Apr 16, 2025
59:22
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Jennifer Pahlka on Reforming Government
Apr 9, 2025
54:08
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Sheilagh Ogilvie on Epidemics, Guilds, and the Persistence of Bad Institutions
Apr 2, 2025
59:11
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Ezra Klein on the Abundance Agenda
Mar 19, 2025
01:08:40
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Carl Zimmer on the Hidden Life in the Air We Breathe
Mar 5, 2025
51:43
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Gregory Clark on Social Mobility, Migration, and Assortative Mating (Live at Mercatus)
Feb 19, 2025
01:23:14
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Ross Douthat on Why Religion Makes More Sense Than You Think
Feb 5, 2025
01:13:38
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Joe Boyd on the Birth of Rock, World Music, and Being There for Everything
Jan 22, 2025
01:00:42
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Scott Sumner on Monetary Rules, Blooming Late, and the Death of Cinema
Jan 8, 2025
01:08:14
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Conversations with Tyler 2024 Retrospective
Dec 25, 2024
58:05
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Paula Byrne on Thomas Hardy's Women, Jane Austen's Humor, and Evelyn Waugh's Warmth
Dec 11, 2024
54:42
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Stephen Kotkin on Stalin, Power, and the Art of Biography
Dec 4, 2024
01:26:25
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Russ Roberts on Vasily Grossman's Life and Fate
Nov 25, 2024
01:01:41
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Neal Stephenson on History, Spycraft, and American-Soviet Parallels
Nov 13, 2024
47:19
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Christopher Kirchhoff on Military Innovation and the Future of War
Oct 30, 2024
56:38
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Musa al-Gharbi on Elite Wokeness, Islam, and Social Movements
Oct 16, 2024
49:03
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Tom Tugendhat on Modernizing the UK and Political Reform
Oct 9, 2024
50:26
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Kyla Scanlon on Communicating Economic Ideas through Social Media
Oct 2, 2024
01:05:04
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Tobi Lütke on Creating Shopify for Americans as a German in Canada
Sep 18, 2024
54:04
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Philip Ball on the Interplay of Science, Society, and the Quest for Understanding
Sep 4, 2024
01:11:56
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Nate Silver on Risk-takers, Politicians, and Poker Players
Aug 21, 2024
59:45
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Paul Bloom on the Psychology of Children, and the Morality of Empathy and Disgust
Aug 7, 2024
59:13
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