Conversations with Tyler

Joe Boyd on the Birth of Rock, World Music, and Being There for Everything

Scott Sumner on Monetary Rules, Blooming Late, and the Death of Cinema

Conversations with Tyler 2024 Retrospective

Paula Byrne on Thomas Hardy’s Women, Jane Austen’s Humor, and Evelyn Waugh’s Warmth

Stephen Kotkin on Stalin, Power, and the Art of Biography

Russ Roberts on Vasily Grossman’s Life and Fate

Neal Stephenson on History, Spycraft, and American-Soviet Parallels

This interview podcast features Tyler Cowen interviewing Neal Stephenson about his new book, Polostan. The conversation begins with a discussion of Stephenson's shift between writing about the future and the past, touching upon the accessibility of historical information in the modern era. They delve into the book's ...

Christopher Kirchhoff on Military Innovation and the Future of War

Musa al-Gharbi on Elite Wokeness, Islam, and Social Movements

Tom Tugendhat on Modernizing the UK and Political Reform

Kyla Scanlon on Communicating Economic Ideas through Social Media

Tobi Lütke on Creating Shopify for Americans as a German in Canada

This podcast episode delves into the intricate relationship between cultural nuances and the dynamics of company building and innovation, highlighting how cultural differences impact communication, creativity, and optimism in the tech world. Lutke discusses the importance of venting as a form of emotional release, the ...

Philip Ball on the Interplay of Science, Society, and the Quest for Understanding

In this episode of Conversations with Tyler, Tyler Cowen interviews Philip Ball, a scientist and author, covering a wide range of topics. They discuss the historical role of scientists standing up to power, biases in science, artificial wombs, declining fertility rates, the asymmetry of the human body, the corrupting i...

Nate Silver on Risk-takers, Politicians, and Poker Players

Paul Bloom on the Psychology of Children, and the Morality of Empathy and Disgust

Alan Taylor on Revolutionary Ironies and the Continental Civil War

This podcast episode delves into the historical complexities and multifaceted events surrounding the American Revolution and its aftermath, highlighting how various factors such as colonial demographics, the influence of New France, economic implications from war, and relationships with indigenous peoples shaped the tr...

Brian Winter on Brazil, Argentina, and the Future of Latin America

Joseph Stiglitz on Pioneering Economic Theories, Policy Challenges, and His Intellectual Legacy

This podcast episode features a conversation with Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz. The discussion covers a wide range of topics, including corporate governance, shareholder value maximization, the controversy of fraternities, sharecropping, taxation, informationally efficient markets, liquidity, strategic...

Velina Tchakarova on China, Russia, and the Future of Geopolitics

Michael Nielsen on Collaboration, Quantum Computing, and Civilization's Fragility

This podcast episode features a conversation between Tyler and Michael Nielsen, where they discuss various topics including the beauty of the universe, the limitations of human perception, the failure of the League of Nations, the potential of quantum computing, the debate around the existence of God, the challenges an...